Tactical Air War

[E69_Maquina]

Thank you for the last campaign.

 

It's allways challenging to fly in the TAW. Even if sides aren't exactly balanced all the time, that's ok for me, it was that way in real world. 

 

Looking forward to flying the next.

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

Will it be possible to see moving tanks on the TAW in the future?

 

 

 

 

 

[-332FG-Magic_Zach]

On 3/24/2020 at 6:02 PM, JG4_Karl_Gratz said:

2) I experienced JG4_Ammi's methods and he isn't vulching. Neither did he make his kills mostly in a Me262 but rather in a D9!

I took a look at his sortie log, one of his kills was only spawned in for four minutes, the plane never took off.  Confirmed, Amni vulches.  And it's not just Amni participating in this kind of activity of orbiting and vulching, but it happened a lot with 262s when they came out.

To be clear, I don't have a hate streak for Amni, the groups, etc.  Tbh these are new names to me.  But this is the activity I noticed, and it's in the logs for you to take a look at.

Edited March 28, 2020 by -332FG-Magic_Zach

[Gustav_Hagel]

11 minutes ago, -332FG-Magic_Zach said:

I took a look at his sortie log, one of his kills was only spawned in for four minutes, the plane never took off.  Confirmed, Amni vulches.  And it's not just Amni participating in this kind of activity of orbiting and vulching, but it happened a lot with 262s when they came out.

To be clear, I don't have a hate streak for Amni, the groups, etc.  Tbh these are new names to me.  But this is the activity I noticed, and it's in the logs for you to take a look at.

That's expected in a server like TAW, vulching isn't forbidden

[Operatsiya_Ivy]

3 hours ago, -=PHX=-SuperEtendard said:

At first glance I would like to see how it pans out with this first 10% limitation, maybe if it's still too many 262s in certain situations like axis team fully stacked (though with this planeset it would incentivize for higher allied team participation) we could make it so their numbers stops scaling once axis team is 2:1 ratio compared to allied team.

About the P-51, yeah I meant the very rear edge of the map airfields. It might seem too much but the 51 has good autonomy and high cruising speed:

And if the campaign goes in favor of the axis the frontline would get closer and closer to the rear airfields making it a shorter trip for the 150 oct Mustangs to get to the action.

 

I highly doubt the 10% limitation will do anything. 4-5 players with 262s are still way too many for a single mission. In my opinion even 1 is too much because certain people will abuse the shit out of it but i already go for a compromise. 262s were always outnumbered so i think it would be reasonable to not make them available when axis got the number advantage. While this was general the case with the luftwaffe, i think it would be a nice way to balance out the 262s unique feature of being untouchable and basically immune to AA thanks to the AI. 

 

In terms of P-51 150 oct. fuel i think it would make much more sense to create an airspawn in the north west to simulate them coming from england than making them fly for 40 minutes just to arrive at the frontline in a mission that lasts just 2h.

 

 

[Gustav_Hagel]

46 minutes ago, Operation_Ivy said:

 

I highly doubt the 10% limitation will do anything. 4-5 players with 262s are still way too many for a single mission. In my opinion even 1 is too much because certain people will abuse the shit out of it but i already go for a compromise. 262s were always outnumbered so i think it would be reasonable to not make them available when axis got the number advantage. While this was general the case with the luftwaffe, i think it would be a nice way to balance out the 262s unique feature of being untouchable and basically immune to AA thanks to the AI. 

 

In terms of P-51 150 oct. fuel i think it would make much more sense to create an airspawn in the north west to simulate them coming from england than making them fly for 40 minutes just to arrive at the frontline in a mission that lasts just 2h.

 

 

Honestly i think missions should last 3 maybe even 4h

[Operatsiya_Ivy]

4 minutes ago, SCG_Gustav_Hagel said:

Honestly i think missions should last 3 maybe even 4h

 

Last time this was considered, which maybe ~2 years ago iirc, the conclusion was that it isn't possible due to IL2 limitations but maybe @Alonzo can weight in on that as someone with more knowledge about these kind of things.

 

But even when you have a 4h mission i think a 40min flight to the frontline is excessive. I know some Bomber blokes already do these long missions but it's just not for me. 

[=OPFR=ColNinny]

new video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bA4u1PpxEE

 

 

Col Ninny

Damn those 262's ! TAW Rhineland Live Game-play

 

 

 

 

Col NinnyYesterday at 3:22 PM

Overall, IMO, the TAW Rhineland gameplay was well balanced but having the 262's in the low altitude fights, and strafing the airfields was not realistic. They would have been used mainly for the high altitude bomber interceptor role for which they were designed. To counteract this inbalance TAW Rhineland campaigns should consider using AI B-25 high alt bomber groups as is used on one of the Combat Box Maps. This would add more diversity and challenge to both sides.

[Chivas_Regal]

@=LG=Kathon #odpalaj kampanię

[Blakhart]

22 hours ago, ACG_HardeKoning said:

LG meme-ing? I'll join #odpalaj kampanię

 

#odpalajkampanię

[[GCA]T1m270]

#odpalajkampanię I KURWA

 

If we are going to roll another EF campaign, would again love to see something unique for U2, other than transport to make that plane a useful part of the campaign. 

Edited March 29, 2020 by [GCA]T1m270

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

I'm all for the EF campaign. VVS this time. 

Edited March 29, 2020 by SCG_Fenris_Wolf

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

what is EF?

Edited March 29, 2020 by Ala13_UnopaUno_VR

[E69_Zelar]

1 hour ago, [GCA]T1m270 said:

#odpalajkampanię I KURWA

 

If we are going to roll another EF campaign, would again love to see something unique for U2, other than transport to make that plane a useful part of the campaign. 

Now it’s possible that you can discover the parachute zones of blues if you flight with it over that circle; and then all VVS can see that drop zone.

