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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

Some who voted may be planning to return to box in the future so I don't think that their vote is worth less than others. I think that people probably voted to keep the same nights as they didn't want box diminished further and have no interest in dcs However there was only one vote swing on a low turnout so I think there is room to compromise. If the regular box flyers were willing to move Tuesday to Wednesday and retain Sunday then DC's could have the Tuesday slot. The regular Tuesday flyers are professor, crash, mosquito, petrol and myself . If there is an agreement from the rest of this group to move then I would be happy to host Wednesday nights. Once happy with hosting I'm going back to the official box forums to try to get others to join us but need to get this issue sorted first

This seemed to go well, please leave comments on any missions you want to do in the future Typhoon was mentioned so I'll ad this in

I am going to try to host coops on Tuesday night. This is atrial and I plan to host some coops I have made, if you want any specific planes or scenarios let me know and I will try to fit these in . I will start at 2000 and end 2100 UK time.

I believe that the core of the group is in coops and that to attract new members and keep them interested then we should get back to these. Under Colin s guidance I am learning how to generate missions and use the server so we should get things moving soon. There is no use of me doing this if it isn't what others want so I wouldn't appreciate some input. Do you want coops? What type of missions do you like? What planesets? Long or short missions ? Would you prefer random or themed nights ? Any ideas appreciated. We seem to get more people interested in special events so my ultimate aim is to run something similar to fenrers p-38 campaign but I will need to get used to things first Hopefully this will get some interest back in box