[CLOSED] Dev appreciation giveaway

[Jade_Monkey]

The other day I found myself in flight sim nirvana, when I was flying in VR with buttery smooth solid 90fps, proper set of HOTAS and pedals, and a bass shaker connected to telemetry thanks to sim shaker. Although one always has ideas on improvements, I felt like at that moment I could not complain about anything, it was just right. As a form of appreciation to the devs effort and hard work I am giving away the following items:

• IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte - Standard Edition  @parasxosg
• Spitfire Mk.VB @Puarma
• La-5FN series 2 @Sitting-Duck
• Fw-190 A-3 @Ala13_UnopaUno_VR
• Fw 190 D-9 @Geoweb35
• Hs 129 B-2 @=TLP=Arkanno

 

To qualify share your most memorable sortie in IL2. The winners will be chosen with a random number generator but those with no tale of a memorable sortie will be skipped. also, you must not own the item being requested. 

Edited July 8, 2020 by Jade_Monkey

[SCG_ErwinP]

Nice gesture!
I already have it... just sharing memorable sortie in a Spit MK.VB.

Spoiler

 

 

[Geoweb35]

FW-190 D-9

Memorable sortie in a P-51D Mustang

 

Spoiler

 

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Geoweb35

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

Thanks Jade_Monkey

Fw-109-A3

-Memorable departure

We flew the TAW server, it is 1945 and the 262 are a constant threat, they attack our aerodromes and they leave with grace, but today is not the day, my colleagues from Ala13 take off with our Tempest, in search of those rockets. , we don't have to wait long to see a couple of them, they don't fly very high but if they are too fast, what they didn't expect is that we were coordinated, and we were really making a Sanwich, they just went from being hunters to being hunted, it was my first time and I was calm, the first time I was able to shoot down the fastest aircraft built so far, it's not my takedown, it's actually the effort of the entire Ala13 unit

 

 

The gods also bleed

 

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by Ala13_UnopaUno_VR

[=TLP=Arkanno]

9 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The other day I found myself in flight sim nirvana, when I was flying in VR with buttery smooth solid 90fps, proper set of HOTAS and pedals, and a bass shaker connected to telemetry thanks to sim shaker. Although one always has ideas on improvements, I felt like at that moment I could not complain about anything, it was just right. As a form of appreciation to the devs effort and hard work I am giving away the following items:

• IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte - Standard Edition
• Spitfire Mk.VB
• La-5FN series 2
• Fw-190 A-3
• Fw 190 D-9
• Hs 129 B-2

 

To qualify share your most memorable sortie in IL2. The winners will be chosen with a random number generator but those with no tale of a memorable sortie will be skipped. also, you must not own the item being requested. 

My memoranle sortie is p51 shotdown 

HS 129

 

Edited July 3, 2020 by =TLP=Arkanno

[Jade_Monkey]

@Ala13_UnopaUno_VR please remember to say which plane you want.

[parasxosg]

I don't have a video to share but my most memorable sortie was my first formation flight of bf109e in VR! I caught myself several times holding my breath on tight turns and exhaling with tension while the black out effect was fading away. I  W-A-S  T-H-E-R-E ! Hopefully let experiance this in IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte too ?

[Flying_Colander]

Wish I had a video of it. I was chasing down a group of Soviet bombers with squaddies. The bombers panicked when we got in among them and started jettisoning their loads. I narrowly avoided being rained upon as I came up under my quarry. Just then, their bomb doors opened and I pulled the trigger. I hit the payload and three planes dissolved in mid-air. My own plane carted wheeled about and I fought to control what was left of it. I managed to stabilize it just in time to bail out and watch the debris arching around me. Fun in game, not so in real life. Pretty sure the parachute would have been shredded by burning aeroplane bits.

 

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte - Standard Edition, if the Fates choose to smile upon me again.

[vipe155]

No video for me either, but a while ago (years?) I was on the Wings of Liberty server, flying on my own with a 109G.  I was at a medium alititude, and spotted a La-5 a little bit behind me. He dove towards me, but I rolled out of the way as he tried to make a pass.  I then came around on him and got a couple shots off myself.  What followed was the only time I've gotten into a legitimate scissors fight with anyone (human or AI).  We, perhaps clumsily, continued to roll around each other, attempting to get a good shot off.  I got him a couple times, he got a few himself and we were also losing altitude.  After about a minute of doing this, we both broke off with damage.  I'm losing oil, and he's trailing something as well.  

