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Devildog73

Devildog73

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Okay guys,

I am sitting at home for the next 2 weeks on convalescent leave after knee surgery.

It has been a while since I did any creative ventures in CFS2 for release to SOH, and I am not good at sitting at home without something to occupy my time.

I am in between courses on my Master Degree, so, bottom line, what would you all like to see in missions or campaign.

I am toying with USMC Pacific, but am not locked into that.

Lay some ideas on me and over the course of the next 10 days or so, I will spend some hours on mission building.

DD73
 
Suggetions

Sorry to hear about your leg, hopefully it'll get better than ever. But if you need ideas, here are some: We never got the "Battle of France 1940" campaign, especially a French one. There can still be room for good Battle of Britain campaigns, and I don't think D-day has ever been toyed with in CFS-2? Anything fielding seaplanes is also a rare find, though there are a few old mini-campaigns. And since Aerocrate stopped, the first World War has been neclected, alas. And that is just what I would love to fly - I'll guess there will be hundreds of suggestions, so do not fear boredom:applause:
All the best wishes for your recovery from
Finn
 
Get well soon DD73.

How about the Aleutians? We've got the beautiful scenery by Uncle Tgt and excellent skins by Sopwith Chameleon, but only a handful of missions by Rolf/Yoshi from the Japanese perspective.
 
Yikes! I hope your recovery is fast and full.

I may be in your neck of the woods in December. If you're still there and haven't retired yet, we'll have to get off of the Kaserne and get a beer.
 
Did you say ideas???

Here's something for consideration. The first four are very fine existing -- but dated -- campaigns for the late war that could use some updating to current scenery and aircraft options if your looking for some redux work.

Operation Forager Campaign
A 16 mission campaign following the invasion
of the Marianas in June 1944. Includes
historically accurate missions, the 'Great
Marianas Turkey Shoot', correct carrier task
group compositions, and adds airfields at
Marpi Point, Gurguan Point and Rota.

Operation Victor
A campaign for USN following the invasion of the Philippines,
including the Battle for Leyte Gulf, a total
of 26 missions. Also adds 29 new airfields in
the Philippines area, Formosa, and Indonesia

**Captain Kurt has already started us down this path with his recent VF-19 campaign that overlaps Victor and Forager

Operation Iceberg
21 mission campaign following the invasion of Okinawa
in 1945

ALL By Matthew Scott

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Tokyo Express Campaign
This is a campaign featuring the F4U-1C in a USN VF-85 mission pack. It deals with the attacks on the Japanese home islands at the end of World War II.

By Arne E. Ehlers

05/04/2002

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And then something that could be original and very much appreciated:

British Pacific Fleet/Fleet Air Arm action from 1944-1945

Nothing in CFS2 public domain covering this extremely vital component in the late Pacific War campaigns. The BPF was a fomidable ally in the Formosa, Sea of Japan and Okinawa regions, as well as the DEI and collaborating with the USN in the late war "Tokyo Express" raids on the Japanese home islands. They raised hell in Hellcats, Corsairs and Seafires and even flew CAP against kamikazes during Operation Iceberg. BPF ships received a good deal of attention from the kamikaze force during Op Iceberg and weathered that storm alongside their USN comrades. With their steel-decked aircraft carriers, the task forces of the BPF fared much better against the kamikaze than their American counterparts with wooden decks. Their naval air corp can also boast of a few aces.
 
Hi
In my opinion do or remake any campaign but you must include
Captain's Kurt personnel

cheers
 
bearcat241 said:
......

