? Multiplayer Tank Crew Contest ?

[super-truite]

 

Date: October 1st, 6 pm CEST (UTC+2)

 

I will organize a PvP tank contest with the possibility to win Tank Crew or collector Tanks thanks to the donators:  cpt.chaos_canada, JV44HeinzBar, ghbucky and Foxep2001.
The contest will take place where the  10th Canadian Armored Regiment fought against the 12th SS Panzer division in the two successive operations Windsor and Charnwood of july 1944: near Caen, around the Carpiquet Airfield. 

The goal is to demonstrate multi-crew game play, and have TC owners invite non-TC owners as the Gunner/Commander in their tanks. So the owner will be either driver/commander, or driver/gunner. The guest will be either the gunner, or the commander. For easier internal communication in the tank, we recommend that the TC owner be the commander/driver as this allows him to quickly turn the tank when spotting a target to speed up the target acquisition for the gunner (the non TC owners cannot drive the tanks), but you are free to do the opposite!

 

Server: Advance And Secure

Discord: https://discord.gg/haHVZ2ujCf

 

Rules
 

• The main tanks available will be: PzIV for Axis,M4A2 for Allies. One heavy tank will be available at each spawn for each team if the Churchill tank is released before the contest.
• To win, your crew needs to be on the winning team and score the most kills.
• For your team to win the game, your must either capture all the flags in a row (you cannot take a flag behind enemy lines), or hold more flags than the enemy team at the end of the round (2 hours)
•  One Panther and one or two Churchill per spawns will be available to spice things up and to add more diversity in the strategies (if the Churchill is available)! Those tanks having fought in the area, it would be a pity to let them out!
•  Those who want to win a prize must team up with another crew member in the same tank ( ideally one commander owning TC and the gunner not owning TC)
•  The Panther and the Churchill crew will not be awarded prizes
•  First Prize: The non TC owner of the tank with the most kill on the winning team (PzIV or M4A2) will win Tank Crew. If both players of the winning crew already own Tank Crew, then the first prize must be donated to a non- Tank Crew owning IL2 pilot of the winning crews choice. The first prize (copy of Tank Crew) cannot be exchanged for anything else.
• Second Prize: The Tank Crew owner from the tank with the most kills on the winning team will get a collector vehicle of his choice.
• Third Prize: The non TC owner in the tank with most kills on the losing team will get one collector vehicle of his choice.
• Players are encouraged to register in teams as long as at least one of the players already owns Tank Crew. Players that do not have a teammate are welcome to register for the contest, and we will try to assign them to a team if possible.
• Compared to the vanilla Advance And Secure gameplay you might know, there will be no static or mobile AI, and no planes.
• Before the contest, a team roster will be posted on the IL2 Tank Crew forum showing the tank teams (allied or axis), the tank number, and player names of each crew. Players must remain on the same team and with the same crew throughout the contest. Players that do not adhere to this rule will be disqualified from the contest.
• Commanders will be able to use SRS to communicate with the other commanders on your team. You can talk with the other tank crews of your team before the contest to organize better the strategy and communication.
• Non-English speaking crews are welcome on Discord. Each crew will be given a channel on the AAS Discord server for in-game communications, but Commanders are required to speak English when using SRS to communicate with the other Commanders on your team (Allied, Axis). This is to smooth communications between tanks on the same team during the match. 
• Spawn camping kills will not count for the final score and will get you banned from the competition. The tank spawns will be far away from the objectives and will not be logical targets anyway.
• Friendly/Ennemy tank icons will be deactivated
• Navigation icon will be on
• streaming live the contest will be forbidden
• external views and spectating modes will be deactivated
• Please provide the following information as an answer to this topic  to register:
   

Register as a team (one TC owner + one non-TC owner):

 

Commander's discord and in-game name: ...  / …
Commander owns TC? : yes/no
Gunner's discord and in-game name: ...  / …
Gunner owns TC? : yes/no
Preferred team: Axis/Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2/PzIV/Churchill/PzV
Native language: 
Can speak english on SRS ? :
 

Register alone (need a teammate assigned):

 

discord and in-game name: ...  / …
Preferred team: Axis/Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2/PzIV/Churchill/PzV
TC owner: yes/no
Native language: 
Can speak english on SRS ? :

 

Please use the same name as the one you have in-game to help us identify the winner!

