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

[Wolferl_1791]

4 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

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)

You're no longer facing first time fliers in their i-16s. Kuban was the first nail in the coffin for the Luft, as they were facing superior numbers of amazing planes, good pilots and the P39. You're getting your ass kicked in a historical manner

[Voidhunger]

Yeah

Edited March 16, 2018 by Voidhunger

[BOO]

Since I'm Flying VVS - the first thing I'm going to do with my first career is learn German - cos that's what I'm hearing in the radio messages!!

[Finkeren]

Well, after 11 days, 8 missions and a lot of action, my MiG-3 career has moved into the next phase "City Under Siege" and our PVO regiment has been pulled from a forward position close to Rezhev all the way back to a concrete airfield on the outskirts of Moscow (I guess somewhere in the Garden Ring).

 

Our regiment has suffered some rather terrible losses with only a couple missions, where everyone got back in one piece, but we've never been truly decimated and we have given at least as good as we got. The last couple of missions the AI has seemed a bit more aggressive, but still very easy to shoot down. Surprisingly since we are a PVO (home defense) regiment, all my combat missions so far have been offensive in nature. There have been a few intercept missions, but I didn't get to go on any of them.

 

The last mission before the ferry flight to our new home was insane. 6 MiGs (pretty much all the regiment had left) were escorting 9 Pe-2s on a rather long mission to bomb a train station. As soon as we crossed the front line we were attacked by 4 Bf 109F2s with another 4 F4s taking off from a nearby airfield. Luckily 6 I-16s were patrolling the front line at high altitude and swooped in to help us out. Then a flight of four Bf 109E7s laden with bombs crossed our path, dropped their ordinance and attacked as well. Fortunately for my frame rate the large 33-planes battle got split into smaller groups fairly quickly. The fight dragged on all the way to the target and all the way back again. The Bf 109F4s in particular just didn't want to let go. I knew I had to be almost out of ammo, when I chased down the last F4, which was attacking the Pe-2s as they were coming in to land. I got only one short tap on the trigger, before I was out, but it turned out to be enough. He started chasing after me, but suddenly his engine died and he was forced to bail.

 

We lost two machines and their pilots, but all Pe-2s made it home - not all of them in mint conditions - and not a single I-16 fell. The Germans suffered horrendously, losing 8 aircraft (5 of which credited to me) and a couple which must've limped home just barely.

 

As it stands now, I am one of the Motherland's top aces with 16 kills plus 2 vehicles destroyed. I have been forced to land in a field once and had to turn home with a damaged engine once (don't say that fluctuating manifold pressure is a death sentence to your engine) I feel like part of an elite unit as about 2/3 of our squadron roster are pilots with more than 5 kills.

 

While not exactly "realistic" in terms of kills and losses, I'm thoroughly enjoying the career mode, I just wish the AI was a little more threatening.

 

Can't wait to see, what the next phase will bring. 

 

Edited March 16, 2018 by Finkeren

[RobCarter3]

17 hours ago, 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.

 

17 hours ago, Mukai said:

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

 

That makes so much sense! I started an A-20 career and spent three sorties attempting to simultaneously stay in (very) loose formation while doing all my bombsight stuff. On the next one, I'll just stay in tight formation and drop on the comrade kapitan's command, like I'm supposed to!

 

Either way, career mode is a blast!

[-TBC-AeroAce]

I started with a Mig at Moscow iron man mode. Doing well. 9 aircraft downed in 4 missions. 

 

On the second mission I got hit by a 110 gunner when escorting Pe2s back to base. My engine died just as I was told I could rtb. I closed everything up, trimmed out and managed to glide back. Landed about 10 metres from the runway. Luckily Misson was a success. 

 

This makes me wonder how it will handle it if you do need to rtb early. Will it be automatic mission fail or will it randomly generate a mission outcome. 

 

My ultimate goal is to iron man one pilot from Moscow to Kuban. I'm scared of losing my pilot after 4 missions already. Could you imagine the tension if you managed to get through 1 let alone 3 campaigns!!?