 

After a couple kind words to each other through chat, I ended up ditching before I could return home, and I don't think he made it real far himself.  I can't remember who my opponent was, but it was definitely fun.  I would love to enter for BoBP.

[hetstaine]

Can i just share this one here, if it doesn't meet the criteria that's cool. It's just an old write up i did from from CloD for simHq, circa 2010.

 

 

This is one nights attempt at flying in Cliffs of Dover, formally know as Storm of War (pre release) Full simulator mode. All that you read below is true.

 

I climbed into the cockpit and settled my tight and perfectly rounded behind into the seat, resting my hand gently on the cold and lifeless joystick, lifeless for now, but soon to be a perfect extension of myself. I glanced sideways at the slowly dawning new day, the sun painting the lower edges of the horizon in delicate purples and mild reds. Looking ahead, i noticed traces of beer and spittle on the canopy, i reached down, grabbed my silk scarf and wiped it clean until it appeared there was no bullet proof shielding in front of me, just the open sky and the extension of a mighty Merlin, the best of British.

 

Today...today was the day i would kill a man.

 

My other hand moved slowly down to the throttle, moving it slightly and feeling a nice resistance. I jostled in my seat..dammit ! The curse of such a tight butt made it hard for me to get comfortable, i blamed the way i was built, but foolishly smiled as i realised it was my strict regime of sinking a dozen pints every night and then running endlessly until i passed out through lack of food. A lock of golden wavy hair , tinged with an angry red, broke free from under my leather helmet and fell across one eye. A passing seagull winked at me.

 

I glanced across the gauges with methodical eyes, time to get this show on the road. Magnetos on, throttle just under a third, primed the fuel pump and hit the starter..the Merlin barked and coughed, spitting flame and burnt fuel out of the exhaust on either side in front of me, the smell caused me to flare my nostrils as the propellor protestingly jerked around in small fits. Then she roared brutally into life, the plane shuddering as an yet untapped eight hundred and eighty hundred horsepower flowed through her, she burbling with a hint of that great might. A symphony of destruction as yet not fully unleashed.

 

As i watched the temps slowly rise i thought of the feared Luftwaffe we were also going aloft to battle. The Luftwaffe who had been destroying our coastal convoys with impunity, the Luftwaffe who had steamrolled Europe in mere weeks and smashed all air forces arrayed against it, the Luftwaffe who had the best pilots and planes in the world. I couldn't wait to get amongst them.

 

I looked back at my wingman and flicked my wavy lock from my eyes, nodded to him and he waved, pointed my hand forward in a gun and pulled the trigger, lets roll.

 

Easing the throttle forward a notch looking over the ladylike curves of the elliptical wing, the grass flattening around from my propwash, i gave the engine a quick rev, a slight touch of right brake and she turned on a dime to taxi out.

 

On the neat grass runway, where we often stood near our steeds and talked of air combat, our hands manoeuvring as if planes chasing each other with wide grins plastered on our unbelievably handsome faces, i trimmed for takeoff and held her on the brake, slowly brought the throttle up to half. I held her in this state a second longer, like an embrace.. she was inching forward now, desperate to break free and launch forward. My vision had narrowed to include only the confines of the cockpit, all senses attuned to what the Merlin was doing and how she felt. She was ready.

 

I pushed the throttle all the way and released the brakes, at the same time using the rudder to counteract the torque..she leapt forward..and i was pushed back into the seat, shoulder harness tight against me, feeling as one with the machine, the whole plane trembling with power and anticipation at becoming airborne.

 

This would be my most graceful and important takeoff, it was what all of my flying had come down too, this one leap into combat with this beautiful machine. If any jerry even dreamed he could shoot me down today then he'd best wake up and apologise to himself. If my flight instructor was watching, i knew he would be weak at the knees in seeing such a merging of man and machine, it was that truly that beautiful.

 

 

The tail of the Spitfire rose and i was on two wheels, level and shooting down the runway at over eighty miles per hour..i quickly took my hand off the throttle where it was resting to once again wave my golden wavy lock away from my eyes and knocked my glass of rum all over the keyboard...WHAT THE PLONKING HECK?? WHAT THE CRAP WAS A KEYBOARD DOING IN MY COCKPIT AND WHY WAS RUM DRIPPING ALL OVER MY LEGS ?!?!

