BigWeek a spitfire/p51 campaign

[Sandmarken]

Hello! I have made a 6 mission campagin where you fly as a RAF pilot during the last days of winter 1944. The campaign is not historical, but its theme is opperation argument or big week as it was known. Real big week happend with heavy bombers hitting targets in Germany while this campagin uses medium bombers and the channel map. If someone else wants to make a more historic big week campagin I can change the name of this! ?  

You wil need the battle of bodenplatte and normandy dlc for this campagin.  

 

I have borrowed some assets and groups from the group sharing corner and syn_vander so thank you to all of them.   

 

Sandmarken

BigWeek.7zip

[francop]

Bonjour,

Je n'arrive pas à décompresser le fichier.

Pouvez vous m'aider ?

Merci

[Sandmarken]

2 minutes ago, francop said:

Bonjour,

Je n'arrive pas à décompresser le fichier.

Pouvez vous m'aider ?

Merci

Hello, the file is a 7zip file. The 7zip program can be downloaded for free from here: https://www.7-zip.org/

Im pretty sure winrar also lets you do it. If not let me know and I wil upload a new version ?

[francop]

merci ça a marché avec 7zip.

[Ulricus]

Sandmarken, thx again for this campaign. Great job, even that you mentioned, that this was one of your first attempts. I like the story lines of your campaign missions (alternating and often bear a suprise - haven't done ballon busting since RoF ). The few shortcomings (maps, markings) didn't spoil the fun I had - and your later campaigns are more perfect in these respects.

 

Played now the first 3 Skyroads Missions and it looks like that you are true to your story line style - alternating challenges! ?

Edited April 10, 2024 by Ulricus

[Sandmarken]

19 minutes ago, Ulricus said:

Sandmarken, thx again for this campaign. Great job, even that you mentioned, that this was one of your first attempts. I like the story lines of your campaign missions (alternating and often bear a suprise - haven't done ballon busting since RoF  ?). The few shortcomings (maps, markings) didn't spoil the fun I had - and your later campaigns are more perfect in these respects.

 

Played now the first 3 Skyroads Missions and it looks like that you are true to your story line style - alternating challenges! ?

Thx alot for your feedback. Im very happy to hear you enjoy the campaigns. My goal with the campaigns is always to make something that is different than the career mode and still be close to history so im happy you like them! 

[KodiakJac]

Hi Sandmarken,

 

On the 3rd mission "Armed Recon" my three Spitfire wingmen spin out doing ground loops until they crash when trying to take off.  Why is this happening?

 

Thanks!

[Sandmarken]

5 hours ago, KodiakJac said:

Hi Sandmarken,

 

On the 3rd mission "Armed Recon" my three Spitfire wingmen spin out doing ground loops until they crash when trying to take off.  Why is this happening?

 

Thanks!

Hello! It's probably something to do with the AI behaving differently after an update. You can try to restart the mission and see if they do anything different then. I haven't tried the campaign since I made it, and that was back in 2022. 🙂 It was the first one I made, and I didn't really know what I was doing back then. 😅

[Jaegermeister]

6 hours ago, Sandmarken said:

Hello! It's probably something to do with the AI behaving differently after an update.

 

Check the wind speed.

[Sandmarken]

1 hour ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

Check the wind speed.

Ah yes, that's right. This was also an issue with the airlift campaign. The Ju 52s would not take off at the historical wind speed and direction, and I ended up having to change them.

[Jaegermeister]

2 hours ago, Sandmarken said:

Ah yes, that's right. This was also an issue with the airlift campaign. The Ju 52s would not take off at the historical wind speed and direction, and I ended up having to change them.

Correct, the wind speed has to be 3mps or less at ground level or you will get errors taking off and landing with many types of planes. Spitfires and Mosquitos ground loop even without wind sometimes. This has been occurring since the Spitfires were released and it has never been fixed completely. The Ai has trouble correcting for the torque.

[Sandmarken]

25 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

Correct, the wind speed has to be 3mps or less at ground level or you will get errors taking off and landing with many types of planes. Spitfires and Mosquitos ground loop even without wind sometimes. This has been occurring since the Spitfires were released and it has never been fixed completely. The Ai has trouble correcting for the torque.

