Based on the highly successful MC202 Folgore airframe , the MC 205V Veltro became the backbone of the fighter defence of Sicily along with the Bf109G6 and to a lesser extent the G55 Centauro. The bulk of the defence was still the MC202 and Re2001, armed only with machine guns. The Veltro crucially was armed with 20mm cannon and a more powerful engine, which was much needed against the increasingly better armoured opponents.
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As with its predecessor, the Veltro was a delight to fly and on several occasions outfought its opponents. However, the numerical superiority of the Allied Air Forces would in time wear down the defenders. Many were lost on the ground during mass bombing raids by heavy bombers, medium bombers, and increasingly fighter-bombers.
Such was the success of the Veltro, it became an important part of the post Armistice ANR that fought over northern Italy in the last year of the war.
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 the campaign uses Command and Control objects and Triggers, so many mission features would be lost or unworkable.
Extract the FOS_MC205.zip file to a temporary directory.
• Copy the decompressed Missions folder and the decompressed PaintSchemes folder to your IL-2 1946 root folder.
• In the New Pilot Career page, choose Regia Aeronautica in the Air Force selection drop-down. Choose Fire over Sicily Part 10: the Macchi Castoldi MC205V Veltro 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.
CreditsMany thanks to the BAT team for developing, maintaining, and improving the BAT Modpack. This campaign uses Command and Control and Trigger functions that were recently added to BAT.
We also thank the skinners out there. They bring a lot of life and realism to IL-2 missions everywhere. We could not identify the originators of all the skins we used in this campaign, but these we know:
• MC 205V - Rdans59
• Bf-109 – Fly by Shooter
• G55 - Stefano and Max the Hitman
• MC202 - abraxa and serval
• G50bis - Boelcke and stanislao
• Re2005 - sakai
• Re2001 – Metratron
• SM81 – Archie
And many thanks to Kurfurst for his mission templates. We use them extensively in all of our campaigns.
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