IL2: Forgotten Battles / Pacific Fighters by Ubisoft

WWIII 1946 is a "what if" historical thriller that lets you fly all of the strange jets and German wonder weapons in IL2 1946. This campaign is but a small part of the overall Mega Campaign the will include many smaller mini campaigns such as this one. Each campaign will build upon the other and you will be able to continue your pilot career until the conclusion of WWIII 1946.
 
In a painstaking process an alternate history storyline has been researched and is presented as a backdrop for some of the most heart pounding and hopefully entertaining missions you have ever flown.
 
By using historical documents from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff we know exactly what the contingency plans were in the case of an expected Soviet attack in 1946. It is clear from public polls and private correspondence that the US military and government officials fully expected an attack by it's former ally at any time starting in the spring of 1946.
 
Based on these plans code named Griddle and the other Pincher series plans we have developed a historically plausible alternate history scenario on which all these campaigns are based. These plans were based on the best estimates of Soviet forces and their plans for war.
 
When I say we I mean the wonderful feedback I have received on numerous forums including Missions4Today, SimHQ, AllAircraftArcade,CombatACE and the Wargamer. Go to these fine websites and search for WWIII and you should come across many interesting discussions.
 
Storyline for 1946 WWIII
 
Readme
 
Soviet Fighter Pilot Campaign Chapter One
 
 
...................................Top Secret For Your Eyes Only.......................................
 
January 23, 1946
 
Our former allies, the so called Western Democracies, have demobilized entire armies and have sent many of their armed forces home. The US and England have a fraction of their former forces stationed on the European mainland. They mistakenly believe that their so called Atomic Bomb has altered our plans.
 
Our glorious leader, Tovarishch Stalin, has given us of his vision of a world wide workers paradise led by his guiding hand.
 
He does not fear the Abomb. He has seen the devastation it has brought to untold numbers of innocent victims he does not fear it's wrath.
 
Although he has no doubt that our armed forces can storm through the blasted hulk of the former Germany and France to liberate the suppressed workers of Europe, he does not want to use force unless absolutely necessary. Recent events have forced his hand and the very existence of soviet society is being threatened.
 
Our former Allies have made a fateful blunder and the world shudders at the consequences and prospect of another World War. They have rejected our rightful demands regarding Manchuria, Turkey and the liberation of Eastern Europe. In a stupendous miscalculation the US has base a squadron of B29 Super Fortresses in West Germany in an attempt to intimidate us. The B29 is an offensive weapon not a defensive weapon. There can be only on conclusion and that is that they intend to use their Abomb in a sneak attack on the Motherland we hold so dear.
 
They continue to gather former German scientists and their wonder weapons and have been stealing them away to work on even more destructive weapons and delivery systems. We must act and we must act now.
 
We need to create a buffer so that the motherland is never subject to attack again. Our vision is that all future wars will be fought in the no man’s land that is the former Nazi homeland and as long as capitalism survives there will be more wars. It's all a matter of where and when these wars will be fought because Capitalism and Communism cannot occupy the same space.
 
Some say the second atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki intimidate us and to reinforce the power of the atom bomb in our mind. In addition it was to demonstrate that America has not only one but many bombs and is ready to use them. Tovarishch Stalin is calling their bluff.
 
Today we received word through our massive network of agents that American has a total of only 6 nuclear bombs. Now is the time to strike and to save the motherland from nuclear destruction. We have to attack now before they gain more of these monstrous weapons and use them.
 
We will no longer allow the West to dictate its will on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and our glorious leader Tovarishch Stalin. He will once and for all remove the threat to Mother Russia. No longer will there be a gun pointed at his head from West Germany.
 
We have begun a massive and very well concealed mobilization.
 
As a Maior in the Soviet Air Force you have flown over 100 combat missions in both Europe and the far east. Because of your special status your official victory score is top secret due to the nature of your assignments.
 
You have been assigned to a special unit that is working on former German Wonder Weapons that are in our possession. Your specific assignment is to assess the combat capabilities of the various weapons platforms. As such you will be helping to design and test in any future combat situations, our newest weapons systems.
 
Good luck to you comrade.
 
