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[Shakaali]

Operation Meridian
A Dynamic Campaign for DCG and BAT


 An oil refinery at Palembang on fire after being attacked by the Royal Navy in January 1945

Download Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6fqbubwxhnrw449/Operation+Meridian.rar/file
Download M4T: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3235

Operation Meridian, also known as the "Palembang Raids" was part of a series of British air attacks directed at Japanese-held oil refineries near Palembang on Sumatra during the Second World War.
The first attack - against the oil refinery at Pladjoe, north of Palembang, Sumatra - was delayed by poor weather from 21 January and the fleet waited off Enggano Island. The attack was finally launched at 6 am on 24 January.

There were a lot of Japanese aircraft on Sumatra, but they were mostly obsolete Ki-43 fighters and Ki-21 bombers flown by training and replacement squadrons, so they were no match for modern Royal Navy fighters. However, there were a few modern and very dangerous Ki-44 and Ki-84 fighters and Ki-45 heavy fighters.

You can fly this campaign as:

Royal Navy Bomber Pilot:
-   Grumman Avenger II
-   Grumman Avenger I

Royal Navy Fighter Pilot:
-   Seafire F.III
-   Seafire L.III
-   Vought Corsair II
-   Grumman Hellcat I

Royal Navy Ground Attack Pilot:
-   Fairey Firefly FR.I

Imperial Japanese Army Fighter Pilot:
-   Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Frank)
-   Nakajima Ki-44 Shōki (Tojo)
-   Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Nick)
-   Nakajima Ki-43-III Hayabusa (Oscar)
-   Nakajima Ki-43-II Hayabusa (Oscar)

Imperial Japanese Army Bomber Pilot:
-   Mitsubishi Ki-21-II (Sally)
-   Mitsubishi Ki-21-I (Sally)

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). 

Historical Notes:
All squadrons are historical, except IJA Bomber squadrons, which were not available. Unavailable air bases and carriers are replaced with available ones, see OOBs.xls (included in the package) for further info.
IRL there were only two strikes: Meridian I on 24 January and Meridian II on 29 January. However, that would have been a short campaign, so in campaign there are two missions per day from 24 January to 29 January.


Requirements:

B.A.T. v4.3. Danger Zone
DCG 3.50 beta  (https://forum.jg1.org/forum/68-dcg-announcements/)

Installation:

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


Recommended DCG Settings:

Air Starts: On
Delayed Start Times: On
Historical Production Dates: Off
Action Radius Setting: 999 km


Note:

There is an error that sometimes happens if BAT has too many skin folders for DCG to handle. DCG has a weird way of regocnizing aircraft by its skin folder and it was created a long time ago when number of aircraft was significantly smaller than today. The error should have been corrected, but it still pops up every once in the while preventing the campaign from launching.

However, there is a walkaround. Go to PaintSchemes and rename Skins folder (eg. Skins_Backup. Then  copy the Skins folder fro this package to the PaintSchemes. Later on if you need skin folder for another aircraft you can copy it from Skins_Backup to Skins, or if you install another DCG campaign you can install the skins from the campaign.

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 you are ).

[Whiskey_Sierra_972]

Thanks master and teacher!

I'll give this wornderful work a look in the next few days!

Thanks to share with us the hard work of campaign building!

[vonofterdingen]

Great idea for a campaign. Many thanks for this.

[arquillos]

Interesting! Thank you very much!!!

[Witchy]

Whoohoo a new dynamic campaign. Thanks as always!

[Vesrra]

Woah, many thanks for this!
Some missions in and it feels surprisingly well-built, although it is completely dynamic (Never tried DCG before). Semi-long carrier fighter missions are my favourite and this is just perfect. Some screenshots I took:

[Shakaali]

Nice screenshots 

Thank You!

[Marius Val]

I'm adding my thanks!