Official Free Historical Campaign "His Majesty's Griffons"

[BlackSix]

 

Timeframe: January 1st – February 21st, 1945
Unit: No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron RAF
Available aircraft: Spitfire Mk.XIV
Duration: 10 missions
Average playtime: 5 hours

Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Russian

Author: Alexander =BlackSix= Timoshkov

 

This free campaign requires IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte and IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy - Premium Edition or IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte and collector plane Spitfire Mk.XIV.

 

 

 

 

[Jaegermeister]

Great work BlackSix... the Spitfire XIV is a beast!

 

 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Jaegermeister

[Cybermat47]

Looking forward to flying it 

[Zeev]

Thanks a lot for the new campaign and thats its free!
I am sure I will have a lot of fun with it this weekend

[Swing]

Thanks for this BlackSix 

[sevenless]

Just want to pop in and say that I thoroughly enjoy this one. Mission one about 1st January 1945 action is spot on, from what I have read about that day. Very good job!

[Nadelbaum]

This is absolute gold, thanks BlackSix!!

 

Having finished a complete set of AuthentiKit Spitfire controls the campaign is a real blast.

 

https://authentikit.org/

https://download.authentikit.org/

 

Edited March 20, 2022 by Nadelbaum

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

Hello,

First of all. Thanks for the campaign! In the first mission though, a couple of 109-K4 were just on my 6 really close and did not shoot. Perhaps they were out of ammo, but they did not return home either.

[DN308]

On 3/15/2022 at 5:56 PM, BlackSix said:

 

Timeframe: January 1st – February 21st, 1945
Unit: No. 610 (County of Chester) Squadron RAF
Available aircraft: Spitfire Mk.XIV
Duration: 10 missions
Average playtime: 5 hours

Author: Alexander =BlackSix= Timoshkov

 

This free campaign requires IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte and IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy - Premium Edition or IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Bodenplatte and collector plane Spitfire Mk.XIV (this option will be available later).

 

 

 

 

Still up for translation ?

[BlackSix]

On 3/21/2022 at 9:15 PM, LF_Mark_Krieger said:

Hello,

First of all. Thanks for the campaign! In the first mission though, a couple of 109-K4 were just on my 6 really close and did not shoot. Perhaps they were out of ammo, but they did not return home either.

Thanks! I can't say anything here, I checked it and all enemy fighters have the correct properties...

 

On 4/2/2022 at 6:38 PM, DN308 said:

Still up for translation ?

Thank you, I'll definitely write to you when we start translating briefings for my next paid Yak-7b campaign. This campaign is already translated into French, I've added information about languages to the top of the thread.

[DN308]

@BlackSixok, let me know

[Calos_01]

Great campaign, thank you, I´m really enjoying it. One oddity caught my eye - other spitfires XIV in my flight seem to have four cannon armament.... Am I missing something?

[BlackSix]

Thanks!

There is a bug with 4 cannons in the current version for the AI planes, we know and it will be fixed.

[Calos_01]

And I was almost hoping we´d get a new toy ?

[MAJORgoonMADLOU]

There's no link to download campaign . . .

[7bhp_Mk]

This campaign is free so no need to download. It should already be in your campaign list and will be playable if you own the Spitfire Mk.XIV collector plane. 

[MAJORgoonMADLOU]

Duh!  I should have seen that! Thanks!

[BlackSix]

Major campaign update in version 5.101:

- tactical numbers and correct paint schemes added for each aircraft;

- Ar 234 flight added to mission 9;

- American vehicles replaced by British in UK held territory;

- all missions updated for the new sim version and re-tested.

[jollyjack]

error #10020 on starting it, already done a few, got all the spits, BoN, Rheinland:

 

Edited April 23, 2023 by jollyjack

[LukeFF]

4 hours ago, jollyjack said:

error #10020 on starting it, already done a few, got all the spits, BoN, Rheinland:

 

 

Contact Support.

[jollyjack]

I did that, received a mail from Olya that the fix was (probably) planned for the update.

Now with 5.201 the campaign crashes IL2, active circle hangs when you press Start.

 

ADDED and then i fixed it ... i remembered once changing the settings to all allowed fixed another campaign.

Extracted the griffon folder from the campaigns.gtp to the games' campaign folder, and changed settings accordingly, from Mission 3:

 

Edited April 27, 2023 by jollyjack

[Tuck1977]

Just curious.  I have Battle of Bodenplatte and have also purchased the Spitfire Mk.XIV w/ Teardrop Canopy.  Should I be able to play this campaign? Thanks.

