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[vonofterdingen]

   


History and Background by Lars
Jagdgeschwader 6 was the last Luftwaffe Fighter Wing to be formed in World War Two. Due to the devastating losses among the existing units in 1944 many of the non-fighter units were disbanded and their aircrews transferred to new hastily trained fighter units. These were mainly JG4 who received the ex-bomber and recon pilots, consequently slaughtered to a large degree due to their slower methodical mindset. The other new wing was JG6, made up of pilots from the twin engined units and some single engined night fighter units.

Download here: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3211

JG6 consisted of I and II JG6 equipped with Fw190As and later Ds, some sources say G models also. The pilots were mainly from ZG26, previously flying Bf110s and Me410s against the mass bomber formations at high altitude in the West. They were now retrained as ground attack and interceptors at low altitude. Some records have survived describing their activities but we chose to recreate the efforts of the third sub unit, III/JG6.



Due to a lack of surviving documents sources vary as to its origins. The latest research states that it was formed from III/JG300 who flew night missions against the RAF bombers in defence of the Reich. Thus, the pilots were already familiar with their aircraft, the Bf109G.  The unit was involved in Operation Bodenplatte, the Luftwaffe attack on Allied bases on 1st January 1945. They lost 19 pilots in that raid so had to be rebuilt and sent to the Eastern Front to defend the armies against the advance of Russian forces.



We start based in Poland in February 1945 where the Luftwaffe were surprisingly successful during that month in helping stem the enemy advance. Being near the factories and shorter supply lines helped, but the constant moves between bases led to a disruption in both supplies and men. Morale remained fairly high to the end when the unit was disbanded on 8th April.



You will fly the Bf109G14AS, Bf109G10 and Bf109K4. Your opposition will be among the latest and best Russian aircraft, who usually flew in small escorted formations and lots of them!

Installation
This campaign was written and tested using the SAS BAT Mod Pack, available here at the SAS website:

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?board=264.0

It may work on other modded systems but the campaign uses Command and Control objects and Triggers, so many mission features would be lost or unworkable without these features. For example, enemy aircraft and targets will not appear without these mods.



To install:

•   Extract the JG6.zip file to a temporary directory.
•   Copy the decompressed Missions and PaintSchemes folders to your IL-2 1946 root folder.
•   In the New Pilot Career page, choose Luftwaffe in the Air Force selection drop-down.
•   Choose JG6 Backs to the Wall in the Career drop-down.
•   We recommend turning off No Instant Success for this campaign.
•   The campaign is designed to be compatible with any rank selection.

 
Credits
Many thanks to the BAT team for developing, maintaining, and improving the BAT Modpack. As in all of our campaigns, we make liberal use of Kurfurst’s mission templates, available at the Mission 4 Today site.



CanonUK made the Bf-109 skins we use in this campaign. This campaign uses other skins from the BAT install and we do not know the author(s). If you spot a skin here that did not receive proper credit please let us know and we will rectify the oversight.

[Peter Lynn]

Just downloaded, thank you!

[Vampire_pilot]

That sounds great! Looking forward to play this.

[vonOben]

Many thanks for this campaign. 

[larschance]

Thank you guys. Your kind comments are appreciated. This is a tough one as you are up against the latest Russian aircraft such as the Il10 and Yak9U. On one test run I only managed one kill after 8 missions! No doubt some of you if not all will do much better. lol. I must say I did damage a lot but ran out of ammo too soon.

[gunny0134]

Many thank you for sharing...

[Vampire_pilot]

This is a very nice campaign (as usual...)

The only "issue" I have is the continued use of the winter map. That makes no sense in late March and April. Maybe a change in weather, rain, and a change to the summer map would have been the cherry on the cake at some point.


I have made kind of the "follow up" to this a while ago:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,64739.msg711445.html#msg711445

The remnants of JG6 are fighting from Prague in Me-262 as announced in the briefing of the last mission.

[larschance]

Thank you for your interest Vampire. Your Me262 campaign is indeed an appropriate continuation to this campaign.

As for the map, snow bound weather existed up to the end of March 1945 so a summer map was not thought correct. There is photograph evidence of a heavy snowscape at least until 22nd March 1945.

[Vampire_pilot]

Interesting findings, if pictures exist. If the dates are certain that's of course better than a gut feeling.
Personally, I would have put the later phase of the siege of Breslau under more of a muddy weather. The early thaw during February slowed the Russian offensive in general after all.

[larschance]

I am relying on the stated dates of photographs being correct, although am aware that may not be the case at times. In the book Focke Wulf Fw190s of Jagdgeschwader 6 published by Jafo there are at least two photographs dated 8th and 22nd March 1945 showing snow on the bases.

[vonofterdingen]

Also we have never found a satisfactory solution to depict mud in game. Not yet anyway.