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[Shakaali]

East Africa 1940 - Italian invasion of British Somaliland
A Dynamic Campaign for DCG and BAT



Download Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/kvj7ufgeetde62e/Somaliland.rar/file
Download M4T: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3083

World War II was truly a global war. There were battles everywhere, even the most desolate parts of the world.
In East Africa there was British protectorate, the Somaliland Protectorate, also known as British Somaliland. It was bordered by  Africa Orientale Italiana, Italian East Africa.

On 10 June 1940  Mussolini declared war against Britain. Shortly after that Italian East Africa invaded British Somaliland.



You can fly this campaign as:

RAF/SAAF (SAAF campaigns under RAF):

RAF Fighter Pilot:
Gloster Gladiator II or Bristol Blenheim IVF

SAAF Fighter Pilot:
Hawker Fury

RAF Bomber Pilot
Bristol Blenheim I, Vickers Wellesley or Vickers Vildebeest III (representing Vickers Vincent)

SAAF Bomber Pilot:
Fairey Battle

RAF Recon Pilot:
Hawker Hart (representing Hawker Hardy)

SAAF Recon Pilot:
Junkers Ju-86 or Hawker Hart (representing Hawker Hartbees)

RAF Transport Pilot:
Bristol Bombay



Regia Aeronautica:

Fighter Pilot:
Fiat CR.32

Bomber Pilot:
Caproni Ca.133, Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 Pipistrello or Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero

Recon Pilot:
Meridionali Ro.37bis

Transport Pilot:
Caproni Ca.133T, Caproni Ca.148 or Savoia-Marchetti SM.73

Historical notes:

Tried to be as historical as possible. Some units are not available in BAT.
See OOBs.xls (included in the package) for details.

Requirements:

B.A.T. v4.2.1
DCG 3.50 beta  (https://forum.jg1.org/forum/68-dcg-announcements/)

Installation:

Decompress the Somaliland.rar into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory 
Copy Dgen, Missions & Paintschemes folders from your Somaliland folder and paste them in your IL-2 game directory. Overwrite if prompted.
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Somaliland folder and select allcampaigns.dcg
Select "Replace Career Generator (DGen)" in the DCG main screen.
Select Off Line Career (Full Auto-Generation Mode) in the DCG main screen.
Launch Il-2 WAW module and select one of the above-mentioned careers.


Recommended DCG Settings:

Air Starts: On
Delayed Start Times: On
Historical Production Dates: Off

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
All skin artist involved (sorry, I don't know who you are).

[FNRennier]

GREAT!! 
Congratulations on the work and thank you very much! 

[rafael-bernardi]

All the planes just blow up on mission start. rly dont know whats going on. My camera just gets stuck at the corner of the map and i can hear the explosions..

[Shakaali]

All the planes just blow up on mission start.

Sounds like a payload error. Cannot confirm, as works smoothly at my end. Log?

[rafael-bernardi]

i think its working now i did a full reinstall. Maybe i didnt have air starts on? was just wondering if the player is really supposed to start in the air.

edit: on the second mission we started on the ground like i was hoping so i guess everything fixed idk im new to this DCG thing

[Shakaali]

i think its working now i did a full reinstall. Maybe i didnt have air starts on? was just wondering if the player is really supposed to start in the air.

Glad to hear that   

The campaign works with air starts off, but I recommend keeping it on. Then any squadron (including playen squadron) may start in the air.

However, if both air starts and delayed start times are off all squadrons will start simultaneously on airfields and it is possible that one ore more of the airfields get overcrowded causing aircraft spawning on top of each other, which will not look pretty.

[Witchy]

I cannot stand air starts. I like a full realstic experience of taking off and laning.

[FNRennier]

Great! Thank you very much!