"LULLABY FOR A DREAM" - Scripted Campaign for the P-51D

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A Random Works Campaign for the P-51D in a Tactical Air Doctrine Role

 

          Fly alongside Lt. Childress with the 356th FG as USAAF and RAF aircraft engage Axis assets in the air and on the ground. An eight mission non-historical campaign which offers the player an immersive experience in the P-51 as a multi-role fighter within the Western European Theater of Operations during the summer and autumn of 1944 to March 1945.

          The Campaign utilizes the Rearm/Refuel function for home and forward bases to allow for several different scenarios and 2 to 4 sorties per mission should the player decide to fly them.

          The missions, which include taxi, take-offs and form-ups along with air-starts can run anywhere from twenty minutes to over one and a half hours depending upon players actions and feature CCG_Pips excellent 356th FG Skin Packs.

 

*New
Version 6.001 Redux III
One Drive Download Link:
https://1drv.ms/u/c/f262f1089333376f/EQ9QNl2wcM1EqrIVENyTuDwB1wasllawRu3HlblqNpVwmA?e=yokWou

 

To Install for Campaign Play:
1)    *Download the "Lullaby for a Dream-Redux III" Zip and before extracting (See #2 below) the enclosed "data" folder to your C:\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad folder or wherever/however you have your pc set up to play BoX.

 

2) Mission "00" language files have been corrected and housekeeping for Campaign. All Players with earlier versions 'must' either Delete earlier version or Re-Start the Campaign anew for it to work after downloading and extracting the Redux III Version.
 
3) Although Players may still simply <click> the Auto button and let the AI take control once mission either begins or after take-off if they so desire.
*Be advised that Mission No's 02 and 03 have been redone with respects to the Player no longer being attached to the Group, Flight or Element Leader designated using Auto. While Player may use Auto if desired. Using Auto-Level if needed to continuously fly aircraft in tandem with their Group which may prove to be the better option. Additionally on Missions 00, 06 and 07 the Player will lead an Element.

 

4) Most Main Sorties, many Secondary as well as Tertiary sorties within the Campaign have target objectives, enemy encounters and visual enhancements changed in one way or another.

 

5) Entirely New Secondary sorties added to several missions.
   
6) Please do review the Enclosed ReadMe for other pertinent and important details.
 

Enjoy the Campaign,
Tip

Edited July 5 by [DBS]Tx_Tip
Lullaby for a Dream Redux III

[DN308]

Thanks a lot for that

[Zeev]

Excellent news, will try it out tomorrow

The idea of rearming and doing missions by choice sounds very interesting and promising.

 

I have uploaded the campaign to Content Downloader if anyone is interested.

The Download separated into two - Campaign and the Skins which can be found in the Skins category.

Edited April 30, 2020 by Zeev

[beebee23]

Hi

I've IL2 Bodenplatte only, wich map, planes needeed ? THanks for the campaign.?

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47 minutes ago, beebee23 said:

Hi

I've IL2 Bodenplatte only, wich map, planes needeed ? THanks for the campaign.?

 

Bodenplatte is all you need beebee23.

Player will be flying the P-51D.

 

Enjoy the Campaign.

Tip

[rieper_420]

@[DBS]Tx_Tip:

Awesome campaign so far, congratulations!

I just flew the first mission.

Very well made start+taxi, nice ambience units on airfield

Met the b-25 to escort, then got bounced by some bf109, shot down 2 then made a glorious accidental ramming attack bringing down the 3rd bf109

 

=> had to bail out over enemy lines & got captured ?

Great campaign so far, will try again tomorrow!

Looking forward to finishing the first mission (hopefully) and trying the other ones (I am especially exited about the ream/refuel as I never did this before)

 

Thanks again

Rieper

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

3 hours ago, rieper_420 said:

@[DBS]Tx_Tip:

Awesome campaign so far, congratulations!

I just flew the first mission.

Very well made start+taxi, nice ambience units on airfield

Met the b-25 to escort, then got bounced by some bf109, shot down 2 then made a glorious accidental ramming attack bringing down the 3rd bf109

 

=> had to bail out over enemy lines & got captured ?

Great campaign so far, will try again tomorrow!

