For offline flyers (like me!)

[planespotter]

Heinkills huge Operation Sealion project has been now completed. It is flown from either LW or RAF point view. I am flying from LW PoV...sorry Tommies?!

I am enjoying the briefings as much as the missions - real sense of history being remade - I like seeing Churchill squirm...sorry again.

There are all possible mission types - intercepts, combat patrols, ground attacks, escorts, supply, level bombing, dive bombing, shipping attacks, takeoffs and landings, trainings, night flying, race against the clock, anti tank, anti train, it seems endless! And level of detail is CRAZY.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3551718/Re_24_Feb_teaser.html#Post3551718

I have copied his screenshots post:

In-game screenies

All key landmarks, targets and installations have been rebuilt and populated with appropriate objects. Ports, cities, and airfields on both sides of the Channel.

Calais with invasion barges. The calm before the storm.
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion100003.jpg

British reserve encampments placed north of Killingwood Ridge, and at Denton, and dozens of other locations
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400004.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500051.jpg

Invasion beach-head at Folkestone
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400006.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400007.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400009.jpg

Folkestone teems with activity as German supplies are unloaded
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion600008.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion600021.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800024.jpg

Bridges on the lesser River Stour
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400030.jpg

An AT crew concealed in the grass, waits for the Leibstandarte SS to approach
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion600004.jpg

A troop train ferries soldiers and equipment from Folkeston to the Dover front
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900014.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900096.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900116.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900123.jpg

Each mission features several player flyable sorties, each with its own individual mission targets and briefings
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/bob06Jan012037.jpg

The invasion fleet sails, as an attacking Blenheim is brought down
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion100014.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion100010.jpg

While the air war is waged above, the land war rages below
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion1100035.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400039.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400044.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400060.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400064.jpg

And the sea war will be decisive: can the Royal Navy prevent Germany from resupplying its troops? Or can German troops hold on long enough to force negotiations?
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500011.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500026.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500039.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500036.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion1100068.jpg

[planespotter]

Featured Luftwaffe units include LG2 Bf109E4s and Erpro 210 (E4Bs and Bf110C7s)
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400002.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400048.jpg

Featured RAF squadrons include 64 Squadron Spitfires, 212 Squadron Blenheims and 111 Squadron Hurricanes.
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion3_400026.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion1100007.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500035.jpg

A little preview of the action...

Erpro 210 provides support to German troops trying to take Hawkinge
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800041.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800045.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800059.jpg

Lympne station under attack, and LG2 takes off from the newly captured Hawkinge field
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion500049.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion600027.jpg

Rushed into service a month early, cannon armed Beaufighters hunt by night
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800064.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800069.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800071.jpg
and by day
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion1100039.jpg

[planespotter]

German troops dig in at Denton, their vehicles under camouflage netting
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800001.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800018.jpg

Tiger Moths are used for recon to try to locate them
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800003.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800036.jpg

Bomber Command Wellingtons are sent in
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800006.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800011.jpg

An air convoy of FW200s tries to air drop supplies to German troops
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800007.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800030.jpg

64 Squadron at Manston takes off under fire from Kampfgruppe Bauer
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion7_800009.jpg
While heavily escorted Heinkels rain bombs from above
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion10a00005.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion11a00055.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion10a00037.jpg

Tanks of the 8th Panzer approach Dover, with support from Erpro 210
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900032.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900026.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900063.jpg

111 Squadron patrols over the front lines at Kingston, while Blenheims tangle with LG2
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900036.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/sealion900081.jpg

A captured German Tiger Moth circles above Panzers digging in beside Canterbury Cathedral and railway station
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1400001.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion151700002.jpg

Corpo Aero Italiano enters the fray
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion151700001.jpg

While in desperation at Elham, even obsolete Gladiators are thrown at the enemy
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200008.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200010.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200045.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200049.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200052.jpg

Until finally, after eight days of fighting and with the front lines just 60 miles from London, Churchill gives order to Bomber Command to carpet bomb Canterbury and 'to destroy utterly, the will of German troops there to resist' - and thereby seals the outcome of the invasion.

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200072.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealion1200086.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealioncanterbury00013.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealioncanterbury00004.jpg
http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/Seelowe/sealioncanterbury00001.jpg

But in whose favour?

[pupaxx]

Simply astonishing!
Well done mate!

[addman]

Yes! Absolutely amazing work.:grin:

[priller26]

How/where do we download this gem?

[addman]

How/where do we download this gem?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3551718/Re_24_Feb_teaser.html#Post3551718

[BaronBonBaron]

How/where do we download this gem?

+1 :)


EDIT. Oops, never mind, I missed addman's post.

