The Defense of the Reich campaign was designed for Il2 4.1.0 stock or better

Included is

- a Luftwaffe fighter campaign from 1943-45 and (Defense of the Reich)

- an USAAF fighter campaign 1943-45. (Battle over Germany)

The USAAF fighter campaign has mostly airstarts.

You can start the Luftwaffe campaign ?Boelckes Defense of the Reich? in the campaign rooster

or the USAAF fighter campaign ?Boelckes Battle over Germany? in the USAAF campaign rooster.


The campaign contains the following subcampaigns:

- Germany Berlin 1943

You encounter bomber formations mostly without escort. Sometimes some P47 and/or P38 will appear, but only a few.

- Big week February 1944

The bomber formations are now larger and all the formations are now escorted. P51 fighters are shown the first time.

- Germany Berlin Spring 1944

The USAAF fighters are becoming more aggressive and skilled.

- Balaton Hungary 1944

You will encounter formations of the 5th USAAF from italy, with famous units like the checkertail clan and others.

- Northern germany atumn 1944

In autumn 1944 the luftwaffe units were reassembled and equipped with new fughters after the huge losses suffered at the invasion battles. You will now encounter USAAF and now RAF planes also. New planes like the Fw190D9 will be available for you as Luftwaffe pilot. The missions are totaly different to the previous, with much more fighter bomber interception and twin engined bomber formations of the 2nd TAF and 9th USAAF.

- Berlin end of 1944

The last stand against huge formations of US planes over Berling. Mostly bomber interception missions. A lot of new planes are available for Luftwaffe even the new jets.

- Bodenplatte (*new*)

Take part in the Ardennes operations of the Luftwaffe or USAAF.

- Germany 1945

The US planes are doing much more fighter sweeps and ground attack missions. The missions are harder for Luftwaffe pilots.

- Battle of Berlin 1945

Defending the town against the russian army, you will encounter VVS forces in large numbers. It?s totally different to the missions against the USAAF.

- Jet age, the last days

The intention was to create a short subcampaign of the last days before defeat, with all the jet planes available in Il-2 - a "what if".

Flyable planes:

BF_110G2
BF_109G6
BF_109G6 AS
BF_109G10
BF_109G14
BF_109G14 AS
BF_109K4
BF_109K4 C3
FW_190A6
FW_190A8
FW_190A9
FW_190D9
FW_190D9 late
TA_152H1
ME_262 A1A
ME_262 HGII
TA_183
HE_162A2
HE_162C
DO_335A0
DO_335V13


P_38J
P_47D10
P_47D22
P_47D27
P_51B
P_51D5NT
P_51D20NA

download:

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.520

Unzip the files and copy them into the DGEN folder of Il2, there are some few files from BOE included so that you can play the Ardennes subcampaign, if you have BOE already, you can overwrite these files, it will do no harm.

I?ve done a new skin pack for the new campaign:

More than 100 skins done by myself, i have assembled the skins into one big generic skin pack for the Defense of the Reich campaign and the new West front campaign (three parts: Luftwaffe, USAAF and RAF/FAF)

get them here:

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?list.58

IMPORTANT: Recommended settings for the [DGEN] section of the CONF.INI:

My settings are these

[DGen]
RandomFlights=3
;UseParkedPlanes=0
HistoricalRanks=1
NoAirfieldHighlight=1
MaxFLAK=40
MissionDistance=75
MaxBomberSkill=0

Very important is

MaxFlak: I inserted a lot of anti aircraft guns in the Berlin map, make sure that MaxFlak is NOT more than 40 or you will have a flak hell over Berlin. With 40 you will have a lot of flak, adding immersion. If you don?t like it, experiment with less than 40.

MaxBomberSkill: Set it to "0" or the sniper gunners of the Fortresses will shoot you to pieces from huge distances.

DIABLE "UseParkedPlanes" or the campaign will crash when changing to the NWE and Ardennes maps.



A video from the campaign (an older version for UP 2.0) at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgjhNd1RjRw&feature=player_detailpage



EDIT:

You will need a decent hardware to play with the large bomber formations, if you encounter FPS problems try the patch with smaler bomber formations - reduced from 39 to 26 planes combat boxes. Copy the files from the zip file into the DGEN folder of IL2 OVER THE CAMPAIGN FILES, overwriting the old files, that?s it:

Smaler bomber formations




DISCLAIMER:

The campaign file pack pack is a non commercial product. Every commercial use is denied by the author.

Do not upload the campaign anywhere else or alter the campaign files.

Contact the author at http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/ for permission.

B 24 by Jarink:

Hey Boelcke how ya doin,
Will this excellent campaign work on 4.11.1?
If so where and how do I place the files?

Krys

yes, of course - all files are going into the \DGEN folder, that?s all

Thanks for the reply mate.
I tried them in a folder and then on their own and on both occasions didn't work..

Boelcke,
Hows things with you? campaign running smooth as silk on 4.11.1/modact 4 install.
I have one observation, I am currently up to about 180 kills, 99% bombers, US P-47's and P-51's now escorting the bombers and I have engaged and shot down at least a dozen of them but they never register on my kills, only the B17's or B24's.
why is that, I even get aknowledgemnt over the radio for the kill but not on my kill list..!

Krys

Looks like the Reichsluftfahrtministerium didn?t count your claims ...

Just kidding ... to be serious I realy don?t know, that?s one of the secrets of the game.

I posted on the SAS forum that the DOTR is extremely immersive to the point I actually felt sorry to finish off the bombers.
I thankyou for such an amazing campaign and look forward to doing the westfront campaign as well, but that will have to wait until after I have done the USAAF DOTR campaign as well.
Thanks for your prompt reply

Krys