If your preferred team is full, we may have to ask you to switch sides to keep the two teams at even strength. Depending on the number of players registered, we may also have to adapt the structure of the teams into sub groups, and play additional matches round-robin style to determine the prize winners.

 

Contest Eligibility

All IL2 Sturmovik GBS members may enter into the contest. You must own at least one IL2 Sturmovik Great Battle Series modules to enter.

 

Contest Entry

To enter into the contest, simply provide the requested information as indicated in the official announcement post on the IL2  eSports and Events forum.

 

Contest Deadlines
All entries must be submitted on or before midnight CEST (UTC+2)  on Friday, September 30th.

 

A 1 hour pre-game test will take place the day of the contest,  on Saturday, October 1st at 5pm GMT so that each team can confirm their assigned Discord channel is functioning properly. The contest will start at 6pm GMT. Please be punctual.

Publicity
Each contestant acknowledges that the organizers may use a video recording of game play during the contest to be uploaded and displayed on YouTube for publicity purposes.

 

Release
By entering the contest and, if applicable, receipt of any prize, each entrant and, as applicable, winner agrees to release and hold harmless the organizers of the contest from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in a contest or any contest-related activity, or from the receipt or use or misuse of any prize, including claims or causes of action related to alleged damage to an entrant’s computer or electronic systems from downloading or using any material related to the organizers, or the IL2 Sturmovik website.

 

The battlefield (Carpiquet Airfield / Caen) :

 

(Flyer image source: https://www.deviantart.com/peteashford/art/On-Hell-s-Highway-841541818, author: Pete Ashford)

Final Roster:

 

Edited October 1, 2022 by super-truite

[SCG_Baryonyx]

Commander's discord and in-game name: Baryonyx #6408  / SCG_Baryonyx
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: GigaChad #2219  / SCG_Gustav_Hagel
Gunner owns TC? : no
Preferred team: Axis
Prefered tank: PzIV
Native language:  Commander: German
Can speak english on SRS ? : Can speak English, but SRS not yet installed.

Edited September 28, 2022 by SCG_Baryonyx

[Penguin_22]

so you are either a commander or a gunner?

[super-truite]

1 minute ago, TWC_Penguin said:

so you are either a commander or a gunner?

you would like to be at the radio or driver position ? 
If you want to be more than 2 on a tank that could be possible too. It is just that gunner + commander are the main positions.
The commander usually cumulates the role of driver + commander. It would be fun to have all the positions filled but the issue is that driver and radio can get a bit boring + it would reduce the total number of tanks in the event,  if every tanks is filled with 4 players.
 

[Ala13_UnopaUno_VR]

How to solve the graphic configuration problem? grass ON/OFF, preset LOW/SAME/MEDIUM/HIGH, etc... Rules will be set for this or everyone will play in settings win98 xd, whatever it is I'm already looking for a partner to participate! good initiative

 

[super-truite]

3 hours ago, Ala13_UnopaUno_VR said:

How to solve the graphic configuration problem? grass ON/OFF, preset LOW/SAME/MEDIUM/HIGH, etc... Rules will be set for this or everyone will play in settings win98 xd, whatever it is I'm already looking for a partner to participate! good initiative

 

I cannot really impose a rule regarding this because I have no way of enforcing it. I do not use grass OFF and play with HIGH graphics settings and on most maps I have generally good results in PvP, so it seems that "cheating" like this is not a huge game changer. On the contest mission, There is less grass then in other maps it seems, so it should not be too much of a problem. 
But of course it would be more fair play of everyone to not deactivate the grass and to not play at minimum graphic settings!

Edited September 19, 2022 by super-truite

[DD_Friar]

Will you play with no in game icons (but perhaps with navigation)?

[super-truite]

no in games icons and I will probably let the navigation arrow on (it is difficult to know where you are in tanks, due to the low resolution of the map)

[DJI_DUDU]

Would it be possible for some new players to spectate the contest?

