What are you going to go with for your first career?

[Mukai]

So now that 3.001 is out along with the new Career mode what are you going to choose for your first career?

 

So much choice!!  And I just recently died in my bf110 in PWCG so now i get to give this a go

[Finkeren]

Started a career right from the beginning, Battle of Moscow, op. Typhoon flying the MiG-3 (obviously) with 37th PVO regiment.

 

Playing with no reflys I've done 2 missions over 3 days so far and bagged 3 Bf 109s.

[Mewt]

I had very little interest in the career mode, but then saw it had 'Iron Man' (dead is dead) mode, which piqued my interest.

 

Two days into career and it looks promising. The Iron Man difficulty is the bit makes it interesting for me.

[Wolfram-Harms]

Sounds interesting! Is that Campaign mode also available for people who don't have "Kuban" yet? Well, I'll go and check..

(rushes off...)

[szelljr]

[Feathered_IV]

I can’t decide.  I’ll be downloading when I get home tonight and need to work out if I’m going to start with an I-16 over Moscow or a P-39 in the Kuban.  It’s a tough call, and I’m no closer to figuring it out than I was in November...

[Danziger]

38 minutes ago, Finkeren said:

Started a career right from the beginning, Battle of Moscow, op. Typhoon flying the MiG-3 (obviously) with 37th PVO regiment.

 

Playing with no reflys I've done 2 missions over 3 days so far and bagged 3 Bf 109s.

Ha! I'm in 34th! Managed to bag a pair of F2s and get a medal my first time out. 

 

Can we have more than one career profile going at once?

[SqueakyS]

Started with a Moscow day 1 Macci campaign. Flight of 4 fighters escorting 9 Ju 88's. had to fend off a bunch of Migs and managed to bag a couple of them. Honestly don't think I've see as many as 9 medium bombers + 8 fighters in a single area in this sim before. Very impressed with the improvements to the engine the devs have made. Hope one day they can expand on this so we can get large formations.  

[falle96]

I only have Battle of Stalingrad, but I hope to someday have a Grand Campaign, from 1941 to 1943.

[busdriver]

51 minutes ago, BorysVorobyov said:

Can we have more than one career profile going at once?

 

Yes sir...multiple just like PWCG.

[J2_Trupobaw]

I started with Operation Typhoon, one of the I-16/Mig 3 regiments. Few strafed trucks and one confirmed He-111 later I have finished Typhoon and had to relocate to vicinity of Moscow.

Then I used the WW1 Veteran bio to continue my RoF career in I/JG52, but didn't fly it yet. 

Next career will be either in Bf-110 or Macchi.

Edited March 15, 2018 by LsV_Trupobaw

[Wolfram-Harms]

I really like the new carreer!

Not having KUBAN yet, I startet with Battle of Moskau. Will use it for learning to quickly identify enemy aircraft, and situations; and to learn aiming and shooting.

I let the Engine Management on AUTO, but switched "Iron Man" (dead is dead) on, so I will hopefully remain more calm and defensive.

 

Joined II./JG 52 at Lugino.

Lost everyone in thick weather in first MISSION, like a real greenhorn, but shot down a MiG-3 pilot in the second.

The guy must have been even so much greener than me! They should have planted him in the garden; he might have become a fine tree.

 

Looking forward to more such nice training!

[=SqSq=switch201]

I didn't want to start a whole new thread for just this question so maybe someone here knows. Is there a limit to the number planes a squadron gets? I have already lost 2 P40s 

[=FEW=Hauggy]

What I can tell you is that you get replacement planes so I would say that yes, there is a limit.

[=SqSq=switch201]

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What I can tell you is that you get replacement planes so I would say that yes, there is a limit.

 

Yeah, this actually happened right after I posted this, but I couldn't find what my current total is. oh well.

 

Back on topic, I am doing a P40 career from the beginning ironman mode. the first mission so no action what so ever. second mission us 3 p40s get attacked by a gaggle of 109s and He111s. I was lucky enough to get a 111 but my entire squad was shot down including me...... and my squad leader was KIA :'(

 

The last mission I just flew was the first bombing strike and holly hell did it feel quite immersive. all the AI attacked in unison and it was awesome to see our carpet of bombs going off at once.