[Finkeren]

57 minutes ago, AeroAce said:

 

This makes me wonder how it will handle it if you do need to rtb early. Will it be automatic mission fail or will it randomly generate a mission outcome. 

 

I had to RTB once due to taking a stray hit from archie.

 

After I landed and taxied to the hangar, I just turned off the engine and waited for the rest of my flight to finish the mission, which was a success.

 

Another time I had to ditch in friendly territory and ended the mission right afterwards. This resulted in a failure - which btw has no negative consequence other than ruining your perfect score.

 

If you want the most realism, the best thing is probably to sit and wait and let the mission play out on its own.

[=SqSq=switch201]

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If you want the most realism, the best thing is probably to sit and wait and let the mission play out on its own.

 

Yeah last night I crashed during an escort mission and waited around until the flight headed home. The thing is that it was about 15 mins of me just sitting there which was kinda borning, and the game ended up glitching out any way after the flight got too far away from where I had crashed. so I still ended up failing the mission even after waiting. 

 

So is it assumed that if you end your mission nothing else happens after that? for example if a friendly IL2 catches on fire but is not destroyed, but then I end the mission, will the Il2 appear as destroyed or will it be ok because I ended the mission?

[Finkeren]

3 hours ago, =SqSq=switch201 said:

So is it assumed that if you end your mission nothing else happens after that? for example if a friendly IL2 catches on fire but is not destroyed, but then I end the mission, will the Il2 appear as destroyed or will it be ok because I ended the mission?

 

Yeah, that's pretty much right. As soon as the simulation stops running, nothing more really "happens" in that mission.

[Rottweiler]

6 hours ago, Finkeren said:

 

Yeah, that's pretty much right. As soon as the simulation stops running, nothing more really "happens" in that mission.

lol, that explains why my whole air wing was captured when I ended a mission and they were deep in enemy territory.

 

Starting a Luftwaffe pilot in BoM flying F-2's and F-4's, having lots of fun with the game. Have about 7 days done so far with 30 kills. Does the game not count downs if no one else was witness to it? I shot down a few P-40's with no other pilots from my wing around and I didn't seem to get credit for them. 

[Eicio]

I went for a p39, so far I only got one G2.

 

However be carefull with the autopilot, I used it since I had to escort Il-2s through the entire map to see my plane ramm the ones of my wingmen.

 

Three p39 lost that way 

 

I was still lucky not to die in the process since I play on iron man.

[US63_SpadLivesMatter]

I started a German and Russian career in tandem. 

 

Only one mission so far with the Russian, flying P-40s, a convoy attack.  Everybody dropped their bombs and some 109s came on the scene.  I only saw two (expert settings), and bagged them both with laughable ease using my laser brownings.

 

My German I had to fly much more, to get the dates on both profiles to the same day.

 

He is flying the 109e7 in a ground attack squadron, and things have been hairy as F.  First mission we were jumped by Russians *just* as we exited a cloud, and the first target was me, didn't take long before I was forced to bail.  Second time up, once the whole flight is off the ground, migs attacked our airfield.  Disarmed and dropped my bomb, managed to bag one mig going low and slow, but had one drop on my tail and blow me away in the process.

 

Flew two more missions, taking damage from ground fire in both.  Fifth mission attacked a river crossing and we ran across a huge number of IL2's on the way back.  We bagged a good number.

 

Seventh mission dropped my bombs and climbed.  Surprised by an I16, and went into a vertical spiral so close to each other I could touch him as tracers flew all around my cockpit.  By a miracle was unscathed, then stalled him out, took him out, and rescued one of my wingmen from his buddy.

 

Have been playing on Ironman, so trying to be careful.  Spotted a flight of six I16s below me after getting separated from my flight after bombing.  Ironman caused me to give them a pass.

 

Bf109e7, 8 days, 6 kills

P-40e, 2 days, 2 kills

 

Attrition on the German squadron is insane.  We've already received two new batches of pilots, and been reinforced with 10-plane batches of 109s three times now.

Edited March 17, 2018 by hrafnkolbrandr

[Trooper117]

Spitfire career in the Kuban... (The obvious choice)

[Herne]

Alas, on the 18 October 1941 I regret to inform you that Fritz von Wimmersperg went down behind enemy lines and is presumed captured. On this mission He personally dropped the bomb that destroyed the bridge, and heroically shot down 4 enemy p40's. 

