Operation FRANTIC has arrived!!!

Rami

Rami

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Good afternoon,

Just in time for school, I've released "Operation Frantic." This campaign pack features seven brand-new airbases from Achim (Piryatin, Mirgorod, Galati, Ziliesta, Foscani, Francazal, and Mielec) as well as three German missions and a 25-mission campaign flown from the perspective of the USAAF.

Please note that these missions are extremely long, the shuttle-bombing escort missions are 1,100-1,400 miles in length.

I encourage anyone who is interested to look up this often-overlooked endeavor by the USAAF. I've taken great care to include synopses of the missions as well as debriefs. I hope you enjoy, to my knowledge this is the first time that the American side has been covered by any flight sim, though Jaeck Poltrak did do a mission simulating the German attack on Poltava for CFS1.

This is not a dynamic campaign, it's not designed to be. I built it in the order that the missions were flown, so you can get a feel for what it was like to fly them. However, the missions themselves have plenty of random elements.

This is not a rework, it's a brand-new campaign built from the ground up. Get up there and have fun!

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=44&linkid=2516

I also uploaded it to my "box" site as well as Simviation.
 
Well, if you slow down a little on your campaigns, I guess we will be able to understand. I am still working on Euro, Med installs. It sounds like another great one!:salute::ernae:
 
Thank you Rami!

Some older people I know still remember the bombers overflying my hometown in the Austrian alps on their way to/from Italy. Apparently it was quite a surprise as nobody expected to see them in this rather remote location. Some crews of damaged aircraft who had to jettison their bombs aimed for the railway station, but didn't do much damage.

One B-24 crashed into a mountain not far from town, but today all evidence of the wreckage has long disappeared.

This is a very interesting campaign and I look forward to flying it!

Wolfgang
 
MW Trees

Just tried to put in the ETO_inf_pack_01 and I've run into problems. I've installed the required objects, etc, except for MW Trees. Ran a free flight out of Hawkinge after activating the scenery.....Lotsa missing objects, though I haven't finished the full 'Frantic' install yet. Is there such a thing as MW_Trees? Can't find that anywhere.

Cheers!
 
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If you have the BoB airfields installed, you should have the MW trees. That's where you get them.

I have not installed Canion's scenery, you don't need to install it.

All you need it for specifically are the library objects only, most notably the railroad tracks.
 
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Thanks, m'man! BoB Airfields? Who are these by? I've never installed them that I know of.
 
I just looked all through our scenery archives and can't find any BoB airfields, same at SV. There IS the CFS2_BOB self installing package, but I've already installed it in another install and can't direct it this install without it taking the old stuff out.

I'll look in campaigns.....might just get lucky. Boy!.....sure wish we had a search engine that worked.
 
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Alpha_1,

Go into the install in which you have the CFS2 BoB bases pack installed. Find the .dp file in the objects_dp that is called "mw_tree.dp" and copy it into the other install.

Go into the scenedb\inf\scenery folder and copy the mw_tree.bgl into the same folder in your other install.

Go to the scenedb\inf\texture folder and copy the mw_tree_0 thru mw_tree_7 into the same folder in your other install.

As I said...you have them already if you installed the pack...just copy the .dp files, bitmaps, and textures into the other install. You don't have to REMOVE anything.

What else are you missing?
 
Duh!!....there's dumb, then there's dumber, then........*&^%!@#$*(+*@

Jeezuz Murphy! Thanks a million, Rami......didn't even t'ink of it! As for anything else, just the usual (for me)......forgot a couple of downloads along the way. Everything is lookin' tiddly!

Thanks again.......(patient man that Ramirez.......boy!)

Cheers!
 
Colour Blind

Hi all;

I'm a tad colour blind so I can't read the error message on the attached screenies. I'm apparently missing a couple of things for my ETO_Late_2 install (read: Operation Frantic). Can somebody tell me what the messages say? And what the heck are these things?

View attachment 18221View attachment 18222

T'anks! Cheers!
 
Shots in the dark....

VERY hard to read, but by zooming my trusty Acer monitor, I believe I see:

Duxhut1

Brewster

Am I right ? :isadizzy:
SC
:kilroy:
 
Blind leading the blind?

HAHAHA.......nice try, SC! I haven't got a clue! Just tried blowin' 'em up with Infranview but the best I can come up with is either Duxhut like you say, or auxhut, and blocster! Shoulda blown 'em up with a U.S. 500lb you-know-what instead and been done with 'em!

For me it's a case of 'the porch lights are gettin' a li'l dim'

Thanks for trying. I appreciate it. Even if I find out what they are, I'm still in the dark as to where to find such animals.
 
Found 'em!

These two files are texture files from the Normandie-Nieuman airbases. 1) duxhut1; 2) bicester; both are building textures. Who'da thunk? I did a search of my files and found 'em.

I've added the NN Airbases to the install and no longer get the two error messages. Hope this works.

Thanks again, SC for giving it a shot!

Cheers!
 
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alpha_1 said:
These two files are texture files from the Normandie-Nieuman airbases. 1) duxhut1; 2) bicester; both are building textures. Who'da thunk? I did a search of my files and found 'em.

I've added the NN Airbases to the install and no longer get the two error messages. Hope this works.

Thanks again, SC for giving it a shot!

Cheers!
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Alpha_1,

Sorry for the late reply.Those are both library objects in the BoB bases pack, but the .dp files are not found in the library objects pack here by gary20. You could have copied the library objects over, just like you did the trees.
 
T'anks Rami

Thanks for that, Rami

Brings up another question: If I want to install the BoB airbases to a current install (CFS2_ETO_Late_2) and I've already got it in another (CFS2_ETO_Early) is there a way without uninstalling the old one? What does the install program look for?
 
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