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Tempest in the Ardennes

Category IL-2 Series: Forgotten Battles & Pacific Fighters › Campaigns (Offline)
Submitted by rdans59
Author's Name Rdans59
Version 1.0
Compatibility 1946+PF v4.08
PF Standalone No
Historical / Semi Historical No
Published
Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:15 pm
New!

Non historical Campaign v.1.0 for the RAF during the Ardennes Offensive by rdans59

*********** TEMPEST IN THE ARDENNES ***********

The player will fly the excellent Tempest MkV fighter-bomber.

This plane's versatility and power were superbly described by Pierre Clostermann in his book "The Big Show".

For this Campaign, I modified the skin by a non better identified skinner, provided with DFLion's Campaign "The Big Show".
I could not find any signature. The template is so full of details that I guess there was no room for the signature after all.
Anyways, I'd like to thank the maker for his unsurpassed work on Pierre Clostermann's JF-E "Le Grand Charles".

The Campaign requires a merged install of 1946+PF patched to v.4.08

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SKINS
All planes in your Flight will use skins I made for this Campaign. I also made most of the skins for the remaining planes, or used the default ones.

In some cases, I used or modified skins by other authors, like the one for the Tempests, which was enclosed in DFLion's Campaign "The Big Show" (for FB+AEP+PF).
I would like to thank the following skinners for their excellent work:
- Kristorf Monguse (Lancaster hack)
- Canon (P47D27)
- Rudi Jaeger (Fi156)

Of course, you are free to use my skins for your own Missions, but please remember to give credit to the skinner.

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INSTALLATION
The Ardennes_Tempest zip archive contains 2 Folders:

Ardennes_Tempest
Skins

- Unzip the Ardennes_Tempest folder in your ..IL2\Missions\Campaign\GB folder
- Unzip the Skin folder in your ..\IL2\PaintSchemes folder.

My skins should have unique names. To prevent overwriting existing skins with the one provided here, extract the Skins folder to a temporary location, check the names and make backups of your own skins, if necessary.
Once you are sure no duplicates exist, copy the skins from the temporary location to the ..\IL2\PaintSchemes folder.

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CAMPAIGN PLAY
Start your new Campaign for the RAF and choose for the highest rank.

The skin to be used and the option Markings ON/OFF are specified in each Mission's Briefing.

If a missions begins in the air, the AIR START! warning will be found in the briefing. Hit the "A" key (Autopilot) as soon as the mission starts, to avoid crashing into your wingman (or ground).

You may want to switch the Instant Success OFF in the Difficulty settings. This will allow you to fly the next Mission even though you did not complete the previous Mission successfully.

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NOTE ON WEATHER
The Campaign plays mostly in foul weather, snowstorms, low clouds and gusty winds, or a combination of all those.
Since a great deal of the missions will be ground attacks, you will find yourself dancing the polka as soon as you descend below the 300-400 meters.
I advise to switch the "Wind & Turbulence" option in the Difficulty Settings to OFF. This may seem strange, but only your plane seems to suffer from it. All other (AI) planes will not feel a thing... but you will!
My apologies to the game's purists for suggesting such an easy way out.

Enjoy!