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  1. RAF 73sqd mission feedback

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    First thanks for all who turned up, I believe there were 16 flying , which is something we have not seen for a while.

    This thread is for comments , I believe this will only stay interesting if we work together and ensure any issues are ironed out as much as possible , so please feel free to comment. 

    I am not a mission builder and have only used the quick mission generator, however for this to work I will get the info needed to tweak the missions to suit the majority.

    My thoughts on the first session;

    Positives

    good numbers flying

    It successfully fulfilled the two main objectives of being fun and everyone working together.

    Comms was very good 

    Co-operation was very good with people covering each other and not all chasing same target

    Improvements

    I will need to make sure there are sufficient planes by making airfields unlimited

    I will check to make sure there are rearm facilities

    The secondary and tertiary enemy targets were destroyed by AI, I will remove random flights so that the ground pounders will have alternatives if primary is closed.

    I am concerned about lack of enemy planes after first wave is engaged, I will look at how to activate a second wave after a period of time so that the fighters have secondary targets later in mission.

     

    Questions

    These are just some ideas, I would need to dig into wither it is possible but would appreciate feedback on this before I put the time in.

    Do people wish to see a scoreboard ? Do you wish to submit claims and I will keep a running total ?

    I had doubts about running as a DF as it sometimes leads to carelessness, however I was pleased this did not happen. In future to encourage people to take care of their aircraft/ virtual life do people wish there to be a penalty for being killed , such as voluntary 5 min sit out or an incentive for not being killed

    such as extra points at mission end on scoreboard.

     

     

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  2. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Success

    We have given the enemy a bloody nose.

    All targets were successfully completed with limited casualties.

    Our victories today will ensure that the enemy wont get all their own way and give our ground troops some relieve.

    News from other sectors is not so good , the enemy continue to push forward and our battle squadrons took losses.

    We fly again soon

     

    Next round is provisionally Sunday 5th May.

    I will keep this thread for announcements and have started another for comments/feedback

     

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  3. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Scramble scramble 

    The enemy is on the move and heading towards the frontier.

    The battle squadron are getting ready, hurricane squadron will escort them as they attack enemy positions 

    Good luck to all

     

    I will take a roll call at 20 :45 and generate mission with enough slots for preferences, either hurricane or battle.

    Take off is at 21:00. 

  4. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Small update - the 352nd have requested that we fly this as a dogfight, so that you can respawn if killed. 

    I have limited experience generating DFS but we will give it a try. 

    We will run this for 1 hour then I will take a note of scores.

    I would like everyone to try to prioritise staying alive over enemy kills

    I will review events after mission and see if we need to change anything 

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  5. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

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    8th May 1940

    URGENT

    TO ALL OFFICERS AND MEN

     

    Today we have had news from a reliable source that an attack is imminent. In all likelihood the enemy will attack on the 10th of May in two days’ time.

    Friendly forces patrolling the border have noticed heightened activity on the German side and the sounds of trucks and armour moving into the area.

    You may have noticed an increase in observation craft in the skies above.

    You are now on high alert. One squadron will be maintained at standby at all times and all aircraft must be armed and ready for action.

    While we hope it will not come to pass an invasion looks likely and we have faith in our men to carry out their duty to protect our allies.

     

    Please be on dogz teamspeak by 20:45 UK time on Sunday so I will have numbers to generate mission. Start time 21:00 hrs

    This will be run as a co-op with our standard settings. MODS on. Please use small icon mod.

    This will be run on our events server so password is same as we used in matches vs 352nd

    IF it goes quickly, and everyone wished to continue, I will generate a second mission for the night.

    You will be able to fly hurricanes or il2m1942, please see post above for il2 skin.

    If anyone has questions please get in touch .

     

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  7. Coops Tuesday

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

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    Thanks again to FT for help . It appears our issues are with missions copied across to the server directories which house the missions. We have never had any issues with a mission generated on the server.

    From FT :

    1) File transfer error for some can be that a remnant or partial remnant of files are still on the client that either cannot or will not be replaced with a new one from the server. Usually, deleting the multiplayer/coop folder on a troubled client fixes this. 

    2) I have no explanation for server crashes at all, other than there's something in the mission that makes the server crash.

     

    The reason for generating missions beforehand and transfering a stock of missions was to cut down my effort on the night generating them from the server on the fly but I am now spending more time troubleshooting than anything else.

    With co-ops I generated missions on my pc and copied them across and I dont recall the server crashing. We have had crashes with mozzies missions.

    With the dogfight WW missions there is no explination for why some can join and others cant and I dont have time to chase this up so unless someone else does the digging we are unable to run WW in the future.

    The continual crashes has me concerned over the proposed 73 squadron sessions I had planned, we need to know that the server is stable prior to inviting other squads to attend

    For the above reasons I propose that when I host we only run syn generated missions to test the server stability for the proposed event. This will help me tailor the missions for the event and test the server so I would be gratefull for cooperation in testing these.

    We do not need to fly co-ops all night I am happy to run a few then go to wingwalkers server if thats what the group prefer but I would like to run a few tests first.

    apologies for issues and I hope we can get back to stable nights

     

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  9. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Gentlemen, Welcome to No 73 Squadron RAF.

