September Mourn v1
Soon available at www.combatace.com and at www.airwarefare.com
 
 
Only very courageous - or foolhardy - pilots would have dared to fly through the curtains of fog and mist that blanketed the undulating lands along the frontier between northeastern Germany and Poland at daybreak on September 1, 1939.
 
Luftwaffe 1st Lt. Bruno Dilley and his wing-men, 2nd Lieutenant Horst Schiller and Sgt Gerhard Grenzel, were all thoroughly trained fliers, and they would be piloting Junkers 87 dive bombers, called Stukas. Their mission was of vital tactical importance to the German Army, poised to plunge into Poland that very morning to strike the first blow of World War II.
 
Dilley's objective was a pair of huge steel railroad bridges that spanned the Vistula River on the edge of the town of Dirschau. The Stukas were not to demolish the bridges, however; the High Command of the German Army wanted the twin spans intact so that German troops and supplies could speed across the Vistula in their intended Blitzkrieg, or lightning war, against the Polish Army. Dilley's task was to prevent the Poles themselves from blowing the bridges as a defensive measure. Polish Army engineers had already affixed explosive charges to the bridge structures; the three Luftwaffe pilots were to destroy the wires that connected the explosives with remote electrical detonators located within the Dirschau railroad station.
 
Severing slender wires with bombs dropped from planes flying at high speed was a difficult undertaking, to say the least. To increase their chances of success, Dilley and his wingmen had scouted the area, changing into civilian clothes and boarding the Berlin-Konigsberg express, which ran through a slim corridor of Poland between Germany and East Prussia and across the vital Vistula bridges. From the train the German airmen had seen the detonator wires for themselves: They were strung along the riverbank. To hit so small a target, the Stukas? normally used as dive bombers?would have to be flown horizontally at treetop level. It was a risky business at best, and the fog and mist on the morning of September 1 made it many times more hazardous.
 
At 4:26 a.m., Dilley, Schiller and Grenzel gunned their Stukas across a rough airfield near Elbing, East Prussia, and took off. Dirschau lay 24 miles away. If all went well, they would reach it in just eight minutes.
 
For six minutes the three pilots and the rear gunners sitting behind them in the Stukas' two-seat cockpits hurtled straight ahead through blinding scud, the planes' big 1,210-horsepower Jumo 21 ID engines roaring at full throttle. Even a small error in calculating altitude would have meant smashing into one of the borderland's rolling hills, and each Stuka carried a 550-pound bomb under its fuselage and four 110-pounders below the wings that would have made any contact with the ground instantly fatal.
 
Two minutes from the target, Dilley dimly perceived the silver gray water of the Vistula beneath his wings. He banked to turn downstream toward the bridges, his wingmen following in line-astern formation. All three skimmed along less than 100 feet above the river.
 
The moment he sighted the bridges glimmering through the mist, Dilley radioed his pilots, "target ahead," and eased his Stuka into line with the embankment to the left of the two spans. He pressed the bomb-release button on his control stick when his plane was barely 100 yards from the twin spans' girders, then jerked the stick back and to the left. The Stuka, relieved of its bombs, leaped over the bridges in a tight climbing turn to port. Schiller followed in carbon-copy style. So did Grenzel. As they swung away, they could see that their bombs had plastered the area where the wires were strung. The time was 4:34 a.m., 11 minutes before the Army's scheduled 4:45 attack.
 
MISSION DATE: Friday, 1 September 1939
GAME REQUIREMENT: IL2-FB-PF 3.04m
GAME TYPE: CO-OP up to 6 players
MISSION TYPE: Bridge Defence
FLYABLE PLANES: Ju-87B, Pz.11c
FLIGHT TO TARGET TIME: 8 minutes
MISSION INFORMATION: This mission by JR "Big Daddy" Jacobs

81st squadron arrives in Murmansk !!!
 
Missions for FB-AEP-PF 4.01merged.
 
Here is a new coop mission for 12 players, also edited for single play.
 
