Official Historical Campaign "Hell Hawks Over the Bulge"

[Gambit21]

23 hours ago, Spidey002 said:

I’m actually already on mission 5 or 6 now. I just wanted to see the flak take out CutCut’s wingman. ?

 

I see - that a bit of freak occurrence.

 

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by Gambit21

[Missionbug]

I do not fly very often so this took some time to get through in between other things I have ongoing but now I have finally got there I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone who has not had a go, certainly worth adding to your campaign collection, excellent work.

 

Thank you very much, really appreciated.

 

Take care and be safe.

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[C6_lefuneste]

I just finished it. What a great campaign. !

Voices are giving a lot of added value, like in DCS. You will have to flight as a wingman, great to learn formation flight. I really like the CAS missions where you have to wait smoke to know were to hit.

Some mission are cloudy and will give you wonderfull view of sun playing with cloud and landscape.

Taxiing  are well done and give a great immersion feeling. You should land with the leader and follow him to the parking, then you will see remaining wingman landing.

Only one thing, as a lot of other campaign : some mission are CPU heavy and did not allow me to maintain 60 fps in VR...And also, maybe the P47 FM is a bit underdone.

 

Edited November 20, 2021 by C6_lefuneste

[gx007]

Ok silly question. On mission 4, Elwood Blue flight is lined up on runway. Lead, 2, and 3 say "Ready for take off , over." I'm next to 3, but the flight doesn't take off. Am I supposed to type ready for take off, over too? How is this done? Thank you.

 

[Gambit21]

Cloud update is in progress.

If you've begun this campaign I recommend waiting for the new version to be posted.

I don't have a completion timeline as I have several projects underway...however I will post the new/updated version as soon as I can.

[Patricks]

9 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Cloud update is in progress.

If you've begun this campaign I recommend waiting for the new version to be posted.

I don't have a completion timeline as I have several projects underway...however I will post the new/updated version as soon as I can.

 

Hopefully another campaign, I rate Hell Hawks as my favorite and I have most of them!

[Gambit21]

13 hours ago, =LD=Icer said:

 

Hopefully another campaign, I rate Hell Hawks as my favorite and I have most of them!

 

Thank you.

As I said in the Havoc thread, it will take PTO to make that a possibility I think.

I do like the whole C-47 thing, but not enough for a 16 mission grind.

 

[crewchief]

I am hoping to get some time to run the Hell Hawks campaign over the Christmas holidays. My preliminary rehearsals with the P-47 are running up against some engine problems. I am having difficulty getting off the ground and am aware that there has been some useful discussion somewhere about P-47 engine management. Despite a number of searches I cannot find this. I have an aircraft, albeit a heavy one, with an engine capable of developing over 2000 hp and it labours to get off the ground. With mission 2 I just got into the air avoiding a prop strike but somehow left the bombs behind. When in the air I cannot seem to go any faster than about 250 mph. Can anybody point me to the relevant discussion so I can do some tweaking and get the best out of what is clearly a brilliant campaign?

 

Best wishes

 

Ouston

[Gambit21]

5 hours ago, crewchief said:

I am hoping to get some time to run the Hell Hawks campaign over the Christmas holidays. My preliminary rehearsals with the P-47 are running up against some engine problems. I am having difficulty getting off the ground and am aware that there has been some useful discussion somewhere about P-47 engine management. Despite a number of searches I cannot find this. I have an aircraft, albeit a heavy one, with an engine capable of developing over 2000 hp and it labours to get off the ground. With mission 2 I just got into the air avoiding a prop strike but somehow left the bombs behind. When in the air I cannot seem to go any faster than about 250 mph. Can anybody point me to the relevant discussion so I can do some tweaking and get the best out of what is clearly a brilliant campaign?

 

Best wishes

 

Ouston

 

Hi,

 

Run a search and you should turn up some good info.

I highly recommend holding off until I've had a chance to re-work/update the clouds. Up to you of course but aside from getting better/more tuned visuals, some routes are likely to be obscured by cloud cover. 