Looking forward to finishing the first mission (hopefully) and trying the other ones (I am especially exited about the ream/refuel as I never did this before)

 

Thanks again

Rieper

 

Excellent... Glad you are having a good time with it rieper_420 and thank you. You'll enjoy the rearm/refuel.

Tip

[jeanpit-frenchy]

In first ......thank you very much .....:-)

 

very nice campaign, at this moment i will start the second mission after a time in fly for this first mission of 1 h and 27 mn 

 

first time for me to make refuel and rearme in mission of IL2  ( 3 times for me in the first mission ) , it's a very good idea ....

 

best regards from France   and of course continue your great job .....

 

jeanpit-frenchy

 

NOTA : please, if it is not too hard , make the missions for 4  plane  P.51 in Coop mission, it will be great ? : 

 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by jeanpit-frenchy

[CCG_Pips]

Many thanks [DBS]Tx_Tip  !!!!

 

Very nice campaign, well done. It is just a great honor to see my skins in a campaign as well carried out!

 

 

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Edited May 3, 2020 by CCG_Pips

[II/JG11_ATLAN_VR]

very nice Campaign, so i switch the side to ride a Pony!?

 

thx tip and regards

btw still miss FNBF, it was such a great time for us !

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10 hours ago, jeanpit-frenchy said:

In first ......thank you very much .....:-)

 

very nice campaign, at this moment i will start the second mission after a time in fly for this first mission of 1 h and 27 mn 

 

first time for me to make refuel and rearme in mission of IL2  ( 3 times for me in the first mission ) , it's a very good idea ....

 

best regards from France   and of course continue your great job .....

 

jeanpit-frenchy

 

NOTA : please, if it is not too hard , make the missions for 4  plane  P.51 in Coop mission, it will be great ? : 

 

 

 

Time does get away from you when you go in for Rearm/Refueling. Thank you for the feed back.

CoOps are always a good thing.

 

5 hours ago, CCG_Pips said:

Many thanks [DBS]Tx_Tip  !!!!

 

Very nice campaign, well done. It is just a great honor to see my skins in a campaign as well carried out!

 

 

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And thank you for creating such excellent skin packs Pips. Frankly they were a large factor in getting my creative side flowing with BoX again.

Tip

 

27 minutes ago, II/JG11ATLAN said:

very nice Campaign, so i switch the side to ride a Pony!?

 

thx tip and regards

btw still miss FNBF, it was such a great time for us !

 

Appreciate the comment ATLAN. Enjoy the ride.

Yep, we certainly had some good times.

 

[Azdack]

Thanks for this Campaign. Never tried to refuel and rearm. Questions : once landed how to find out the place to refuel and rearm. I taxied towards a wooden tower with fuel truck and stocks of bombs stayings close. I turned the engine then closed canopy and press RCtrl +A and RCtrl+F but Nothing happened. I guess I was at the wrong place...any help? Thanks

[DN308]

RCtrl+Q on the first hangar with fuel tanks and ammo dumps

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3 hours ago, Azdack said:

Thanks for this Campaign. Never tried to refuel and rearm. Questions : once landed how to find out the place to refuel and rearm. I taxied towards a wooden tower with fuel truck and stocks of bombs stayings close. I turned the engine then closed canopy and press RCtrl +A and RCtrl+F but Nothing happened. I guess I was at the wrong place...any help? Thanks

 

Azdack,

It may be that you entered wrong location or that the location was not able to preform the Rearming, Refueling function at that time due to various situations within the mission.

In which mission and airbase did this occur?

 

In any event my mistake on this as I should of made the locations and procedures clearer within the ReadMe. You would of had a visible message from the game that you had entered the Rearm/Refuel radius and to shut your engine down.

 

The default keys are:

• RCtrl+A - Rearm
• RCtrl+F - Refuel

*If you want to change these, go to settings--->key bindings--->plane engine controls or weapon controls tab (scroll to the bottom) to change key binding to desired key.

 

Here are pics for each of the Rearm/Refuel Locations within the Campaign.

