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[Shakaali]

LINKS UPDATED

Version 2.0

- Vehicles redone
- Stationary planes reworked
- Checked static objects
- Lysander updated

France, May 10th, 1940. French forces assisted by British forces are trying to stop German attack.

Download Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6615et3ehcs352b/Battle_Of_France.rar/file
Download M4T: http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=2539

I have tried to keep squadrons and their equipment and bases as historical as possible. Some bases are outsde the map area, they are replaced and marked:  Airfield (Historical airfield).


Choose one of the following careers:


Armée de l'Air:

Fighter Pilot:

3e GC II/2    Laon-Chambry       Morane-Saulnier 406/410 *1
5e GC III/2   Cambrai-Niergnies      Morane-Saulnier 406/410 *1
1r GC I/4   Wez-Thuisy         Curtiss H-75
3e GC II/8   Calais-Marck      Bloch MB 152
GC I/145   Etain Rouvres (Lyon-Bron)   Caudron C.R.714
5e GC III/2     Beauvais-Tillé       Dewoitine D520 *2

Heavy Fighter Pilot:

ECMJ I/16    Wez-Thuisy          Potez 631

Ground Attack Pilot:

1r GBA I/51   Senon (Le Luc)      Breguet 693

Bomber Pilot:

1r GB I/11   Dunkerque-Mardyck (Istres)   Bloch MB 210
GB I/31   Yutz (Lézignan)      Lioré et Olivier LeO 451

Recon Pilot:

GR I/33   Attigny (Dôle)      Bloch MB 174
1r GR I/14   Clastres          Potez 630 *3

Transport Pilot:

None            Caproni Ca133T *4


Royal Air Force:

85 Squadron      Lille      Hurricane I
2 Squadron      Abbeville      Lysander   
226 Squadron   Reims       Fairey Battle
139 Squadron   Poix       Blenheim IV



Luftwaffe:

Fighter Pilot:

I/JG 1      Gymnich       Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
I/JG 3      Vogelsang       Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
I/JG 26      Bönninghardt    Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
III/JG 26      Essen-Mühlheim    Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
I/JG 27      Mönchen-Gladbach    Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
I/JG 51      Krefeld      Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
Stab/JG 77      Peppenhoven      Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
I/JG 77      Odendorf      Messerschmitt Bf-109E-1/E-3
II/NJG 1 *5      Twente (Hopsten)   Messerschmitt Bf-109D-1

Heavy Fighter Pilot:

I/ZG 1      Kirchenhellen   Messerschmitt Bf-1110C-1/C-4 *6
II/ZG 26      Krefeld      Messerschmitt Bf-1110C-1/C-4 *6

Ground Attack/Dive Bomber Pilot:

II (S)/LG 2      WeselFlüren (Lauffenberg)Henschel 123 A-1
I/StG 2      Köln-Ostheim   Junkers Ju-87B-1/B-2
I/StG 77      Köln-Butzweilerhof   Junkers Ju-87B-1/B-2

Bomber Pilot:

II/KG 27      WeselWest (Delmenhorst)   Heinkel He-111P-2
I/LG 1      Düsseldorf      Heinkel He-111H-2
III/KG 30      Venlo (Marx)     Junkers Ju-88A-4 *7
III/KG 77      Düsseldorf       Dornier Do-17Z-2

Recon Pilot:

2.(H)/12      Odendorf      Henschel 126
5.(F)/122      Köln-Ostheim (Köln-Wahn)Dornier Do-17Z-0 *8

Transport Pilot:

I/KGzbV 1            Junkers Ju-52


*1 Only  5 410's were ready when the war started, but I wanted to keep 410 available. AI uses 406's.
*2 There are two versions of D520 in BAT, you can choose either one
*3  Historically Potez 63.11
*4 Represents all French  transport squadrons and aircraft
*5 Was called IV.(N)/JG2 until June. Used Bf-109D's and Arado Ar-68's as night fighters
*6 Historically correct version is C-3
*7 Historically correct version is A-1, which AI uses. However, A-1 in BAT has no cockpit
*8 Representing Do17P