[super-truite]

Yes why not

[super-truite]

I was more thinking of one of the player streaming. But it is true that even that could be used to cheat by the opposite team. The best would be to make a video and release it after the contest...

Regarding disconnecting, the rule is that each participant should stick to his slot till the end of the game. I can make it clearer that no disconnect / reconnect will be allowed after the start of the game.

Edited September 20, 2022 by super-truite

[DD_Friar]

What about external views? will they be locked down as well (which will mean no spectators though) . No good hiding round a corner if the enemy can play "world of tanks" and get god view!|

 

Great idea by the way and I applaud you for trying to add to the community.

 

Salute

 

DD_Friar

 

Edit: Sorry, reading back I see someone has asked something similar.

Edited September 20, 2022 by DD_Friar

[super-truite]

no external view. I will add that to the rules 

[super-truite]

when the tank roaster (with all the registered players) will be made, I will assign a number to each tanks. Ideally, it would be better to use the corresponding number on your tank to avoid confusion for the group commanders trying to organize the tanks. 
I will probably split the teams into sub squads of 4 tanks and the names will be 1-1, 1-2,1-3, 1-4 and  2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4 if there are 8 tanks for instance. 

BTW: for those who speak well english and want to be group commander, please tell me. The role of the group commander will be to give orders to the tank groups of his team. inter-tanks communications will be performed using SRS:
forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/63326-installation-and-usage-of-srs-for-il-2-voice-comms-app/

[[N.H.K]Jetstream_sanya]

Commander's discord and in-game name: Grass Toucher#1144   /  Jetstream_sanya  ingame
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: Mr. Wrecker#8409  /    Solidus_Snake   Ingame
Gunner owns TC? : no
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
Native language: Russian
Can speak english on SRS ? : yes, but i don't have SRS

Edited September 20, 2022 by [N.H.K]Jetstream_sanya

[super-truite]

Commander's discord and in-game name: super-truite  /  super-truite
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: disco / BernardHenryLevy
Gunner owns TC? : no
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
Native language: French
Can speak english on SRS ? : yes

Edited September 30, 2022 by super-truite

[SCG_Baryonyx]

I edited my application above because I found a crewmember. ?

[super-truite]

Registration from discord:

discord and in-game name: ickylevel  / ickylevel
Preferred team: waiting for more registered players to choose
Prefered tank: waiting for more registered players to choose
TC owner: yes
Native language: French
Can speak english on SRS ? : yes

[super-truite]

For those participating, I would like you to install some historical skins to fit better with the scenario. If you do not have it, I recommend you the really nice and easy to use skin downloader tool:

I will give the list of skins later or create a pack if possible.


Regarding tools, if you are commander and can speak english,  please install SRS:

It is really easy to use as well and you can test if it works by connecting to the Advance And Secure server (which comes with an SRS server).
What is nice about SRS is that you will be able to talk to other tanks about the general strategy. On discord, you will have an audio channel specific to your tank in order to be able to talk as much as you want with your crew, without spamming the SRS command channel. 

If you have any issues regarding the installation of those tools, please tell me here or on discord and I will help! 

Edited September 23, 2022 by super-truite

[Zinovy_Kolobanov]

Commander's discord and in-game name:  junge70#9682   /  Ala13_Junge  ingame
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name:  Ala13_UnopaUno_VR/AirFigueruelo#7096  /     Zinovy_Kolobanov  Ingame
Gunner owns TC? : no
Preferred team: Axis
Prefered tank: Panzer IV
Native language: Spanish
Can speak english on SRS ? : yes, like a Yoda.