Installation:
 
1. Find your folder with your IL2-1946.exe in it. There should be a folder that is titled Missions. Inside that folder is the Campaign Folder. Open that folder and find the Ru Folder. Open that folder. Copy the WWIII_1946_USSR_Fighter Folder into that folder/subdirectory.
 
2. The WWIIISkins folder contains skins that you might want to use to make the campaign more pleasing to the eye and more immerse. If you don't use the skins your Soviet planes will have no markings. Your campaign will run just find but won't look as realistic.
 
The Skins folder is in the PaintSchemes Folder which is in the main IL2-1946 main folder.
 
Most of the skins start with WWIII and then the plane model. Just drag them from their folders and put them in the same named folder in your Skins folder.
 
3. The only way I know of to have the former Allies fight each other in a campaign is to make one side Blue and the other stays Red. I chose to make the Soviets go Blue because it was easier. What this means is that if you don't use the skins correctly you will end up with a Soviet fighter with a Japanese Zero on it. To deal with this problem I have painstakingly created and then changed every Soviet plane in every mission to have a custom skin. If you properly copy the skins into the correct folders you should have no problem. If not you will get Japanese markings on your Yak etc.
 
To correct the problem on the plane you are flying click on the "Arming" button then on the "Aircraft Customization" button. Look at the skins button and choose whatever skin you want but every Soviet plane should have a WWIIIxxxx skin in it. This is the one you should choose. If there isn't one then choose one that has a Soviet star on it and be sure to turn off the markings otherwise the Japanese meatball will be your skin.
 
If your wingmen etc. all have Japanese markings then you will just have to live with it or check out the skins files to make sure you have all the skins in the correct place.
 
4. Turn the speech off unless you don't mind hearing Japanese and Russian mixed.
5. If you want to hear the correct language follow flyby1 instructions below. Thanks flyby1.
 
"Here is how I do the speech changing: start;computer;L diskdrive;ubisoft;il-2 sturmovik 1946;Samples;speech;ru double click; delete actor1 thru actor9.;do not close these open windows ; then start;computer;C diskdrive;ubisoft-up2; il-2 sturmovik 1946;samples;speech;us double click ; then drag actor1 thru actor9 to the open RU file where the old actor1 thru actor9 were and now no ussr speech. same for any speech change ! you will have to do these changes with the computer file non full screen. As you see I play il-2 off the L drive and backup il-2 on the C drive."
 
Please let me know if you are having problems so maybe we can figure out a solution.
 
Starting your career
 
1. Go to Pilot Career
2. Choose USSR with the rank of Maior
3. Choose WWIII 1946 Soviet Fighter Pilot
4. Choose the following in the Difficulty menus.
Turn off the following toggles. You do not want these options chosen for various reasons
a. Turn off - Cockpit Always On - I want you to look around and see all the cool stuff
b. Turn off - No External Views - For the same reason
c. Turn off - No Icons - Those Lerches and ME 163 are very small
d. Turn off - No Instant Success - Don't use this very often. There are some missions that just don't have anywhere to land in them and this is how you have to end your mission.
e. Turn off - No Map Icons - At this point in history radar was able to vector you to your targets pretty well so use the map to do this.
 
I need help in completing this massive project. Be a part of Air Simulation History :)
 
Contact Hairog at hkellogg36@gmail.com

this is a nice skin for your mustang ONLY FOR IL2 SERIES!!!

This is the Flying Tigers Campaign. It has everything that the Flying Tigers did. There are 8 missions that are strikes, interceptions and patrols. It has all kinds of exciting stuff. Take command of up to 12 planes.
 
NOTE: THIS DOES NOT WORK ON IL2 STURMOVIK FORGOTTEN BATTLES, PACIFIC FIGHTERS OR IL2 ACE EXPANSION PACK. IT REQUIRES IL2 1946

Dark Blue Camo on a F4U-C1 not authentic but very cool and colorful

BF109 E4 of III/NJG 1 Serial: G9+JV. 1941. This is a first E4 ive every done so instead of using my own 109 F/G/K template & having to adapt it to a E4 i decided to use jesters Excellent E4/7 Template instead ( Glad theres a site for your templates now ),added my own weathering etc,etc. Theres a no markings version in the download, Bright finished.....Buglord.