Requirements:

B.A.T. V3.3 PATHFINDER or later B.A.T. V3.7 LE GRAND CIRQUE
DCG 3.49 Beta 14 or later DCG 3.49 Official

Installation:

Decompress the Battle Of France.zip into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory and copy DGEN folder from Battle Of France folder to main game folder, overwrite if prompted. 
Copy Skins Folder from Battle Of France folder and paste it over PaintSchemes/Skins in your IL-2 game directory.
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Battle Of France folder and select allcampaigns.dcg
Select "Replace Career Generator (DGen)"
Select Off Line Career (Full Auto-Generation Mode) in the DCG main screen.
Launch Il-2 and select one of the above-mentioned careers.


Credits and thanks:

SAS team for BAT
Paul Lowengrin for DCG
Tailspin and Lonestar for DCG tutorials that got me started creating DCG campaigns a long time ago



If you encounter any bugs or oddities, please let me know!

[vegetarian]

This looks fantastic Shakaali - congratulations. I like my campaigns to be short and sweet, so I think I will fly in 226 Squadron 

[markino]

Cool!!! Congratulations!!

Ciao!

Marco

[Shakaali]

Thanks guys   

I noticed a small error. 

One of the Zerströrer squadrons in master mission file and in the post above is II/ZG 26 but in DGEN file and in timetable there is I/ZG 26
Corrected now in the download files, so downloads from now on are correct.

If you downloaded the files earlier, it doesn't make a big difference: the AI II/ZG 26 is missing and there is AI I/ZG 26 instead flying Bf-110 C-1 from a random airfield.
If you choose to fly I/ZG 26 you will end up in a random airfield.

I suggest not to correct it if you are in mid-campaign, but before you start the campaign you can:

1. Open file (il2 folder)/DGEN/squadronsDE1.dat in Notepad (or similar) and change line
       ZG26_I
       to
       ZG26_II
2. Open Battle Of France/Timetable.dcg in Notepad (or similar) and change line
      19400510 MoveSquad ZG26_I0 Krefeld_Airfield
      to
      19400510 MoveSquad ZG26_II0 Krefeld_Airfield

Sorry 'bout that.

[CDS025_DOGO]

Your DCG campaigns are great, greetings Shakaali 

[vonOben]

Thank you very much for this campaign Shakaali! 

Looking forward to playing it!

[Segasensei]

Hey ! Thanks for this Campaign ! I can't wait to fly my country's birds !

However, when I start a mission, it runs really, REALLY slow...

My computer isn't that slow though...

[Shakaali]

Thanks, Segasensei.

Have you tried other DCG campaigns? Do they run OK? Does it get any better once you get airbourne? Does this happen in every mission?

There are 38 squadrons in this campaign, so it is quite heavy. You may try opening your DCG panel and lowering "Squadron Density"  and/or "Maximum Flights/Squadron" to reduce the number of active planes.

[Segasensei]

Thanks for your answer.

This is the first campaign i try with DCG. I use 3.48 since I can't find the latest beta anywhere... I'll try lowering the squadron sizes.

Edit: I just lowered squadron size, it worked !

[Shakaali]

I'm glad it worked 

3.49 beta can be downloaded from:
http://forum.jg1.org/topic/3836-dcg-349-open-beta-test/page-6#entry41092

[Mr9million]

Hey, I have recently gotten into Il-2 again and decided to download this campaign. I followed the instructions as well as I could. But whenever I begin a mission all the planes just explode. Does anybody know what is going on?

[Shakaali]

Mr9million, aircraft exploding on mission start is usually caused by DCG trying to load aircraft loadouts that are not present in current IL2 installation.

That should not happen if you use BAT 3.3 or 3.4 and dcg files supplied with this campaign.  If the problem continues, post log: https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,13457.0.html