 

Le Culot:

 

 

St. Trond:

 

 

Asch:

 

 

Tip

[Azdack]

Thanks for your answer Tip. It was mission one. We took off at St. Trond (fuel about 60% if I remember). I Followed my leader, joined the bombers to protect. Attaked by 109 we received the order to drop bombs before engaging the enemies. Got two of them and flew back to St Trond to refuel and rearm but as soon as I landed I taxied to the wrong place as your picture shows...I'll try again this afternoon. Further more questions. Beside I had two victories the mission was failed once landed. What are the conditions to have a successful mission due to the fact the player can refuel an rearm and take off again? Then the player will be on his own after having refueled and rearmed..How to join again the AI leader and wingman if there are still alife...Anyway thanks again for your campaign i'm looking forward to find again later in the afternoon.

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

Azdack,

   You bet. The St. Trond airbase is set up as an emergency strip for the campaign. In Mission 1 your group takes off from the Home Base at Le Culot. So following the sortie, or multiple sorties dependent upon what you wish to do, the player needs to return and land at Le Culot.

   A way to gauge whether you have reached the Primary Objective or Mission Accomplished before you set out on secondary sorties is to take a glance at the Map. A Primary Objective Icon will be shown to the NW of your home base. In "general" Mission Accomplished will be with at least 2 secondary objectives being met along with Take-Off or Spawning and a Landing at your Home Base.

 

   Correct.  On the rearm/refuel sorties your are on your own to fly alongside. To reacquire your original flight automatically during the mission. It's possible that they will be engaged, at the egress rally point, RTB'ing or already landed. You would of needed to check <Autopilot> within the Realism: Custom settings when you first set up and launched the campaign.

 

Tip

[Lusekofte]

Hey. 
thanks Tip. I will do this campaign

[Azdack]

So great Tip Thanks! Back to mission one. Bombers covered but couldn't get any bandit on that round. Back to Le Culot where I could refuel and rearm then take off again to join some P51 heading to Geek for a ground attack but….I hit the floor. Pity! Will be better next time. Thanks for your Campaign. That tool to refuel and rearm is really fun.

 

[No_85_Gramps]

Missed this somehow. Will definitely be giving it go! Thanks Tip!

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

On ‎5‎/‎6‎/‎2020 at 8:45 AM, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Hey. 
thanks Tip. I will do this campaign

 

Alrighty Luse.

You'll have to fill me in on how it plays in VR.

 

On ‎5‎/‎6‎/‎2020 at 12:33 PM, Azdack said:

So great Tip Thanks! Back to mission one. Bombers covered but couldn't get any bandit on that round. Back to Le Culot where I could refuel and rearm then take off again to join some P51 heading to Geek for a ground attack but….I hit the floor. Pity! Will be better next time. Thanks for your Campaign. That tool to refuel and rearm is really fun.

 

 

Yes it is. The RRR function opens up all sorts of things.

 

Tip

[Satanas17]

Hi, 

Thanks for this superb campaign.

I loved the possibility of rearm ?

[Blitzen]

I fly mostly Luftwaffe aircraft but I have to say I really enjoy this scripted campaign the p-51's are beautiful in VR.I am having a problem however: even though I get entirely through the first mission,bag a couple of Huns & return safely to base ,I don't  get credit for a successful mission .What have I missed or neglected?

Thanks again for your work on this!

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

5 hours ago, Blitzen said:

I fly mostly Luftwaffe aircraft but I have to say I really enjoy this scripted campaign the p-51's are beautiful in VR.I am having a problem however: even though I get entirely through the first mission,bag a couple of Huns & return safely to base ,I don't  get credit for a successful mission .What have I missed or neglected?

Thanks again for your work on this!

 

Excellent. Glad you are enjoying the campaign. I figured it'd look pretty good in VR.

 

   With regards to mission one you might not have missed nor neglected anything. The mission has two different scenarios after taking off with the group. It may be that the required 2 Mission Objectives were not met. Which is entirely possible with one of the scenarios. 

   A way to gauge whether you have reached the Primary Objective or Mission Accomplished before you set out on secondary sorties or during the first one after landing is to take a glance at the Map. A Primary Objective Icon Bullet Point will be shown to the NW of your home base along with the Objective Icons throughout the map itself.

