IL2 Great Battles Easy Mission Generator

[co199]

Forgive me if this is explained elsewhere, but since Patrol has been replaced by Intercept, is there a way to set up something like a 4v4 dogfight for a single player mission? I.E. not an interdict mission because I don't necessarily want to fight bombers, but just something like 4 Mustangs v. 4 190s? I seem to have missed it if it's documented somewhere.

 

Thanks!

[SYN_Vander]

1 hour ago, co199 said:

Forgive me if this is explained elsewhere, but since Patrol has been replaced by Intercept, is there a way to set up something like a 4v4 dogfight for a single player mission? I.E. not an interdict mission because I don't necessarily want to fight bombers, but just something like 4 Mustangs v. 4 190s? I seem to have missed it if it's documented somewhere.

 

Thanks!

 

You are correct: It's not a scenario currently. Of course you can do that pretty easily in the built in Quick Mission Builder in IL2.

Edited August 13, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[co199]

5 hours ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

You are correct: It's not a scenario currently. Of course you can do that pretty easily in the built in Quick Mission Builder in IL2.

True, but you can't do takeoff and landing / etc. Nonetheless, thank you for the confirmation. Appreciate all the hard work!

[Beebop]

21 minutes ago, co199 said:

True, but you can't do takeoff and landing / etc...

You can if you choose "Parked" or "Runway" instead of an altitude.

[co199]

43 minutes ago, Beebop said:

You can if you choose "Parked" or "Runway" instead of an altitude.

 

....

 

I have had this game for a long time and I never scrolled up past 300m in the QMB...I didn't realize you could runway or parked start in the 1v1. I feel like a complete idiot, wow.

 

Learn something new every day. My apologies everyone, it's me, I'm the idiot that doesn't know how to work his own game.

Edited August 13, 2020 by co199
adding apology

[Beebop]

Hey co199, don't beat up on yourself.  Nobody becomes a genius in this, or any, game, just because they've played it for a while.  (Although there are always a few who think they are).  This is a very complex game which is why it's one of the best, (if not the best IMO), WWII flight sim. 

Yes, we all learn something new every day if we are trying to become better at what we do.  I figure I'll be learning something new about this sim for many, many years to come and that is why I like it so much.

Finally, only apologize when you do something you knew you shouldn't have done, (and then don't do it again). 

Edited August 14, 2020 by Beebop

[jollyjack]

On 8/14/2020 at 6:08 AM, Beebop said:

Yes, we all learn something new every day if we are trying to become better at what we do.  I figure I'll be learning something new about this sim for many, many years to come and that is why I like it so much.

 

Exactly why IL2 keeps you busy and it's probably the only game that will keep you interested and doesn't get boring ... lots of other high class sim games do IMO. i know, this remark is a:

 

[SYN_Vander]

New version is live!

 

Release Notes v36
-Added Velikieluki map with one front
-Airfield location selection now based on specific airfield name
-Added Maps and front lines to the EMG website, see section tips & tricks.
-Removed front option 'by date' as airfields now have to be specifically chosen
-Extended frontlines in Rheinland map for oct-nov 1944 to include Rheine airfield to accomodate Me-262 better
-Fixed mixing up of AI Bombers skin in Dogfight mode (happened only during winter)
-Fixed Quad maxim on GAZ truck would appear on WW1 map
-Added position in flight to briefing for single player missions
-Minor bug fixes

 

Download here or click on the header in the tool: https://sites.google.com/view/il2-great-battles-emg/

[Madov]

Your constant attention is well appreciated and enjoyed. Thank you SYN_Vander. I have been looking forward to the ability to select airfield location in order to have a more historic campaign style set of missions for the Squadron.

[Beebop]

6 hours ago, 41Sqn_Madov said:

Your constant attention is well appreciated and enjoyed. Thank you SYN_Vander.

Agree 1000%.

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

On 17/8/2020 at 19:30, SYN_Vander said:

¡La nueva versión está disponible!