And then something that could be original and very much appreciated:

British Pacific Fleet/Fleet Air Arm action from 1944-1945

Nothing in CFS2 public domain covering this extremely vital component in the late Pacific War campaigns. The BPF was a fomidable ally in the Formosa, Sea of Japan and Okinawa regions, as well as the DEI and collaborating with the USN in the late war "Tokyo Express" raids on the Japanese home islands. They raised hell in Hellcats, Corsairs and Seafires and even flew CAP against kamikazes during Operation Iceberg. BPF ships received a good deal of attention from the kamikaze force during Op Iceberg and weathered that storm alongside their USN comrades. With their steel-decked aircraft carriers, the task forces of the BPF fared much better against the kamikaze than their American counterparts with wooden decks. Their naval air corp can also boast of a few aces.
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Hear hear. There were a couple of my fellow countrymen flying Hellcats and Corsairs from those carriers.
 
Well,
:jump:I like Hellcats and I like Corsairs. I can even carrier land Corsairs in a counter-clockwise circle, vis-a-vis the UK perfected method.

I will do some research over the weekend and begin adding our cousins, or is that uncles and aunts, from the UK into the Pacific late war battles.

I am an avid proponent of close air support, perfected by the USMC and USN. I will see if our British relatives also took part in such ground support roles in the Pacific. I know they did so in Africa and Europe.

So, look for some British Pacific Fleet missions, possibly campaigns. And, I will not be flying straight in from astern for carrier landings. You all will probably be able to warp to the port side of the carrier where you will have to begin your slow, descending, counter-clockwise turn to the deck with full flaps and 60% power, canopy open. If you have aircraft damage, prudence is the better part of valor, climb to 1000 and bail out in friendly waters.:salute:

Okay, I think I have enough skins for British Pacific Fleet Corsairs and Hellcats and enough British ships.

Now to the research........
 
Reply...

Devildog,

I kept quiet to make sure the Pacific Blues got their due. :wiggle:
 
Devildog73 said:
...And, I will not be flying straight in from astern for carrier landings. You all will probably be able to warp to the port side of the carrier where you will have to begin your slow, descending, counter-clockwise turn to the deck with full flaps and 60% power, canopy open. If you have aircraft damage, prudence is the better part of valor, climb to 1000 and bail out in friendly waters.....
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Looking forward to that nugget...much practiced in this style. Its my standard routine for carrier landings nowadays. :jump:

Meanwhile here's some patchwork of related material for further discussion and research for those interested:

http://www.bbm.org.uk/as-hayrc.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=Pa...Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=D.J. Sheppard+ace&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hampton_Gray

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageN...he-Last-Canadian-VC--Robert-Hampton-Gray.aspx

http://www.parallaxfilm.com/projects/history-classics/last-battle-hampton-gray

http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/Hobbs_THE_BRITISH_PACIFIC_FLEET_IN_1945.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pacific_Fleet#Allied_co-operation

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-BPF4504BritishPacificFleetFeb-Jul45.htm
 
Thanks bearcat!

Any airfields in the Sakishima Islands (southern Ryukyu-Okinawa) and Formosa?

It has been so long since I have been in the Pacific theater, not since the Aces Campaigns with Dick Bong and Tommy McGuire.....

I am going to start building my fleet in the channel between Okinawa and the Sakishima Islands and give a first mission of in-coming kamikaze intercepts.

If you all can guide me to some already made airfields on those islands, I will then start with some ground attacks on airbases and CAP with seafires over Okinawa US attack forces per the research I have already done.

I am going to look into MaskRider, Xavier and other Pacific scenery creators and see if we already have such bases made.

If any of you all know of some, let me know, it will save me search time.

Thanks ahead of time.

Lee
 
DD,

Maskrider has done Formosa and I did some GSL work on ports for it but haven't released it yet.

I also have the ship lists of TF 57 which was off Okinawa and what planes and how many each carrier had. TF 37 was off the coast of Japan and I have the same info for that too.

I think there is a Prince of Wales by VN which you can use for the King George V and Howe.
 
Talon said:
DD,

Maskrider has done Formosa and I did some GSL work on ports for it but haven't released it yet.

I also have the ship lists of TF 57 which was off Okinawa and what planes and how many each carrier had. TF 37 was off the coast of Japan and I have the same info for that too.