This program will allow you to compare data from aircraft in the IL-2 series of flight simulators side-by-side. You are not currently able to do this with the in-game object viewer.

OVERVIEW
 
Thanks for downloading (and for taking the time to read this file). The main features of this campaign mod:
 
1) Adds 13 new DGen operations and 4 new DGen careers for the Pacific Theater
 
2) Order of Battle extensively researched to put the right planes and squadrons in the campaign.
 
3) Ops file is based, as much as possible, on the mission reports and pilot accounts of actual air engagements that
 
occurred during the various campaigns.
 
4) Planes, ships, AAA, artillery, and everything else is placed in as accurate position as possible based on my research
 
and map/game limitations [Note, ships setups have been designed to provide most realistic experience with reload time at
 
5.0; I higher reload time could help if you are experiencing low fps around ships; a lower reload time would be good if
 
you just really, really, want to relive Torpedo 8's mission every time you fly an anti-shipping strike].
 
5) New campaign briefings
 
6) Use skins so aircraft are painted and marked as they were historically
 
 
0.08
Bug Fixes
1. 318th FG campaign crashing when going from Pearl Harbor to Marinanas
2. No USN escort missions in carrier campaigns
3. Coral Sea Escort mission crash
4. No USN non-CV anti-shipping strikes in Midway
5. N1K2 not showing up in Defense of Japan
 
Enhancements
1. Changed Rufe Tulagi campaign to pre-Guadalcanal bomber intercept campaign (as is historical)
2. Guadalcanal Invasion campaign improved (Japanese template, correct OB, correct skins)
3. Edited most carrier campaigns to reduce as much as possible the "30 mile final" (because of how DGen does carrier and antishipping missions, this is problem cannot be eliminated completely).
4. Added USMC campaign covering the defense of Wake Island before the Hiryu/Soryu carrier strike
5. Added Eastern Solomons campaign (correct air OB, task forces forces semi-historical, based on default Santa Cruz template)
6. D3A1s and sBD-3s have correct skins in Santa Cruz
7. A6M2-21s and D3A1s have green skins in Marianas
8. Reduced air OB numbers in .dat files 50% across the board (allows the player to have slightly more influence on the campaigns, and brings air OBs in line with ground and ship unit density)
9. Ar-196A3 (as a stand in for the E13A2) added to campaigns featuring IJN cruisers/battleships as appropriate

P-39N-1, Major Vyacheslav Fedorovich Sirotin, 17th IAP, 1944 Baltic Front.

the skin of the P-47 used in the chilean airforce in the years 1942 to 1956

BF110-E2 of 13.z/JG5 ,LM-NR 1942. And seeing that this particular aircraft was a E2 & we dont have that ive skinned it for the G2 version. I didnt have much info on this plane just had a few pictures to work from. Ive used jesters excellent template , camo weathering etc done by me. Bright finished

la7 of Lt.Col.S.F.Dolgushin.156 IAP Germany, 1945. i dont have much info on this camo just a few pictures to work from. there is also a clean version in the download

JU87-b2 Tropical of 3./stg1 libya 1941. Weathered & Bright finished. Template by Jutocsa, camo, weathering etc by myself .Theres also an unmarked version in the download

Here it is!!! The much talked about (OK, somewhat talked about) Spanish campaign.
 
It consists of:
-the campaign missions, edited as well for single mission play
-12 missions adapted for multi-player co-ops
-all neccessary skins!!!
 
To install, simply do the following:
 
-unzip everything into a temporary folder (TEMP, for example), open the folder "Espagne" then cut and paste the folders named "Missions", "Samples" and "Paintschemes" into the Il-2 Sturmovik Forgotten Battles main folder.
 
And...voila! That's all there is to it!!
 
After taking off it will not be easy to survive all the different missions in this campaign.
To fly it, go to Campaign and, under France, select "Spain 1938".
 
Do not forget to activate the "play music" option, so you will have some ambiance sounds during the briefings.
 
