Hey everyone

I hopped on the Il-2 train late and have been playing for a few days now. Was wondering if anyone could give me a list of mods to look into. I'm especially interested in the Pacific theater, but anything is good.

I have downloaded the VP modpack, which is great visually. Any more suggestions would be more than appreciated.

Thanks

Head out to Special Aircraft Service forum and read on Community Universal Patch:
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php

You're gonna spend a whole day on downloading and setting up this mammoth of a mod compilation, but it's worth it (plus quite idiot-proof if You just follow installation procedure closely). Lots of PTO/CBI content in there.

Thanks Art. I'm not quite sure what's compatible with what, and what isn't needed when something else is already installed, but judging by the SAS site it seems that they suggest trial and error, i.e. download and see if it works or interferes.

You can get your feet wet by adding an aircraft or two to you VP modpack install. Why not give that a try? When you get more comfortable with it, then you can look at CUP.

I have had CUP, HSFX, DBW and all of the modpacks. Right now I have a vanilla 4.13 install and a VP modpack install.

Dave, did you have those activated simultaneously or did you try them one at a time? I'm just looking for the best option for realism/submersion in offline play.

I think the only plane add ons I'm interested in are B-25, B-24 and B-17...but it looks like the heavy bombers don't have much room for play in both stock campaign and DCG.

One at a time. They are all pretty much one or the other and don't play well together. Once upon a time you could have an HSFX install co-exist with something else (vanilla, IIRC) and you could switch back and forth with a mod activator. Don't know if that still flies or not.

I would suggest starting out with VP Modpack to get your feet wet. There are some B24 campaigns availible for vanilla 4.13.x You can have mutiple installs if you have the hard drive space.

My advice is if you are new and have only been playing a few days, VP's pack has all you really need for now.
Play it as it is for a while then start looking at what you might want to add or change.

Thanks for the info guys. Much appreciated.

That's why I suggested going for the whole C.U.P mod (WAW or "World at War" package to be more precise) - to avoid dealing with individual mods, trials/errors and whatnot. Sure, it will install a bunch of maps and planes You're totally not interested in, but at least I know it works from the get go.

On the other hand, You can have as many Il-2 installs as You wish to test various mod compilations so You're not losing anything apart from some time and disk space.

see also

http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,50919.0.html
SAS VP Modpack

Hi Ace,

A little late, but I just saw your post.

This is a good series on the Pacific Theater that will run on stock 4.12.1m, and would probably run just fine with the VP mod pack (but not sure about that).

1. Pearl Harbor to Midway

2. Guadalcanal Campaign

3. Solomon Islands Campaign

4. Central Pacific Campaign

5. Iwo Jima to the Home Islands