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[Airbourne]

I have been playing the On to Stalingrad campaign and greatly enjoy it but I should mention some more explosions. This time it seems not to be weaponry but a question of aircraft spawning where there are objects. I seem to remember that the missions called Blau and Wilhelm were especially affected. Most of the time there seemed to be objects on spawn points or in the way of aircraft taxiing. I wonder if the Donbas map was revised after you created the OTS campaign. I hope you won't think I am just a moaner. I feel it is almost a duty to tell a campaign-maker about such problems. I stress that I think your campaigns are great.

[SAS~Poltava]

Thanks for the heads-up Airbourne!

The campaign has been built in HSFX, and as I don't have CUP I haven't been able to confirm myself that the campaign actually works 100% in CUP. Others have told us so.

Now, I know from my "Abbeville Boys" campaign that there are some strange and/or subtle differences between CUP and HSFX that I can't explain, that seems to affect the size of some common objects (or placement of hit boxes - I don't know), meaning for instance that an aircraft can start from under under a specific masking net in HSFX, but it will come in contact with the same net in CUP, and in worse case explode.

Try opening the problematic missions in FMB and move the offending objects out of the way 

[Airbourne]

Most of the objects concerned are part of the map, not added in FMB. In bad cases I just re-design the take-off in FMB. If only one plane is affected, I fly the mission anyway and it is just a bit harder because my staffel is one plane short. Nevertheless I have been awarded the Knight's Cross which I don't recall ever happening before in more than ten years of playing the game!

[SAS~Poltava]

Then this is really getting strange. A map re-design could be the answer. You say you see aircraft after aircraft just slamming into pre-existing map objcts? 

[Airbourne]

That's right. Sometimes they spawn where there is already an object and so they explode.

[SAS~Poltava]

Then some kind of map revision must have been made. Curioser and curioser, said Alice. 

[vegetarian]

Yep, I had the same issue as Airborne and used the same work around. From memory the exploding plane problem stared after mission 6.

[mikojan3]

WONDERFULL CAMPAIGN poltava worked fine in  cup and vpmedia, super.

[SAS~Poltava]

Mikojan, so you have not had the same problems as Airbourne, with aircraft taking off into map objects?

[Kiwi]

Boelcke's westfront campaign works in cup (mostly) make sure to change the H75_A2 to H75_A3 though
http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.892

[steph12]

Thanks a lot! I'll give it a go!