I jumped up and slid my chair backwards into the wall, one hand still on the joystick just as my Spitfire became airborne passing ninety miles an hour, my other hand had snatched up the wet glass with an inkling of rum in the bottom, i looked at the keyboard, rum was oozing into every crevice like lava down a mountainside..i slammed the glass down in the liquid mess as my Spitfire hit a hundred and forty and watched as rum splattered across the canopy..WHAT EVEN !! I needed to get myself together ! I needed to get my wheels up and trim for flight! I needed to wipe the wet canopy ! I sat down and hit the rum soaked floor where my chair was moments before, dragging keyboard, joystick and throttles with me, cords leaping everywhere and rum dripping from the table that was now above me..SLAP MY GREAT AUNT!! I leapt up with a crazed look in my eye, my beautiful lock of hair askew, the throttle hanging over my shoulder, and watched as my Spitfire now doing nearly two hundred, shedding a wheel and my still lowered flaps, plummetted into the ground and fireballed across the English countryside, plowed itself into a barn and exploded, the engine seperating and ending up in a soft green summer field near a tractor. The camera panned out, now in third person, and i could hear the crackling flames as it zoomed ever higher over my failed sortie.

 

My wingman flew over the wreckage, his wheels softly thudding home inside the wells of his lower wing as he pushed further towards the clouds.

 

I glanced at the carnage around me, an X52 pro joystick and throttle hotas setup scattered on the floor, lights still on. A Saitek Eclipse keyboard completely soaked in rum, also on the floor, looked again at the flames on the screen, rum all over my desk and walked towards the kitchen in rum soaked shorts to get a cloth.

 

Tomorrow..tomorrow i would kill man.

[Puarma]

I've never been very successful getting kills with german planes. In Bf-109 careers I have occasionally managed to drop a plane here and there. However, when I got Bodenplatte I started a new career with Tempest plane which I had flown only a few times in skirmish missions. In the very first mission a group of german planes was attacking frontline near to the airfield where my squadron was located. After getting to air I was almost immediately in combat and started learning how my new plane flies. I got first enemy inside my targeting reticle and the flight ended for him after few hits. That was easy I though! Then I got killing streak and dropped next plane, and then one more. After fourth enemy plane bite the dust my heart started pounding and my hands got sweaty because I thought to be especially lucky to get four kills in one career mission and I didn't want to get killed after such an accomplishment! I started navigating back to home airfield which was not far away because we had been circling around our airspace. Then suddenly bullets struct from somewhere to my plane and my plane got difficult to control. In the past I have had a bad experience bailing out and landing into forest killing the pilot. However, I didn't want to risk making an emergency landing with damaged controls so I decided to bail out and make sure everything goes well. No forest or river below. Good. Not too much speed and plane going straight. Good. I jumped out and immediately after that noticed my altitude was not good at all! After a moment of horror my pilot splashed few feet deep into a potato field and I was 

 

However, after restarting the mission I noticed my killing streak had not been pure luck but Tempest was more my kind of plane than the zoom and boom german planes. With so many cannons I don't even have to aim too well!

 

I would like to try out Spitfire Mk.VB, thank you very much! 

 

[Jade_Monkey]

@hetstaine, which item is your entry for?

[Geoweb35]

@Jade_Monkey Thank you very much for the gift received! 

[hetstaine]

@Jade_Monkey

 

I'm cool mate, i just received an La5 from this forum in a different giveaway thread, i just wanted to contribute an old silly write up

 

 

[I/JG54_chuishan]

I want to share one of my group sorties with =GW= regiment in WOL server for the BOBP Standard edition.

 

It was actually a practice bombing run with some of the new regiment members. We chose A-20 as our mission aircraft, but unfortunately the server was running a Bodenplate map. So we had to face those Bf109K, Fw190A-8 and Fw190D-9 monsters with our 50 cals fed by 30-round magazines (laugh). Twelve of us grouped up in our A-20s and formed four loose 3-aircraft formations, with me flew as the bomber leader. We climbed to the bottom of the cloud and got two escort fighters joining formation kindly, I thought it was a Spitty and a Mustang, zig-zagging along us while we were approaching the frontline.

Initially we wanted to drop our payload on a warehouse target near the front, but it was destroyed by friendlies half-way there. So we had to proceed eastward, flew deep into the enemy territory, to bomb the enemy airfield, with an active spawn point just 10km away…

 

On the way to the enemy airfield we kept having contacts of enemy aircraft passing by, luckily they ignored us since they flew much higher than us and seems to be in a hurry for a front-line dogfight. But God, each time we had a contact we all held our breath, as even one heavily armed Fw190A or a Bf109 with Mk108 would kill us like killing ants.

