"Fire and Ice" - Bf 110 E-2 Scripted Campaign

[NETSCAPE]

 

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Set during the brutal winter of 1941-1942, this historically based campaign tells the fictional story of Hans Müller. After the failure to capture Moscow during Operation Typhoon, German forces were holding their positions against fierce Soviet offensives along the Rzhev-Vyazma Salient. Due to high Soviet losses these battles became known as the "Rzhev Meat Grinder". During this time the intense sub-zero temperatures seemed to keep the skies above the salient and Moscow devoid of the Luftwaffe. There was one exception to this however, the Bf-110's of II./ZG 26 stationed at Dugino. As a wingman you will fly a variety of sorties including close air support, bombing, intercept and escort missions.  

 

Timeframe: January 24-28, 1942
Unit: II./ZG 26 
Available aircraft: Bf 110 E-2
Duration: 16 missions
Average playtime: 8 hours
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Polish.

 

This campaign requires "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow".

 

 

I'd like to thank my original test team, translators, editor and anyone else that helped along the way. 

 

Cover Art commissioned by rOEN911

 

Historical Skins (not in screen shots) by: E69_julian57

 

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I accept donations of collector planes or even BoX's. 

Edited October 22, 2018 by NETSCAPE

[Hoss]

Glad to see this is finally out, seems like ages since we beta tested it.  Going to have to download it and fly it again to see if anything changed.  Thanks NETSCAPE, long time coming

 

Cheers

 

Hoss

[NETSCAPE]

2 minutes ago, 19//Hoss said:

Glad to see this is finally out, seems like ages since we beta tested it.  Going to have to download it and fly it again to see if anything changed.  Thanks NETSCAPE, long time coming

 

Cheers

 

Hoss

 

It has been ages. Some missions I had to rework the attacks due to AI changes that occurred in the Kuban update. There were some  other minor changes too. Beta testing was all done pre-Kuban so in general everything will look much nicer with long draw distances, new clouds and moisture fx on the cockpit glass this time around on all the snow missions.  

[Yogiflight]

Thanks NETSCAPE, finally a scripted campaign for the second of my two favorite aircrafts (after the FW190). I was looking very much forward to this and it is the perfect time for it, as I am not interested in the football world cup, anyway.

[Redglyph]

Thanks Netscape! Glad you could work around all the recent changes and past AI issues. And it's great to see it released! I thought it'd be a DLC though, it certainly goes beyond DLC quality.

 

I can't recommend this enough, they're very well-made missions, with a motivating and immersive story, and this plane is a pleasure to fly, one of the very few which could operate in the terrible winter conditons back then on the Luftwaffe side.

 

You're welcome for the French translation  So any comment/issue regarding that bit can be addressed to me, I used a style that matches the WWII period instead of a simpler, more casual one that would probably be used today by people afraid of past tenses. German military terms were left for authenticity, to avoid any loss of precision in the translation, and for the sake of general culture. I'm happy to post a list of French equivalent words if necessary or if anyone is interested, but I'm pretty sure everyone here is familiar with the Luftwaffe nomenclature.

 

[keeno]

thanks for this!!!

 

you just can't beat a '110 campaign (closely followed by a P40).

 

Cheers again!

[Moebelwagen]

Thank you very much, netscape! Looking forward playing a scripted campaign in a Bf-110 - that's what I was truly waiting for!

[KG_S_Kalle_Kalutz82]

11 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Thanks NETSCAPE, finally a scripted campaign for the second of my two favorite aircrafts (after the FW190). I was looking very much forward to this and it is the perfect time for it, as I am not interested in the football world cup, anyway.

 

Lol.....as far as I saw the soccer team - Germany is not even taking part there ?

 

@NETSCAPE

Thanks for creating this!

I was looking around for some 110 campaign anyway.

 

[Godspeed]

Thanks!

There was no instructions how to install it.

I will definitely test this campaign when i know how ?

Edited June 16, 2018 by Godspeed

[Yogiflight]

2 hours ago, KG_S_Kalle_Kalutz82 said:

Lol.....as far as I saw the soccer team - Germany is not even taking part there ?

 

Right, Germany doesn't play soccer, but they will today (sunday) have their first game in the football world cup, so they say.

35 minutes ago, Godspeed said:

Thanks!

There was no instructions how to install it.

I will definitely test this campaign when i know how ?

Unzip it into the folder 'Battle of Stalingrad\data\Campaigns'

[csThor]

Leave him alone, Yogi. It's not his fault that his country is too craven to call that Handegg abonimation by its name and had to misappropriate the world's most played sport's name to ease their shame. ?

Edited June 17, 2018 by csThor

[Godspeed]

9 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Unzip it into the folder 'Battle of Stalingrad\data\Campaigns'

 

 

Thank You ?

[Swing]

thank you Netscape...

[jeanba]

Great !

