Siamese Sorties is a 26-mission campaign by Von and Lars for a Thai pilot. We wrote and tested this campaign using the SAS BAT 4.1.2 mod pack.
Download here:
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=2954
History and mission considerations by LarsIn the early part of the 20th Century France wished to expand their influence in Asia and had taken over the Siamese protectorates of Laos and Cambodia, despite protests by the Siamese government. (Siam became known as Thailand in 1939). This caused much resentment. Therefore, when France was overrun by the Germans in 1940 this left the French Indo-China territories vulnerable. These territories chose to join the Vichy government rather than the Free French and were now under pressure from the Japanese, as their ‘Ally’, to cease allowing supplies to be carried through to China. Having been cut off from their French homeland the local government were too weak to resist. The Thai authorities saw this as an opportunity to reclaim their lost protectorates.
The Japanese viewed Thailand as one of their biggest allies and provided several aircraft and materials over the coming years. At the same time the Thais, having been supplied up to 1941 by mainly American companies, were reluctant to cease those former contacts. Thus, there appeared a parallel war within the country. While supporting the Japanese on attacks over the China border, they also set up secret bases for the Allies to use in smuggling in partisan weapons and agents. Even the main civilian base at Bangkok was used by the Japanese on one runway and by the illicit Thais on the other!
There is very little written in English about this conflict so I apologise if my facts are a bit astray but I think the basis of what I have written is correct.
The air conflict between Thailand and Vichy France lasted just two months, November 1941 to January 1942, followed by support for the Thai armies invading Cambodia and Japanese armies in the northern advance into China, and then a basic air defence of Thailand until 1945.(Please note there were only a few intercepts from 1943 so we have included all those known).
You will be flying the Hawk III, Hawk 75N, Ki27b, and Ki43-2b fighters for the Thai Air Force.
This is a semi-historical 25 mission campaign, tested in BAT4.1.2., Windows 10, on a ten year old laptop so it should work for most players.
Known problems are:
1. The commonly used French Potez 25TOE and Thai Vought Corsair are currently in the TGA and not in WAW module. It is hoped they may be copied into WAW in the future. We have used substitutes U2 and Letov 328 respectively for now. All other aircraft are as used at the time.
2. Some runways incur a bouncy start. It is recommended the player eases the throttle towards take off rather than increase too fast or you will nose over. The autopilot may be used until after take off for the Hawk 75N onwards but the Hawk III will need to be manual until reaching around 100mph and 900ft height. Don’t forget to manually raise the Hawk III undercarriage - I use the O(raise) and K(lower) keys for this. Press the O key several times until the message ‘Gear Up’ appears on screen. Likewise press K key for ‘gear down’.
3. There were no known clashes with Chinese aircraft on their southern border but we included warlords aircraft for the continuity of air combat and fun. You never know, there might have been small conflicts in the area.
4. There is currently no Thai radio chatter so we have used Japanese instead. As most Thai aircraft had no radios we could have flown in silence but it felt weird so we left the sounds in.
Happy flying.
Lars.
InstallationThis campaign was written and tested using the SAS BAT Mod Pack, available here:
BAT Downloads (sas1946.com)
It may work on other modded systems but frankly that would be unlikely.
Extract the SiamSorties.zip file to a temporary directory.
• Copy the decompressed Missions folder and the decompressed PaintSchemes folder to your IL-2 1946 root folder.
• The TH Thai campaign folder, including ranks and awards, is included with the install.
• In the New Pilot Career page, choose Thailand in the Air Force selection drop-down. Choose Siamese Sorties in the Career drop-down.
• We recommend turning off No Instant Success for this campaign.
• The campaign is designed to be compatible with any rank selection.
CreditsVon and Lars did not make the wonderful Thai Career folder, nor do we know who did. Whoever you are, thanks a million! It is a delight.
Fabian Fred is the author of the Thailand map that we use in this campaign. It too is a delight to fly over, as you will soon see for yourself.
We got some great Thai skins for this campaign.
• Hawk-75H by Hynkel.
• Hawk III by Archie
• Ki-27 by Zargos
• Ki-30 by Sakai
• Japanese Ki43 by Macwan
• B-10 (WH1) by Ont_R
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