Night Missions (early war)

[Ian Boys]

I have begun to make a complex MDS mission with Bf-110 intercepting single British night bombers. The mission is still in the early stages but a few of us played it online tonight and the feeling is just superb, with the FoW set to 20 sec update to simulate being talked onto the bandit by GC.

I'm also experimenting with searchlights etc (weather really needs to be no cloud or good only to get them to work at a decent alt) but they work very nicely indeed.

Anyway, much as I am looking forward to airborne radar etc later, you can already do a really good simulation of the Kammhuber Line.

Thanks TD! Loving it!

ian

[KG26_Alpha]

Sounds really interesting

When finished are you sharing ??

Good Luck

[Ian Boys]

Well I don't have a website, so if someone can host it ...

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Ian Boys

Well I don't have a website, so if someone can host it ...

I would dedicate you a page on my Foo'blog if you want to

[F19_Klunk]

would love to try it out as well
if u need hosting f19vs.se can help

[I/ZG52_Gaga]

Save it and perhaps it can be used by Nachtjagd server when all is ready

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j3QwqwN6Dc

All the best!

[Ian Boys]

Thanks, I'll hurry up and finish

[JG53Frankyboy]

night airwar features in IL2 would be realy needing a new groundattack "target".
a target circle wich counts the total ammount or (as best selectable) weight of bombs that are hitting the inner circle.

Nightbombombing was no precision bombing IIRC
and hiding trucks in the houses is annoying .................................

[Ian Boys]

Well the mission I have at the moment involves only playing for the defenders. It uses MDS to generate a number of inbound bombers of various behaviours (including rising after dropping bombs, turning away from heavy searchlight concentrations etc) and FoW to generate radar returns that update every 20 secs.

The best tactic in this early Himmelbett/Kammhuber Line phase of the war seems to be to loiter near a Himmelbett Beacon in a searchlight zone and try to pick off the raiders as they come past. Not easy - you have to be in the right place and move fast. And there are problems like being picked up by your own searchlights that makes things tricky.

But it's LOADS of fun.

[Fafnir_6]

I love the fire next to the no smoking sign , Gaga.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6