   Mission One is Accomplished with at least 2 secondary objectives being met which, depending upon the scenario, may require using the Rearm/Refuel Function at Le Culot or the St. Trond emergency strip along with a Take-Off and a Landing at your Home Base. (Le Culot)

 

Just to rehash, and for other players sake reading this. For Mission One:

  The Take-off from Le Culot is secondary Objective 2.

  The Landing at Le Culot following a required amount of time or certain actions fulfilled by the AI is secondary Objective 10.

  The other 2 required mission success Objectives number 3 through 9 and may be fulfilled by AI or the player depending upon what the players actions are. 

 

Thanks for the post.

Tip

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

What's New?

Lullaby for a Dream now includes updates and housekeeping fixes plus 2 new missions.

New One Drive Download Link is in the OP:

To Install for Campaign Play:
1)    *Download the "Lullaby Dream" Zip and extract the enclosed "data" folder to your C:\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad folder or wherever/however you have your pc set up to play BoX.

*Be advised you will need to allow the overwrite of certain folders to correctly install the Lullaby for a Dream campaign and associated P-51D15 skins.

**Mission 6 adjusts the Daytime.cfg within the Data folder of the players game.
This in no way alters the time for sunrise or sunset from a players point of view but allows spotlights and land-lights to function earlier or later than default.
  
2) Please review the Enclosed ReadMe for RRR Locations/Pics and other pertinent details.

 

***Edit.

If you are already playing the campaign. Downloading and installing the updates and new missions will not effect your progress.

 

Enjoy the Campaign,
Tip

Edited April 2, 2021 by [DBS]Tx_Tip
Updates and houskeeping New Missions.

[=gRiJ=Roman-]

Awesome!!!

[beebee23]

THANKS A LOT for this great campaign,  download just now, unzipping and change the D of data folder to "d"" like ingame one.

 

anyway i'm HAPPY?

Edited May 23, 2020 by beebee23
mistake

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16 minutes ago, beebee23 said:

THANKS A LOT for this great campaign,  download just now, unzipping and change the D of data folder to "d"" like ingame one.

 

anyway i'm HAPPY?

 

Not able to get in there and correct the name within the zip atm. However the .cgf and mission files and skins should of gone into the correct folders.

At least they did for me when I tested the download.

If they don't for other folks then give a heads up please.

 

The readme is now a Word doc yes. I see in your OP you've been able to open it.

The additions to the original Readme .txt doc are the RRR pictures and some more details on the .cgf file change.

Here are the RRR Locations and Pics for folks that may have problems with the word doc.

 

Venlo

 

Le Culot

 

St Trond

 

Asch

 

Tip

[beebee23]

that's ok, i get open office, all fine :) i re-launch mission and "wow"...GREAT?

[Solitojorgesoo]

What should I do with those 4 *.ini files included  ?

Thanks 

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3 hours ago, jorgesoo said:

What should I do with those 4 *.ini files included  ?

Thanks 

 

jorgesoo,

Not sure which .ini files you are referring to.

The "data" folder which contains the .cfg file, the campaign folder and the graphics folder needs to be extracted into your main C:\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad folder or wherever/however you have your pc set up to play BoX. 
*Be advised you will need to allow the overwrite of those folders and the .cfg file to correctly install the Lullaby for a Dream campaign and associated P-51D15 skins.

Tip

[Blitzen]

As mentioned earlier I really liked this campaign...I even like motoring around the airfields looking for gas...but I do have a question regarding the 4th mission: at two points ( 30km & 17 km from target/action marker,) 3  Long nosed Fw-190D come hurtling out of the high overcast on fire and out of control. I’m not sure why..perhaps they were put there to ambush our flight,but obviously something went very badly wrong...

This happened each time I repeated the mission...

Edited July 17, 2020 by Blitzen
Added info

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3 hours ago, Blitzen said:

...something went very badly wrong...

 

 

  Possibly what the 190 AI pilots p-brains registered a split second before their aircraft exploded.

They do make you take notice though. Most probably ran afoul of other units high above. Your squads not the only one on the prowl.

 

Glad you are enjoying the campaign.