 

Notas de la versión v36 -
Se agregó un mapa de Velikieluki con un frente
- La selección de la ubicación del aeródromo ahora se basa en el nombre específico del aeródromo - Se
agregaron mapas y líneas del frente al sitio web de EMG, consulte la sección de consejos y trucos.
-Se eliminó la opción frontal 'por fecha' ya que los aeródromos ahora deben elegirse específicamente -Líneas del frente extendidas
en el mapa de Rheinland para octubre-noviembre de 1944 para incluir el aeródromo de Rheine para acomodar mejor a Me-262
-Corregida la mezcla de la máscara de Bombarderos AI en el modo Dogfight (sucedió solo durante el invierno) - Se
corrigió la máxima de Quad en el camión GAZ que aparecería en el mapa de la Primera Guerra Mundial - Se
agregó la posición en vuelo a la sesión informativa para misiones de un solo jugador -
Correcciones de errores menores

 

Descárguelo aquí o haga clic en el encabezado de la herramienta:  https://sites.google.com/view/il2-great-battles-emg/

Hello, first of all thanks for your work.
A while ago we had a problem with the Mission Generator in Dogfight, we were 9 pilots of the squadron but within the game at the time we were 6 pilots in the cockpit, all the airfields were closed and the rest of the pilots could not select base or nothing, as if there was space. I have looked at the server options and my maximum pilots limit was 30, is it possible that I have done something wrong? Has the rest happened the same? I have used the generator many times and this is the first time this situation has occurred to us.
Greetings Vander.

[w00dy]

On 8/17/2020 at 6:30 PM, SYN_Vander said:

-Extended frontlines in Rheinland map for oct-nov 1944 to include Rheine airfield to accomodate Me-262 better

 

Thanks for this and looking into the problem with the 262 and grass airstrips.

[SYN_Vander]

8 hours ago, Ala13_UnopaUno_VR said:

Hello, first of all thanks for your work.
A while ago we had a problem with the Mission Generator in Dogfight, we were 9 pilots of the squadron but within the game at the time we were 6 pilots in the cockpit, all the airfields were closed and the rest of the pilots could not select base or nothing, as if there was space. I have looked at the server options and my maximum pilots limit was 30, is it possible that I have done something wrong? Has the rest happened the same? I have used the generator many times and this is the first time this situation has occurred to us.
Greetings Vander.

 

Very strange. Please share your mission so I can see what's going on. Perhaps a problem with factions?

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

2 hours ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

Muy extraño. Comparta su misión para que pueda ver qué está pasando. ¿Quizás un problema con las facciones?

He first gave us problems with one that we launched by Velikiye Luki, which made me think that it might be the problem being one of the new maps and not being completely updated, but then we tried this one that you can see in the stalingrad image, And the same thing happened to us, 6 players in the cockpit, the rest could not, all the airfields blocked.

I even accessed the mission in the editor and created aerodromes without having any link, and removing the options of infinite planes and putting x10 limited planes and nothing ... we were still only able to fly 6 people of the 9 that we were

 

Dogfight.rar

Edited August 19, 2020 by Ala13_UnopaUno_VR

[SYN_Vander]

6 hours ago, Ala13_UnopaUno_VR said:

 

 

I have inspected the mission in the mission editor and hosted it myself and I can't find anything wrong with it? See if you can host the example dogfight mission?

[41Sqn_ZaxOnTheBeach]

*Apologies in advance if this issue has been posted before*

 

First off - thank you so much for this software! My squadron uses it tons for our squadron and training missions and we are extremely grateful for your work with this.

 

Is anyone else having an issue where they generate a co-op mission, host it (successfully), have your friend join it only to have your friend load for 10 minutes and then get kicked back to the MP menu without error message? Any help/direction here would be much appreciated!

[SARFlytitus]

Sometimes it happens that hosting a new coop mission does not allow some of my friends to enter the server, as if for some reason completely unknown to me the transfer of the mission was blocked or was incomplete. Generally I solve everything by distributing the mission files personally to each of the participants and having them manually copy it in the correct way, in this way everyone connects normally. I don't know if this can have any relevance or if it can help, in our case it always works!

[SYN_Vander]

Is it perhaps because the mission had the same name as a previously hosted mission? See if it helps if the others delete the old mission files first.

Edited August 20, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[SARFlytitus]

Not in my case,  i save each new mission with a brand new name  .

[41Sqn_ZaxOnTheBeach]

Hey guys so it turns out that it was a port forwarding issue the entire time - I recently installed a new motherboard and completely forgot that the device would have been assigned a new IP address (which I forgot to update in my router settings).

 

If anyone is having issues where you're getting kicked back to the MP menu without an error message, it's likely to do with port forwarding! Have the host and all clients double-check their port settings and hopefully you get success there.

 

Thank you everyone for trying to help with this one; really appreciate it!

[SYN_Vander]

14 hours ago, SARFlytitus said:

Not in my case,  i save each new mission with a brand new name  .