His aggressive flying which did him much credit was also his undoing. While only meters away from his enemy he was caught by debris when his enemy exploded. Losing his starboard wing he had no other option than to bail.

 

And so Herne's first career ends . . . 

[Max_Damage]

This is really easy. Obviously Kuban career in an Aircobra. And a shiny one in particular. 

[Eicio]

1 hour ago, =FEW=Herne said:

and heroically shot down 4 enemy p40's. 

 

That doesn't really sound heroic...

 

[216th_Jordan]

6 hours ago, PRML_Hammerzeit said:

lol, that explains why my whole air wing was captured when I ended a mission and they were deep in enemy territory.

 

Starting a Luftwaffe pilot in BoM flying F-2's and F-4's, having lots of fun with the game. Have about 7 days done so far with 30 kills. Does the game not count downs if no one else was witness to it? I shot down a few P-40's with no other pilots from my wing around and I didn't seem to get credit for them. 

 

This needs attention, should not be happening. Can you please file a report? 

[Legioneod]

First real career I'm flying with a squadron of mig/I-16 in Moscow in ironman, going to try and survive through to Kuban.

[Danziger]

I'm on my 6th Borys Vorobyov. They seem to survive about a week to a couple of months. Two were captured. Two were killed by 109s. Two were killed clipping trees on ground attack missions. Really makes you think about all those kids that flew a few missions and never came back. The one that made it all the way to December 41 was racking up kills and and awards and got pretty famous in the papers. He was sending a lot of bonuses home to his family. He got left behind over a target with four 109s to deal with. He was shot down and captured. He was taken prisoner by the fascist swine and probably killed. Even if he does somehow make it back by some miracle the Germans probably turned him into a spy. So if he does come back it's straight to the gulag. 

[Mukai]

On 3/16/2018 at 5:28 PM, RobCarter3 said:

 

 

That makes so much sense! I started an A-20 career and spent three sorties attempting to simultaneously stay in (very) loose formation while doing all my bombsight stuff. On the next one, I'll just stay in tight formation and drop on the comrade kapitan's command, like I'm supposed to!

 

Either way, career mode is a blast!

How's the A-20 career? I'm interested in starting a VVS bomber campaign and the a-20 has really piqued my interest. Are the missions fun to play for bombers? Are they  challenging, I've wanted to fly formation through flak for sometime now but the AI in bomber squadrons were a bit hit or miss (no pun intended  )

[sevenless]

On ‎17‎.‎03‎.‎2018 at 1:10 PM, Legioneod said:

First real career I'm flying with a squadron of mig/I-16 in Moscow in ironman, going to try and survive through to Kuban.

 

We need some kind of Online ladder system for that, showing the SP "Iron Man" aces in this game who made it through the campaign unscathed :-) 

[Legioneod]

28 minutes ago, sevenless said:

 

We need some kind of Online ladder system for that, showing the SP "Iron Man" aces in this game who made it through the campaign unscathed :-) 

That would be sweet. They had something like that in Rise of Flight. Your pilot was on a leaderboard with every other player pilot, it would show your kills etc and whether or not you were killed.

 

Also, my first career didn't go so well. I died on my third or fourth mission when a 109 snuck up behind me and shot me down. Now I'm onto my second career and so far it's going good, I'm one of the only ones left of my original squadron, the others were shot down or lost behind enemy lines.

 

They should also have a list of your squadron mates who got killed captured during the campaign.

Edited March 18, 2018 by Legioneod

[RobCarter3]

2 hours ago, Mukai said:

How's the A-20 career? I'm interested in starting a VVS bomber campaign and the a-20 has really piqued my interest. Are the missions fun to play for bombers? Are they  challenging, I've wanted to fly formation through flak for sometime now but the AI in bomber squadrons were a bit hit or miss (no pun intended  )

 

I haven't had a chance to play any more since I posted, but I really enjoyed the first couple of sorties. The increase in number of aircraft taking part in the missions and unpredictability of whether or where you might encounter enemy fighters are huge improvements over the old campaign. I've seen more variety already in target types too.