    Thank you for volunteering to support the Advance Air Strike Force. As of today, the 1st of May 1940, you will join the rest of the squadron near Reims as we prepare for the inevitable conflict against the enemy; who at this very moment are moving to forward positions near their borders

    The good news is that we are expecting reinforcements from across the Pond. Several brave Americans have volunteered to join us, crossing into Canada to enlist and are on route as we speak. There may be others who will join from Canada and free Europe but we cannot count on these just now.

    We will be flying in the best front line fighter the RAF can spare at the moment, the Hawker Hurricane. Our task will be to support our French colleagues in intercepting enemy aircraft and escorting the Fairey battles in their attack missions.

    Intelligence is sketchy but informed us that we will likely be outnumbered, however I’m sure out superior teamwork and fighting spirit will overcome anything they throw at us.

    Take a few days to familiarise yourself with the area around Reims and your aircraft. Further info will be on a need to know bases but the squadron leaders expect a high degree of readiness.

     

     

     

    Start mission 21:00 Sunday 21st April.

    Please be on TeamSpeak by 20:45 when a role call will be done and I will generate mission.

    We will be flying Dogz co-op settings so MODS ON; plane on minimap, icons on, unrestricted loadouts.

    MODS requires-

    dogz small icons or small triangle mod from here

    https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/38978-mod-icons/

     

    Later in campaign when we move to desert you will need desert mod here

     

    https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/87488-desert-war-modpackv16/

     

     

    This is meant to be a relaxed night with settings that we can all enjoy.

     

    I would ask that during the battle of France that you restrict Hurricane loadout to .303 browning’s and not the cannons available, bombs at 250lbs if you wish to carry them.

     

    I will be using il2mod1941 instead of battles you will be able to fly these if desired but I would ask the loadout to be 250lb bombs not rockets.

    I will try to get RAF skins for these prior to event

  10. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Hi all

    I would like to kick off this campaign on Sunday 21st April at 21:00 UK time
     
    It will be mods on with only the small icon mod initially required then later on the desertr war mod here
     
    I plan to run one session but if very short then perhaps a second map will be ran on the night.
     
    I have been in touch with wingwalkers and 352nd so hope we can get some additional numbers for this.
     
    Could I please ask for all those interested to reply here so I have a rough idea of numbers involved.
     
    thanks 
     

  13. Coops Tuesday

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    I plan to run standard co-ops or use ww server until we can see if I can edit missions sucessfully to get them to run as we wish.

    I believe that I can manually edit the planes in mission editor to change loadout but I am stumped about icons.

    It is my belief from reading the manual that server settings should override mission settings but having set up the server correctly there is still an issue. The manual is long and complicated so I might have this wrong.

    Editing a mission is a bit of work so until I get feedback on which missions we like there is no point in just randomly doing this and then not enjoying them.

    I have posted on WW dischord so hopefully someone with more experience there can help.

  17. Coops Tuesday

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    Thanks Craven we appreciate your generosity , however I have some issues

    1) I cannot open the files in the mission editor as it can only looks for  mission files and not files with .msnbin suffix so I cannot generate mission files, however it is my belief that you dont need this as I remove the large mission files from my generated co-ops and these run sucessfully.

    2) I can use the files from my dogfight/GB_PublicServer folder to create a dogfight server on my own pc and successfully fly the WW missions, but if I copy the same files into the dogfight folder on the server and then try to run them on a dogfight server I get the file transfer error.

  22. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Further research has made me think that it would be best to  change this to a 73 Squadron RAF Campaign

    No 73 were one of a handful of Squadrons transferred to protect the BEF in France in 1939-1940.

    Flying Hurricanes it fought actions intercepting reconnaissance aircraft, bombers and protecting the fairey battles in attacking convoys and bridges.

    Its last action was covering the evacuations from St Nazzaire.

     

    Historically it underwent conversion to night fighter operations but we will have some leeway here

     

    Subsequently they were transferred to Cairo and flying P-40s and Hurricane Mk 2s they fought in the desert campaigns against the Africa korp (we will put a short stay in Malta into the mix)

     

    Finally they converted to spitfires and covered the Italian and Balkan campaign.

    I have ordered a book on the squadron history and will use this as reference but the missions will be an approximation and we will have to substitute some planes.

     

    I would appreciate any thoughts or feedback on this

     

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  24. RAF 73 sqd campaign - Announcements

    in Jim's Place

    Posted

    Now that I am able to generate missions and host I am planning to run a campaign loosely based on fenrers s P-38 campaign and based on RAF 73 squadron

    With numbers currently low , we would all fly RAF, however if I can drum up enough support and others express an interest then both sides will be flyable.

    So will start with Battle of France, Battle of Britain, Reach out to France, Malta, and then fictionally the Desert Air Force.

    I would like to know if there is any interest in this from outside, Crash, Professor, Mosquito and Petrol ,who I have discussed this with on comms, so I can estimate  numbers for missions.

    I also intend to promote this on the main BoX forums to try to get others interested in flying with us.

    This is in the very early stages so any suggestions or advise will be gratefully accepted.

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