Do you delete the .mission file before hosting? The text version of the mission file can get quite big and is not necessary when hosting

[2nd_TAF/602Sqn_Puff]

Vander...can I ask mate...any further forward incorperating Tank Crew in this amazing generator ??

[SYN_Vander]

50 minutes ago, 602EAF_Puff said:

Vander...can I ask mate...any further forward incorperating Tank Crew in this amazing generator ??

 

Yes, but it's slow progress. It's a side project.

[jollyjack]

On 8/14/2020 at 1:54 AM, co199 said:

I have had this game for a long time and I never scrolled up past 300m in the QMB...I didn't realize you could runway or parked start in the 1v1. I feel like a complete idiot, wow.

Learn something new every day. My apologies everyone, it's me, I'm the idiot that doesn't know how to work his own game.

 

You´re not the only one, and luckily a lot of forummers helped me out with my stupidioty ..

[9./JG52_Sturm]

The bottom of the utility gets cut off by my screen and there's no scroll, so it's a right PITA to use the buttons at the bottom. Any easy fix?

[SYN_Vander]

2 hours ago, 9./JG52_Sturm said:

The bottom of the utility gets cut off by my screen and there's no scroll, so it's a right PITA to use the buttons at the bottom. Any easy fix?

Yes, press one of the icons on the left to collapse a section.

[9./JG52_Sturm]

1 hour ago, SYN_Vander said:

Yes, press one of the icons on the left to collapse a section.

 

Cheers! That simple, feel like a right noob ?

[MurrayCod]

thanks for producing and sharing this

 

[hal_900]

I think this has probably been covered, but I've gone through a lot of the posts and cant find the answer. Please can someone clarify the below if possible?

 

(I'm on Steam if that is why this doesnt work?)

 

I have just about all the DLC, but I want to create a co-op just for 'BOS' without any of the extra planes ETC - I select Stalingrad, but no matter what historical planes or not when I leave plane on 'any' it will randomly select a plane, (sometimes even a collector plane that I dont have) there is no option to pick a plane when creating the server no matter what I do. - IF I select a plane, IE YAK1 it;ll be just that plane.

 

How do I set it so you can pick a plane at the start of the mission? (or should I create separate missions for plane types? - is that the way it works?)

 

Second, when I create a 'dogfight' it puts the mission files in the dogfight folder, the co-op doesnt allow you to change folders, if I move them to the appropriate folder the game still doesnt 'see' them when setting up the mission, so there is no way to select this mission on the co-op server creation.

 

thank you.

 

- seems to work for AXIS but not ALLIES, I get both 109s to select which would be default for BOS. But with the same settings for ALLIES I started and got YAK1 and YAK1-b (which I dont have) instead of LAGG & YAK.

 

Finally, dont suppose theres a way to allow 'respawn' say if your co-op multiplayer buddy was shot down so they can start again at the runway?

Edited September 2, 2020 by hal_900

[andyboydinomon]

Works very well.  Missions run and feel very similar to the missions career mode generates.

 

For some reason Enemy positions keep showing on the map even if I uncheck that box in the generator.  I assume enemy positions mean the red circles around the icons with general locations of artillery, tanks... that we see in the quick mission builder.   I have been using this to generate flying circus Single missions mostly.  Very simple to use, quick, clean and no errors.

[blue_max]

Hey!

 

I tried a couple of dogfighting missions on the veluki map, with the 'any' setting for planes. I really like the map and I'd like to have some massive dogfights over the city. But the missions aren't very interesting unfortunately. Three times now we quite quickly intercept the first bomber flight, and that's it. No fighters. That's not correct right? So the use case is, me and a buddy spawn into one side and we go hunt for enemy AI fighters.

 

Two more general requests: Veluki in the winter, and the option to restrict for plane sets. So, early war, mid war, late war, something like that. Then I'd be dogfighting roughly equal planes, but it would be a surprise which ones exactly.

 

Cheers,

Benji

[SYN_Vander]

On 9/2/2020 at 7:35 PM, hal_900 said:

I think this has probably been covered, but I've gone through a lot of the posts and cant find the answer. Please can someone clarify the below if possible?

 

(I'm on Steam if that is why this doesnt work?)

 

I have just about all the DLC, but I want to create a co-op just for 'BOS' without any of the extra planes ETC - I select Stalingrad, but no matter what historical planes or not when I leave plane on 'any' it will randomly select a plane, (sometimes even a collector plane that I dont have) there is no option to pick a plane when creating the server no matter what I do. - IF I select a plane, IE YAK1 it;ll be just that plane.

