New Single-Player Campaigns

[MackStones]

I realize that I had inadvertently failed to announce on the 1C forums some new single-player campaigns that I had uploaded to Mission4Today.com under the name "JackStones". Some of you know me as MackStones, an admin. and a mission-maker at Warbirds of Prey's family of servers (Spits v. 109s Modded, Zekes v. Wildcats, Spits v. 109s). I've been enjoying over over 10 years (I got Il-2 about a week after it came out) the campaigns and missions created by others, and figured it was time to give back.

Each of these campaigns uses Ultr@Pack 3.0, RC 4. Each of the campaigns is designed with an eye toward historical realism, and a more realistic perspective for a pilot (i.e.- not everyone was in a large aerial combat each sortie). Some of them involve long (1-3 hour) missions, but time-skip and time-compression can reduce them to manageable times. As with all of my campaigns, please see the admittedly too long Read Me for for important information about the campaign, its features, the reasoning behind certain features, warnings, pilot notes, known issues, etc. Many of the campaigns also have alternative Lite (easy) and Max (hard) versions, recognizing that different pilots have different skill levels.

Brief descriptions of the campaigns, with links to the respective download pages, are as follows:

Big Bird - 25-mission Western Europe campaign for B-17, designed to reflect a "tour of duty" in 8th Air Force during the beginnings of US bomber campaign in mid-1943

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=923

Boxcar - 25-mission Western Europe campaign for B-24, designed to reflect a "tour of duty" in 8th Air Force during beginnings of US bomber campaign (essentially Big Bird with B-24s)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=932

Little Friend - three separate 25-mission Western Europe campaigns for escort fighters beginning in 1943-1944, with P-51B-NA, P-47D-22, and P-38J versions (each version also has regular, hard, and easy variants)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=931

D-Minus-30 - five separate 25-mission pre-D-Day Normandy campaigns for USAAF fighter-bombers, with P-51C-NT, P-51D-5NT, P-47D-22, P-47D-27, and P-38J-15-LO versions (each version also has regular, hard, and easy variants)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=940

Jing Bao - three separate 30-mission southern China 1944 campaigns for USAAF fighter-bombers, with P-40M, P-51A, and P-38G-15-LO versions (each version also has regular, hard, and easy variants)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=955

Jolly Rogers - 25-mission F4U-1A campaign with VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" squadron on its first tour, in November 1943, from Ondongo, New Georgia (regular, hard, and easy variants)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=965

Honcho (UP3.0) - 100-mission Korean War campaign with F-86 (i.e.- a full tour of duty) - the original UP2 version is now updated to UP3

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=896

CPV (UP3.0) - 50-mission Korean War campaign with MiG-15 - the original UP2.0 version is now updated to UP3

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=897

Hot Honcho - 14-mission "Best of Honcho" campaign, designed for people who don't want to fly the whole campaign, but just hit the highlights

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=893

RLV- two 30-mission campaigns for Luftwaffe home defense fighters (Bf-109 and Fw-190) with LARGE formations of enemy bombers (96 in regular campaign, and 48 in reduced version)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=974

Finest Hour- two 25-mission campaigns for RAF fighters in Battle of Britain (Hurricane and Spitfire) with LARGE aerial combats (often 80-100 aircraft at a time), with regular, hard, and easy variants

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=981