[sinned]

Thank you

[SCG_Neun]

Very well done indeed.  Excellent storyline and I can tell that a lot of work went into this one.  Much appreciated!

[Raptorattacker]

@NETSCAPE Thanks for this, my good man. I shall enjoy it and report back forthwith!! 

[madriver86nick80]

Why is this scripted campaign freezing up?

 

[Tuninfogliato]

Good morning.
This campaign can only be used in expert mode, or even in normal mode.
Thank you

[NETSCAPE]

7 hours ago, madriver86nick80 said:

Why is this scripted campaign freezing up?

 

 

Can you be more specific please? I never had this or any scripted campaign freeze.

 

47 minutes ago, Tuninfogliato said:

Good morning.
This campaign can only be used in expert mode, or even in normal mode.
Thank you

 

I design with the intention of expert mode. But you can also play in normal mode.

Edited June 20, 2018 by NETSCAPE

[Semor76]

Thanks for your work Netscape!

 

Hope some talented skinner can make a skinpack for this campaign. The default skins doesen´t fit well.

[NETSCAPE]

On 6/23/2018 at 6:17 AM, Semor76 said:

Thanks for your work Netscape!

 

Hope some talented skinner can make a skinpack for this campaign. The default skins doesen´t fit well.

 

Yeah that wouldn't hurt.

[claw]

I must have downloaded it over 10 times now but I fail to open the file. When I try to unrar I get "no archives" and when I try to unzip I get a message that the file is corrupt or damaged. I tried downloading with my virus program and malwarebytes turned off but to no avail. I even downloaded it on my mobile phone and mailed it myself but with the same result. I'm completely at loss here.

[E69_julian57]

Hello, if you want, I'll get to it, I'll see those skins that are needed.
regards

 

21 hours ago, NETSCAPE said:

On 6/23/2018 at 3:17 PM, Semor76 said:

Thanks for your work Netscape!

 

Hope some talented skinner can make a skinpack for this campaign. The default skins doesen´t fit well.

 

 

Edited June 25, 2018 by E69_julian57

[NETSCAPE]

2 hours ago, claw said:

I must have downloaded it over 10 times now but I fail to open the file. When I try to unrar I get "no archives" and when I try to unzip I get a message that the file is corrupt or damaged. I tried downloading with my virus program and malwarebytes turned off but to no avail. I even downloaded it on my mobile phone and mailed it myself but with the same result. I'm completely at loss here.

 

Update your archive program - that will fix your problem. This is like the 5th time this has happened :). I guess, unlucky for me, I downloaded the most recent program on a fresh windows install not too long ago.

[claw]

16 minutes ago, NETSCAPE said:

 

Update your archive program - that will fix your problem. This is like the 5th time this has happened :). I guess, unlucky for me, I downloaded the most recent program on a fresh windows install not too long ago.

That did it (now why didn't I think of that). Thanks! And thank you for this campaign!

[E69_julian57]

This skin could be .....

 

 

What is your opinion....   

[NETSCAPE]

Historical unit markings is not my area of expertise. I'll leave that up to all you guys. Once something comes up everyone agree's on I can go ahead and edit all the mission files to apply the skins.

[E69_julian57]

How many skins would he have to do, two squads ...?

[NETSCAPE]

1 minute ago, E69_julian57 said:

How many skins would he have to do, two squads ...?

 

4 planes is typical for players flight. There are 2 missions if I recall correctly where there are 2 flights of 4 x planes, so 8 total. 

[E69_julian57]

OK

[Trooper117]

Is all the action on the winter map?

[E69_julian57]

I think so.....?

[NETSCAPE]

32 minutes ago, Trooper117 said:

Is all the action on the winter map?

 

Yes Trooper, the campaign is only a handful of days. 

[Trooper117]

Ok mate!

[E69_julian57]

Pack 4K Bf110 E-2 II / ZG 26 2 Squadron red and green

 

 

Download

https://mega.nz/#!9jxWUSIJ!mRUsrr4oCrj4k7pFnYAdE_QBHomjpWCV9BilhXyEieY

Edited June 26, 2018 by E69_julian57

[NETSCAPE]

New Version 1.1 changes:

• applied historical skins to all Bf 110's
• added install instructions

[Semor76]

On 6/26/2018 at 1:23 PM, E69_julian57 said:

Pack 4K Bf110 E-2 II / ZG 26 2 Squadron red and green

 

 

Download

https://mega.nz/#!9jxWUSIJ!mRUsrr4oCrj4k7pFnYAdE_QBHomjpWCV9BilhXyEieY

!!!!  Thank you Julian

[Yankee_One]

Hi Julian,

 

your skins for the 110 E is brilliant. Fantastic work.

 

Thanks

[mpdugas]

Love to use it, but I keep getting error message when extracting with 7Zip: "cannot determine compressed stream type".

 

Any ideas?