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[SAS~Poltava]

A lot of my IL-2 time has been spent converting old campaigns to BAT. Well, this is a completely new one:



This is a semi-historical, 12 mission static campaign, set in the summer and early autumn of 1943. You take on the role of a fighter pilot in the Japanese Sentai 68, flying the new Kawasaki Ki-61 "Hien", the most modern aircraft in the service of the Army Airforce. (But also perhaps the most unreliable one, at least in the climate of the south Pacific.) Your unit is being transferred to "The Southern Front", where the earlier Japanese operations to take New Guinea has stalled, and Australians and Americans are pushing back, in a series long, bitter and costly battles series. Control of the air is decisive, and there is hope that the arrival of these new fighters will help tip the scales back into Japans favour.

You can download it here: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=279

It is an "outtake" from "Raging Eagles", the BIG JAAF campaign I built together with Edc1. In the new version of "Raging Eagles" a number of new segment were put together, not least this one. Originally I used the old stock Kokoda map, which doesn't cover the area up north were the Japanese had their main bases. And as we now have a map that covers that part of New Guinea as well, it was a no-brainer to just build a new one. I have tried to show the problems the Japanese were facing, not least with their air strategy. They often opted for hitting crucial targets once or twice with large numbers of aircraft, specially concentrated for these attack operations (Pearl Harbour or Darwin style), while the Australians and Americans attacked the Japanese bases with smaller number of aircraft, but almost on a daily basis, again and again, grinding their opponents down. And once they lost control of the air space, and caonvoys could no longer get there, the supply situation first became critical for the Japanese, and then steadily grew worse. Most of their aircraft were destroyed on the ground, or were left unservicable, due to lack of spares. And almost all of the soldiers and pilots that were shipped to New Guinea never returned. In the end many actually died of starvation.

This campaign has been built with and for the WAW module, version 4.1.2. If you have BAT version 4.1.2 or above it will work!

Skins: Included in this campaign are 15 skins. (Found in the campaign folder - sorry: that is just because I need to keep some kind of structure in all my campaign files.) The skins are the work of Greg, Jarink, Macwan, 78 Sentai, Phil_K, Jadehawk and Laperemagloire. Thanks, guys! Without skinners, no campaigns!

Some shiny screenies here:













Thanks for looking! 

[Flieger]

Great Poltava and all the helpers. You really make her a special form of art. I call it the art of creating the world. You are brilliant.

[cgagan]

Many thanks Poltava, another piece of brilliant work for our mcampaign folders!!!! 

[Vampire_pilot]

This looking great!

[Yaro59]

Truly great work, Poltava and others who contributed.

[SAS~Poltava]

PS. Stressing a point already made: when I did the new "Raging Eagles" it was GREAT to get aquainted with all those new Asia/Pacific maps that can now be found in BAT. We tend to focus, rightly, on the new aircraft we get, but all the new maps we have been given by modders are also really a boon!