Darwin Defenders posted now! - Printable Version

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Darwin Defenders posted now! - Poltava - 04.10.2008

Now the first playtest results have come in and applied, and the Campaign is posted and available for download! It can be found in the specialised downloads section on M4T: http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3



The date is March 1942. You are a fighter pilot in the US 49th Fighter Group, rushed to Darwin, to defend the area against the sustained air-offensive that the Japanese have launched against the northern coast of Australia. (Up until this date there has been no Allied air assets in the area, and no Australian air units are yet available.)



This is a semi-historical, 16-mission static campaign, set during the spring and summer of 1942. You are a USAAF fighter pilot flying the P-40 during the so called "Australian Blitz", when northern Australia was under heavy attack from Japanese air units. Most mission that takes place, happens on the correct dates and tries to follow history.



Between February 1942 and November 1943, during the Pacific War, the Australian mainland, domestic airspace, offshore islands and coastal shipping were attacked at least 97 times by aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. These attacks came in various forms, from large scale raids by heavy bombers, to torpedo attacks on ships, to strafing runs by fighter planes.



In the first

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- RealDarko - 04.10.2008

Man really apreciatte your modded campaigns, I have two maps ready, don't want to create a campaign for Falklands for example?? I can send you some skins

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- Juankar75 - 04.10.2008

Thanks Poltava for another great campaign! :)

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- Poltava - 04.10.2008

Whenever a see a new, fine map I want to build a campaign for it. But I'm kind of hooked on historical campaigns - I will take a look at the Falklands map, see what can be done! Your extended Pacific Island map I must do somethin with, of course!

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- King Franky - 05.10.2008

Wonderful Poltava!
I've begun your new campaign, played the first two missions and everything works fine.
And I'm sitting here again, with that smile on my face...

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- Trooper117 - 06.10.2008

Well done.. 5th mission in!
One problem though was after seeing a Catalina in trouble off the coast I rushed to assist, and as I circled overhead he forced landed and spun into the water and his wings broke off in a spectacular fashion!.. unfortunately, the effect was then totaly spoiled as the fuselage section just continued to bounce and cartwheel all over the sea instead of sinking below the waves.
Not sure if it was a map problem or the Catalina itself, but in any other campaign mission that the Cat is in, if it gets hit and crashes into the sea the debri just sinks..
Apart from that, (and probably out of your control) its great!

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- rollnloop - 06.01.2010

Well i know i'm late, but i just finished this campaign and enjoyed it very much, especially the briefings and the "special" missions.

Thanks a lot for offering it to play !

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- ColaBen - 16.01.2010

Poltava !
I finally got ready for this Campaign ! I got "shot down" by the message "string index out of range :1 ".
Help please. I'm using 4.09 + UP2.0.
ColaBen

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- rustydawg - 27.01.2010

ColaBen,

I had the same error. So I went into the Full Mission Builder and brought up Mission 01 for the Darwin Defenders. Then I found the P-40E's I was supposed to fly in the object viewer and went to plane 1 and checked Player in the check box.

It now works and the follow up Missions work also. I checked Plane 1, but I go in the last plane because I picked 1st LT as my rank. But anyhow it works and it's a complete mystery to me....LOL


Best regards,

rustydawg.

PS.... Paltava, Great Campaign, I'm enjoying it.

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