VeteranenCampaign -- JG51 over Velikie Luki

[JG4_dingsda 111]

With Veteran's permission I recompiled his excellent "I./JG51 over Velikie Luki"-missions into a scripted campaign. I hope you enjoy his missions as much as I did. Thanks Veteran!

Download link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/80bnanmk4p2x11g/JG51_over_Velikie_Luki_(v104b_for_3006).zip?dl=0

Installation:
Extract the Folder data into your IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad main directory.

Other notes:

• The campaign is in German, English and Russian. Should somebody want to do translations for Polish, French or Spanish, I will gladly include them.
• ShamrockOneFive did a review of the campaign. You can read it here.
• The cinematic below was done by ShamrockOneFive as well. Thank you!
• FoxbatRU did 4k replacement skins for the campaign. You can find his post here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrZZi5qxsE

 

Version history:

 

v1.04b (3.006)

• Moved up start for Mission 2 a little. The problem with this mission itself is not fixed, yet. But it is possible to start and land (east to west) and thus continue with mission 3 which seems to be ok again.

v1.04 (3.005)

• Recompiled for game version 3.005

v1.03 (3.001)

• Recompiled for game version 3.001

v1.02 (2.008)

• Russian translation added, thx to Kosman72
• fixed the clouds to be winter-clouds again

v1.01 (2.006c)

• fixed mission order

v1.00 (2.006c)

• rerelease of Veteran's "I./JG51 over Velikie Luki"-missions as scripted campaign
• minor tweaks and changes to subtitles and briefings

Edited October 18 by JG4_dingsda

[Veteran66 398]

A BIG Thx for your work JG4_dingsda

It look realy nice!

[[DBS]El_Marta 110]

Looking forward to the other parts.

[Jade_Monkey 1803]

Awesome!

 

I'm so glad so many campaigns are being released (and WIP too).

[Swing 76]

Thanks

[pilotpierre 559]

Many thanks, another big bonus for the game.

[No601_Swallow 571]

 

Ha! It's getting so that I'm not sure when I'll have time to fly all these!

 

[The psychology of the "Scripted Campaign" thing is interesting. These missions of Veteran's have been around for a while, but I haven't looked at them. I was amazed and inspired by the bomber campaigns, but didn't ahve the time for the fighter or jabo stuff. But... put the same missions in a lovely little coherent package, where finishing one cues up the next... and - it becomes a "thing", as our American cousins would say! The exact same missions become, collectively a bright shiny object! Suddenly the whole thing feels so much more IL2 and so much less erm... other. It's 'just' psychology of course, but still powerful for all that.]

[Juri_JS 781]

Swallow, I think you've hit the nail on the head. The scripted campaign system is exactly the stimulus the single player part of the game needed, just look at the number of releases we've seen over the last days. It's surprising it took the developers so long to realize this.
 

[ST_ami7b5 502]

Thank you guys for your excellent work!

[JG4_dingsda 111]

A BIG Thx for your work JG4_dingsda

It look realy nice!

 

It was nice being able to contribute a little to your good work.

 

 

Looking forward to the other parts.

 

Hey! Don't push an old man. But I'll probably do the Chir-Front too.

Edited January 8, 2017 by JG4_dingsda

[Veteran66 398]

It was nice being able to contribute a little to your good work.

 

 

 

Hey! Don't push an old man. But I'll probably do the Chir-Front too.

will be fine

[Faustnik 32]

Thank you for the campaign!!!!

[Blitzen 248]

[Willy__ 471]

 

 

Hey! Don't push an old man. But I'll probably do the Chir-Front too.

 

Please do! I really liked those missions!

 

Anyways, kudos for you dingsda! Thank you for you hard work!

[Bando 257]

Is there anyway I can download this without being forced to subscribe to something like dropbox or a google account?

[ST_ami7b5 502]

Is there anyway I can download this without being forced to subscribe to something like dropbox or a google account?

You don't need to.

Just click on the "No, thanks...." link (the last row) 

[sinned 120]

Thank you for this.

[Moebelwagen 2]

Thank you very much! Indeed, putting loosly mission together to a campaign adds a lot of emersion and "dive into".

[Bando 257]

You don't need to.

Just click on the "No, thanks...." link (the last row) 

 

Well I'll be damned. Never saw that option. Thanks.

 

Look at that:

 

[A-E-Hartmann 497]

Thank you very much for the campaign .