In the skin of a Republican pilot you will take on your Nationalist adversaries (Fascist or Franquistes).
You will have the chance to try many different things: ground attack, reconnaissance, fly a captured enemy plane, escort bombers or secret agents, intercept bombers or enemy reconnaisance planes...
 
You will also encounter different types of planes...you will even find the enemy flying the same type of plane as yours on occasion so be sure about what you are firing at!!!
 
The multiplayer missions are playable from one side for those which take place on small maps, and from two sides for those on large maps.
 
Of course, the game does not provide a map of Spain (sniffff....) so I had to improvise a bit, but if you use your imagination for the names on the map it'll all be fine!!!
 
So, welcome to Spain, and fly well, compañero!!!
 
Oops..almost forgot...the first mission of the Campaign (All or Nothing) is an adaptation from a mission created by Mad_Cat.
 
Have fun!!!
 
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Special dedication:
 
This work is affectionately dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul (nicknamed Popol), who died 5 years ago, and who, in his youth and as a militant syndicalist and avowed Communist, volunteered to go and fight fascism in Spain in the ranks of the International Brigades. I miss you Papy...but
the struggle goes on!!!
 
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Credits
 
My special thanks to all the skinners of our community:
-Tchaika
-Kamikuza
-UF_Josse
-Hoarmurath
-Billis851
-AngelOfMons
-Jutocsa
-Tuckie
-UF_Zargos
-Col. Douglas King
and to the others whose names escape me at the moment...
Without the marvellous talent and hardwork of all these skinners this campaign would never have seen the light of day!!!
 
Thanks in particular to the Spanish Civil War site webcindario (hello Tuckie!!!), in Spain. It had the brilliant idea of reuniting in one place, the skins of all the aircraft that fought in the war in Spain,
a la www.il2skins.com
 
Finally, a big thank you to Jude Simmonds, aka FlatSpinMan, a New Zealander who washed ashore in Japan, and who did what needed to be done to translate this campaign into English for our Anglo-Saxon friends!!!
He also created the bases from which you will take off. Yes, I know... I am quite lazy on this aspect of things... THANKS, man !!! You're the BEST !!!
 
Also special thanks to Jeanba with which I had so many mails about this campaign. Hope his PC is still OK... ;-)
 
Do not forget : switch off the "no instant success" option !!!
 
And... Viva España !!!
 
Campagne Spain by Thierry Duruz
 
gaston.fb.maniak@bluewin.ch
 
Lausanne, 25 november 2005.

The Battle of Britain - Hurricane Season campaign missions are pulled from actual daily events and reports from July 10th through August 31st. While the missions follow a fictional character (you), some of the names and people are real. The locations, aircraft and Squadrons, (British and German) are as accurate as possible.

These are American pilot speech files taken from the sim "Jane's WWII Fighters" by Electronic Arts (1998) and then reformatted and renamed to be audible in "IL-2 Forgotten Battles," "Ace Expansion Pack" or
"Pacific Fighters" by 1C:Maddox Games.
 
Most of the commands/phrases used in FB and PF have equivalent samples in Jane's WWII Fighters. With some creative adaptaptations I was able
to replace nearly all of the speech files used by the US 'flight leader' character and some of the files used by the bomber pilots.
 
Being that Jane's WWII Fighters was an European Theater of Operations themed simulation (it was set in the Ardennes 1944/45), these speech files may be thoroughly inaccurate for other theaters, namely the Pacific. I tried to avoid speech files that directly reference the Luftwaffe as the enemy.

THE BATTLE OF MALTA 1940-1942 (GB) 1.5
 
for Il2/AEP/Pf 4.03m+
 
A 51 mission Scripted fighter Campaign for an RAF pilot.
 
This campaign is based on a a lot of historical research, no real pilot would have had the opportunity to experience
all that is contained although I have constructed what I hope is a believable 'fiction'.
 
Most missions represent Radar guided interceptions above the Island of Malta, against the numerically vastly superior
Regia Aeronautica and Luftwaffe.
 
Convoys are central to this whole campaign so ships of all types and their attack and defence feature very heavily
throughout (several missions are carrier based).
 
