FW-190-A-5 Career options

[JonRedcorn]

I bought Battle of Kuban basically to fly the A5 in career, unfortunately the only strike group that's flying the bird is a seemingly ground attack based unit? Is there not any more A2A focused units in Kuban that fly the A-5? Just not a huge fan of having to constantly get jumped by 6 Lagg3's and boosting all the way home.

[seafireliv]

2 minutes ago, grimm862 said:

I bought Battle of Kuban basically to fly the A5 in career, unfortunately the only strike group that's flying the bird is a seemingly ground attack based unit? Is there not any more A2A focused units in Kuban that fly the A-5? Just not a huge fan of having to constantly get jumped by 6 Lagg3's and boosting all the way home.

 

Well I`d look at it from the point of view of the guys that flew it for real. They flew what missions were needed  at the time. They didn`t have the luxury of flying around in circles in the stratosphere waiting for prey to pounce on like Online.

 

I`m sure sooner or later you`ll get the odd mission where you can just fly high looking for bandits. Or fly something else.

[Finkeren]

I expected a bit more fighter action for the Butcher Bird as well. It is by far my favourite German fighter. 

 

I guess we can’t really fight historical fact, only hope that the Eastern Front eventually gets padded out with more maps and corresponding careers. The small map that’s coming with Tank Crew could potentially open the door for more Fw 190 action.

[InProgress]

10 minutes ago, Finkeren said:

The small map that’s coming with Tank Crew could potentially open the door for more Fw 190 action.

I hope it wont be small for too long And expand into kursk, kharkov and Voronezh.

[EAF19_Marsh]

It is a bugger of a career, 'n'all. I think I lasted 4 missions before something got me.

[ShamrockOneFive]

53 minutes ago, grimm862 said:

I bought Battle of Kuban basically to fly the A5 in career, unfortunately the only strike group that's flying the bird is a seemingly ground attack based unit? Is there not any more A2A focused units in Kuban that fly the A-5? Just not a huge fan of having to constantly get jumped by 6 Lagg3's and boosting all the way home.

 

Life on the Eastern Front. In the Kuban region there was only the Schlacht squadrons flying a mix of attack and fighter roles and IL-2: Battle of Kuban replicates this history.

 

I'm flying the same Career (love the FW190) and having a blast with it. There's a lot of diversity and variety although there do tend to be large numbers  of Russian fighters to punch through. It's been a tough Career so far.

[seafireliv]

I don`t mean to sound mean, but It`s no fun for the Russian side either: I made a little story in another thread of a mission I went on about something like this.

 

Often we have to go and destroy enemy ground positions in our p40s. It`s scary because you`re likely to be jumped by 109s. If you`re lucky to get there you drop your bombs and you`re out as fast as possible. Same with I16s, If it can carry a bomb - sooner or later you`ll be tasked to bomb something.

 

I`ve been captured 4 times now after being shot down in enemy territory on a bombing mission (I still suspect you can`t escape enemy areas). And yet I start a new Career to try all over again... Such is war, it is what it is.  ??

Edited May 30, 2018 by seafireliv

[Lemon]

@grimm862

hi, maybe you could like PWCG ? , Kuban map, I/J651 on 01/03/1943 starting date , you ll fly with a A5 fighter flight

Cheers

[Yogiflight]

46 minutes ago, Lemon said:

@grimm862

hi, maybe you could like PWCG ? , Kuban map, I/J651 on 01/03/1943 starting date , you ll fly with a A5 fighter flight

Cheers

You might better start your career 01/05/1943, if you decide to give PWCG a try, and if you want to fly the A5 in fighter missions, you definitely should, because the march and april maps of Kuban are not yet sorted out. There are still squadrons on the wrong side of the frontlines.

[Lemon]

42 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

You might better start your career 01/05/1943, if you decide to give PWCG a try, and if you want to fly the A5 in fighter missions, you definitely should, because the march and april maps of Kuban are not yet sorted out. There are still squadrons on the wrong side of the frontlines.

 I did not had a 190 career started so I just tried to start one to the purpose to help op and I got this:

 

edit: I did not do the mission, but it look like on the good side of the frontline, maybe it was fixed in the last update ?

Spoiler

 

Edited May 30, 2018 by Lemon

[Yogiflight]

14 minutes ago, Lemon said:

 I did not had a 190 career started so I just tried to start one to the purpose to help op and I got this:

Hi Lemon, when you are on your career side in PWCG, select 'IntelMap', and you will see that there are several red circles, for VVS airfields on the german side of the frontline. When you click on them, you can see, which squadrons are based there. Patrick changed some time ago the airfield for the FW190 A5, but there still are wrong airfields.

Edited May 30, 2018 by Yogiflight

[Lemon]

11 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

Hi Lemon, when you are on your career side in PWCG, select 'IntelMap', and you will see that there are several red points, for VVS airfields on the german side of the frontline. When you click on them, you can see, which squadrons are based there. Patrick changed some time ago the airfield for the FW190 A5, but there still are wrong airfields.

hi again 

Got to say I did nt use the intel map often and I know you know well PWCG ,but trying to check what you told me and it look like all airfields and squads are on their respective side of the frontline...  I don't want to upset you just trying to understand what I do wrong, and sorry OP if we re off topic a bit  lol , better begin 01/05/1943 just to be sure everything is fine if you decide to try it,tough.