[Calos_01]

20 minutes ago, Tuck1977 said:

Just curious.  I have Battle of Bodenplatte and have also purchased the Spitfire Mk.XIV w/ Teardrop Canopy.  Should I be able to play this campaign? Thanks.

I believe that you need this spit mk. XIV or Normandy Premium.

 

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

Mission 7 off to a shaky start

Hydro flight planes impacts very often one with another, shortly after beginning the escort of the B-25.
 

On 5/23/2023 at 8:44 PM, Tuck1977 said:

Just curious.  I have Battle of Bodenplatte and have also purchased the Spitfire Mk.XIV w/ Teardrop Canopy.  Should I be able to play this campaign? Thanks.

The teardrop variant is very late war (march 45 I think), so it wouldn't be possible in this campaign that begins in january.

Edited July 21, 2023 by LF_Mark_Krieger

[LukeFF]

2 minutes ago, LF_Mark_Krieger said:

The teardrop variant is very late war (march 45 I think), so it wouldn't be possible in this campaign that begind in january.

 

Correct, the campaign only covers the earlier high-back XIV model. The XIVe did not enter frontline service until mid-March 1945.

[Malulani]

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't played yet.

 

Spoiler

First off, the mission structures and ambience is very cool and immersive. The twists in the missions keep you on your toes. I especially liked the ground attack mission where I had panicked moment when I looked up and saw an enemy flight way above diving on my flight while we were on the deck strafing. But I'm having issues moving forward. Are we meant to engage any of the me262s? I made it to mission 5 where we're directed to intercept a flight of them but they refuse to engage and just fly in a straight line making it obviously impossible to catch them. I've encountered them in a previous mission too and they do the exact same thing. Just fly in a straight line. Also AI wingmen at this point act like they're just for show. Got into a huge furball and my flight was just flying in circles. I had to get 6 kills before the rest of the enemies retreated. When checking the event log I was the only pilot who had any take downs. It feels like mission 1 was the only mission where the friendly AI actually went after the enemy and got their own kills. Is this just the Il2 devs poor AI?

 

[BlackSix]

3 hours ago, Malulani said:

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't played yet.

 

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First off, the mission structures and ambience is very cool and immersive. The twists in the missions keep you on your toes. I especially liked the ground attack mission where I had panicked moment when I looked up and saw an enemy flight way above diving on my flight while we were on the deck strafing. But I'm having issues moving forward. Are we meant to engage any of the me262s? I made it to mission 5 where we're directed to intercept a flight of them but they refuse to engage and just fly in a straight line making it obviously impossible to catch them. I've encountered them in a previous mission too and they do the exact same thing. Just fly in a straight line. Also AI wingmen at this point act like they're just for show. Got into a huge furball and my flight was just flying in circles. I had to get 6 kills before the rest of the enemies retreated. When checking the event log I was the only pilot who had any take downs. It feels like mission 1 was the only mission where the friendly AI actually went after the enemy and got their own kills. Is this just the Il2 devs poor AI?

 

All Me 262s that you meet in this campaign are from I. and II./KG 51, they weren't fighters and didn't have the appropriate training. Therefore, they take advantage of their aircraft and will always try to simply get away from any attacking fighters. Except for a completely hopeless situation that you will still encounter)

Spoiler

The 5th mission is structured so that you will not be able to intercept Me 262s, as happened in reality that day.

[Burninator6502]

On 3/18/2024 at 1:39 AM, BlackSix said:

 

All Me 262s that you meet in this campaign are from I. and II./KG 51, they weren't fighters and didn't have the appropriate training. Therefore, they take advantage of their aircraft and will always try to simply get away from any attacking fighters. Except for a completely hopeless situation that you will still encounter)

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The 5th mission is structured so that you will not be able to intercept Me 262s as happened in reality that day.

I got two and damaged the third. You just have to do a lead pursuit and you'll only get about five seconds, but they're definitely killable.

 

What I don't understand is why the picture for Mission five was chosen, is spoils the surprise. No ideas why that was done. It would have been an excellent surprise.

[BlackSix]

20 hours ago, Burninator6502 said:

What I don't understand is why the picture for Mission five was chosen, is spoils the surprise. No ideas why that was done. It would have been an excellent surprise.

Most likely, this happened because in the previous Tempest campaign the topic of hunting jet Messerschmitts was actively discussed in briefings and this campaign was created almost immediately after, and I didn't imagine that any surprise could be made out of this.

[Alan_Grey]

Completed! Very nice campaign. I really need to learn how to take off and land with the Griffon 😄. It's very difficult for me.
The review in Czech only is here:
https://www.alan-grey-page.cz/recenze-his-majestys-griffons-alexander-blacksix-timoshkov/