COLONIAL ADVENTURES OF THE BELLE EPOQUE
The first air war
13 missions between Italy and Cirenaica in the Italo-Turkish war against the Ottoman empire on Rumpler Taube.
EDIT: Definitive version, adjusted many things that testing the campaign I judged not functioning well for the game play, like the number of ground units, the targets, and so on, added dynamic weather, and adjusted the fuel quantity: in Il2 1946 sometime these early ww1 models have a huge fuel autonomy even of 10 hours in some case like the Bleriot!!!
That s totally unrealistic, (not all the planes have unrealistic range, some is realistic, it depend by the age of the model in the game usually I guess) so I modified the fuel quantity in your tanks, it depend by the plane but you ll have from 15 to 30 % of fuel usually per mission, that mean a couple of hours maximum, don't worry usually the missions require less than 1 hour, or in the extreme case of the bleriot, 15% of fuel, or 10 it depend, 1 hour 1 hour and half, that s for simulate also engine failures and so on, with the Nieuport for example in a mission not so long 80 km circa all the flight, you will have 35% of fuel, and if you wrong the route you would be at the limit of your autonomy, but you must be able to land without problems, in case of possible crush landing, try to flymore possible north, to reach the coast, that is occupied and safe territory, inland you will be captured or killed.
Here the link:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/geiofo6b3lvkr65/1911-12.rar.rar/fileIn the folder is included a new Italian icon image, the tricolor roundle, put it into your Il1946/Mission/Campaign/It, and paste over the stock icon file, but make a backup of it so when you ll play the Golden age or ww2 module, you can have again the fasces on the wings, for the jet era instead you need again the roundle.
That will substitute the 3 wing fasces, a thing appeared on Italian planes only in '30 during the fascist regime, then not properly historical for ww1 when the roundle was used, like today in modern Italian Air force. It will give you more a sense to be in the ww1 servizio aeronautico, than in regia aeronautica (founded in 1923, in the early regime) 🙂
Better skins more dirty for an operative aircraft;
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,60883.12.htmlCHANGES: Mission pack turned in campaign
2 more mission added
Briefings adjusted
Addes some mission effects and tools such the navigator that will act as a spotter for you.
Prepared the description of the campaign.
In 1 of the 2 missions you will fly a Farman 4 instead of the Farman Militare, a military version I guess of the Farman IV or Farman III. Enjoy.
Note:SOMETIME, IN THE SECOND MISSION IS NECESSARY TO UNLOCK THE MISSION IN THE MISSION COMBO DURING THE CAMPAIGN, OTHERWISE YOU WILL FLY THE AI AIRSHIP PASSING OVER THE CAMP
Corrected briefing and taxi to take off missions that had the aircraft positioned too near the tenth
SUGGEST FOR THE SETTINGS: KEEP NO SPEED BAR, THESE EARLY AIRCRAFTS HAD ALMOST NO GAUGES, OR NO AT ALL LIKE THE TAUBE, AND KEEP OFF THE ICONS ON THE MAP, NO RADAR MAP TO EXPERIENCE THE MAXIMUM FEELING OF REALISM LIKE THESE COLONIAL AVIATORS DID(IN COLONY USUALLY THERE WAS THE WORST MACHINES, OLDER AND OBSOLETE USUALLY, BUT THE BEST PILOTS, WHO SACRIFIED A CAREER OFTEN FOR THEIR LOVE OF AFRICA AND FOR WHAT WAD CALLED AT THE TIME COLONIAL PASSION, THESE GUYS WAS ADVENTURERS VERY OFTEN).
But keep on the map route path, follow the route indicated on the map, and the navigator will inform you sometime about your grid on the map, and try to fly in the wild.
The possibility to loose your way are very low with an observer like navigator but there are, this keep up the realism no?
In case you're captured by Ottoman troops its OK, their officers try to be more European possible and like the Japanese in ww1 they will respect your pow status treating you like a guest, in the case instead the tribes find your crushed plane... Keep the last bullet for you.
Give me feedback guys if you can, feel free to modify or adjust it to your own taste if you want, just pass the adjusted version also to me so I can play 🙂
PLOT:
This is a 13 missions campaign, the plot of the story tell of Antonio Giovanni Ferri, sublieutenant in the Air Army Corp in Regio Esercito, from the creation of the first flotilla airplanes in July 1911 to June 1912 when he s retired from Lybia, and of his wife, the German noble woman Gina, daughter and sister of imperial German officers, the story (to be continued) will pass trough the last years of the triple alliance with Germany, Austria Hungary, and Italy, and will show as the time pass on all the contrasts and problems between Italy and Austria Hungary (not least the Austrian penetration in Bosnia and the Italian War against the Ottoman empire in Lybia) that will bring the alliance to break up in 1914-1915, the player will fly mainly on Etrich Taube, but also on Bleriot XI and Nieuport 4 in a couple of missions, and the last 2 in the Aerostatic Section doing bombing raids with the Airships over the Ottoman ships and troops. The plot and the missions contain espionage and adventure stories too, and personal accounts inspired by several characters and events, some living in our days and that I meet personally, and some during the war in Lybia in 1912, mainly an Italian high officer, convinced of the alliance with the central powers, with many friends in the German imperial and Austrian military establishment, and with an Austrian wife, whose brothers was austro Hungarian officers, and that died few days before the entrance in ww1 in unknown circumstances maybe for an anonymous "hand" that wanted to remove an obstacle to the war who know. Maybe not.
In the story appear also real Aviators who fought in the Ottoman war, like Giulio Gavotti that with his Taube in November 1911 performed the first aerial bombing of history, attacking the Turkish positions with bombs dropped manually, and that in another occasion when Mustafa Kemal (yes, that Mustafa Kemal) was attacking Tripoli with his batteries and with success, trying to reconquer the city, alone flied over the Turkish batteries and bombed them, hitting an ammo store and destroying the guns with all the crews, forcing Ataturk to withdraw (the lybian war will remain impress in his mind for years, having lost an eye I guess in the war, and Mustafa Kemal was one that was in good relations with the Italians later after ww1.) So several historical characters will appear, or characters inspired by historical ones, and also by modern peoples that I meet personally like I sad.
The skins are included in the folder ofc.
That's not the usual war campaign, is more an adventure mission pack, the first part of it. ENJOY!
Running from Bomba to the oasis to support an attack against Ottoman and rebel forces:
And now some picture d' epoque and postcards:
Nieuport IV attack an enemy camp, often just passing low overhead was enough to scare the enemy, the Ottoman officers was educated person but the rebels often in their life had never see a car or a machine, realize a plane. Giulio Gavotti tell interesting stories about the first raids about the reaction of the rebels, later they understood and started to shoot back instead. Gavotti tell that directing the fire of a warship on a bedouin camp, a rebel camp, when they spotted his taube they all fall in knee to pray thinking it was the bird of Allah arrived to guide them in the liberation war against the invader, when the calibers of the ship started to hammer their camp they was astonished. This episode repeated for a couple of times in other actions of reconnaissance and bombing from the air, but after sometime the rebels learned and started to fire back.
Capitano Piazza commander of the 1st flotilla aeroplani, who in September 29 1911 maked the first war flight in Lybia, with his Bleriot XI
Night attack: the forts on the coast the night hadn't truce, these positions was attacked constantly by the Bedouins, in Lybia there was a way to say, that the rebels had "the government of the night"
Battle:
Unarmed, another of the early warbird in Lybia.
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