[Penguin_22]

Register as a team (one TC owner + one non-TC owner):

 

Commander's discord and in-game name: ...  / …PENGUIN
Commander owns TC? : yes/no YES
Gunner's discord and in-game name: ...  / …MOON
Gunner owns TC? : yes/noYES
Preferred team: Axis/Allies AXIS
Prefered tank: M4A2/PzIV/Churchill/...PZV
Native language: ...ENGLISH

Can speak english on SRS ? :

[Penguin_22]

WHATS SRS,,MOON 50/50 ON WTHER HE WILL BE THERE ,IL ONLY BE THERE IF MOON IS

[super-truite]

SRS is a radio software to speak between tanks: 

 

If you do not want to coordinate with the other tanks, no need to install it though

[super-truite]

Thanks to @JV44HeinzBar, we have a skin pack for the contest! He created a skin pack on the great HSD skin downloader.
If you have difficulties in downloading the skins, please tell me, I will help. This is not mandatory but it would be nice to all have realistic skins.
Since there was no skins yet for the 10th Canadian armored regiment, we will use the Btitish 24 th Lancers skin since they fought against the 12th SS panzer division as well in the area.
Installing the skin downloader:
1. Download HSD.zip:  https://skins.combatbox.net/HSD.zip
2. Copy the folder “HSD for IL2 GB” and place it where you would like HSD to install. (Make sure your drive has some space available as HSD needs to download preview images)
3. Open the folder and start HSD.exe.
4. Read the EULA** carefully and click "I Agree" if you agree.
5. In the start-up window, locate and add your IL-2 Skins folder folder. (...\IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\graphics\skins) If you use IL-2 through steam, the folder is detected automatically.
6. Wait for HSD to finish downloading and click “Continue”. 
8. You will probably get a request to update HSD, do this to get the latest version. 
You are now ready to use it.

To install the Advance and Secure skin pack:

1. Click on Skin packs -> Advance And Secure (AAS) 

2. Click on "Download All"

3. Click on "Download"

Edited September 27, 2022 by super-truite

[foxep2001]

Commander's discord and in-game name: foxep2001#6323 / foxep2001
Commander owns TC? :  YES
Gunner's discord and in-game name: Need a gunner
Gunner owns TC? : see above
Preferred team: Prefer allied but waiting for more registered players to choose
Prefered tank: M4A but waiting for more registered players to choose
Native language: english

Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes

[super-truite]

registration from discord:

discord and in-game name: HostesOccidam / HostesOccidam
Preferred team: Allies (But OK to change)
Prefered tank: M4A2
TC owner: yes
Native language: French
Can speak english on SRS ? : maybe ?

 

 

 discord and in-game name: Wayne / FinalShadow
Preferred team: Axis
Prefered tank: Panzer IV
TC owner: yes
Native language: French
Can speak english on SRS ? :  yes

 

 discord and in-game name: clem64121 /clem64121
Preferred team: Axis
Prefered tank: Panzer IV
TC owner: yes
Native language: French
Can speak english on SRS ? :  yes

Edited September 30, 2022 by super-truite

[=J18=CCC]

Commander's discord and in-game name: cpt.chaos_canada / cpt_chaos_canada
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: trustworthykebab / trustworthykebab
Gunner owns TC? : no
Preferred team: Axis/Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2 or PzIV
Native language: English
Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes but not installed yet.

Edited September 26, 2022 by cpt_chaos_canada

[foxep2001]

So, Super-T,

 

   I was experimenting with SRS on the AAS server. I did not get auto connected to the AAS SRS server when connecting. What is the SRS ip for AAS. Or can you turn SRS autoconnect on the server? 

[super-truite]

OK, I will try to fix it tonight or tomorrow. If it does not work I will then give the ip. Thanks for the heads up!

[Grzankowsky]

discord and in-game name: Grzankowsky  / Grzankowsky
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
TC owner: yes
Native language:Polish 
Can speak english on SRS ? :no

[super-truite]

1 hour ago, foxep2001 said:

So, Super-T,

 

   I was experimenting with SRS on the AAS server. I did not get auto connected to the AAS SRS server when connecting. What is the SRS ip for AAS. Or can you turn SRS autoconnect on the server? 

I saw that the SRS ip was not configured properly in my server file, it should work now. 
 

[foxep2001]

Thanks T.

[Nosferatu*]

Register as a team (one TC owner + one non-TC owner):

 

Commander's discord and in-game name: JG52_Nosferatu#3074  / JG52_Nosferatu

Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name:   Alberich#9910 / Alberich

Gunner owns TC? : yes
Preferred team: Axis (but no problem with Allies)
Prefered tank: PzV or PzIV / M4A2  (depending on the side)
Native language: Spanish

Can speak english on SRS ? : We'll NOT use SRS. We'll use our private Discord in spanish between us. With the rest of friendly Commanders, I'll chat in english w/ private team chat.

