The campaign contains the following parts:

Belgium 1939, Phoney war
Belgium 1940, Blitzkrieg
France 1940, Battle of france
France 1941: Circus (june 1941 till december 1941)
Channel front spring 1942: Butcher Bird
France autumn 1942: Fortresses ahead
Channel front January 1943: All quiet at the western front
Channel autumn 1943: War of attrition
France may 1944: Pre invasion phase
Normandy june 1944: DDay
Normandy july 1944: Breakout
Northern germany fall 1944: Throes of death
Ardennes: Operation Bodenplatte
Northern germany 1945: Defeat


The campaign is available for

Luftwaffe fighters, RAF and USAAF fighters, fighter bombers and bombers - some 2000 missions all together! you are able to fly nearly everything which was used in ww2 in the ETO. I?ve added some new content from 4.11 and HSFX 6 into the campaign like the Do 17, Hs 123, Hurri Bomber, early two blade Hurricane and so on.

The bomber campaign will start 1941 and ends with the invasion cause the other maps are to small for bomber operations.

The RAF fighter bomber campaign will start also in june 1941, cause the RAF didn?t made use of fighter bombers before this stage of war in the ETO.

The USAAF campaigns are starting in 1942 of course.


Flyable planes: Everything which is historical correct and available in HSFX ...

Used maps are Normandy, Ardennes and Northwest Europe. The maps are highly populated with objects from various mission/map template artists.



What do you need to get the campaign working: HSFX 6.01 and dgen.exe 4.0.8.6


The campaign is available here:

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.715

skin packs:

USAAF skins: http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.521

RAF and FAF skins: http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.522

Luftwaffe skins: http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.523



Changes V 1.1:

- Fixing the loadout bug for the Bf 109 G6 Erla?s and Mid which can crash the campaign

- Added the Fw190 A4 FR to the campaign (thx to TheFruitBat)

- Added the Bf 109 E7N

- Removed the LaGG3 fake DW 520

- Changed the loadouts for the Typhoon: The Typhoon IB has now always bombs as loadouts, the IB Late always Rockets - so you can choose what?s the best for your taste.

- Both DDay subcampaigns are much more enriched with ground objects and effects like Arti barrage and fire and somke to make it more vivid, like a living battlefield

Be carefull, the rear area has now masses of german AA guns in the eastern direction of the map, the bridges are now heavy defended.
I recommend the allied DDay fighter bomber campaigns, much fun! But much more difficult than before.

I also recommend Gurners Effects and Gurners Distance especialy for this campaign, very important:

http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,20929.0.html

you will like it

Changes V 1.2:

- fixed some problems with the objects in the dday subcampaigns and populated more German airfields

Changes V 1.3:

- cleaned the crowded airfields to avoid crashes for the AI planes when landing and traxing to the dispersal area
- balanced the early war RAF subcampaigns for the AI in 4.11
- many minor fixes and changes in the other parts of the campaign

- Requirements:

dgen.exe 4.0.8.6

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/download.php?view.525


- Installation:

unzip all the files into the \DGEN folder from Il2


- The campaign was tested with the following values in the conf.ini [DGEN] section:

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

If you don?t find a [DGEN] section in your conf.ini file, copy and paste the whole values posted above into the conf.ini and start the campaign

Very important is

MaxFlak: I inserted a lot of anti aircraft guns in the Normandie map, make sure that MaxFlak is NOT more than 40 or you will have a flak hell over the Normandie coastal defences. It also matches my Defense of the Reich campaign.

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

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


A guide how to tweak your dgen campaigns according to your taste is available here:

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1539



- Skins:

To get all the skins from the skin pack into the proper folder please copy the skins from the

- Bf 109 E7N folder into the Bf 109 E7Z folder and

- the Hurricane IIc skins into the HurricaneIICB folder

- and the FW-190A-4 skins into the FW-190A-4FR folder.

It?s not needed to get the campaign working, but it adds a lot of immersion to it.



KOWN ISSUES:

- The Hurricane Ia doesn?t work for allies as flyers plane, so i used the HUrricane Ib insted.

- The early RAF subcampaigns before summer 1941 do have some problems with the dates and time. It?s a software restriction that dgen.exe can?t support dates before the invasion of Russi in June 1941, so i had to choose wrong dates for the 1939-41 parts for the RAF, it will appear with dates from 1941 and 1942. From the channel part on it?s correct. For the Luftwaffe campaigns it was possible to choose the correct dates and times in 1940 and 41.

- In the autumn 1944 subcampaign, the Temptest V has airstarts. I couldn?t find the reason for it, as it is only the Tempest, the Spitfires are working well. So, we have to live with it.

For more details about the campaign check this thread:

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2654.last

more impressions ... the campaign covers the wohle time of the war:

I haven't played IL-2 1946 for a quite a while I admit,
but I was tempted to do so just by looking at the preview pics of your Campaign!
I installed the Campaign over HXSF 6.0.17 and seems not working...
(it shows up normally I can see the sub Campaigns, but when I click the "generate" button I get just a "beep" sound)
I thought it was the DGen.exe and installed the one you propose in the installation guide...but still.
When I was installing the skinpacks I saw that a plane you were referring to, (Hurricane MkIICB) to be missing
and remembered that some planes were removed in some latest HSFX patches.
Could it be this the reason the Campaign desn't work or I screwed up the installation somewhere?

please try this

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?4095

EDIT: checked HSFX 6.017, the HurriBomber is still included.

Thanks, for the tip!
I did add those files to the DGen folder but still German Campaigns don't generate...
I tried a British one and it works.
I would desperately want to play a Bf109 Career...
Any ideas?

Some few poeple have problems with the German campign, please try this:

- start windows file explorer and go to the DGEN folder of your il2

- check for the files:

campaignsDe?.dat
campaignsDe?_ru.dat
campaignsDe?_de.dat
classesDe?.dat
planesDe?.dat
squadronsDe?.dat

- rename these files with a letter or number which isn?t used by other campaigns

you can check for a not used letter or number when looking for files called

campaignsDe*.dat

for example: if you don?t have a file called campaignsDeA.dat, rename the files mentioned before into:

campaignsDeA.dat
campaignsDeA_ru.dat
campaignsDeA_de.dat
classesDeA.dat
planesDeA.dat
squadronsDeA.dat

(sounds a little bit difficult but it isn?t)

- then try to start a Luftwaffe campaign

If this don?t work, well - i hate to say this - in the most cases in the past, a clean new installation of the game and the mod pack solved that probem for many poeple.

Somehow I had missed this amazing thread. (EDIT: Actually I had seen the original one you linked to) Detlef - are you kidding me (us)? The whole Western Front war??? It's all there - fighter, Jabo, Red or Blue? This is just a dream. I have no idea about these Dgen campaigns but I can imagine this was a phenomenal amount of work.

My copy of Windows 7 (to convert this awkward damn Mac to something more than just pretty) should arrive in a week or two, and then I am so keen to try all this out.