For the "simili-historic" context, just read the briefing...
 
Install is very easy :
 
-unzip this file in a temporary folder and open the newly obtained folder (Murmansk),
 
-copy-paste all the content of the Murmansk folder (there will be 2 folders : Missions and PaintSchemes) directly
in the root of your Forgotten Battles (for example in C:/ProgramFiles/UbiSoft/IL2-Forgotten Batles), everything will automatically go to the right place.
 
To play :
 
-launch the game, select the multiplayer game, create a coop server,
 
-choose "Murmansk",
 
-choose the mission "Arrival in Murmansk" et voilà !!!
 
or if you prefer the single play :
 
-launch the single missions,
 
-choose RAF,
 
-choose "Hurricane",
 
-choose the mission "Arrival in Murmansk".
 
And you are ready to fly...
 
Read briefings carefully, check the directions on the map and do not forget to remember in which direction you will
have to fly.
 
And have a good flight !!!
 
 
 
Thank you to :
 
-the BG's squadron, who first flew this mission,
-to all the skinners' community, because you will find some of their beautiful skins in these missions,
-to Oleg Maddox for this wonderful sim.
 
Gaston, 12 JULY 2005

Here is a mission for a max of 29 players :
 
-8 A-20G teams (1 pilot and 2 gunners each),
-4 fighter pilots (escort/Mustang MkIII),
-1 reco pilot (SpitMkIXe).
 
For the "simili"-historic thing, read the briefing...
 
Skins are coming with the pack (only 3). Big thank you to
their authors, even if I have forgotten their names (except
vpmedia) !!!
 
Install is very simple :
 
-unzip all in a temporary folder and open the obtained folder
(Mulheim).
 
-copy-paste everything in your FB-root : everything will
automatically go to the right place !!! well... that's how it
should work...
 
-Run the game, launch a coop mission,
 
-choose the new "NorthWest Germany" folder,
 
-choose "The bridge of Mulheim" and that's it !!!
 
Pay attention to the briefing. Check the directions on the map
(those indivated in the briefing are purely approximate indications).
 
And have a good flight !!!
 
BG's_Gaston, 6 november 2005

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.

NEW 4.02M patch compatible!
 
These files will contain the following below. Some of it fixes historical inaccuracies and others contain more flexibility (even if not particularly historical, as an example, you may now fly the P-38J in new Guinea, a bit earlier
than history dictated but still with in flexible limits of reality?we?re talking 5 months earlier people?same planes opposed it).
 
 
Added P-38J USAAF land based career to the New Guinea campaign (semi historical, a bit early, not by much)
Added F-4U Corsair Marines land based career to the Guadacanal campaign (a bit ealier but most same planes in the air)
Added Ki-61 Tony Career to the New Guinea campaign (semi historical, a bit early, not by much)
Added F65F Navy Career to the Marianas (historical)
Added ki-61 Tony career to the JAAF in Tarawa (not historical)
 
Enjoy!
MK2

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.

A historically based camapign flown as VVS ace Lilya Litvak.
 
Installation: Just run the installer it should find your IL-2 directory automatically.
 
Compatible with IL-2/FB/PF 4.04m
 
Features:
42 missions
10 historically informative tracks
 
Some features I included in this update:
- More air traffic
- Heaps more ground objects
- Landing objectives (you pass the mission if you land back at a friendly base)
- airbase activity, you'll notice once operation Uranus begins there's a lot going on including aircraft maintenance, loading operations, refuelling and re-arming.
- More surprises. ooo goodie surprises!... actually you might not like some of these ones
 
Overall the difficulty is not high as all you really have to do is get back to base, stop on the ground and not be dead.
 
Feedback appreciated. You can find me at www.kiwisim.net.nz
 
Enjoy. Neil.

This is a 22 sortie linear campaign for the Hawker Tempest. It runs from June 1944 until May 1945. Think you can survive your last tour of ops on this beast? Think flak trap and think again!