Edited March 15, 2018 by =SqSq=switch201
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[Godspeed]

Started Moscow most early as possible to have Bf-110

Joined

Zerstörergeschwader 26 (ZG 26) "Horst Wessel"

AA is massive on targets maybe its because i have put Hard difficulty and dense ground targets and expert?

Im having so mutch fun right now

 

[Wolf8312]

Maybe I am missing it but is there an option for short mission as well as full mission for times when I just want to get into action on a lunch break or something?

Edited March 15, 2018 by Wolf8312

[Voidhunger]

I started iron man Moscow career with JG52 (Bf109F). 3 missions 14 victories. Pilot badge, iron cross second class. I was once bounced by Rata, but luckily only tail was damaged.

[busdriver]

1 hour ago, Wolf8312 said:

Maybe I am missing it but is there an option for short mission as well as full mission for times when I just want to get into action on a lunch break or something?

 

The options are starting on the runway or in the air (but still several minutes from the target).  You might want to use the QMB for your “I’m in a hurry” fix.

[LLv24_SukkaVR]

Already started 109 F-2 Moscow campaign and also P-39 and A-20B campaign.

[JaffaCake]

Did the devs improve the AI in the new update? Because last time I flew career it was OK, but incredibly easy to handle the AI even on max difficulty.

 

 

As an example, IL2s would normally pitch up after the 109 BnZ and spray it with cannons hoping for a lucky hit (usually works half the time as you only need a single hit with VYA-23mm), but the AI generally flies them straight and barely even attempts to manoeuvre 

Edited March 15, 2018 by JaffaCake

[Finkeren]

1 hour ago, JaffaCake said:

Did the devs improve the AI in the new update? Because last time I flew career it was OK, but incredibly easy to handle the AI even on max difficulty.

 

 

As an example, IL2s would normally pitch up after the 109 BnZ and spray it with cannons hoping for a lucky hit (usually works half the time as you only need a single hit with VYA-23mm), but the AI generally flies them straight and barely even attempts to manoeuvre 

 

At least the IL-2s attack their targets effectively now. In the old campaign, they'd linger over the target area for ages, attacking one at a time, often getting shot down by AAA or simply crashing and causing several flights of interceptors to spawn one after the other. 

 

My first career IL-2 escort mission (as a P-39 pilot in Kuban) went much more smoothly. 9 IL-2s in the attacking force, about 3-4 of them attacking at a time. Did some damage (but it appears they didn't have to obliterate all targets, like they did in the old campaign) and then headed home after perhaps 3-5 minutes over the target area.

 

Where the AI fails IMHO is in the fighter department. They fly far too carefully and are nowhere near aggressive enough. So far I have felt more threatened by my own squad mates and their reckless idea of what formation flying is supposed to be, than I have felt threatened by the enemy.

[Luftschiff]

Ground attack AI seems much improved in general. I've escorted 16 A20's on bombing raids, or attack wings of IL2's, and they have all performed their mission admirably. Makes me hopeful for flying a ground attack or bomber campaign one of these days, once my P39 is invariably shot down. In RoF or the old Campaign, escorting attackers (nevermind flying as one) was an exercise in futility.

[JaffaCake]

11 minutes ago, Finkeren said:

 

....

 

Well, thanks for saving me the time checking out the campaign then! The AI really kills single-player for me in il2, especially when you spend enough time in MP.

[busdriver]

2 hours ago, JaffaCake said:

 

Well, thanks for saving me the time checking out the campaign then! The AI really kills single-player for me in il2, especially when you spend enough time in MP.

 

I think the AI has improved tremendously. But if you expect it to be as blood thirsty as MP Airquake, yeah you will be terribly unhappy. The AI no longer gangs up on the player. You can have fun fighting 1-v-X without the AI being camped at your six. Usually the AI will RTB rather than chase you deep behind your lines (I say usually, an Ace AI might even if outnumbered). They will strafe you on the runway. I suppose you might chose the Difficult option with Dense activity to get more of a challenge. 