Player fly's the Gladiator, Hurricanes, Spitfire and Beaufighter
(and very briefly a Martlet (lend lease F4F-4) and A20.)
 
This campaign was constructed using the excellent il2 MATmanager and it is recommended that people install this excellant free utility in order to see accurate plane markings.
(the campaign should still work without it but will not look as good as intended.)
 
Thanks to all the skinners that created the skins contained within, I have tried my best to agnowledge their excellent
work.
 
Unzip to your desktop and look at the enclosed Read Me(GB)
 
 
1.5- As a result of The_Battle_of_Malta (IT) the convoy actions of this campaign have been recreated in far greater
detail. As a result this version has 3 extra missions (all (historical) long range defences of convoys by Malta based
fighters) and 5 of the pre 1.5 missions have been extensively revised (specificaly the convoy 'Pedestal' missions).
(8 more 'historical'and 'semi historical' missions in total).
 
1.6- Updates the 41st mission in the campaign
(thanks to Beaufort for research and advice.)
Four missions that were air-starts have been changed so that all missions now begin on runways.
Tropical A20 skin included plus MBR-2-AM-34 skin replaced with a new skin by Skioppo.
 
(1.6 is a very minor change. With updates if you already have a campaign in progress, overwrite the existing Battle_of_Malta_1940-42 folder in your campaign GB folder and you can continue the campaign but will have the updated version.)
 
THE BATTLE OF MALTA (IT) is now available. It took far longer to produce than this one and required more research, almost all missions are based on real mission reports and had to be created from scratch, the atmosphere and focus is very differant and so are the mission types and problems faced, try it and see.
 
Charlielamb2002@yahoo.co.uk

Richard Ira Bong
 
Just over the Wisconsin border from Illinois is the most stolen sign in America. It reads Bong Recreation Area. 99% of the people you ask will have no idea who or what the area is named after. It's a shame that the greatest fighter pilot America has ever produced is all but forgotten and his name has become a joke.
 
This is just my attempt to educate a small number of you as to the life and times of Richard Ira Bong, America's Ace of Aces. His record 40 kills in the Pacific Theater will never be surpassed. This unlikely farm boy from Poplar Wisconsin became a super star and then faded into the history books. He deserves more than 15 min of fame.
 
I have recreated all of Bong's successful missions. If you equal or surpass Bong's record with all the realism options turned on without do overs and without using the auto pilot you have accomplished a major feat and should be proud of your simulated flying skill.
 
The folder BongCampaign goes in the US folder that is in the Campaign folder that is in the mission folder.
The folder BongSingle goes in the US folder that is in the Single folder that is in the mission folder.
The P38J, P38L and P38L_Late folders go in the skins folder that is in the PaintSchemes folder.
 
This campaign is complex and requires a powerfull computer and video card. It was done with IL2FB+PF Combined Install version 4.02.
 
I have tried to recreate as accurately as possible the circumstances faced by Dick Bong in his 2 year onslaught of the Japanese armed forces. I have had to use different maps because many of the areas that Bong fought in are not represented in the game yet. Areas such as Northern New Guinea, Rabal, Borneo, the Philippine Islands of Negros, Mindoro and Leyte have not been modeled yet. I have found very similar areas on other maps that fit the bill however. By using the southern part of New Guinea I was able to recreate the Lae area farther to the north; by using the Singapore map I could recreate similar conditions to the Philippine islands etc. I think you will get the feel of the historical area and conditions.
 
Three books were instrumental in providing the historical facts for this endeavor...
 
Ace of Aces, The Dick Bong Story - Written by Carl Bong and Mike O'connor
Dear Mom So We Have A War by Carl Bong
Dick Bong Ace of Aces by Gen. George Kenney
 
Carl Bong is Dick Bong's brother and Gen. Kenney was Dick's commanding officer. I have copied major parts of the "descriptions" from these books. I am not a writer but I do know how to copy well. The first mission is from the Kokoda Campaign for Pacific Fighters by VBF_80 and the skins are all modifications of other people's painstaking work the most notable being "Marge" by Richard Mutt or RMutt. I couldn't have done this project without the jump start these artists provided.
 