Tip

[Blitzen]

[Blitzen]

#5 is quite a wonderful bru-ha-ha and  like Groundhog Day I was able to (had to) re-fly over & over...dying over & over in flames, crash landing a damaged Mustang over & over,not finding the re-arming  site & crashing into vehicles & /or buildings. I finally made it back to earth with 4 kills! You know I’m going to kind of miss #5, but not enough to try to do it again for quite a while....?

[WM_KMS]

Aaargh in mission 1 CTD after I landed at St Trond and rearmed

 

Playing again to reproduce

 

I was really enjoying this campaign so far

 

And for some reason the RRR facility at Le Culot doesn't work, it never says you're in the service area so I flew to St Trond and it wouldn't rearm either....bug?

 

edit: Finished mission 1, all Resupply worked, this was a lot like a round of golf, great fun, wonderful variety, this is what all Campaigns should aspire too

Edited July 27, 2020 by WM_KMS

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

Thank you for the comments Blitzen and WM_KMS, that's a very high compliment indeed. Much Appreciated.

 

@WM_KMS after reading your comment on the CTD I flew Mission 1 making sure to visit the RRRs at Le Culot and St. Trond after they were activated so both their RRR sorties were going off at once along with what was already going on. Definitely heavy but perhaps a glitch or something which caused the CTD. Unknown.

Thanks for the heads up. Glad you are enjoying the campaign.

Tip

[WM_KMS]

21 hours ago, [DBS]Tx_Tip said:

Thank you for the comments Blitzen and WM_KMS, that's a very high compliment indeed. Much Appreciated.

 

@WM_KMS after reading your comment on the CTD I flew Mission 1 making sure to visit the RRRs at Le Culot and St. Trond after they were activated so both their RRR sorties were going off at once along with what was already going on. Definitely heavy but perhaps a glitch or something which caused the CTD. Unknown.

Thanks for the heads up. Glad you are enjoying the campaign.

Tip

I finished the Campaign with no recurring CTD, I did have trouble at the Asch RRR site twice, when I taxied there the music didn't play and it wouldn't reload anything so it wasn't active, I waited a while and suddenly it became active and reloaded me but afterwards I couldn't move, my throttle would go to 75-100% for just a half second and drop back to 0, plane would barely move, brakes were off. I despawned and got a mission success. I had no troubles at Venlo and Le Culot. Probably a game bug but thought you'd like to know in case someone else gets stuck.

 

What a great campaign, lots of kills thanks to the resupply facilities.

[CCG_bexhausted]

Thanks a lot! 

Great fun as always.

[Falcon41]

Tip,

     Enjoying your campaign; however I experienced the same issue that WM-KMS described above, i.e., after RRR completed l couldn’t get my throttle to work correctly and join the flight.  Any ideas?  Also noted, I appeared to arrive early at the RRR site at Asch.  I thought I had gone to the wrong site so I restarted and taxied around but returned to the initial site as I received a message to RTB and reload and refuel after which I was able to rearm and refuel, but was unable to take off as described above.  Nevertheless GREAT campaign!

Falcon

 

 

Falcon

Edited July 31, 2020 by Falcon41
Add a better description

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17 hours ago, Falcon41 said:

Tip,

     Enjoying your campaign; however I experienced the same issue that WM-KMS described above, i.e., after RRR completed l couldn’t get my throttle to work correctly and join the flight.  Any ideas?  Also noted, I appeared to arrive early at the RRR site at Asch.  I thought I had gone to the wrong site so I restarted and taxied around but returned to the initial site as I received a message to RTB and reload and refuel after which I was able to rearm and refuel, but was unable to take off as described above.  Nevertheless GREAT campaign!

Falcon

 

 

Falcon

 

     It would appear that after they introduced, (corrected) spawnable RRR objects in v.4.007 (?) a new issue, or perhaps an old issue with the RRR function was created or again resurfaced with regards to the throttle settings problem. I haven't ever had this happen so add that it is also intermittent in nature.

I think a workaround for players to circumvent this type of thing happening would be to hang tight out of the 75m radius of the RRR GMC Truck if landing before given visible orders to RTB and Rearm and then when it becomes active (visible) enter as usual.

 

Appreciate the feed back and glad you are enjoying the campaign.

Tip