1C and Ubisoft Announce IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

[KG66_Phantom]

Thanks to Ilya and the crew for persisting and getting this to the final hurdle, lets hope P40s cant carry a 10000lb bomb 20000 mils at 300000 feet

Phantom

[ckolonko]

What does it mean by fight against renegade pilots in the first post?

[David603]

Originally Posted by ckolonko

What does it mean by fight against renegade pilots in the first post?

Probably another translation error, I think this means fly alongside the Polish/Czech/American/etc pilots who fought with the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by ckolonko

What does it mean by fight against renegade pilots in the first post?

Originally Posted by David603

Probably another translation error, I think this means fly alongside the Polish/Czech/American/etc pilots who fought with the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

Could also mean the battle of Barking Creek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barking_Creek



I really hope something like that's not going to be a regular occurrence.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Could also mean the battle of Barking Creek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barking_Creek



I really hope something like that's not going to be a regular occurrence.

This doesn't have much to do with renagades. From my understanding, 'The Battle of Barking Creek' was caused by a systems error on the radar causing the ground controllers to vectored to the Spitfire squadron to the vacinity of a squadron of Hurricanes, The relative inexperience of the pilots involved and not having a positive identification of the targets.

Later in the war I guess they would have refered to the situation as FUBAR.

It did however give the RAF reason to analyse what went wrong and try their best to work out how to avoid a similar thing happening in the future.

Cheers!

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

This doesn't have much to do with renagades.

Sure.

However it has a lot to do with being bounced by friendlies. I'm just saying that if one mission in ten we get an attempted (AI) friendly fire incident, that would be a horrible thing.

[brando]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Sure.

However it has a lot to do with being bounced by friendlies. I'm just saying that if one mission in ten we get an attempted (AI) friendly fire incident, that would be a horrible thing.

Check any online dictionary for the word "renegade" and you will see that this word has been used in error and doesn't convey any significance.
It may possibly be a horrible mistranslation concerning pilots from Axis-occupied countries who escaped to England to fight on. Poles, Czechs, French, Belgians etc. might possibly have been portrayed as renegades in Nazi propaganda, but otherwise there is little connection.

As far as friendly fire incidents are concerned, the"Battle of Barking Creek" was a horrible accident waiting to happen. Whether it would be modelled as a recurring threat in the game is an interesting question, though I can't see why it should happen. More interesting is whether (and how often) you might make the same mistake yourself?
Identification Friend [or] Foe (IFF) protocols were really tightened up after the aforementioned incident. The universal fitting of IFF beacons was hurriedly completed and everyone from pilots to plotters learnt from the mistake. That's not to say that further accidents didn't happen in the heat of battle - but the incidents were few and far between after Barking Creek.
There's no record of anyone changing their loyalties and turning on their comrades - renegade style.

[ckolonko]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

This doesn't have much to do with renagades. From my understanding, 'The Battle of Barking Creek' was caused by a systems error on the radar causing the ground controllers to vectored to the Spitfire squadron to the vacinity of a squadron of Hurricanes, The relative inexperience of the pilots involved and not having a positive identification of the targets.

Later in the war I guess they would have refered to the situation as FUBAR.

It did however give the RAF reason to analyse what went wrong and try their best to work out how to avoid a similar thing happening in the future.

Cheers!

I also know there were a number of FF incidents during the battle due to fatigue and stress.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by ckolonko

I also know there were a number of FF incidents during the battle due to fatigue and stress.

Friendly fire is one of the tragedies of any form of warfare, Combat situations would have to be caotic and confused. The 'Battle of Barking Creek' was slightly different.

An error in the radar set swapped around the display so that aircraft comming from the west appeared to be comming from the east. The opperators saw a flight of unidentified aircaft that apeared to be comming in from the east (actually a routine RAF Patrol), they scrambled more RAF planes. As they did the number of planes that appeared to be comming in from the east increased, So they scrammbled more RAF fighters. This soon escalated so that it appeared that there was a massive German raid in progress. (Which everyone was expecting any day at this point)

The RAF fighters converged into a small area and one squadron of Spitfires sighted a Flight of Hurricanes in the location that they were expecting to see the Hostiles. They were all eager to get into the Hun and from memory identification was poblematic due to the conditions.

One of the major upshots of the battle was that the RAF expidited the introduction IFF equipment which was a major help to them in the Battle Of Britain.

Regarding the quality of the trailer,

Could it be possible that the leaked release day hastened the UBI press release. There were a number of ommissions in the official announcement, which have since been fixed up. Maybe the Official Trailer had not been completed and the one posted was hastily put together or taken off the shelf?

Cheers!

[kirq]

Originally Posted by David603

Probably another translation error, I think this means fly alongside the Polish/Czech/American/etc pilots who fought with the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

It would be great if there were Polish squadrons in the game!

Especially 303

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzEkL5n7gXA