 

How do I set it so you can pick a plane at the start of the mission? (or should I create separate missions for plane types? - is that the way it works?)

 

Second, when I create a 'dogfight' it puts the mission files in the dogfight folder, the co-op doesnt allow you to change folders, if I move them to the appropriate folder the game still doesnt 'see' them when setting up the mission, so there is no way to select this mission on the co-op server creation.

 

thank you.

 

- seems to work for AXIS but not ALLIES, I get both 109s to select which would be default for BOS. But with the same settings for ALLIES I started and got YAK1 and YAK1-b (which I dont have) instead of LAGG & YAK.

 

Finally, dont suppose theres a way to allow 'respawn' say if your co-op multiplayer buddy was shot down so they can start again at the runway?

Have a hard time understanding what the problem is exactly. In Single and Cooperative modes you can choose plane types for both red and blue flight. I suspect the configuration panel is still ‘collapsed’. Click on the icons on the left; it will show all the configuration options for that panel

 

You shouldn’t need to move mission files around. Coop missions won’t work in Dogfight folder and vice versa. 
 

You can’t respawn in coop, It’s by design unfortunately.

On 9/7/2020 at 10:22 PM, andyboydinomon said:

Works very well.  Missions run and feel very similar to the missions career mode generates.

 

For some reason Enemy positions keep showing on the map even if I uncheck that box in the generator.  I assume enemy positions mean the red circles around the icons with general locations of artillery, tanks... that we see in the quick mission builder.   I have been using this to generate flying circus Single missions mostly.  Very simple to use, quick, clean and no errors.

If unticked you shouldn’t see enemy Objective icons, but you will still see enemy AAA.

On 9/13/2020 at 6:20 PM, blue_max said:

Hey!

 

I tried a couple of dogfighting missions on the veluki map, with the 'any' setting for planes. I really like the map and I'd like to have some massive dogfights over the city. But the missions aren't very interesting unfortunately. Three times now we quite quickly intercept the first bomber flight, and that's it. No fighters. That's not correct right? So the use case is, me and a buddy spawn into one side and we go hunt for enemy AI fighters.

 

Two more general requests: Veluki in the winter, and the option to restrict for plane sets. So, early war, mid war, late war, something like that. Then I'd be dogfighting roughly equal planes, but it would be a surprise which ones exactly.

 

Cheers,

Benji

Yes, I replaced the intercept enemy fighters with enemy bombers. Still, if you set enemy activity to “high” enemy fighters should be hunting you I think. I might add a simple “dogfight” scenario.

[blue_max]

Dogfight would be awesome. Or a more complex set up where you can choose how many fighters and/or bombers, and what they're going to do! Like one group of stuka's attacking ships and a group of heinkels attacking the airfields. 

[SYN_Vander]

New version, because of release of 4.501

 

Release Notes v37
-Added Haze tick box in weather section. Unticked: low haze setting, random between 0.1 and 0.3. Ticked: high haze setting, random between 0.5 and 1.0.
During dawn/dusk this can also result in ground fog (50% chance).

 

Download here: https://sites.google.com/view/il2-great-battles-emg/home

[co199]

Thanks Vander!

 

Regarding the previous post about the dogfight mission, would it be too much trouble to ask to re-add the Patrol mission type? I enjoy those just as much as escort missions and sometimes it's nice to just go hunting without having to worry about the big boys.

[SYN_Vander]

6 hours ago, co199 said:

Thanks Vander!

 

Regarding the previous post about the dogfight mission, would it be too much trouble to ask to re-add the Patrol mission type? I enjoy those just as much as escort missions and sometimes it's nice to just go hunting without having to worry about the big boys.

 

Yes, I'll look into it. Also busy with some other projects so....

[co199]

1 hour ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

Yes, I'll look into it. Also busy with some other projects so....

 

Thank you very much! Really appreciate the regular updates.

[blue_max]

5 hours ago, SYN_Vander said:

 

Yes, I'll look into it. Also busy with some other projects so....

Yeah don't feel pressured, you're doing this in your own time. Super appreciated!

[Dawg35]

Thanks SYN_Vander for the quick update for the latest patch!

 

An issue I don't see mentioned so maybe it is only happening to me but whenever I try to assign skins to various flights it never works, the flights still have the default skins. Anyone else seeing this? Am I doing something wrong?

[AH_Jack]

I'm having a problem running the application.  I get a Fatal error detected message with "Failed to execute script EasyMissionGenerator".   Is this just me?