 

All three A-20 missions I played were level-bombing missions, and I really hope that there are low-level intruder type missions as well. Maybe someone else can speak to this.

 

 If it's all level bombing, I think it might be good to start as the squadron commander so the added challenges of navigation and leading the bomb drop keep things interesting.

[EAF19_Marsh]

This may sound like a dumb question, but from experience it seems that you can simply continue after a 'failed mission' without repeating, whereas Iron man effectively not allowing any repetition of failed mission at all so DiD.

 

That was what i understood; I am a little puzzled by what constitutes 'success' in some of the types, so if we can ignore 'failed' mission that we survived that strikes me as the best balance.

 

Loving the career so far. For now I set icons and spectators allowed in difficulty so for the LG2 missions I can see just how much ground activity is going on around me.

[Mukai]

So looks like my HE111 career is over and I'll be spending the rest of the war in a Soviet gulag somewhere.

An unfortunate formation malfunction at a waypoint (the AI went crazy chopping and changing formation) resulted in the loss of both my props deep inside enemy territory  Not the way i wanted to go but dead is dead (and I am a soviet POW now so it is safe to assume that's the case)

 

So has anyone any suggestions for my next run? I'm honestly not sure. Kind of want to try something on the VVS side, from near the start of the war (Stalingrad or Moscow) Anyone any recommendations on what is fun?

Edited March 27, 2018 by Mukai

[Danziger]

I love being a MiG pilot in Moscow. Starting out as a nobody.

[Nil]

My first career: Junkers 52 pilot. Nice and smooth. 

Love it despite bugs cargo only and lonely.

[OrLoK]

P40 in Moscow, gonna see if I can fly Lend lease all the way through!

[seafireliv]

I do like I always do- Start from the beginning. In the lowly I16.

 

I`d really like to fly the Spitfire in the Kuban... but that must wait.

Edited March 27, 2018 by seafireliv

[Mukai]

1 hour ago, BorysVorobyov said:

I love being a MiG pilot in Moscow. Starting out as a nobody.

Hmmm, I might give this one a bash, I'm not a fantastic fighter pilot but I guess i could use this as practise 

 

1 hour ago, 1./TG1_Nil said:

My first career: Junkers 52 pilot. Nice and smooth. 

Love it despite bugs cargo only and lonely.

 

I'm waiting until they add more variety to the missions for this one, but I'll be jumping into it as soon as they do!

[ATAG_Flare]

I've started with a soviet fighter campaign flying MiG-3s out of Rzhev. So far I've gotten a couple 109s and 110s. However every time we get a "ferry cover" mission no enemies spawn until we get "mission completed". It's pretty fun so far though, I'm having a blast.

[56RAF_Roblex]

10 hours ago, ATAG_Flare said:

I've started with a soviet fighter campaign flying MiG-3s out of Rzhev. So far I've gotten a couple 109s and 110s. However every time we get a "ferry cover" mission no enemies spawn until we get "mission completed". It's pretty fun so far though, I'm having a blast.

 

Me too. 34 IAP?    If you are RTBing before enemies turn up then try starting from the runway  as I think many of the missions are timed on the basis that you had to  take off and climb which takes longer.    We have now moved from Rzhev to a field near Moscow.

[SCG_Space_Ghost]

I started my career when Platzschutzstaffel Pitomnik became available - basically flew and fought hard for two weeks in the pocket till there was only me and one other pilot in the detachment with only a single 109 G-2 for us to share. By this time, I was around 37 victories and it felt like every sortie would be the last. We were up against ridiculous odds and dropping like flies - definitely felt like a hopeless situation. 

 

Upper command (me) decided to give me "two weeks leave" from the ring of death by transferring in to I./JG3 outside of the pocket where I could shake off some of the battle fatigue. After the two weeks was up I moved back in to a replenished Platzschutzstaffel Pitomnik as an Oberleutnant with around 53 victories.

 

Judging by how quickly we're losing pilots and machines in the pocket, it won't be long until I'm in command of the Platzschutzstaffel - if I even make it that long myself.