I wish to apologize for the racial epithets used to describe the Japanese race. This was the language of the times and the quotes are verbatim. I'm sorry if they cause any discomfort. I do not mean to offend, just to be historically accurate with my quotes.
 
There are a few fun missions. One where you take off at night and try and get Washing Machine Charlie as Bong tried to do a few times... Another where you get into a dogfight in a SBD against a float plane... One where you have a mock dog fight with a P47 as Bong did while on leave... and the last one where you try and complete the only mission that Dick Bong could not.
 
Add all you want but please dont change the basic facts of the missions. The research is pretty good. If you do put the plane on autopilot, you will encounter all the bogies that Dick Bong shot down.
 
Oh yeah, by the way, did you know who Bong was before you read this?

In the early years of the war, the Luftwaffe unleashed a huge air campaign to take out the RAF.
This mission includes one of those raids on industrial targets.
 
RAF Flyable: 9 Spitfires, 4 Hurricanes
LW Flyable: 12 He-111s, 4 Me-109s.
Nonflyable:8 Ju-87s

Fictional Horten flying with II/JG26 mid 1945. Place the file in your Il-2/paintscemes/skins/Go-229 folder and repel the invasion.
 
Skin by Baron von Blutwurst
Template by Goodwood

Historical skin of BF 109G-6, "White 10", in service with 7./JG3 in the summer of 1943.
 
Place the bitmap in your IL-2/paintschemes/skins/BF109G-6 folder and rip it up.
 
Skin and Template by Baron von Blutwurst
Cockpit detail by Baron von Blutwurst
 
engine,gearleg, and gun by FlyByShooter

I decided to try and make a Fairey Firefly skin after a comment about my previous Seafire skin (Seafire FR.45 LA485) saying that it reminded somebody of it.
A lot of "Faked" parts had to be created for these skins - some are very subtle whereas some are slightly more obvious.
There are 8 skins in total in this pack; 4 for each aircraft. There is the standard skins, weathered skins and there is also versions of the previous 2 without invasion stripes. I could have went on to included non marked versions but felt it was too much, if anyone wants a no marked version it could be arranged (note that in game markings will not work properly on these skins as they would overlap the "faked" windows on the fuselage.
 
Stick this in both of your "Seafire" skin folders and you are ready to go.
 
Template created by "Fly By Shooter" with elements from "Jesters Ink" and Myself original template was made for the MKVIII Spitfire so I have now adapted this to fit the Seafire and added to it.
 
Regards,
96th_Nightshifter aka Phil Wyne
96thnightshifter@gmail.com

VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" Corsair piloted by Fred J. Streyg, February of 1944.
 
Place the file in your IL-2/paintschemes/skins/F4U-1A folder and have at it..
Skin for PF and PF+FB+AEP
 
Skin by Baron von Blutwurst
Template by mostly Baron von Blutwurst and ?
 
Internals by FlyByShooter..Thanks again m8.

Update from Vers. 1.1 to 1.2
 
I added a new subcampaign DDay, the invasion.
 
Unzip the file into a temp directory, copy the files into your IL2\DGEN folder, overwirte the old ones.

"Shark Mouth" Typhoon 245 Sqd.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
This Paint Scheme is based on a Typhoon scheme from 245 squadron, the exact serial No. of the plane is unknown so I have left
 
this blank so it can be added manually if anyone ever finds out what it was.
 
I have included a Marked, Roundels only and an unmarked version in this pack.
 
Thanks for the excellent Template by Jesters-Ink.
 
History of 245 Squadron included.

LIKE NO OTHER PILOT: Fly to defend and then to liberate France. Your enemies will be the Luftwaffe, the Regia Aeronautica, the Royal Navy, the RAF, the US Navy... Your allies will be Dutch, Belgian, British, American, Russian... with many Czech comrades.
 
Please follow strictly and carefully the instructions in the read-me.
 
More than 2,000 missions, making up to 120 campaigns, all combined in 15 pilot careers.
 
For fighters, fighter-bombers, bombers and reconaissance aircraft.
 
The only time during World War II when American planes were engaged in combat against other American aircraft. Find out why and how!