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[Shakaali]

Invasion of Normandy
A dynamic campaign for DCG & BAT

 

Omaha Beach, Normandy. France. June 6th, 1944. D-Day.

Download M4T: http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=2816
Download Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ndge0kkzdmywo7g/Normandy.rar/file

Operation Neptune, 6th - 30th June, 1944. The allied invasion of Normandy.

All squadrons and their equipment and bases are as correct as possible. For details see OOBs.xls.

For campaign to work as planned, please select corresponding aircraft and squadron (1st squadron on the list should use 1st aircraft on the list, 2nd squadron on the list should use 2nd aircraft on the list, and so on).


You can fly this campaign as:


RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force Pilot

-   No. 91 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire XIV, Fighter
-   No. 411 Sqn RCAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire IX, Fighter
-   No. 132 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire VIII, Fighter
-   No. 409 Sqn RCAF (NF), de Havilland Mosquito XIII, Night Fighter
-   No. 184 Sqn RAF (F), Hawker Typhoon IB Late, Fighter-Bomber
-   No. 183 Sqn RAF (F), Hawker Typhoon IB, Fighter-Bomber
-   No. 487 Sqn RNZAF (FB), de Havilland Mosquito VI, Fighter-Bomber
-   No. 342 (French) Sqn RAF (B), Douglas Boston IIIA, Bomber
-   No. 226 Sqn RAF (B), North American Mitchell II, Bomber
-   No. 26 Sqn RAF (AC), Supermarine Spitfire VA, Recon
-   No. 16 Sqn RAF (AC/FB), Supermarine Spitfire XI, Recon
-   No. 69 Sqn RAF (PRU), Vickers Wellington, Recon
-   No. 2 Sqn RAF (AC), North American Mustang I, Recon


Air Defence of Great Britain Pilot

-   No. 610 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire XIV, Fighter
-   No. 41 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire XII, Fighter
-   No. 501 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire IX, Fighter
-   No. 504 Sqn RAF (F), Supermarine Spitfire VB, Fighter
-   No. 56 Sqn RAF (F), Hawker Tempest V, Fighter
-   No. 263 Sqn RAF (F), Hawker Typhoon IA, Fighter
-   No. 316 (Polish) Sqn RAF (F), North American Mustang III, Fighter
-   No. 309 (Polish) Sqn RAF (F), Hawker Hurricane IIC, Fighter
-   No. 25 Sqn RAF (NF), de Havilland Mosquito XVII, Night Fighter
-   No. 406 Sqn RCAF (NF), Bristol Beaufighter, Night Fighter


RAF Bomber Command Pilot

-   No. 419 Sqn RCAF, Avro Lancaster, Bomber
-   No. 431 Sqn RCAF, Handley Page Halifax III, Bomber
-   None, Short Stirling III, Bomber
-   No. 105 Sqn RAF, de Havilland Mosquito XVI, Bomber

RAF Coastal Command Pilot

-   No. 455 Sqn RAAF (TB/FB), Bristol Beaufighter X, Fighter-Bomber
-   No. 248 Sqn RAF (FB), de Havilland Mosquito IV, Bomber
-   No. 311 (Czech) Sqn RAF, Consolidated Liberator GR V,  Recon
-   No. 415 Sqn RAAF, Fairey Albacore, Recon
-   No. 239 Sqn RAF, Lockheed Hudson III, Recon
-   No. 422 Sqn RCAF, Short Sunderland, Seaplane
-   No. 333 (Norwegian) Sqn RAF (FB/CC), Consolidated Catalina, Seaplane


Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Pilot

-   No. 808 Squadron FAA, Supermarine Seafire III, Fighter
-   No. 819 Squadron FAA, Fairey Swordfish, Bomber
-   No. 854 Squadron FAA, Grumman Avenger, Bomber

USAAF IX Fighter Command Pilot

-   378th FS 362nd FG 9th AF,  Republic P-47D-27  Thunderbolt, Fighter
-   492nd FS 48th FG 9th AF, Republic P-47D-22  Thunderbolt, Fighter
-   493nd FS 48th FG 9th AF, Republic P-47D-10 Thunderbolt, Fighter
-   353rd FS 354th FG 9th AF, North American P-51C, Fighter
-   355th FS 354th FG 9th AF, North American P-51B, Fighter
-   508th FS 404th FG 9th AF, Lockheed P-38L Lightning, Fighter


USAAF IX Bomber Command/9th Air Force Strategic Bomber Pilot

-   69 BS, Douglas A-20G Havoc, Bomber
-   70 BS, Martin B-26 Marauder, Bomber
-   322nd BS 91th BG 9th AF, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, Bomber
-   848nd BS 490th BG 9th AF, Consolidated B-24J Liberator, Bomber

USAAF  9th Air Force Recon/Transport Pilot

-   110 RS, North American P-51A, Recon
-   17 RS, Lockheed P-38F Lightning, Recon
-   22 RS, Douglas A-20C, Recon
-   51 TCW, Douglas C-47A Skytrain, Transport
-   52 TCW, Douglas C-47B Skytrain, Transport


