So I've been loving BAT since I decided to get back into Il-2 Alphabet Soup Edition and went down the modding rabbit hole.
I installed the DGen patch for WAW (
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61913.0.html), so I figured this little story time fit the best here...
Dgen missions can, of course, get a little ho-hum, but I've been kind of liking that, because it's giving me a little bit of the immersive feel of the war-time grind. I also decided to start a spreadsheet to keep track of the casualties and attrition over the span of the war, which has been an interesting geek-out. (173 KIA, 100 MIA since the beginning of Barbarossa.)
But I had a mission last night that was wild.
Crimean Penninsula, Spring 1944. I'm the CO of a Shturmovik squadron. We're assigned a target that's just 30km from the airfield. So we form up and head out, with a flight of Yaks for cover. About three minutes into the short little outbound leg to the target, we come across Romanian Stukas and IAR-81s attacking ground targets. The Yaks head right in, but I carry on with my squadron to the target. We have a job to do, right?
So the Yaks get all mixed up with the IARs and we start digging into the target. Somebody hollers about bombers at 6 o'clock. I look and see a Stuka in the distance. They're just going home. Ignore them. Carry on. Except...
About a minute after the sighting, number 10 calls out for somebody to clear his tail. I scan in a hurry, thinking one or more of the IARs had come our way. Nope! IT WAS THE STUKA! And the rest of his flight was coming up fast.
The Stukas were trying to bounce the Shturmoviks. Naturally, being a good little Polkovnik, I have a sense of protectiveness about my comrades. Essentially, it was a big old, "Aw, HELL NO!" moment. So I got into...dogfight isn't the right word...a bearfight? I got into a bearfight with the Stukas. Turns out they catch fire like grass on a hot, dry day. I came home with 3 guns, 5 vehicles, and 4 Stukas on my scorecard.
So yeah, DGen and the AI combined to blow my mind on that one. I'm probably going to remember that mission for a long time. I've attacked slow or wounded enemy bombers from time to time in the Il-2, but never did I think I'd get bounced by Stukas. Every once in a while the randomizer throws a wicked, delightful curve at you.
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