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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 .

Thanks to Colin I now have a skin for the IL2 m42 as we will use this plane as substitute for fairey battles. Place it into this folder c:\1c game studios\il2 sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\graphics\\skin\il2m42 This will be flyable in campaign .you can select this skin under custom skins, you should select rear gunner and bombs BBop_Boulton Paul Hack.dds

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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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

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

With the help of ft and friar we have tested the missions on my server and the other dogz server and they ran well, they are back on the normal server and we can test them before fens p38 campaign on Sunday

Ok , I have it all figured out now and we can run the ww missions with our settings so we will give that a try tonight.

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.

Thanks craven, appreciate your help, we have some issues with icons and locked payouts but I have posted on your dischord

thanks FT you are a star

Thanks FT, If you could prepare them as a first option that would be great and I can have a look later when Im more confident about using our server. The names are de-novorossiysk bay 42( with tc) uk-north africa '42(with tc) regards dave

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.

very strange , no server messages for kicking , but then why only our server could the other user have remote access to Nogins PC ? but unlikley if ip keeps changing

The only reason I can think of a server kicking a player is a ping kick, does our server have a tighter tolerance than others? Having said that another user should not effect your ping unless sharing a connection I would be interested to see a graph of his pings before and after this anomaly

He is not a member of the squad and has no access to server settings or admin so cannot effect the server. Check your ping to server and see if it spikes when he joins, you can use a program like pingplotter

Crash have you monitored the temps on your graphics card? Do you overclock this? Can you borrow a different card and try this?

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

Yes I intend to do this . I like that staying alive should be priority

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.

ok thanks ☹️ Given the large numbers involved in the mosquito mission perhaps its best if the BoX users fly on a public server.

there will obviously be no P-38 campaign on Sunday. I would like to host BoX co-ops for those not interested in this event. Would that cause any server issues? If not how would be co-ordinate access to the server between the two users ?

Hi Bucky , there are about 5 of us playing battle of Stalingrad regularly on Tuesday and Sunday nights, although there is a discussion about changing some dates. If you only have battle of Stalingrad then it limits the type of missions we can host but I'm willing to set up some missions so you can join. Let me know when you are free to join us and I will try my best. Most have all the expansion packs but I realize that is a big commitment when you are just getting back

Is there any interest in hosting desert maps , It would require all to install a mod to turn kuban to desert, like we used in Friars campaign

I claim 3 trucks, 2 howitzer and 1,AA on return from escorting the bombers to successful attack on bridge