 

I say this without animus, some gamers are just so good at gaming that AI presents no challenge. I think the typical SP player enjoys the fiction of the sim. I’m a big fan of the SP experience, especially the AI improvement. Hopefully sometime soon the AI will fly better formation (rather than strung out in Trail). 

 

[Finkeren]

I had my first experience with the AI being a bit aggressive and actually shooting in my general direction in my MiG-3 career. Interestingly enough, it was Bf 110s, not 109s.

 

We were escorting IL-2s for a strike near the front line, and over the target area a relatively substantial air  battle developed, when we intercepted by Bf 110s and moments later joined by a flight of Bf 109F4s and a flight of I-16s, that had been duking it out at higher altitude (6 x IL-2s + 3 x MiG + 4 x 110 + 4 x I-16 + 4 x 109 = 21 planes in one giant furball) 

 

The slightly more aggressive AI didn't prevent me from scoring 5 kills in that mission for a loss of one IL-2 (which crashed on its own) and one MiG (shot down by AAA). The Germans suffered 7 losses and one that must have been heavily damaged. 

[CanadaOne]

Just started an IL2-41 campaign. The flights to target are pretty long, but the new terrain is great(!) and the targets are sweet indeed. Good fun.

 

Can I have more than one campaign going at a time or if I start a new one will it override the one I'm flying now?

 

Thanks.

 

[Voidhunger]

2 minutes ago, CanadaOne said:

Just started an IL2-41 campaign. The flights to target are pretty long, but the new terrain is great(!) and the targets are sweet indeed. Good fun.

 

Can I have more than one campaign going at a time or if I start a new one will it override the one I'm flying now?

 

Thanks.

 

You can have more than one

[Herne]

You won't really know if it is for you until you give it a try jaffacake. 
 

I started an iron man 109 F2 /F4 career. My squadron uses both. One of the sorties I had was a bomber intercept mission. They were quite close, so didn't have time to climb to altitude before we intercepted them. Their fighter cover dove on us, and I had to try and protect my wingman from one of the fighters. Got him eventually, took far too long because I couldn't seem to line up my shots. 

By this time I had lost track of the rest of my squad, and the bombers. Bomber positions were being updated periodically on the map. I failed to catch up with them before they bombed their target, map updates stopped, so I RTB'd

I'm on finals, nice leisurely approach, gear down, flaps down, when suddenly all hell let loose. shots were passing over my left wing, I looked behind and saw three enemy fighters on my six, more on my left, flak started firing, so I frantically raised my gear and flaps and applied full power to join the furball, which was now raging over our airfield.

I bagged another kill, but took some damage, and decided to try a combat landing while under fire. It was only the second day for my pilot at the squad, and I really didn't want to lose my first guy so soon into his career lol. 

I found the experience incredibly exciting, especially in VR.

[CanadaOne]

2 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

You can have more than one

 

Thanks.

 

I saw that it was answered in a post above after I asked. Definitely going to get another A2G campaign going.

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

La-5 at Stalingrad. Not off to a good start. Got an escort Il-2 mission with 3 Las. After getting near the front #1 and 2 decide to attack some 109Es doing ground attack. I press on alone with Il-2s, get intercepted by a 109F4 and have to kill him as he was fixed on me. Get over to where the Il-2s are and shoot a couple of guns that are shooting them. Some G2s with gunpods show up, I damage 1 but am out of ammo and have to RTB. Most of the Il-2s are lost (mission fail). The other 2 La-5s got shot down by the 109Es... 

[=LD=Hethwill]

VVS in Moscow. Rest of the flight is packing the Migs, the newcomer ( background musician iirc :D ) is being given the I-16 with the shvaks on the wings to intercept the axis bombers. Quite good.

Going Ironman and see how far into the war the story goes.

Edited March 15, 2018 by =LD=Hethwill

[dburne]

I selected VVS in Kuban, flying a Spitfire.

 

I also want to start a P-39 Career but first need to climb into it and get familiar with it.