 

On 3/18/2018 at 9:54 AM, Legioneod said:

-snip-

 

They should also have a list of your squadron mates who got killed captured during the campaign.

 

This would be really, really, really nice.

Edited March 28, 2018 by Space_Ghost

[senseispcc]

 

The first day the game got updated I tried the Moscow career (I fly only the Soviet side)? and was captured after 3 missions, next I decided to try again but this time to do it one day in the campaign one day in real live! 

Now I am still alive and well, with 20 aerial Victory on a Mig-3 after 20 successful missions and a number of unsuccessful ones, but also some ground objects destroyed, not a lot, and 2 belly landings, one parachute landing in friendly territory and some chasse by enemy fighter’s in and out clouds.

I am still a first Lieutenant and normally shall never be commander of a flight.

This campaign need model is really very immersive and "fun". 

 

Edited March 29, 2018 by senseispcc

[II./JG77_Manu*]

Restarted my flight sim life and dusting IL2 off after almost 2 years of absence, mostly thanks to VR. Currently doing the IL2 storytelling campaign (forgot the title), after that Gambits A20 campaign, when it's released in time. 

 

If not, there is a career as Russian fighter pilot waiting for me :-)

Expert, iron man, VR, HUD off, like a real man 

Want to start in Moscow at the earliest time and with lowest rank possible, and take what ever fighter i get. Plan is to progress via Stalingrad to Kuban, and at arrival get the Kobra with any means possible, while hopefully having a rank to choose my own fighter ;-)

Will use campaign duration "short" and pretend to only re-live the most important sorties of my virtual pilot, this also keeps the scores a lot more realistic 

[dburne]

2 minutes ago, II./JG77_Manu* said:

Restarted my flight sim life and dusting IL2 off after almost 2 years of absence, mostly thanks to VR. Currently doing the IL2 storytelling campaign (forgot the title), after that Gambits A20 campaign, when it's released in time. 

 

If not, there is a career as Russian fighter pilot waiting for me :-)

Expert, iron man, VR, HUD off, like a real man 

Want to start in Moscow at the earliest time and with lowest rank possible, and take what ever fighter i get. Plan is to progress via Stalingrad to Kuban, and at arrival get the Kobra with any means possible, while hopefully having a rank to choose my own fighter ;-)

Will use campaign duration "short" and pretend to only re-live the most important sorties of my virtual pilot, this also keeps the scores a lot more realistic 

 

Definitely give the new Career a go, it is a blast! That is all I have been flying since 3.001 dropped.

[II./JG77_Manu*]

14 minutes ago, dburne said:

 

Definitely give the new Career a go, it is a blast! That is all I have been flying since 3.001 dropped.

 

Definitely gonna do that, merely using the scripted campaigns for rehashing my flight sim skills and getting used to flying in VR. Also acknowleding the effort and storytelling behind them, especially the IL2 campaign which is free. I would be a fool to neglect it   and the A20 stuff i read from Gambit also sounds very interesting, great opportunity to take the A20 to use, i haven't spend a second in it so far. After that i am very much looking forward to the career, especially looking forward to certain Russian fighters i haven't used that much or at all so far :-) (Mig3, P40, Spitfire, Yak 7, Kobra)

Edited March 30, 2018 by II./JG77_Manu*

[56RAF_Roblex]

1 hour ago, II./JG77_Manu* said:

Want to start in Moscow at the earliest time and with lowest rank possible, and take what ever fighter i get. Plan is to progress via Stalingrad to Kuban, and at arrival get the Kobra with any means possible, while hopefully having a rank to choose my own fighter ;-)

 

Doing the same but my chances of even getting to Stalingrad are slim :-)    There are an awful lot of missions to finish before then!

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

Can I play the ground crew? I heard they have the best chances for survival.

[unlikely_spider]

27 minutes ago, SCG_Fenris_Wolf said:

Can I play the ground crew? I heard they have the best chances for survival.

Maybe it would be a nice gig in Kuban. But I shudder to think about the experience of being a LW ground crew in Stalingrad in January 

Working on engines in 40 below would be a nightmare scenario.