THE BUTCHER - SP scripted campaign [Fw190]

[itsbillyfrazier]

1 minute ago, Jade_Monkey said:

 

 

Thank you!

 

There is a Hurricane campaign coming up. It's about 95% done,  just waiting for the AAA truck to be released and also need a few weeks since just had a baby and time is really scarce at the moment.

 

Congrats on the new baby!

 

Yes I'm following the thread for the upcoming Hurricane campaign, I'm really looking forward to it and for what the new AAA trucks will bring to the sim.

 

Hopefully you will get a few nights sleep in between mission making and taking care of the baby...I think I might be waiting a long time for a new fw190 campaign from you! ?

[Verbum_Vincet]

Just finished this campaign. What a blast! This campaign was so good, that I've already started replaying it. The FW-190 A3 is a wonderful, versatile fighting plane.

 

I don't know if anyone else had trouble with the 6th mission where you have to bomb the two trains (locomotives, specifically) but I did, so maybe this will help someone: for whatever reason, my Schwarm wouldn't drop their SC250's, so I tried various options (strafing the locomotives to no avail, single SC500 gingerly laid equidistant between the two locomotives) until I hit upon using the (4)SC50 loadout. That gives you two shots at each locomotive, and once they're destroyed, you can strafe the softer rail cars. The initial bombing run went smoothly, but the Flak will quickly dial you in and so I kept getting shot down on the second run. Therefore, after dropping the first bomb, I immediately circled back and took out the nearby Flak guns at either end of the rail yard so dropping the remaining three would be much less dangerous. Just watch out for La-5s taking off from the nearby airfield! 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Verbum_Vincet

[ragvard]

Having a blast with it, thank you so much.

Mission 04 was terrifying. The thought of having to fly and fight under such conditions is just insane

[ragvard]

I finished it today and landed a totally wrecked fw-190 with no sight cause of oil leaks and nearly unconscious. It was the perfect ending for this awesome campaign, just fitted so well with the narrative ?

I will definately replay it. Thank you for this great experience!

[jussitska]

I'm stuck with the Mornig Surprice. At first I will destroy two IL-2s on the enemy field and I will shoot two more fighters on the way back, finally I will land intact on my own field ... Mission failed .. ??? What I'm doing wrong

Edited April 2, 2021 by jussitska

[vonGraf]

On 3/5/2019 at 6:35 PM, THERION said:

 

Lock tail wheel = pull the stick back!

Unlock tail wheel = release stick in neutral position!

 

That's the way it works and always did... and historical correct.

 

Oh, Mann.. thank you for this info!

At last I can now stop to use the autopilot function for the starts and landings in a 190!

Never had so much trouble in a plane; not even in a 109 E1 in CloD.

[Jade_Monkey]

6 hours ago, jussitska said:

I'm stuck with the Mornig Surprice. At first I will destroy two IL-2s on the enemy field and I will shoot two more fighters on the way back, finally I will land intact on my own field ... Mission failed .. ??? What I'm doing wrong

 

That's weird, all missions have a trigger when you land and you come to a full stop (engines can still be on), mission is successful.

 

Try just taking off and landing back without doing the mission. It should allow you to continue to the next one.

[jussitska]

Yeah .. thanks it worked, but it feels miserable to skip the task this way. Can you tell me where is the fault, because I can't complete the task successfully ... as described above ??

Edited April 2, 2021 by jussitska

[Jade_Monkey]

5 hours ago, jussitska said:

Yeah .. thanks it worked, but it feels miserable to skip the task this way. Can you tell me where is the fault, because I can't complete the task successfully ... as described above ??

 

Sounds like user error? If you can take off, and land and pass mission successfully, you should be able to do the same after returning from your mission. Make sure you land and come to full stop within the perimeter of the airfield.

[Jade_Monkey]

Updated for 4.601

[Spikos]

THX 4 all your updates!

[Meatshield]

Wowzers. That first mission briefing i think says no wind, then there's what felt like a massive crosswind on landing. Totally crazy. Ground looped the first try, barely was able to hang onto it the second try (didn't realize it was coming slightly out of the north, so first attempt had a bit of a tailwind component that was not helpful). 

 

I'm not sure if that's intentional or if wind values somehow got changed by an update, but yeah, really, really, really challenging landing on what seems like it's supposed to just be a "look at the fleet" seeing mission.

 

I looked in mission editor, it's a 70 degree crosswind at 13m/s, or 110 degree if you land north-south in the direction you approach the runway from, which was my first instinct. I dunno if there are any indicators that signal the active runway direction in the game.

 

Thanks for all your hard work, looking forward to rest of campaign, just popped out to leave a note because the wind seemed weird.

[Jade_Monkey]

Hmmm I wonder if they got messed up with an update. I don't recall changing them but it could have been a long time ago.

 

I don't believe there is an active runway indicator. How was that done historically in these types of airfields? Just radio?