[planespotter]

Does anyone know how tos keep some of the Map mods in these missions into the standard map? Like I want to keep the build of Folkestone port, with wharves etc, which is completely missing on the 1C map. Also the objects at the airfields Manston, Hawkinge, Lympne, Calais, Le Havre, Peuplinge, I want to keep those, and the shipping at Calais. And Canterbury Cathedral even though it seems it is Winchester at least it puts a Cathedral in the right place at Canterbury which the 1C map does not.

Is there a way?

[planespotter]

Also, HK, if you see this thread (I have also posted at SIMHQ) can you pls post copies of any object groups you have saved, like ships, airfields, flak, camps etc these would be very useful.

PS

[priller26]

Thanks so much for the link I did find it after reading it all again, downloaded it and will be flying later today...looks awesome!

[mxmadman]

Well I'm about 8 or 9 missions into the Luftwaffe campaign and its fantastic! Honestly more fun than the one that comes with the game. Very well done and it is much appreciated.

[Pitti]

Really really awesome!
I have just finished 11 Luftwaffe missions and I can't get enough. :)

[335th_GRAthos]

frigging A W E S O M E!!!!

Thanks very much for all your work and for all the screenshots!

All your screenshots, you should post them in this thread, too: CoD screenshots(merged) http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28953

~S~

[d.burnette]

Wow very nice, I will definitely grab this , much appreciated!

[planespotter]

frigging A W E S O M E!!!!

Thanks very much for all your work and for all the screenshots!

All your screenshots, you should post them in this thread, too: CoD screenshots(merged) http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=28953

~S~

I just repost! Not my work. Dunno why he doesn't post here.

[trademe900]

awesome

[planespotter]

Just finished the last mission in the LW Seelowe campaign.

Oh my...

How not to do spoiler here? But...

Seriously.

It made believable that Germany could have actually achieved something with an invasion... maybe it wasn't just a decoy after all?

Good plot twists!

PS

[regen70]

Having completed the paltry stock missions, I've been away from CoD for a while but was enticed back by the screenshots and campaign descriptions in this thread. And once again I'm bowled over by how amazing this sim is and again left puzzled that the developers are relying on talented amateur enthusiasts to exploit its full potential. Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved in this project. I hope that there's much more to come.

[mazex]

I am so going to play this after the patch arrives, and MG really should include it in a forthcoming patch for everyone and give Heinkill something nice in return!

/mazex

[HessleReich]

Luthier and Co really need to consider whether they want someone like "Heinkill" to work on payroll to create content for the sim.

This far exceeds anything shipped with the game.

Ps. I use these missions for coop with Banks_coop script, Brilliant stuff.

[kestrel79]

Wow this looks amazing, well done sir! Asset to the community. How are fps with all the extra objects?

[mxmadman]

Wow this looks amazing, well done sir! Asset to the community. How are fps with all the extra objects?

Fps was fine, I run at high settings with a fairly high end (single gpu though) rig and didn't need to adjust anything. At the beginning he makes recommendations on lowering settings, but I found it was not needed.

The amount of objects stayed fairly consistent from what I could tell so if changes are necessary you should only need to do it once

[planespotter]

Fps was fine, I run at high settings with a fairly high end (single gpu though) rig and didn't need to adjust anything. At the beginning he makes recommendations on lowering settings, but I found it was not needed.

The amount of objects stayed fairly consistent from what I could tell so if changes are necessary you should only need to do it once

Fps fine on my machine, even with objects and land battles. One thing I like is the 'big war' feeling. After i went dry on ammunition mission 10 i flew back to Hawkinge via Dover. There was a tank battle which i circled and watched. I got hit by Aaa from Dover. Oops, idiot. Another time, maybe mission 20, i crash landed near Canterbury and sat and watched as 2 Stugs rolled past, then a British Cruiser which hit them from behind. (The things you see when you don't have a Panzerfaust! ) Too cool.

If you 'look under the hood' using FMB you can see land battles scattered over the front, independent of air action but adding to immersion. You could delete these and win some fps I suppose? But so cool after a dogfight to see smoke rising on the horizon, fly over to check it out, see some Brit emplacement under attack by Panzers or flak trucks, or maybe it was hit by 110s, you strafe it, and head home. You think you are safe and some Hurricanes jump you or Wellingtons hit as you land! So much going on...i loved it.

Maybe even I will fly the Raf campaign... Tho it would hurt!

PS

[mxmadman]

Fps fine on my machine, even with objects and land battles. One thing I like is the 'big war' feeling. After i went dry on ammunition mission 10 i flew back to Hawkinge via Dover. There was a tank battle which i circled and watched. I got hit by Aaa from Dover. Oops, idiot. Another time, maybe mission 20, i crash landed near Canterbury and sat and watched as 2 Stugs rolled past, then a British Cruiser which hit them from behind. (The things you see when you don't have a Panzerfaust! ) Too cool.