Spoiler

regards !

 

[Yogiflight]

46 minutes ago, Lemon said:

hi again 

Got to say I did nt use the intel map often and I know you know well PWCG ,but trying to check what you told me and it look like all airfields and squads are on their respective side of the frontline...  I don't want to upset you just trying to understand what I do wrong, and sorry OP if we re off topic a bit  lol , better begin 01/05/1943 just to be sure everything is fine if you decide to try it,tough.

This is odd. I have in my intel map eight red circles, showing VVs airfields on german side, where on your map are the small brown circles, showing, that these airfields are not active. I think I will delete PWCG and make a fresh install. Maybe the map was not overwritten, when I installed 3.5.0.

So starting in march should be OK.

[PatrickAWlson]

52 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

This is odd. I have in my intel map eight red circles, showing VVs airfields on german side, where on your map are the small brown circles, showing, that these airfields are not active. I think I will delete PWCG and make a fresh install. Maybe the map was not overwritten, when I installed 3.5.0.

So starting in march should be OK.

Uninstall and reinstall PWCG.  There might be old front line folders if you just overwrote.  You can save your campaigns - they should work just fine.

 

[Lemon]

59 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

This is odd. I have in my intel map eight red circles, showing VVs airfields on german side, where on your map are the small brown circles, showing, that these airfields are not active. I think I will delete PWCG and make a fresh install. Maybe the map was not overwritten, when I installed 3.5.0.

So starting in march should be OK.

 

5 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Uninstall and reinstall PWCG.  There might be old front line folders if you just overwrote.  You can save your campaigns - they should work just fine.

 

I confirm I  did a clean install of 3.5.0 so that must be it...

[Yogiflight]

1 hour ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Uninstall and reinstall PWCG.  There might be old front line folders if you just overwrote.  You can save your campaigns - they should work just fine.

Yep it worked. I never had any issues with just overriding so far. But sometime is always the first time.

[PatrickAWlson]

5 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Yep it worked. I never had any issues with just overriding so far. But sometime is always the first time.

 

PWCG scans the map folders for dates of front line moves.  They mostly don't change so dropping a new version in overwrites completely.  In the last update the dates (and therefor folder names) changed, which means an overwrite keeps the old and installs the new, making for weird front lines.

 

[sevenless]

13 hours ago, grimm862 said:

I bought Battle of Kuban basically to fly the A5 in career, unfortunately the only strike group that's flying the bird is a seemingly ground attack based unit? Is there not any more A2A focused units in Kuban that fly the A-5? Just not a huge fan of having to constantly get jumped by 6 Lagg3's and boosting all the way home.

 

As of yet there is no official answer to your question. See here: 

 

[Legioneod]

A bit ot but it has to do with career. Were any of the German aircraft from Kuban/Stalingrad etc still in operation in 44-45? Will we be seeing any A-5s or G-6s in the skies above western europe? and were these types still in operation at the time period?

[LukeFF]

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A bit ot but it has to do with career. Were any of the German aircraft from Kuban/Stalingrad etc still in operation in 44-45? Will we be seeing any A-5s or G-6s in the skies above western europe? and were these types still in operation at the time period?

 

The Ju 88 and the He 111 H-16 were still flying - with the latter being used mainly in the transport role. Hs 129s fought on til the end in the East. Some Ju 87s were still hanging around in night attack groups in '44-45. Ju 52s of course flew to the end as well. A-5s and G-6s - some G-6s, though the G-14 and A-8 were pretty much standard by this time in the West. Most G-6s in the West had been phased out by the end of November '44.

 

2 hours ago, sevenless said:

As of yet there is no official answer to your question

 

You have had your answer: the only unit(s) flying the 190 over Kuban were ground attack-focused. And, once again, if you want to fly fighter missions over Kuban, just choose to fly as the unit leader and choose only to fly in fighter missions.

Edited May 31, 2018 by LukeFF

[JonRedcorn]

Hopefully when BOBP releases we'll get to fly the FW in some historical fighter roles. I am highly anticipating that release. Late war is my favorite time period for WW2 and I just cannot wait to fly all the badass planes that were in the skies at the time. I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on the p-51D, or the p-47, honestly I can't wait to get my hands on every plane that is coming in that release. So many excellent frames to pick from.

[sevenless]

13 hours ago, LukeFF said:

 

You have had your answer: the only unit(s) flying the 190 over Kuban were ground attack-focused. And, once again, if you want to fly fighter missions over Kuban, just choose to fly as the unit leader and choose only to fly in fighter missions.

 

As already stated in the other thread, that would be fine. Only problem is, there are none, whether you are squad leader or not. Have they been introduced with the 3.003 patch?

Edited May 31, 2018 by sevenless