[Donik]

On 12/18/2021 at 10:14 PM, Gambit21 said:

recommend holding off until I've had a chance to re-work/update the clouds.

 

Glad I decided to come here and check out the latest discussion.  I've been enjoying this campaign immensely and it's made for some great opportunity to learn more about the P47 in Il-2!  I'll hold off on this one until the clouds are updated

[Jaegermeister]

On 12/18/2021 at 6:10 PM, crewchief said:

My preliminary rehearsals with the P-47 are running up against some engine problems. I am having difficulty getting off the ground and am aware that there has been some useful discussion somewhere about P-47 engine management.

 

I would recommend this...

 

 

You may not be linking the turbo properly. That would give you power issues on takeoff. I have never had any trouble with the P-47 being underpowered, even with a full bomb load.

 

[Gambit21]

Havoc finished, beginning Hawks cloud update.

 

[Gambit21]

Hell Hawks cloud update finished and submitted to the Devs...shouldn't be long before it's included in an update.

[Patricks]

The best campaign just got better, looking forward to flying it again! Thanks Gambit!!

[Lusekofte]

Wish it had a razorback option.

Would love to fly it again with razorback

Gambit sure aint that busy?

[Mtnbiker1998]

Any word on whether the updated version got included in today's update?

[Gambit21]

Cloud update was submitted 2 months ago, so yes I'm sure it was posted.

In fact I'm pretty sure Sneaksy notified me, but I cant' recall for sure now....in any case yes it should be updated.

 

[-332FG-greenlightmike]

I’m in the middle of playing this campaign and reading a Hell Hawks book and let me say the new update really made this campaign so much better. I’m specifically on the December 18th mission that involved the volunteer flight. I first flew it pre-update to compare it to the book description and was initially bummed that the weather wasn’t that bad in the game. I was planning on making my first historical type video with this mission but it was hard to portray how bad the weather actually was in the game. I tried it this morning and holy cow! Such a difference. I couldn’t even see my wingmen on takeoff. When we got towards the objective I accidentally turned into my wingman when we were in the cloud. I had quite a scare. I’m really excited to continue this now with the new weather and clouds. 

[Patricks]

Yes, looking forward to flying this campaign again, still my favorite of all...

 

[Gambit21]

Guys let me know of the dawn/early morning missions are too dark now.

They changed the sky-dome/illumination and things darkened up a bit. I won't be able to check for a few days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Gambit21

[Patricks]

Maybe ok with the Hotfix, this was on the list, but have not tried it yet..

 

9. Many historical campaigns scenarios were corrected so they won't start when it's too dark;

Edited March 18, 2022 by Icer

[BlackSix]

3 minutes ago, Icer said:

Maybe ok with the Hotfix, this was on the list, but have not tried it yet..

 

9. Many historical campaigns scenarios were corrected so they won't start when it's too dark;

We've fixed 10 missions for 5 campaigns: Ice Ring, Sea Dragons, Steel Birds, Blazing Steppe and 10 Days of Autumn.

[-332FG-greenlightmike]

11 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Guys let me know of the dawn/early morning missions are too dark now.

They changed the sky-dome/illumination and things darkened up a bit. I won't be able to check for a few days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The December 18th morning mission was pretty dark at the start. Didn’t know if that was supposed to be like that. I took a screenshot but it’s pretty much a black screen with some green and red dots from the nav lights. 

[Gambit21]

3 hours ago, -332FG-greenlightmike said:

The December 18th morning mission was pretty dark at the start. Didn’t know if that was supposed to be like that. I took a screenshot but it’s pretty much a black screen with some green and red dots from the nav lights. 

 

I'll go through them as soon as I get a chance.

Thanks.

[=SqSq=SignorMagnifico]

Hello! 

 

Just want to say I really like this campaign so far with the custom radio calls and ramp starts. Makes the IL-2 experience much more immersive. 

