Career(s) - what am I doing wrong?

[Patricks]

Started a US Career using Normandy, P51-B squadron. All I am getting is (basically) the same "Bomber Escort" missions over and over. I could accept that but there are 0 fighters to defend against and little (if any) flak. Figured I would start a German Career (FW190 A-8) with the allies already occupying France near Caen. First flight was "Escort Bombers" and again, 0 defense. I found an allied airbase FULL of P47's and took 12 out on the ground, not fired upon once.. Did I click a "Turkey Shoot" setting somewhere? Only Mods I use are "Historically Accurate Skins" and "Another Pilots Note for Cockpit Photos"... 

Edited August 5 by Patricks

[Kubert]

Did you try to change an options for the careers? Because by default they are set to start in the air, enemy inferiority, scattered air and ground density. Other than that, I have no idea. 

[Patricks]

8 minutes ago, Kubert said:

Did you try to change an options for the careers? Because by default they are set to start in the air, enemy inferiority, scattered air and ground density. Other than that, I have no idea. 

 

I did not, guy on the IL2 Discord pointed me to that.. now the German Career, with the Allies owning the territory near Caen, is set this (pic below) way -  The US Career was already set fairly realistically, so I changed some things to Random. Just want to see SOME enemy planes up!

 

Edited August 5 by Patricks

[Devil5O5]

I've noticed the same thing as well. Zero Axis planes in the air when doing a bomber escort mission. This has happened both in my P-51B and Spitfire Mk V carreers.

 

I just resorted to setting myself as squadron commander and skipping those missions. 

[MaxPower]

I was flying an A-8 career at the start of Normandy maybe a year ago or something.  The beginning had a lot of bomber intercept missions and quite a target rich environment.  Then, after the landing, it turns into survival horror (and all the air raid balloons tied to the landing craft crushes your CPU).  Anyway, there was lots of aircraft flying around before and after the landing.

[Avimimus]

13 hours ago, Patricks said:

Started a US Career using Normandy, P51-B squadron. All I am getting is (basically) the same "Bomber Escort" missions over and over. I could accept that but there are 0 fighters to defend against and little (if any) flak. Figured I would start a German Career (FW190 A-8) with the allies already occupying France near Caen. First flight was "Escort Bombers" and again, 0 defense. I found an allied airbase FULL of P47's and took 12 out on the ground, not fired upon once.. Did I click a "Turkey Shoot" setting somewhere? Only Mods I use are "Historically Accurate Skins" and "Another Pilots Note for Cockpit Photos"... 

 

Admittedly, this is historically accurate... with one exception: Why were you strafing P-47s in your P-51?

[MDzmitry]

2 часа назад, Avimimus сказал:

 

Admittedly, this is historically accurate... with one exception: Why were you strafing P-47s in your P-51?

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15 часов назад, Patricks сказал:

Figured I would start a German Career (FW190 A-8) with the allies already occupying France near Caen. First flight was "Escort Bombers" and again, 0 defense. I found an allied airbase FULL of P47's and took 12 out on the ground, not fired upon once..

 

[Avimimus]

9 hours ago, MDzmitry said:

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Sorry! I was tired and misread!