[LLv24_SukkaVR]

Ok my Spitfire career didnt go so well. First mission i was escorting flight of Sturmoviks, managed to shoot down 109 and got good hits on second one until another Spit stole that kill and crashed into me. Both of us ended in POW camp.

[56RAF_Roblex]

I started an A20 career just for fun.  I have only flown one mission. Medium difficulty.  It was about 25 minutes to the target (I chose  ground start) and bomb on leaders command but I hit about 7 targets and then we had to land while the airfield was under attack which was a bit hairy.   The odd thing was that the route followed by the leader was a lot different to what was shown on the flight plan. Ok it was generally the same but as much as 15 degrees different at times  and passing over waypoints that should have been 1km to one side.  We did come under attack en-route but it was easily scared away.   I was awarded 3 medals, which seemed excessive, and an airmans emblem which I am guessing is just a basic recognition that I am a combat pilot.   Very atmospheric  but I think I will try a P39 one as well as so far I have not been impressed by it and maybe I will learn to love it.

[Mukai]

27 minutes ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

I started an A20 career just for fun.  I have only flown one mission. Medium difficulty.  It was about 25 minutes to the target (I chose  ground start) and bomb on leaders command but I hit about 7 targets and then we had to land while the airfield was under attack which was a bit hairy.   The odd thing was that the route followed by the leader was a lot different to what was shown on the flight plan. Ok it was generally the same but as much as 15 degrees different at times  and passing over waypoints that should have been 1km to one side.  We did come under attack en-route but it was easily scared away.   I was awarded 3 medals, which seemed excessive, and an airmans emblem which I am guessing is just a basic recognition that I am a combat pilot.   Very atmospheric  but I think I will try a P39 one as well as so far I have not been impressed by it and maybe I will learn to love it.

What was the format of the mission? Level bombing or dive bomb? I'm tempted to give the A-20 a bash but after my bf110 campaign in PWCG i kinda wanna give level bombing a go

[56RAF_Roblex]

3 minutes ago, Mukai said:

What was the format of the mission? Level bombing or dive bomb? I'm tempted to give the A-20 a bash but after my bf110 campaign in PWCG i kinda wanna give level bombing a go

 

It was level bombing from about 6.5k but not using the bombsight,  dropping on the leaders command.  That was another surprise,  the briefing said the bombing run was to be made from 2.5k so I assumed it might be a shallow dive attack.   As I said though, I have only flown one mission.   If you wanted to level bomb you could always set up the career with you as commander.

[Mukai]

Just now, 56RAF_Roblex said:

 

It was level bombing from about 6.5k but not using the bombsight,  dropping on the leaders command.  That was another surprise,  the briefing said the bombing run was to be made from 2.5k so I assumed it might be a shallow dive attack.   As I said though, I have only flown one mission.   If you wanted to level bomb you could always set up the career with you as commander.

On the leaders command? :O Now that sounds interesting!

[Wolferl_1791]

I started with Moscow, russian fighter squadron (233 I think). I've never flown fighter before (VR, mostly attackers) so I went easy difficulty, with labels and free VR camera, all else on expert. It was weird to get used to both the i16(which I still don't really like) and the Mig. But the Mig is a beast, I really love the simplicity of it and the firepower. It goes through the E7s and F2s like a champ. I only had an emergency landing on a friendly airfield and crashed once, running out of fuel in an i16, just 10 km from my base. 8 missions in, I'm already at 14 kills and lots of ground targets as well. At this rate, we'll be in Berlin by the end of 42.

[Voidhunger]

I started yesterday new career on Kuban  and on its a different story. On second mission I had to crash land near the road, luckily on german side, but I wasnt so lucky on 3rd mission. We succsesfuly bombed and straffed truck column near enemy town and then we were bounced by enemy fighters. 3 Yaks and one La5 on my tail. I tried to fly home but one burst from La5 badly damaged my engine and my canopy was shot off. I barely landed I was captured. Kuban is not so easy like begining of Moscow campaign (Max Hard difficulty with iron man)