[dflion]

Thanks Nearmiss and thanks Gamekeeper. I will shortly be posting a 14 mission COD (campaign?) on 'Airwarfare'. You will fly as a Spitfire pilot with 64 Squadron from Kenley. The series of missions accurately covers Phase 1 of BOB, the Luftwaffe's testing of RAF Fighter Command between the 10th July and the 9th August 1940. There is one mission where you fly as wingman to 'Sailor Malan' with 74 Squadron out of Manston. This was the day that Flt. Lt. Malan wounded Maj. Werner Molders.

There are still many things not working in the FMB, though I noticed Ilya's post today saying they will switch on some more features soon.

Even though the FMB is not full functional, there is enough function to make some really good historical missions and I have really enjoyed making and testing them. For all the doubter's we certainly have the basis for the next very exciting phase of IL-2. One feature that has really got me going is the view of 12,24 or 36 Spitfires, Hurricanes or Messerschmitts climbing for height over their airfields, then seeing them clash in an all-out dogfight over the Channel with the English or French landscape in the background.

The series of missions are sequentially numbered 1-14 with location names and are fully scripted. You can fly them like a campaign or fly them individually. If you want to fly another aircraft rather than the Spitfire you can go into the FMB and activate the aircraft route and tick the pilot box (same as IL-2 1946). The campaign also has some basic training missions, flying the Tigermoth and some advance training Spitfire missions. My suggestion is you fly this campaign with 'fully functional cockpits' which really adds to the immersion.

I will post a selection of jpegs from 'Spitfire Dawn' shortly - you will see there is plenty of action, which really happened.
DFLion