Although I have to recognise that is a bore/hard job....

Edited March 29, 2020 by E69_Gote

[HR_Tofolo]

41 minutes ago, Ala13_UnopaUno_VR said:

what is EF?

 

Eastern Front (frente del Este)

[=LG/F=Kathon]

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

[[GCA]T1m270]

❤️

[EGr8_kadett16]

24 минуты назад, =LG=Kathon сказал:

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

What kind of company do you plan to launch?

[ITAF_Airone1989]

25 minutes ago, =LG=Kathon said:

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

 

?

[E69_Z4BA]

1 hour ago, Ala13_UnopaUno_VR said:

what is EF?

Eastern Front

[-FISTN-Ugly_Eric]

I haveto say, that even taw has been good and all, the finnish virtual pilots has done many things way better lately. I think i will not participate to this taw. 

[Coldman]

3 hours ago, -FISTN-Ugly_Eric said:

I haveto say, that even taw has been good and all, the finnish virtual pilots has done many things way better lately. I think i will not participate to this taw. 

Ojoj

[Alonzo]

On 3/28/2020 at 4:12 PM, Operation_Ivy said:

Last time this was considered, which maybe ~2 years ago iirc, the conclusion was that it isn't possible due to IL2 limitations but maybe @Alonzo can weight in on that as someone with more knowledge about these kind of things.

 

Running a server is a lot of witchcraft and voodoo, so it's hard to know what's really going to have an effect and what isn't. Combat Box does 2.5 hour missions, and it's mostly ok but we do sometimes observe a performance degradation towards the end of the map. For a 3 or 4 hour map I think you'd want a lot less moving pieces (i.e. ground/interesting stuff). But that might be worth it, depending on the overall effect you want to achieve with the longer missions.

[LLv24_Veccu_VR]

12 hours ago, -FISTN-Ugly_Eric said:

I haveto say, that even taw has been good and all, the finnish virtual pilots has done many things way better lately. I think i will not participate to this taw. 

 

Hi!

 

LLv24 will participate TAW full strength. All our death ban pilots are ordered to fly on Finnish Virtual Pilots server during their death ban time.

 

So all other "banned", I welcome you to Finnish server

 

S!

 

Veccu

Edited March 30, 2020 by LLv24_Veccu

[Cpt_Siddy]

1 hour ago, LLv24_Veccu said:

 

All our death ban pilots are ordered to fly on Finnish Virtual Pilots server during their death ban time.

 

 

 

 

You forgot to add the "with no pants" clause. 

[SCG_OpticFlow]

5 hours ago, LLv24_Veccu said:

 

Hi!

 

LLv24 will participate TAW full strength. All our death ban pilots are ordered to fly on Finnish Virtual Pilots server during their death ban time.

 

So all other "banned", I welcome you to Finnish server

 

S!

 

Veccu

 

Finnish Virtual Pilots is where you go after you die in battle:

 

[RedKestrel]

8 minutes ago, OpticFlow said:

 

Finnish Virtual Pilots is where you go after you die in battle:

 

TFW you're an Einharjar and some dude rolls up in an I-16 with a surprised expression and no pants.

[BlackHellHound1]

21 hours ago, =LG=Kathon said:

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

 

Am I really the only one that is highly suspicious of that date?

[LLv24_Zami]

5 minutes ago, BlackHellHound1 said:

 

Am I really the only one that is highly suspicious of that date?

Nope

[LLv44_Mprhead]

29 minutes ago, BlackHellHound1 said:

 

Am I really the only one that is highly suspicious of that date?

 

That would be doing it wrong imo.

[SCG_Darbzy]

23 hours ago, =LG=Kathon said:

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

Awesome!

[1./NJGr.10Kopfjager]

 Prima aprilis ? 

If this is a joke, virtual pilots will not understand.

[RedKestrel]

2 hours ago, LLv44_Mprhead said:

 

That would be doing it wrong imo.

Plot Twist: TAW will happen, but it will be U-2 vs 262 only!

Here's some gameplay footage of the secret beta!
 

 

[Cpt_Siddy]

On 3/29/2020 at 7:52 PM, =LG=Kathon said:

The plan is to start next campaign on 01.04. Stay tuned. 

 

[RedKestrel]

55 minutes ago, Cpt_Siddy said:

 

Hopefully my drinking problem clears up before then...

[LLv24_Veccu_VR]

6 hours ago, OpticFlow said:

 

Finnish Virtual Pilots is where you go after you die in battle:

 

 

Wir sehen uns in Valhalla....

[Cpt_Siddy]

3 minutes ago, LLv24_Veccu said:

 

Wir sehen uns in Valhalla....

With no pants...

[=LG/F=Kathon]

New TAW campaign starts on 01.04.2020 at about 10:00 UTC.

 

Not too much changes because of the short break:

• Tanks convoys closes any enemy airfields if they are close enough to it. Before only attacking airfield was closed by the tanks.
• No bombers and transport aircraft on the frontline airfields. This rule doesn’t apply to border airfields.
• The warehouse on the Stalingrad map has been fixed (moved to the east).
• Plane set:

1. Lagg-3 on map #3 has available 23mm  (limited number of aircraft on the airfields)
2. La-5 on map #5 has available engine M82F
3. Yak-7b on map#6 available as 1/1 and Yak-1 as 1/1 +1. Before it was only Yak-1 2/2 +1.
4.  Mc202 no gunpods
5. Gunpods for BF F4, G2, G4, G6 limited in number on the airfields.

In general aircraft named as locked on the airfield have some payloads locked and their quantity is limited. This limitation depends on the airfield damage level and depot as well.

 

Registration is open.

 

Good luck!

[todeskvlt]

Let the forum burn!

 

[Cpt_Siddy]