I finally got some time to finish the Nationalist counterpart of my Huesca campaign. It's also a short campaign, but this one has an extra bonus mission. I think that I managed to improve some issues of the previous Liberate Huesca and this one is even more enjoyable.
You can download it here:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=1455
This is a semi-historical, 5-mission static campaign, set in the Spanish Civil War during mid June 1937.
You are a Nationalist pilot participating in the defence of the small city of Huesca against the biggest air offensive set up by the Republic so far.
I tried to keep it as historical as possible in what concerns to number and model of planes participating (strictly historical)
dates and daytime (s. h.), skins (most of them are historical), details of ground action…Of course, limitations of game and
my own knowledge are included, I hope historical feeling will be good anyway.
The Civil War has lasted almost a year by now. After 3 previous attempts to conquer it, Huesca is surrounded almost completely, except by
a narrow bottleneck around the road to Jaca. Now, fall of the important City of Bilbao, in Northern Front, to the Rebels is imminent.
To avoid it, the brand new Popular Army has organized the most serious attack on Huesca to divert troops to Aragonesse front.
Republican Air Forces, better equipped thanks to all the Russian aircraft, are essential in the plan.
You'll be flying the four aircraft types used by Nationalists in the defence, starting with Heinkel He-46, "Pava" light bomber, then Fiat CR-32,
"Chirri" fighter, Heinkel He-51C, escorting bombers, and dogfighting the enemy I-15 and I-16, the trimotor bomber Junkers Ju-52, the heaviest used in SCW,
and a last surprise mission for CR-32.
Requirements:
This campaign has been built using the Dark Blue World (DBW) modpack, version 1.7. (It also works in UltraSpain RC4 and you
can try others)
If you want this campaign to work properly, you need:
* IF YOU INSTALLED MY PREVIOUS CAMPAIGN "LIBERATE HUESCA", YOU WON'T NEED TO REINSTALL ANY OF THESE.
Agracier’s Aragon map retextured version (you can do with the old version included in DBW 1.7, but retextured one is much better) Download it here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,24955.0.htmlIf you have UltraSpain, you'll need to activate this map opening All.ini, in maps folder, and adding the line:
ag_Aragon ag_Aragon/load.ini
It's already included, but you need to reactivate it, you can then add the retextured version, if you want.
Actors.ini included in this pack (inside ag_Aragon folder): this is a version of Actors.ini for ag_Aragon map essential for this campaign,
including modifications in several airdromes and all the trenches and fortifications system around Huesca. It’s heavier than original one,
but It’s worth it. If you want to come back to your original actors.ini after this campaign, just keep a backup of the original in a safe place.
All needed aircraft are included in UltraSpain. For DBW, you need also DreamK’s Polikarpov R-Z, downloadable here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,26103.0.htmlAlso Dreamk's Heinkel He-46C1, that you can get here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,20345.0.htmland new CR-32 of Aviaskins (campaign can work also with the old franken but don’t do it, please) Downloadable here:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,26353.0.html*If you want Gonvises Spanish Speech Pack for IL-2 (already included in UltraSpain, optional anyway), you can download it here:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=4229Skins: Included in this campaign are all the skins needed. Not necessary to reinstall if you have "Liberate Huesca". These skins and the original templates were made by: Nachprod/Murdoc, Imme, Archie, Agracier, Phasmid, HK,
and myself, Juanmalapuente and some others unidentified but also great skinners. As Poltava always says: Thanks guys! Without skinners no campaigns!
Literature: For this particular campaign, Joaquin Garcia Morato's "Guerra en el aire" is of particular interest, pitifully is only in Spanish. A great source of inspiration was “Some Still Live”, written by Frank Tinker a year after participating in
this offensive, months before his death. George Orwell (author of 1984 and Animal Farm) fought in Huesca a couple of months before this offensive and
describes it and the daily living in trenches in “Homage to Catalonia”. Also in English is “The Last Mile to Huesca” Diary of the volunteer Australian nurse
in Republican side, Agnes Hogdson. If you read Spanish, a good source of info is “La Guerra Civil en Aragón, Aviación”, by José J. Arilla.
For French readers, you also have Patrick Laureau’s “L’Aviation Republicaine Espagnole (1936-1939), or dozens of articles and books by Juan Arraez.
Of course, you also have other English written books, such as Jesus Salas Larrazabal’s "Air War over Spain", "Spanish Civil War Air Forces" by
Christopher Shores, Rafael A Permuy’s “Air War over Spain” and “Spanish Republican Aces”, Laureau’s “Condor, the Luftwaffe in Spain”, Miranda & Mercado’s
“World Aviation in Spain” “Wings over Spain” by Emiliani & Ghergo and the most reliable source on SCW aircraft History:
Gerald Howson’s “Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War”.
My Special Thanks to:
Agracier for his great map and advice using map maker version.
Poltava for his great knowledge of good campaign making.
Dreamk, SASteam and all the other modders, skinners, and rest of people making all this IL2 wonderful virtual world possible.
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