If you 'look under the hood' using FMB you can see land battles scattered over the front, independent of air action but adding to immersion. You could delete these and win some fps I suppose? But so cool after a dogfight to see smoke rising on the horizon, fly over to check it out, see some Brit emplacement under attack by Panzers or flak trucks, or maybe it was hit by 110s, you strafe it, and head home. You think you are safe and some Hurricanes jump you or Wellingtons hit as you land! So much going on...i loved it.

Maybe even I will fly the Raf campaign... Tho it would hurt!

PS

Haha I agree, and boy is it fun to strafe ground targets! I enabled unrealistic ammo as well so that I could extend the missions and help out in other parts of the attack, assuming my objective was met without incident. I found that to be way more fun as a 45-50 minute sortie with 10 or 11 kills may not be realistic, but boy is it fun. :)

Edit: also, from what I could tell, the RAF campaign is the same as Luftwaffe except for the last 5 or 6 missions - aside from the fact that you're on the other side of the engagement, of course.

[d.burnette]

Man I was trying to hold off for the big patch prior to starting this , but I keep reading reports like this and I just don't think I am going to be able to hold out much longer.
Sounds very exciting!

[planespotter]

Luthier and Co really need to consider whether they want someone like "Heinkill" to work on payroll to create content for the sim.

This far exceeds anything shipped with the game.

Ps. I use these missions for coop with Banks_coop script, Brilliant stuff.

I am already looking forward to his next project:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3553441/Re_Fri_6_April_ANNOUNCING_the_.html#Post3553441

Circuses and Rhubarbs? (wot is a rubarb btw?)

I don't care because I will get to fly JG 26 :) and if it is like his Sealion stuff it will be Uber well researched.

Now if he included some Capt Farrell skins, that would be awesome.

PS

[tintifaxl]

Ps. I use these missions for coop with Banks_coop script, Brilliant stuff.

How good do the missions work in coop? Did you have to adapt the missions for coop? My squadmates and I have tried to fly coop a few times since release, but it was always a major fail ...

[bolox]

a rhubarb was a type of low level attack on targets of opportunity by small groups of fighters (often just a pair) using cloud cover.
Part of the RAF's 'leaning forward' stance taken up after BOB

http://www.raf-lincolnshire.info/history/missiontypes.htm

[furbs]

a rhubarb was a type of low level attack on targets of opportunity by small groups of fighters (often just a pair) using cloud cover.
Part of the RAF's 'leaning forward' stance taken up after BOB

http://www.raf-lincolnshire.info/history/missiontypes.htm

And a complete waste of good fighter pilots IMO.

[planespotter]

And with the new patch even awesomer....

[planespotter]

For info I found a bug in the RAF campaign in mission 19. The default aircraft is a LW aircraft, not an RAF aircraft. You can choose any of the raf aircrafts in the CUSTOM menu but shouldnt have to, it should be RAF in the default. I have reported it, but just thought I would warn until it is fixed.

[planespotter]

New 1941 mission pack preview released on SimHQ: for info

"Operation Sealion 2: Circuses and Rhubarbs"

More single mission goodness yippee

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3482704/28_April_ANNOUNCING_Operation_.html#Post3482704

[HessleReich]

Cant wait to try this coop later... Ty for the link.

[planespotter]

URwelcome. The detail in The airfields is amazing

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr1a00004.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr1a00002.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr100054.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr100011.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr100012.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr1a00003.jpg

http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww152/whirlybirda2a/CandR/sr1a00001.jpg

[SharpeXB]

You just convinced me to spend $3,000 on a new PC
Thanks... ;)

[planespotter]

If you are finished playing with the patch... maybe and want to start playing with the game?

I have moved on to 1941---

More offline mission joy from Heiny

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3572239/Re_Fri_6_April_ANNOUNCING_the_.html#Post3572239

[He111]

I've just found this .. looks fantastic, will download now! :grin:

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[planespotter]

I've just found this .. looks fantastic, will download now! :grin:

.

I've just found this .. looks fantastic, will download now! :grin:

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ha yes, if you like cool stuff like this.

mission 2 starts at st omer in my 109, I'm going through my startup, looking at my instruments, looking around my machine, about to taxi...wait...there is a bloody fuel convoy going across the end of the landing strip! If I would have taken off without looking carefully I would have turned into a toasted corpse!

also, the 1941 scenario I like, as a LW flyer, because instead of having to spend all my time watching my fuel gauge as well as watching the sky, this time it is the Tommies who have to worry about swimming home!

:/P