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[Shakaali]

                                                            ...we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields....
                                                                                                  -Sir Winston Churchill


This is the Battle Of Britain campaign I created for CUP https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,52569.0.html updated for BAT

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/go0kdvwoptghfvo/Bob-BAT.rar/file
Requirements:

BAT 3.6 The Blitz or later

DCG version 3.49 or later
http://il2dcg.blogspot.com/


Available careers:


Luftwaffe:

Fighter pilot: 
 
-Messerschmitt BF-109E-4
-Messerschmitt BF-109E-3
-Messerschmitt BF-109E-1
-Messerschmitt BF-110C-4
-Messerschmitt BF-110C-1

Ground attack pilot:     

-Messerschmitt BF-110C-4/B

Bomber pilot:   

-Heinkel He-111H-2
-Heinkel He-111P-2
-Dornier Do-17Z-2
-Dornier Do-17Z-0
-Junkers Ju-88A-4
-Junkers Ju-87B-2

Reconnaissance pilot:   

-Focke-Wulf Fw-200 Condor
-Focke-Wulf Fw-189 Uhu (see below)
-Arado Ar-196

Transport pilot:         

-Junkers Ju52/3mg4e

      

RAF:

Fighter pilot:   

-Hawker Hurricane I
-Hawker Hurricane Ia
-Supermarine Spitfire I
-Supermarine Spitfire Ib
-Bristol Blenheim IF
-Gloster Gladiator II
-Boulton-Paul Defiant
-Westland Whirlwind

Bomber pilot:   

-Bristol Blenheim IV
-Fairey Battle

Reconnaissance pilot:

-Westland Lysander
-Supermarine Stranraer

Transport pilot:

-Bristol Bombay


Royal Navy:

FAA pilot:           

-Gloster Sea Gladiator II
-Fairey Fulmar
-Supermarine Walrus


Historical notes:

This is a single map campaign covering the "official" Battle of Britain period from July 10th to October 31st, 1940. I have tried to recreate all aspects of the Battle of Britain, including Bomber Command duties, Fleet Air Arm participation  and Italian participation (AI only).

All squadrons in the campaign really took part in Battle of Britain, at least a part of it. However, Luftwaffe tended to change squadron names quite often: Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 used in the game was called Erprobungsgruppe 210 in 1940. Seeaufklärungsgruppe 125 was called Aufklärungsgruppe 125 (See) at the time. Some RAF Squadrons (and both FAA fighter squadrons) actually operated from Scotland. Italian squadrons may be incorrect, because I don't understand Italian squadron numbering system.

Also aircraft of the squadrons are what they really used, subtypes may vary. One exception: 3.(F)/Aufklärungsgruppe 31 actually used Do 17, Ju 88 and Bf 110 recon variants. I used Focke-Wulf Fw-189 Uhu as a replacement.

Used airfields are not fully historical.

Campaign notes:

When you start a career, please select your squadron corresponding to your aircraft: if you select the first plane in the list, also select the first squadron in the list; if you select the second plane in the list, also select the second squadron in the list and so on. 

Do so to avoid unwanted upgrades to your aircraft: you don't want your Spitfire to be upgraded to Beaufighter, do you? Most (not all) player squadrons have timetable updates.

I have done some testing, but if you encounter any bugs, let me know.
      

Installation:

Decompress the Bob-BAT.rar into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory and copy DGEN folder from Bob folder to main game folder, overwrite if prompted. 
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Bob 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 and select one of the above-mentioned careers.

DCG Settings:

Action radius 700 km or more. Beware of running out of fuel though, especially on single-engined fighters.

Transfers are set off by a timetable command. There are two reasons for that: some airfields are too short for some aircraft. I still wouldn't suggest loadind Bf-110 D-3 with both droptanks and 500 kg bombs. The other reason is to avoid overcrowding of certain airfields. You may turn transfer on or change your airfield via DCG panel.

Everything else as you wish. However, there are a lot of squadrons, so using full Squadron Density may cause FPS drop.

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
Uther for requesting this campaign

[arquillos]

Thank you very much!!!!!!! 
I´ll test it ASAP!

[vonofterdingen]

Fantastic. This is a DCG classic that I remember from CUP days.

[henkypenky]

Hi Shakaali, will this work with 'our' DCG vor BAT 1.2?

[Shakaali]

Hi Shakaali, will this work with 'our' DCG vor BAT 1.2?

I'm not quite sure what you asked, but if you meant will this work with older DCG version than 3.49 the answer is no. Not even 3.49 Beta. That is because the class.dcg file structure was changed for 3.49.

[whistler]

I think henkypenky meant: will this work with DGen for BAT?

henkypenky, it is either DGen or DCG. You can't (shouldn't) use both at the same time. Follow Shakaali's "Installation" notes to play these campaigns with Lowengrin's DCG.

[Shakaali]

Thank you, whistler.

You can't use both DCG and DGEN at the same time. If you try to run DCG campaing in DGEN and vice versa, the game will crash.

However, swapping between those  two is easy:

Open DCG Main screen.
Select "Replace Career Generator (DGen)" to use DCG.
Unselect "Replace Career Generator (DGen)" to use DGEN.

[henkypenky]

I think henkypenky meant: will this work with DGen for BAT?

yes you are right 

Thank you, whistler.

[vonOben]

Thanks for the campaign update, Shakaali! 

Much appreciated! 

[JonRedcorn]

Can you play these dcg campaigns online in co-op?

[Shakaali]

JonRedcorn, this is a single player campaign. So the answer is no. I'm 100 % offliner, I have no experience creating multi-player campaigns. 

[Tonyeh]

Mmmmm...maybe it's time for me to download BAT.