Preferences needed pls!

1000+ downloads as of today. Plan is to turn the single missions into a coherent campaign with a single squadron focus. Either Lehrgeschwader 2, Erpro 210, 64 sq RAF or 111 Sq RAF.

The downloads are running about 6:4 in favour of LW download, so does that mean people would prefer to see a LW campaign, and if so which?

LG2 would be mostly air to air combat while Erpro 210 would have a ground support focus.

H

Thx to 'Planespotter' at banana forums for spotting this.

In the RAF mission set the default aircraft should always be RAF (duh). However in missions 19-23 the LW aircraft is default. The player of course can choose to fly any of the RAF sorties through the CUSTOM feature, but he shouldn't have to. I intended it to always default to an RAF aircraft in the RAF pack and LW aircraft in the LW pack.

I have now fixed this, so if it annoys you, you can just download and rerun in the install file and it will overwrite so that the default aircraft are appropriate as intended.

LW pack does not appear to be effected, so you wouldn't need to reinstall the LW pack.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

H

Congrats! - That is very impressive.

It is mid 1941.

After the inconclusive battle that was Operation Sealion, Germany has turned its attentions to the East, initiating Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia.

In the West, just 226 German fighters, primarily those of JG2 and JG26, are left to defend against the constant threat of RAF bomber and fighter attacks. The RAF Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Sholto Douglas, initiates Operation Circus - large scale bomber raids deep into France and Holland, with the intent of drawing the Luftwaffe into combat and reducing their ability to defend against RAF bomber command's planned incursions into Germany.

The Circuses and Rhubarbs mission pack

Download and try mission 1 here: https://www.box.com/s/dfd6aff55cd440227bca

Mission 1 features

8 flyable sorties: Spitfire I, Spitfire II, Bf 109E3, Bf109E4, Blenheim.





14 painstakingly populated Luftwaffe airfields: Wissant, Peuplinge, Audembert, Marquise West, Caffiers, Hermelingen, Campagne Les Guines, Coquelles, Calais Marck, St Omer Wizernes, St Omer Arques, St Omer Claimarais and RAF Lympne




3 newly populated locations: Calais and Dunkerque Ports, Cassel

Ground targets include the above airfields, road traffic, port infrastructure. As usual, the mission can be fought from the point of view of every flyable unit, by using the CUSTOM button to choose your flight.

This preview mission is minutely based on historical records for Circus 44, in which RAF 452 and 64 Squadrons escorting Blenheims, were met by JG2 and JG26 over Cassel.

Gorgeous airfields! Do you mind if I borrow some of your details on the ground into maps I'm making? I especially love the tent-city in the bottom screenshot.

I dont think anyone can copyright object groups. 1c made the objects, all we are doing is putting them on a map... No permission needed.

In fact, sightseeing (either in FMB, or in a lazy 109) welcome. Each airfield has its own character. I plan to populate the whole France map in advance of the new patch. If it does deliver on the FPS promise, most players should be able to manage a few more objects on their maps...

H

Thanks HK,

While I know there's no legal copyright to your work, it's still better to ask than just start using! ~S! I had a peek inside the new mission, wow, that's a lot of work both sides of the Channel, very impressed!

Thx. I tend to measure the work put into a mission not by hours but by whether my wife complains I'm ignoring her...

This was a two complaint mission.

LOL!! It's why I only have time for map-making on weekends now!

Just played through twice, and got destroyed both times. Had to reduce the cloud settings, they were perfect height for maximum interference with intercepting those damn UFO IIa's. Seems even when I'm iced up, and gauges gone, the AI still knows where I'm at to shred me to bits. I have to remember to turn Outside Views on, and record a track, those buggers surely see through clouds just like the old game.

I think only 2 109s made it home first mission with original settings. I believe LW score was 1 Spit and 1 Blennie.

Tides of war my friend, tides of war! If it is any comfort here is the combat report from my last test flight on that mission. I learned the odds can easily go in both directions, which is obviously the balance you look for in making missions...



As you can see, the RAF UFOs got brought down by the M.I.B. in this one! (And my 109 was the only one we bagged.)

In cricketing parlance, the RAF took a pasting!

H

(And PS I deliberately put the clouds at the same height as the mission because that is what the actual mission report stated - 452 Sq got jumped and completely turned around in the clouds, and ended up all heading home on their own.