I think you can put the Ju 52 in that list as well. From all my research making campaigns, it seems losses due to accidents were always high, so maybe it's a feature and not a bug 😅

[KodiakJac]

Turns out I did it to myself with the Spitfires.  I gave them 150 grade fuel, which apparently, they couldn't handle at take-off.  When I put them back on regular fuel, they took off just fine. 🙂 

[Sandmarken]

Just now, KodiakJac said:

Turns out I did it to myself with the Spitfires.  I gave them 150 grade fuel, which apparently, they couldn't handle at take-off.  When I put them back on regular fuel, they took off just fine. 🙂 

Good to know! 

[Falcon41]

Sandmarken,

     When I download the campaign all I get is a music file, no mission files.  

[Sandmarken]

4 minutes ago, Falcon41 said:

Sandmarken,

     When I download the campaign all I get is a music file, no mission files.  

It's a zip file that needs to be extracted either with WinRAR or 7-Zip or another program made for that purpose. There should be no music included in the file. 🙂

[Jaegermeister]

On 6/20/2024 at 12:37 PM, Sandmarken said:

I think you can put the Ju 52 in that list as well. From all my research making campaigns, it seems losses due to accidents were always high, so maybe it's a feature and not a bug 😅

 

It's a long list. The P-38 lightning will not land if the wind is over 3mps either. I had to reduce the wind in the LS Campaign. That may be part of the current problem in many of the scripted campaigns right now where the AI will not land, but I am traveling and do not have access to my simulator computer right now to test it. There may also be some other new problem.

[Sandmarken]

1 hour ago, Jaegermeister said:

 

It's a long list. The P-38 lightning will not land if the wind is over 3mps either. I had to reduce the wind in the LS Campaign. That may be part of the current problem in many of the scripted campaigns right now where the AI will not land, but I am traveling and do not have access to my simulator computer right now to test it. There may also be some other new problem.

Flying in unfavorable weather is an interesting challenge, so it's unfortunate that the game behaves like this.

[Jaegermeister]

17 hours ago, Sandmarken said:

Flying in unfavorable weather is an interesting challenge, so it's unfortunate that the game behaves like this.

It is, I particularly liked a part in one mission where the player attacked a train with rockets and a 5 mps crosswind over the target. The wind would affect the flight of the rockets and they would curve on their way down making it very difficult to hit the train.

 

I like to use storm clouds, rain and turbulence to create gloomy atmosphere when it is called for, but some people apparently really hate the turbulence feature. Either it makes them nauseous in VR or it makes hitting their target too difficult for their liking. To me it’s just adding an extra dose of reality to the missions

[Falcon41]

On 6/21/2024 at 11:45 AM, Sandmarken said:

It's a zip file that needs to be extracted either with WinRAR or 7-Zip or another program made for that purpose. There should be no music included in the file. 🙂

Well all I can say is that when I downloaded the campaign (5-6 times now) all I get is a music file.  I have Win RAR and 7-Zip.  Any ideas whats going on?

Falcon41

[Sandmarken]

1 hour ago, Falcon41 said:

Well all I can say is that when I downloaded the campaign (5-6 times now) all I get is a music file.  I have Win RAR and 7-Zip.  Any ideas whats going on?

Falcon41

No idea! Did you get it when you extracted the file as well? The file should just be a campaign folder. I have not altered the downloadable file since I first uploaded it and never received this feedback. Something could have been altered on the webpage, and maybe a bug changed the file? I'm not at home for a few days, but I can take a look when im back home. 

[Jaegermeister]

8 hours ago, Falcon41 said:

Well all I can say is that when I downloaded the campaign (5-6 times now) all I get is a music file.  I have Win RAR and 7-Zip.  Any ideas whats going on?

Falcon41

I downloaded the file and unzipped it to my desktop with 7zip. It extracted just fine and the mission files looked normal. I opened one in the ME and it looked normal there too.

[Falcon41]

Sandmarken & Jag,

     Thanks for the replies, but the problem was mine as I was unfamiliar with WinZip.  I've successfully downloaded the campaign.  Thanks again.

Falcon41

Edited June 23, 2024 by Falcon41
Correction to comment

[Sandmarken]

19 minutes ago, Falcon41 said:

Sandmarken & Jag,

     Thanks for the replies, but the problem was mine as I was unfamiliar with WinZip.  I've successfully downloaded the campaign.  Thanks again.

Falcon41

Happy to help. Hope you will enjoy my earliest work. 😁