 

I'm flying mission 2 on 4.706b, and it looks like there is some issue with the season layers in the mission file. Basically, the landscape is set to summer, but vehicles, tracks, buildings, ground explosions, etc. are all set to winter. This is usually an easy fix with the mission editor, but I can't seem to find the mission file to resolve it. Any chance this could be looked at for the next update? Ideally, I would like to know where the mission files are saved, so I can fix it myself with the editor next time.

 

 

[Gambit21]

On 7/9/2022 at 11:40 PM, =SqSq=SignorMagnifico said:

Hello! 

 

Just want to say I really like this campaign so far with the custom radio calls and ramp starts. Makes the IL-2 experience much more immersive. 

 

I'm flying mission 2 on 4.706b, and it looks like there is some issue with the season layers in the mission file. Basically, the landscape is set to summer, but vehicles, tracks, buildings, ground explosions, etc. are all set to winter. This is usually an easy fix with the mission editor, but I can't seem to find the mission file to resolve it. Any chance this could be looked at for the next update? Ideally, I would like to know where the mission files are saved, so I can fix it myself with the editor next time.

 

 

There is no mistake in the mission file

Edited July 16, 2022 by Gambit21

[Nadelbaum]

13 hours ago, =SqSq=SignorMagnifico said:

 Ideally, I would like to know where the mission files are saved, so I can fix it myself with the editor next time.

 

It is a paid campaign so there's no way for you to modify the mission files with the editor. You have to wait for Gambit21 to submit a fix, which is then incorporated in an official game update some time in the future.

[Gambit21]

@=SqSq=SignorMagnificoSorry, I mistyped above (typing on my phone). There is no mistake in the mission. These missions were tested and delivered in good order long ago.

If you’re using mods - don’t.

 

Edited July 16, 2022 by Gambit21

[jollyjack]

On 7/10/2022 at 8:40 AM, =SqSq=SignorMagnifico said:

Hello! 

 

Just want to say I really like this campaign so far with the custom radio calls and ramp starts. Makes the IL-2 experience much more immersive. 

 

I'm flying mission 2 on 4.706b, and it looks like there is some issue with the season layers in the mission file. Basically, the landscape is set to summer, but vehicles, tracks, buildings, ground explosions, etc. are all set to winter. This is usually an easy fix with the mission editor, but I can't seem to find the mission file to resolve it. Any chance this could be looked at for the next update? Ideally, I would like to know where the mission files are saved, so I can fix it myself with the editor next time.

 

 

Agreed, well made stuff.

 

But the white tracks i get too on mission 2 in Hell Hawks

 

 

Can it be that you use a mod?

 

I saw this happen in other missions, but only occasionally.

The usual fix is check the mission file in Notepad, and if the line SeasonPrefix = "" or even SeasonPrefix = "wi";  if so set it to SeasonPrefix = "su", and save.

Or delete the msnbin with the same name, load it in the ME and the check the landscape and eventually reload terrain presets, use apply and see if season is not set to winter.

 

But with those darn cmpbin files you'll need some special tool i guess like UNgtp.

 

PS this campaign could maybe use some fixes; Mission Aachen the smoke effects are still the old ones, and the amount of bomb crater blobs are a little overdone, and often hover above the ground  ...  but you'll only notice that after a crash LoL.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2022 by jollyjack

[=SqSq=SignorMagnifico]

28 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

@=SqSq=SignorMagnificoSorry, I mistyped above (typing on my phone). There is no mistake in the mission. These missions were tested and delivered in good order long ago.

If you’re using mods - don’t.

 

Not using mods. 

14 minutes ago, jollyjack said:

 

Agreed, well made stuff.

 

Can it be that you use a mod?

 

I saw this happen in other missions, but only occasionally.

The usual fix is check the mission file in Notepad, and if the line SeasonPrefix = "" or even SeasonPrefix = "wi";  if so set it to SeasonPrefix = "su", and save.