I think there is a Prince of Wales by VN which you can use for the King George V and Howe.
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Talon,

Okay, I have MaskRider Formosa and Japan 1 which covers the entire area of discussion.

I will begin installing the infrastructure tonight per his scenery directions.

I also have ship list and aircraft for TF 57. I plan to use those ships I have found and convert some with renames to be as close as possible to the actuals. I will then zip them and include the renamed converts in the uploads.

I really appreciate your help. Thanks,
Lee
 
On the topic of scenery, i don't know how far we want to go in covering the operations of the BPF. But in the interest of extending BPF action to the max, maybe throw in some of Xavier Berdaguer's GSL Eastern Asia WWII Runways from his EAWWII SCENERY - FULL CONSOLIDATED PACKAGE. He covered eastern Asia (and Japan in a separate package) extensively with a wide variety of geographical choices. Places like Korea, coastal China/Manchuria, Indochina, Malaya, the entire Dutch East Indies and other locations nearest to the Indian Ocean would do well from his package with respect to BPF operations. In addition, we have Maskrider's latest GSL version of the Dutch East Indies. The BPF operated in all of these areas as a left flanking strategy to the actions of the main USN thrust up the Marianas chain to the Japanese home islands. Now you have the whole pie on the table to slice any way you choose. ;)
 
Operation Forager Campaign
 A 16 mission campaign following the invasion
of the Marianas in June 1944. Includes
historically accurate missions, the 'Great
Marianas Turkey Shoot', correct carrier task
group compositions.

Bearcat maybe you missed these.

In 2010 I did a Marianas Campaign that started June 11 with strikes on Saipan and ending with strikes o the IJN Fleet. The Turkey Shoot is also in it.37 Missions.And the Carrier task groups are historically correct


Operation Victor
A campaign for USN following the invasion of the Philippines,
including the Battle for Leyte Gulf, a total
of 26 missions.

2010 I did a Philippines Campaign ( called Leyte ) of 29 missions that cover the landings,attacks on Formosa,Kamikaze attacks,attack on Taffey 3 and the destruction of the IJN Carriers. I did only 1 mission for the attack on Mushasi because Shadow Wolf already done a mission pack on it.Carrier Task Groups are also historically correct for this Campaign.
 
No, not missed, downloaded when they were released back in 2010, just haven't done them yet. So, i had forgotten what was actually included in them. But now that you've refreshed my memory, i can commit much sooner than later. Thanks for the reminder.:salute:
 
Okay,
Now I need a dp files for the Barracuda Mk2. It does not have one in it.
I tried to modify a devastator dp, but it didn't work.
Lee
 
 
Thanks Baldy and Rams!!!

:medals::medals::ernae:

NOTE ON EDIT:
NEVER Mind! I found what I was looking for, thanks Buddha13!!
 
Okay,
I decided to start at the beginning of the BPF, while they were still the Eastern Fleet Task Force 63.

It is two raids on oil refineries and storage tanks on Sumatra, Indonesia.

I have Meridian One finished and sent to Rami for editing and modification.

Based upon his advice, I will complete Meridian Two this week. Then it is on to British Pacific Fleet - Task Force 57.

Unfortunately, CFS2 does not pay any attention to the island of Sumatra and no actual rivers are depicted in the scenery from MS CFS2.

Palembang, Pladjoe, and Soengei Gerong are all on the big navigable, winding Musi River almost cutting the island in two.

So, I relocated the refineries onto the Pelabuhan Tanjung Api-Api north of Palembang and the Musi River, as the only suitable location for a refinery complex.

Not historically, nor geographically accurate, but the best CFS2 has to offer.

Question for you guys that actually are in the know on CFS2: I own FS9/2004 Century of Flight and FSX Gold. Will either of those sceneries for Sumatra work in CFS2?

Thanks,
Lee
 
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