Campaign updates and Souda Bay...

Should I use the Buffalo or the Fulmar?

  • Let's get crazy - Use the Buffalo!

    Votes: 18 72.0%
  • Play it safe - Use the Fairey Fulmar

    Votes: 7 28.0%

  • Total voters
    25

Rami

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To all,

Working in the Early European theatre, I'm working my way through past material and forgot how much fun the Heinkels! campaign can be. I'm going through and updating a lot of the missions, including a night raid on Glasgow and a bombing raid from Norway on Northern Royal Air Force bases in England, with Messerschmitt Bf-110d fighters providing escort.

I know, I'm one of those sicko bomber jocks, but if anyone wants to beta test a few missions here and there, just let me know. This campaign, based partly on KG 26 and fictional events, takes you from the start at Oldenburg during the Invasion of Norway and then your movement into Norway, participating in the campaign to capture the country. You then move down to the southwest coast of Norway, training to attacking British shipping, ports and aerodromes as you remain on the fringes of the Battle of Britain. After that, you then stage through Oldenburg and Italy on your way down to Sicily, where you constitute part of Fliegerkorps X that attacks British shipping in the Mediterranean, including an attack on the island fortress of Malta. After that, you end up in Benghazi, North Africa, attacking shipping as far east as the Suez Canal before making your way back to Sicily, staging through Italy on your way toward Greece, where you participate in the Balkan campaign and the effort to take Crete, even attacking Tobruk once again. Once this has been completed, you work your way back to Italy to participate in torpedo training, then stage through Oldenburg and Trondheim on the way to your final assignment...a trip to Banak, Norway where you'll end the campaign attacking the Allied convoys streaming into Soviet ports.
 
As my little free time permits I would gladly test your Heinkels improved missions.

Cheers. Discus
 
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As my little free time permits I would gladly test your Heinkels improved missions.

Cheers. Discus

Discus,

Thanks, I'll fire off a few more missions before I start sending them to you.
 
Sometimes, it isn't pretty...

Good afternoon,

My strike against the British Fleet off Bergen didn't go quite as well as I hoped...
 
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Ooops! Ain't it grand that you can't really get hurt?

What you don't know is I was actually able to make it to Sola aerodrome. It took twenty minutes to make it to the coast and put down. I was flying about twenty feet off the waves, doing 80 knots, with almost full right elevator to keep the wings level.

A real white-knuckle ride, I actually think I have a few more gray hairs after that one!
 
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Hey guys,

I found a small problem with Narvik, which was a GSL port I created for the Bardufoss Hurricanes campaign. I'm also using it for the "Heinkels" campaign and found out that the GSL gob needed to be split. I'll replace the upload here, and at my site. Sorry about the screw-up.
 
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Discus,

Just so you know, I haven't forgotten about you. I'm actually working on updating the Heinkels! Kondor! and Swordfish! campaigns simultaneously. In fact, I worked on "The Channel Dash" mission this morning.

In my opinion, the Alpha Swordfish provides a much different and updated feel from the old Groundcrew Stringbag, making the missions a bit more challenging. With all of these naval missions, it reminds me how much I hate creating convoys to attack.

I even had to hand-edit a mission this morning because the dynamic elements were spawning an airbase, rather than the Battle Cruiser Gneisenau. It took me a few minutes to remember how to do it, but eventually it clicked and the spawning problem was solved.

Never a dull moment in MB with this sim...:wiggle:
 
Take your time. I´m not in a hurry. I would certainly like to have so much time or could dedicate such a time to CFS2 as you do! My hands are full only with updating my objects-dp folder, getting rid of the excess of weapons, and flying a mision from time to time.

Cheers, Discus
 
I wanted a little more action over Dunkirk...

To all,

I wanted you to see a few ships in the water streaming from England to France and back, so I think this will suffice.
 
Rami

Giving life to the otherwise big empty spaces in CFS2 (sea and air) is really a giant step in MB creations and it gives such a stronger inmersive feeling that I think it should be worth the effort.

But I´m not the one working in MB but only and end user!!

Thanks again for sharing your work.

Discus
 
Iconification ?

...I wanted you to see a few ships in the water streaming from England to France and back, so I think this will suffice...

Hmmm... I have a question, Drew - Why do the ships in that illustration have big RED 'X's' over them ?

I don't recall seeing that before....

SC

:kilroy:
 
Hmmm... I have a question, Drew - Why do the ships in that illustration have big RED 'X's' over them ?

I don't recall seeing that before....

SC

:kilroy:

Sc7500,

The red "X" means that if you were to hit the advanced info key flying the mission, you would not see the ship or its waypoints. I like to set up missions so that the only thing that you see is your flight path.
 
Comprendo !

...The red "X" means that if you were to hit the advanced info key flying the mission, you would not see the ship or its waypoints. I like to set up missions so that the only thing that you see is your flight path...

AH ! I understand !

Thank You Sir !
SC
:kilroy:
 
Question on Souda Bay, Crete...

To all, but especially Collin or Pen32Win,

Do any of you have some aerial reconnaissance or other shots of what Souda Bay looked like during WWII? I'd like to build a GSL port there, if possible.

Thanks,
 
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