Finally we reached our target, and our bombs devastated the airfield like hell, nearly all the hangars got bombed. But I knew, while hearing my wingmen cheering, air-raid sirens were roaring 10km away, on that enemy spawn point… And I seems to see, there were fighters scrambled like wolf-packs in the forest, searching for blood…

I took the quick decision to turn to south instead of heading directly back home, I knew there must be huge amounts of fighters searching for us. So I’d like to keep my formation flying for 15 minutes more rather than risking my wingmen’s life. Later I was told that at least six Luftwaffe pilots were searching for us, calculating our flying time and waited on our route back, including the famous Krupinski.

 

While we nearly got to the frontline, what I had worried about finally came. A Focke-Wulf made a surprise attack and shot up one of our A-20s lagging behind the formation. Before our AI gunners could fought back, the Fw190 nailed our escort Spitty and forced him to bail out. I ordered my wingmen to use full power and keep formation, while all our dorsal guns roaring like hell. The Fw190 got another A-20 damaged before it was finally caught by our escorting Mustang, I saw the Mustang chasing down the Fw190, went pass my right-hand window. It was a Fw190A, with light-grey RLM camo, leaking fuel and diving down, with 50 cal tracers flying around it.

 

Safe on the ground, I counted 9 A-20s, with one loss to AA fire and two losses by that Fw190 out of 12 aircraft. It was a victory of careful route planning and of course, good luck.

 

Edited July 5, 2020 by I/JG54_chuishan

[Puarma]

@Jade_Monkey Thank you very much for the Spitfire! ?

[parasxosg]

1000 thanks Jade_Monkey!!!! ?

[Jade_Monkey]

The La-5 FN2 still up for grabs.

[=TLP=Arkanno]

46 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The La-5 FN2 still up for grabs.

I can take him? I dont have this plane.

Edited July 7, 2020 by =TLP=Arkanno

[Jade_Monkey]

1 hour ago, =TLP=Arkanno said:

I can take him? I dont have this plane.

 

If nobody else claims it in the next two days then yes. 

[=TLP=Arkanno]

2 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

 

If nobody else claims it in the next two days then yes. 

Ook

[[FD]_5_Scarecrow]

21 hours ago, Jade_Monkey said:

The La-5 FN2 still up for grabs.

 

I'd like to toss my hat in the ring.

 

With a new baby girl on the way in September life has kept me busy these past months making preparations for the new addition to our family and I've not had a lot time to play IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles. With nearly everything squared away and things calming down for now I got the HOTAS and pedals out of the garage two days ago, downloaded the updates, and finally purchased BoBP!

 

It was a very tough decision which aircraft I would take out on my first flight back to the game. All of the new planes included with BoBP were contenders but in the end it was a choice between the Bf 109-K4 and the P-47D. I have a great respect for both aircraft but in the end the P-47 won. I watched a quick YouTube video, assigned a few new functions to the joystick, and started the engine. Mixture: full rich. Prop RPM: 100%. Cowl flaps: 50%. Supercharger lever: locked to throttle. Throttle up and away we go!

 

From take off to landing it was a wonderful flight across the old familiar Kuban Summer landscape. I spent a great deal of time familiarizing myself, in flight, with all the bells and whistles as well as admiring the aircraft from the F2 exterior view. No bogies were downed this day, nevertheless it was a peaceful sortie that I'm sure to remember for years to come. Many thanks to the developers for their continued dedication to the sim and the players who enjoy it. And thank you Jade_Monkey and the many, many others who continue to support this excellent project with giveaways like these.

 

o7

 

 

Edited July 8, 2020 by Sitting-Duck

[Jade_Monkey]

Congrats on the baby. I also just found out we have a baby on the way and it hasn't quite hit me yet, definitely lots of preparations remaining in the next few months.

 

I hope you enjoy the La5FN2.

Edited July 8, 2020 by Jade_Monkey

[[FD]_5_Scarecrow]

6 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

@Sitting_Duck, congrats on the baby. I also just found out we have a baby on the way and it hasn't quite hit me yet, definitely lots of preparations remaining in the next few months.

 

I hope you enjoy the La5FN2.

 

Congratulations!

 

This is our second child. We have a son age 5. With the due date only two months away, and all the work we've done preparing, it still doesn't feel real yet. I think the news is taking longer to fully set in this time than the first time around.

 

Thank you for the gift. Best wishes to you and your family!