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#4194652 - 11/15/15 09:03 AM Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP  
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I have now finished building all the 45 missions, and is about to playtest them all, so I feel confident enough to show this campaign as a WIP:



The inspiration came of course from Cyberolas absolutely AMAZING repaints of the stock Stalingrad Map. And from the fact that Okevnas great Donbass map hasn't been used as much as I think it deserves to be. And that these two maps together makes it possible to cover almost all of the German Summer Offensive and the ensuing battle for Stalingrad. The campaign starts in May 1942, with the Soviet counter-offensive outside Charkov, and goes all the way to January 1943, when the fate of the surrounded German 6th army was finally sealed.

More info on these two maps can be found here:
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,40944.0.html
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,14361.0.html

In this campaign you are a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, flying the Bf 109G. In one mission though, you get to fly the Fi 156 and in another one the He 111 - That is the finale: "Last flight from Pitomnik", January 19, 1943.

The campaign has been built with HSFX 7.3, for 4.12, with taxi-to-take off and the other goodies. (I'm sorry but I still don't have a working C.U.P. install, so I don't know if you will be able to play "Onwards to Stalingrad!" using that mod pack.)

As this is quite a big campaign, the play-testing will take some time, but I hope to have "Onwards to Stalingrad!" ready at - say - Christmas time wink

Thanks for looking! smile

Last edited by Poltava; 11/20/15 11:56 AM.
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#4195005 - 11/16/15 09:38 AM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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#4195842 - 11/18/15 12:45 PM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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#4196434 - 11/19/15 08:33 PM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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#4197066 - 11/21/15 07:55 AM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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Just a small report. The playtesting continues without any bigger problems - yes, the campaign is still a WIP. A couple of screenies:





I am also tinkering with the small interlude movies. There will be six or seven of them. (Especially important, I think, when you shift to a new map.) The ETA still holds: in a month, give or take a few days.

Thanks for looking! smile

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#4197166 - 11/21/15 02:55 PM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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Can't wait!!

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#4197669 - 11/22/15 09:40 PM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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#4198282 - 11/24/15 02:00 AM Re: Onwards to Stalingrad! WIP [Re: Poltava]  
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What a superb effort! Am really keen to give this a go. yep


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Poltava's campaigns have all been most immersive, authentic and the best I have ever downloaded; so really looking forward to this




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