Or delete the msnbin with the same name, load it in the ME and the check the landscape and eventually reload terrain presets, use apply and see if season is not set to winter.

 

But with those darn cmpbin files you'll need some special tool i guess like UNgtp.

 

 

Yeah, the fix should be simple if I could find the mission file, but it seems to be compressed in some location. Not using any mods. 
 

I’ll try the tool you mentioned. Thanks for the tip. 

[jollyjack]

UNgtp won't work there ....

[=SqSq=SignorMagnifico]

8 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

@=SqSq=SignorMagnificoSorry, I mistyped above (typing on my phone). There is no mistake in the mission. These missions were tested and delivered in good order long ago.

If you’re using mods - don’t.

 

Looks like jollyjack and myself both have the same problem, and we don’t use mods. These missions may have worked a long time ago, but IL-2 has gone through several updates to the mission editor since then. I’ve experienced similar problems on missions I made after updates as well. It seems to me that it may be worth investigating or at least reporting this to the devs. What worked for me on my mission was to reload the terrain presets like jollyjack mentioned.

7 hours ago, jollyjack said:

UNgtp won't work there ....

Ah, well, I guess we have to wait until someone fixes it, then. 

[Gambit21]

2 hours ago, =SqSq=SignorMagnifico said:

Looks like jollyjack and myself both have the same problem, and we don’t use mods. These missions may have worked a long time ago, but IL-2 has gone through several updates to the mission editor since then. I’ve experienced similar problems on missions I made after updates as well. It seems to me that it may be worth investigating or at least reporting this to the devs. What worked for me on my mission was to reload the terrain presets like jollyjack mentioned.

Ah, well, I guess we have to wait until someone fixes it, then. 

I see - OK thanks for the info.

I’ll report in the beta forum.

[Jaegermeister]

On 7/16/2022 at 1:57 PM, Gambit21 said:

I see - OK thanks for the info.

 

I can confirm the season setting has been changed to winter in mission 2. Perhaps when the mission time was adjusted.

It starts at 7:15 now and is not too dark.

 

 

 

[Gambit21]

Weird...OK thanks guys.

 

[Lifescout74]

Hello,

I really appreciate this campaign, it's really immersive! One question about where to see & select the skins made for this specific 365th group, where do they appear?

Also I found a book at my local library "Hell Hawks! The untold story of the American fliers Who savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht", and this IL-2 campaign is exciting to fly! I feel like a part of the history that comes alive through this campaign. Well done!!!

Thanks in advance,

[Gambit21]

14 minutes ago, Lifescout74 said:

Hello,

I really appreciate this campaign, it's really immersive! One question about where to see & select the skins made for this specific 365th group, where do they appear?

Also I found a book at my local library "Hell Hawks! The untold story of the American fliers Who savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht", and this IL-2 campaign is exciting to fly! I feel like a part of the history that comes alive through this campaign. Well done!!!

Thanks in advance,

That’s the companion book to the campaign.  ??
 

Please see the first post for a link to the skins by 361st_Bugsy.

[BladeMeister]

34 minutes ago, Gambit21 said:

That’s the companion book to the campaign. ??
 

I just ordered this book as well. I have never flown the Jug yet, and I will be learning it here and in DCS at the same time. I am really looking forward to it and to flying you're campaign.?

 

S!Blade<><

[RJ4459H]

I am having an issues with Hell Hawks Over the Bulge campaign. I don't Know if the latest update (v4.707) has anything to do with aircraft running into each other during takeoff.

Is there a patch or some files that I can tweak? Thanks. 

Edited August 11, 2022 by RJ4459H

[Gambit21]

25 minutes ago, RJ4459H said:

I am having an issues with Hell Hawks Over the Bulge campaign. I don't Know if the latest update (v4.707) has anything to do with aircraft running into each other during takeoff.

Is there a patch or some files that I can tweak? Thanks. 

No - if logic/takeoff issues have been introduced then the only fix can come from the Devs. I’ll look into it when I get a chance.
 

Which mission?