[PhilthySpud]

10 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

Hmmm I wonder if they got messed up with an update. I don't recall changing them but it could have been a long time ago.

 

I don't believe there is an active runway indicator. How was that done historically in these types of airfields? Just radio?

Wind T for the most part. Sometimes a windsock.

[BladeMeister]

Just downloaded this, but I do not see the skins included? Did I miss something?

 

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[IL2Battle]

Hey,

 

Gonna point out that too, skins not been in main file, but you have to download them separately. On second page have message from E69_julian57  with link to skins. Although been saying, that skins included in main file.

 

And thanks about campaign, it was very good.

[Jade_Monkey]

Sorry, they probably got left out when I repackaged the release.

 

At this point, the A3 skins are all 4K now and very soon we will have the in-game codes that I'll add making the skins unnecessary. In the meantime you can still download them from Julian's link.

[vekxor]

On 4/16/2017 at 9:37 PM, Jade_Monkey said:

http://www.mission4today.com/uploads/IL2BOS/4700_2jtwmo.jpg

Here is the Fw190 scripted campaign titled "The Butcher".

This is a non-historical campaign that takes you through the battle of Stalingrad in a schwarm of the famous Focke-Wulf 190 (aka butcher bird). There are a mix of air-to-air and ground attack missions and the campaign goes from the summer of 1942 until early 1943.

 

The download also contains 8x 4K skins made by ICDP for this campaign.

There will be some bugs, so feel free to let me know in this thread or via PM.

 

The missions require landing and coming to a full stop in order to move on in the campaign.

There are subtitles with hints, so if you like flying in expert mode, I would recommend flying with custom settings and removing icons instead of playing in expert.

The AI can be very picky with taxiing before takeoff. Leave the plane ahead of you plenty of room to taxi and position yourself behind plane #2 in order for the leader to start taking off.

 

Many thanks to community members Blitzen, Zami, and Gambit21 for testing and assistance with the campaign and special thanks to ICDP for providing the fantastic summer and winter 4K skins for the Fw190. Thanks to durruti for German translation and to =IRSS=CV72 for the Russian translation.

 

 

Updated for game version 4.502

 

Download links:

 

Mediafire

 

Hi!, can play this campaign on news version of IL2 Stalingrad?, thanks!!

[Jade_Monkey]

6 hours ago, vekxor said:

Hi!, can play this campaign on news version of IL2 Stalingrad?, thanks!!

As long as you own BOS Premium or BOS and the Fw190 A3, yes.

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Si. Requirere el modulo de Battle of Stalingrad Premium o Battle of Stalingrad normal + Fw190A3. 

[vekxor]

11 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

As long as you own BOS Premium or BOS and the Fw190 A3, yes.

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Si. Requirere el modulo de Battle of Stalingrad Premium o Battle of Stalingrad normal + Fw190A3. 

Yes! I own almost all premium aircraft. Download the latest version of the campaign and it works great for me! The problem I had was that I had downloaded an old version of the campaign, probably when it was created .... Anyway now it works! and I'm really looking forward to playing it! Greetings and thanks!

[Youtch]

I really enjoyed a lot your campaign, one of the best I have played for sure!

 

One minor issue to improve is that for some reason altitude markers on the maps do not seem to work and always display 52m regardless of the maps/missions. This makes it harder to find the leader if you loose track of the group as you don t know at which altitude they are flying.

 

I will now try the other campaigns you made. Good job!!!

[DeBo238th]

I must have done something wrong. When I try to load this campaign I get stuck at mission 00 "description loading". I put the files in the campaign folder where other downloadable campaigns have been placed (and work). This is the only one I cannot get to work. Any assistance would be appreciated.

[Jaegermeister]

It needs to be resaved in the ME since the last update

[Jade_Monkey]

51 minutes ago, Orion_Shadow said:

I must have done something wrong. When I try to load this campaign I get stuck at mission 00 "description loading". I put the files in the campaign folder where other downloadable campaigns have been placed (and work). This is the only one I cannot get to work. Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

Check out this earlier post: 

 You need to open the mission editor and resave the missions. Some game patches require this step if changes to the mission file formats are introduced.

 

 

[DeBo238th]

Cool thanks for the assistance.

 

[padrino12pacolin]

Update the mission Bro ,otherwise doesn;t work and to me this my favorite campaing ...Thank you.

[Jade_Monkey]

Updated original post with new download.

 

Made small changes to clouds and daytime to work best with new clouds and sky.

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

Some friendly lights in mission 2. Dificult mission. Perhaps AAA precision is too high? Anyway I enjoyed it a lot.

[Ulricus]

Jade_Monkey,
Thank you very much for this campaign before the background Stalingrad from beginning to the end.

The missions were very different and I liked particularly the ones where I have to taxi on this lively, beautifully designed airfield. This was always a high immersive start into the action.

That was the last campaign of my FW 190 A-3 list - a successful conclusion.

Edited December 9, 2024 by Ulricus