Luftwaffe II Jagdkorps Pilot

-   I/JG 2, Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-8, Fighter
-   I/JG 26, Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-7, Fighter
-   Stab/JG 26, Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-6/R3, Fighter
-   Stab/JG 2, Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6, Fighter
-   II/JG 2, Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 1.3 ATA, Fighter
-   I/NJG 4, Junkers Ju-88G-1, Night Fighter
-   II/NJG 4, Messerschmitt Bf-110G-4, Night Fighter


Luftwaffe II Fliegerkorps Pilot

-   I/ZG 1, Junkers Ju-88R-2, Night Fighter
-   III/ZG 1, Junkers Ju-88C-6NJ, Night Fighter
-   III/SG 4, Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-6, Fighter-Bomber

Luftwaffe IX/X Fliegerkorps Pilot

-   I/SKG 10, Focke-Wulf Fw-190G-8, Fighter-Bomber
-   II/KG 6, Junkers Ju-88A-4, Bomber
-   III/KG 6, Junkers Ju-188, Bomber
-   III/KG 2, Dornier Do-217M-1, Bomber
-   II/KG 51, Messerschmitt Me-410A, Bomber
-   I/KG 40, Heinkel He-177 Greif, Bomber
-   I/KG 30, Focke-Wulf Fw-200 Condor, Bomber

Luftwaffe 2. Fliegerdivision Pilot

-   II/KG 77, Junkers Ju-88A-4, Bomber
-   III/KG 100, Dornier Do-217K-1, Bomber
-   1.(F)/33, Junkers Ju-88C-6, Recon


Luftwaffe Luftflotte 3/Kriegsmarine Subordinate Pilot

-   1./AufklGr 123, Focke-Wulf Fw-190F-1, Recon
-   2./NAGr 13, Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-3, Recon
-   4.(F)/123, Messerschmitt Bf-109G-5, Recon
-   3./NAGr 13, Messerschmitt Bf-109G-4, Recon
-   1.(F)/121, Messerschmitt Me-410B, Recon
-   IV/TG 4, Lioré et Olivier LeO 451, Transport
-   1./SAGr.125, Blohm & Voss BV-138, Seaplane
-   2./SAGr.125, Dornier Do-18, Seaplane
-   3./SAGr.125, Arado Ar-196, Seaplane

Requirements:

B.A.T. V3.8 PEGASUS or later
DCG 3.49  http://il2dcg.blogspot.com/

Installation:

Decompress the Normandy.rar into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory
Copy Dgen & Paintschemes folders from your Normandy folder and paste them in your IL-2 game directory. Overwrite if prompted
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Normandy 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.


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 are involved).


If you encounter any bugs or oddities, please let me know!

[vonOben]

Many thanks Shakaali 

Much appreciated! 

[Griffon_301]

Might give this one a try after I was to stupid to get DCG to run the last time I tried...

[vonofterdingen]

Looking forward to this one. Thanks!

[arquillos]

Thanks Shakaali!

What version of DCG is supported? Last DCG 3.50 Open Beta version?

[Shakaali]

Version 3.49

I have not tested 3.50 beta.

[Griffon_301]

Got it to run, or better said, got it to slide as the first mission is a slideshow on my rig...

[Shakaali]

Got it to run, or better said, got it to slide as the first mission is a slideshow on my rig...

Yes, the campaign is quite heavy, I would suggest not to use full squadron density. "Dense" runs pretty well on my rig (AMD FX-4350, AMD Radeon R7 360, 8 GB).


The first mission almost always runs slower than the rest of the campaign - not sure why.

[Griffon_301]

Ah thank you for the suggestion, will try that.
My rig is a bit older with an i7 3770i CPU and an Asus gtx 680 oc GPU with 4mb and I think the bottleneck is the GPU here as I had the paratrooper mesh error for the first time in 10 years when I fired up the first mission...
Will report back after trying another squadron setting...

[Hans-Joachim Marseille]

I tried this now and my decent PC cannot handle it at all. Would be interesting to know what others experience. I appreciate the effort a lot but sadly I cannot even really try - it's just a slideshow for me - and my PC is decent and actually should handle it (same CPU like you btw.). 

[Shakaali]

Decreasing the number of airplane makes the campaign (or any campaign) significantly faster.

Try lowering Squadron density (number of active squadrons in a mission) and/or Maximum Flights per squadron (number of flights each squadron will fly with). Massed Bombers also affects as if ticked, all bomber squadrons will fly with 4 flights.

I have played this campaign through with Squadron Density as Dense and Maximum Flights per squadron as One, Massed Bombers off. No problem with slow gameplay.


In this campaign the first two missions are super heavy because of heavy fighting on the beaches, so decreasing Stationary Object Density for the first two missions will also help a lot.

[Griffon_301]

may I ask what GPU you have?