Edited September 28, 2022 by JG52_Nosferatu
Alberich & me , tonight decided switch to Axis, if is possible

[foxep2001]

Hey Super-T,

 

   Thanks, auto connect is working now. But looking at the server info there may be some configuration changes needed. Should Coalition Security be turned on? And maybe also second radio so groups can use separate radio channels to communicate on? While still monitoring the broader radio net?

 

 

[super-truite]

Yes, it was supposed to be like this, but it got reset at some point it seems

[=DW=_Tauront]

Commander's discord and in-game name: Tauront  / ACG_Tauront
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: Benni / PatrickBateman
Gunner owns TC? : No
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
Native language: Polish commander and German gunner
Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes

Edited September 27, 2022 by ACG_Tauront

[[N.H.K]Buzz_Lightyear]

Commander's discord and in-game name: Buzz_Lightyear#2266/Buzz_Lightyear
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: Nijicon-senpai#5875/Nijicon
Gunner owns TC? : yes
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
Native language: Russian
Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes

[super-truite]

Rules update:

• Heavy Tanks :The Churchill was not released yet and we are not that many so I will not add an heavy tank at each spawns. So it will be exclusively Panzer IVs VS M4A2 Shermans. Do not forget that the goal is not only to get the most kills but to get the most kills in the winning team, so the team maneuvering and communicating the best is likely to prevail against the team with the "Best tank"! After a lot of testing, it is clear that the two tanks are not performing at the same level for each giventasks.  The M4A2 is slightly more strong, the Panzer IV has better optics for long distances, but overall, a good crew or better a good team of tanks will manage to maneuver to use his given tool to maximum efficiency!
• Crews:  because I do not want the number of tanks to be too small, I will allow some freedom in the tank crews: commander and gunner both owning TC, one player only per tank, commander owning TC but gunner not or the opposite are allowed.
• Prize: Since there is a lot of different crew types possible, the rules need to be updated regarding how to win a prize: 
  • The non TC owner the best ranked in the winning team will win Tank Crew
  • Additionally, two collector vehicles can be won:
    • If the best tank of the winning team is a crew of 2 with one player not owning Tank crew, one collector vehicle will go to the tank crew owner of this tank (the non TC owner already won TC). The second collector vehicle will either go, by order, to the non TC owner of the best tank of the loosing team or the gunner of the second best tank in the winning team.
    • If the best tank of the winning team is a crew of 2 players owning Tank crew, both will get a collector vehicle of their choice
    • If there is only one player (hence owning tank crew) in the best tank of the winning team, he will get a collector vehicle of his choice and the second one will go in order: to the non TC owner of the best tank of the loosing team or the gunner of the second best tank in the winning team.
      If you do not want the prize attributed to you, you can give it to another contestant or you can offer to the organizer it for a next contest.

We still have room for non Tank Crew owners in some of the tanks (french, english and polish speaking lads needed!).

Regarding SRS, I added a little tutorial to install it in the discord event channel https://discord.gg/5kpWb39p
SRS will be used to communicate between tanks for those speaking english. For the others, follow the tanks of your team! Some players being alone in their tank, feel free to join the other solo players  of the same side in one  discord channel.  
To avoid confusion between channels, I added only one SRS channel per team. I might add a second one later if needed.

[VBF-12_Stele]

Commander's discord and in-game name: SteleP#6640 / VBF-12_Stele
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: Tausntry#7631 / Tausntry
Gunner owns TC? : yes
Preferred team: Allies
Prefered tank: M4A2
Native language: English
Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes

[E69_Z4BA]

Commander's discord and in-game name: E69_Z4BA#0083/ E69_Z4BA
Commander owns TC? : yes
Gunner's discord and in-game name: E69_VonPepofen#—- / E69_VonPepofen
Gunner owns TC? : yes
Preferred team: Axix
Prefered tank: Panzer IV
Native language: Spanish
Can speak english on SRS ? : Yes

Edited September 29, 2022 by E69_Z4BA