Yes, another conversion to BAT! (We are slowly getting there...)
This is a semi-historical, static 13-mission campaign, set during the Battle for France 1940. You are a French Fighter pilot in a night fighter group (G.C.N. or Groupe de Chasse de Nuit), flying the Potez 631 heavy fighter. When the campaign starts your unit is assigned to the defense of Paris, and the first mission are performed in the night, hunting in the dark for German intruders. Then - as in real life - after the crisis at Sedan, your unit is shifted to the front, to act as day fighters instead.
The campaign uses the excellent "Command & Control" mod by CY6, which, among other things, makes it possible to have night missions pretty close to the real thing. In the first three night missions you will receive reports from ground observers and listening posts, reporting sightings of enemy aircraft. Note that these of course are much less accurate than radar, and that the interceptions will be tough. (Unless you cheat and look at the map...) Note also that many missions uses randomizers, which mean that some missions might be eventless, without meeting any enemy aircraft at all - just as in real life! And note that this campaign uses the NEW and VERY beautiful Potez 631 by Team IES!
You can download it here: http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=2022On the Potez 631: The Potez 630-family was built to meet the requirements of a 1934 heavy fighter specification - a type in vogue at the time: just see the Messerschmitt Bf 110 or Blenheim Mk.IF. The prototype first flew in 1936. The aircraft entered service with the fighter director flights that were attached to each single-engine fighter wing (Escadre de Chasse), and with the night fighter groups. At the start of the Second World War a total of 206 aircraft had been accepted and 117 had reached front line units.
The Potez 631 proved to have excellent handling qualities, could take quite an amount of punishment, but as it was undergunned and slow - 130 km/h slower than the Bf 109E, and slower even than some German bombers - it didn't prove a very effectual interceptor. In all, Potez 631 night-fighters destroyed a total of 29 German aircraft in the Battle of France, but for a loss of 93 of their own number. They were also used to attack ground targets.
More shiny screenies here:
Thanks for looking
And once more thanks to
Edc1 for the heavy lifting - Stan, you are the man
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Topic: Battle for France - A Potez 631 Campaign! (Read 1493 times)
