New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Poltava - 14.08.2010
After trying out "Happy valley", the excellent Nightfighter map by CY6 and Ash (
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,3554.0.html), I couldn't help myself, so I built a campaign for it. It is called
"The Kammhuber Line".
In it you are a German pilot, flying the Bf110 and a central part of the so called Kammhuber Line, a German defense against RAF Bomber Command that stretched across Western Europe. It was named after its creator, the brilliant Luftwaffe Generalleutenant Josef Kammhuber.
The campaign aims to portray action over Belgium and Northern France from late 1941 until the late spring of 1942. This period saw some major shifts in tactics from both sides, the most radical being the RAF introduction of the so called "Bomber Stream", something directly prompted by the success of the Kammhuber Line. Your main opponents are
Wellingtons and
Halifaxes (thanks Ranwers!) but you can also run into RAF Intruders and Night fighters.
You can download the campaign here: http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=711
Most missions are interception of RAF bombers, flying either to or from their target, except one, where you fly as a Night Intruder over England, where you mix with the returning bombers and attack them when they are most vulnerable: when they land at their home base. (The last Luftwaffe Intruder missions were flown during this period. They worked well, but were actually stopped on direct orders from Hitler.) Included are five skins, amde by
Graf, VP_media and
Opa. Thanks guys!
Thanks for looking!
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Doolittle81 - 14.08.2010
For some reason, I can't get the campaign Zip file to download from M4T. Is it available elsewhere?
Edit: Okay..it worked after a couple of tries.
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Poltava - 14.08.2010
Hmm, it works for me! Try again!
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Rowddy - 14.08.2010
awsome
btw i can download normaly
Thanks Poltava
S! Rowddy
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - socorrista22198 - 14.08.2010
Thank you Polti!! I love your work!
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Aragorn1963 - 15.08.2010
Great subject, Poltava, thank you!
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Aleksander - 15.08.2010
Wonderful cappaign! Only one question: can it be modified to use Bf-110G-4 instead of G-2, because that versio uses Schräge Musik and has those wicked antennae?
It can be downloaded here
http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,1034.0.html
Aleksandar
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Rowddy - 15.08.2010
trying to install it in my HSFX game but.. i see i need the map in order to make it worj
hock: but where can i find i looked in various forums but no luck so far or they renamed it
" Map: CY6_ash_BoF_Ruhr "
can someone give me a link to the map pls?
S! Rowddy
EDIT: sorry missed the link at top lol :oops:
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Poltava - 15.08.2010
Aleksander!
Well, as it is supposed to take place in late 41 - early 42, the Bf110 had no radar of its own, hence no antennae. And the "Schräge Musik / Jazz music" oblique firing guns were of later date as well! And here I'm quoting Wikipedia:
"The first installation was made late in 1942, in a Dornier Do 17Z-10 that was also equipped with the early UHF-band version of the FuG 202 Lichtenstein BC radar. Further experimentation was carried out by the Luftwaffe weapons testing centre at Tarnewitz through 1942, and an angle of between 60 and 75 degrees was found to give best results.
Meanwhile, Schönert was made CO of II./NJG 5, and an armourer serving with the Gruppe, Oberfeldwebel Mahle developed a working arrangement with the unit's Bf-110's and a pair of MG FF/M 20 mm cannon. Schönert used such a modified Bf-110 to shoot down a bomber in May 1943. From June 1943 on, an official conversion kit was produced for the Junkers Ju 88 and Dornier Do 217N fighters."
If you want Schräge Musik and Radar antennae I recommend that you try my Bf110 Battle for Berlin campaign! See this:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... ils&id=435
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Doolittle81 - 15.08.2010
Rowddy Wrote:trying to install it in my HSFX game but....
I tried to install the map in my HSFX, but must have done so incorrectly. As directed and provided in the download, I added the line
CY6_ash_BoF_Ruhr CY6_ash_BoF_Ruhr/load.ini to the air.ini file located in my
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\Files\maps folder. In that folder I had only the air.ini file plus a
352nd_Cross_Channel folder and a
_Tex folder. I placed the folder called
CY6_ash_BoF_Ruhr in that maps folder. I placed the files
Night_LandLight.mat and
Night_CloudsNoise.tga in the existing
_Tex folder.
When I started IL2, as soon as the main screen appeared, I had a CTD. Any help will be appreciated. BTW, I have no "MAPMODS" folder in my HSFX installation. I do have a MODS folder, but no "maps" subfolder in that.
Any advice/help? I suspect that the line provided to be placed in the air.ini might be wrong, as it seems unnecessarily long/repetitive, but no one else seems to have had a problem with it.
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Rowddy - 16.08.2010
Poltava i get an error aswell during loading of the 1st mission it says...
Mission Loading failed: Regiment 'RCAF_No425SQN' Not Found
so what exactly do i miss and where do i get?
Thanks for yur help in advance
S! Rowdy
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Poltava - 16.08.2010
It looks like you haven't got the latest edition of HSFX/UP - have you?
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - Rowddy - 16.08.2010
yeah i think i do i got HSFX 4.1 i recenltly installed a new game but maybe i downloaded an old version?? Can i update my game then? if yes which update do i need? i did download and install all in the right order as discript in the HSFX forum i just checked that. Not sure how i can fix this now
S! Rowddy
Re: New Luftwaffe Campaign: "The Kammhuber Line" - buckdanny - 17.08.2010
Hello Doolitle81,
ich have similar problems. Now, i deleted the STD-directory (after i made a copy) in the Mods-directoy and put the Ruhr-Map directory in the Mods/Mapmods/Maps directory. The _tex-files are in the Mods/Mapmods/Maps/_Text directory. In the air.ini-file i have only two Maps, the Ruhr-map and another one. Now it works.
I am flying with Ultrapack und HSFX. I hope i could help you