[II./JG77_motoadve 313]

What do I need to complete a mission?

Land back at base?

 

Mission 1

 

The escort of the Stukas was a success and I flew my very damaged 190 directly back to the airfield, landed it , propeller hit the ground but I was alive, I got a mission failure message.

[pilotpierre 559]

Some of the new scripted campaigns will accept a (damaged the a/c) landing but others require your a/c to land unscathed (from the landing).

 

Personally I think if you make it back to base and screw up landing (e.g. Mig) it should still be a mission success.

[JG4_dingsda 111]

Thank you very much for the campaign .

 

 

I am merely 'recollecting' the great work that has been done by so many people here -- you among them.

 

Btw, did you do the skins for the Chir Front, too?

[II./JG77_motoadve 313]

Very very good and immersive, love the radio chat, that is a great touch that adds to immersion.

Thanks for the work.

[keeno 80]

Veteranen,

 

Thanks for the updated campaign.

 

Cheers

[E69_julian57 859]

Thanks for the campaign, a Spanish translation would be fine.

[JG51_Beazil 132]

Just finished last night. What a great campaign. Thank you.

[Skoop 31]

The 2.007 update may have broke something, can't get this to run, keeps saying it can't find one of the files in the lua mapemitters test folder.

[JG4_dingsda 111]

The 2.007 update may have broke something, can't get this to run, keeps saying it can't find one of the files in the lua mapemitters test folder.

 

I played the campaign yesterday a little to testrun the FW and AI and everything was fine. But I have to admit, that this is not representative, because I still make small alterations to the campaign.

 

Was it running in 2.006c for you? Did you unpack the zip into the il2-mainfolder?

 

Anyone else having this problem?

[Pail 112]

It has been running fine for me. It's a great campaign. Thank you very much.

[71st_AH_Mastiff 546]

unfortunately Mission #4 the yak's1 AI is to uber, I can't out-fly them, out climb them, super Russian PLanes.

its better I just return home and sit on the ground.

 

for some reason the AI wing-men will not attack them from the other squadron.

 

The enemy Yaks climb and climb and climb....

 

ok the Yak 1 stopped climb when it reached 17,000ft.

 

I was able to counter them by dragging the yaks to eagle flight; I survived.

Edited February 5, 2017 by 71st_AH_Mastiff

[Skoop 31]

Got it working, I had to point WinRAR to my main bos directory and unpack.  Originally I extracted to the desktop and manually moved each file, which was creating the error.

[dapits 7]

 

Hi all,

 

I took the liberty to do a little teaser for this nice campaign ;

 

 

Thanks to Veteranen for the hard work on this campaign...

[Kosman72 0]

I address to the Veteran66 - clean please your mail box. I have an important message for you.

I translated this campaign into Russian.

[JG4_dingsda 111]

Thanks to Kosman72 there is a russian translation available now!

[totalize 6]

Mission 1. The Tail wheel is not locked on the Fw190 and you can't lock it all. As you taxi down the runway it locks and unlocks by itself. I would assume its a bug in this scripted campaign? Most of the time when powering up I just spin out and crash. Not fun.

Edited April 14, 2017 by totalize

[Yogiflight 305]

You know, you have to pull back the stick completely and hold it there, and then get the tailwheel in its mid position to lock the tailwheel in the FW190.

[totalize 6]

wow really??

[JG4_dingsda 111]

wow really??

Judging from your post only, this could have been the problem. Yogiflight only wanted to help here.

 

Mission 1. The Tail wheel is not locked on the Fw190 and you can't lock it all. As you taxi down the runway it locks and unlocks by itself. I would assume its a bug in this scripted campaign? Most of the time when powering up I just spin out and crash. Not fun.

On the other hand: It is not unheard of, that a new update broke something. :D Unfortunately I am out of town, so I will not be able to have a look at this until late next week. Hopefully I can assess what is going wrong here and fix it. Edited April 15, 2017 by JG4_dingsda

[Yogiflight 305]

In the Rshew campaign of Juri, it worked yesterday, hard to believe, that it doesn't work in another campaign.

 

EDIT: Just gave it a try in the first mission of the JG51 campaign and it worked as it should.

Was your problem at the end of the mission, because you wrote, that it was when taxiing down the runway and before the mission you don't have to taxi? Then it might be, that you were hit and the mechanic to lock the tailwheel did not work anymore. The only explanation, I can think of.

Edited April 15, 2017 by Yogiflight