the German invasion fleet sets sail late evening from Calais, LeHavre and Dunkirk under RAF attack.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
New Cliffs of Dover Sealion Mission Pack under development!
the German invasion fleet sets sail late evening from Calais, LeHavre and Dunkirk under RAF attack.
Monday, December 26, 2011
Winner of the offline tournament is...
Winner of the 25USD prize in the 2011 CoD RAF Offline Tournament was AJAY, at SimHQ, who completed the RAF missions with a total of 17 points!
Second was JimboP, who would have drawn, had he not lost one point through the loss of his wingman in mission 2!
Highest scorer in the Luftwaffe tournament was Solarian with 21 Victories and second was CheeseHawk with 19!
The 16 missions in this set are still available to fly and play...
Easy self installing missions: http://www.box.com/s/mbl65u8uvtoaemgti2ns
Second was JimboP, who would have drawn, had he not lost one point through the loss of his wingman in mission 2!
Highest scorer in the Luftwaffe tournament was Solarian with 21 Victories and second was CheeseHawk with 19!
The 16 missions in this set are still available to fly and play...
Easy self installing missions: http://www.box.com/s/mbl65u8uvtoaemgti2ns
Sunday, December 4, 2011
BoB Game Hub Mission Packs
Now you can get the first 2 months worth of 'Mission of the Week' Cliffs of Dover missions as one download at Airwarfare.com
This is a set of 8 Single Missions with an emphasis on recreating in exacting detail historical events from the Battle of Britain. From the exact units which were involved in the mission, to the location, weather, time of day and altitude, as much as possible the missions have been recreated from actual combat reports and published sources. Each mission features an automatic installer and uninstaller which places the needed files and skins in your CoD folder for you, ready to fly.
This is a set of 8 Single Missions with an emphasis on recreating in exacting detail historical events from the Battle of Britain. From the exact units which were involved in the mission, to the location, weather, time of day and altitude, as much as possible the missions have been recreated from actual combat reports and published sources. Each mission features an automatic installer and uninstaller which places the needed files and skins in your CoD folder for you, ready to fly.
The 8 missions in this first set are:
- Day of the Condor: RAF interception of mine laying FW200 Condors
- Deere over Dunkirk: The first ever victory by a Spitfire over a Bf109
- Galland vs Allen: LW Ace Adolph Galland’s battle to the death against RAF ace Johnny Allen
- McNab’s darkest day: 1C Canadian squadron’s famous first ever mission
- Corpo Aero: the Italian air force’s most successful raid during the Battle
- Bader’s Big Wing: a mission in which ace Douglas Bader claimed 20 kills for his ‘Big Wing’
- Arty Holmes ‘Ramming Speed’: Pilot RT Holmes brings down a Do17, without his guns
- Wicks Big Day out: Helmut Wick claimed 5 kills in one day, with three in this mission
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Cliffs of Dover offline Tournament, missions available
DOWNLOAD AND PLAY NOW! http://www.box.com/s/mbl65u8uvtoaemgti2ns
Who is the Cliffs of Dover Ace of Aces? Lets find out!
16 (8RAF + 8LW) specially designed offline missions which together form a tournament that you can fly at your own pace and in your own time.
The challenge is three-fold:
- Fly each mission in the tournament at your usual realism settings
- Score as many victories as you can with your pilot
- Keep your wingman alive
The winner is the pilot who completes the 8 missions with the greatest number of victories!
Post your own score on the Tournament page for bragging rights...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Honour Tournament for CoD
Who is the Cliffs of Dover Ace of Aces? Lets find out!
Next weekend I will be uploading ten specially designed offline missions which together form a tournament that you can fly at your own pace and in your own time.
The challenge is two-fold:
- Fly each mission in the tournament at your usual realism settings
- Score as many victories as you can with your pilot
The winner is the pilot who completes the ten missions with the greatest number of victories!
Some missions will include bonus challenges, such as bringing down enemy bombers (scores as 2 victories) or protecting your own bombers (scores as one victory for each bomber that survives).
You will be flying the RAFs finest fighter, a Spitfire IIa, as part of the famous 54 Squadron.
PSEUDO-DYNAMIC(TM) MISSION DIFFICULTY
Missions and enemies increase in difficulty as you progress. You start against fewer, slower, weaker opponents. You finish in all out melees against the Luftwaffe's finest.
You are not flying alone - your wingman 'Fatty' is at your side. Try not to lose him. Losing your wingman is bad karma. He is a tough nut, and if he is shot down he will walk, swim or limp back so that he is with you again for your next mission, but you will lose 1 victory each time he is shot down.
'Fatty', before his first solo flight, last week. Note the flight manual for his Hurricane in his hand...
Your wingman's skill and aggression will increase as you progress. Fatty starts mission 1 as a timid undisciplined Rookie, and ends as an aggressive and disciplined Veteran.
RULES
You can fly each mission only twice: once for practice, and once for real. The best of your two missions can be submitted. If you are shot down in the mission, no victories count. You must move on to the next mission.
You must submit a screenshot of your summary screen to qualify. Remember, sometimes just surviving is a good result, so submit your results as a screenshot and include a short combat report, even if you don't score a victory!
HONOUR IS ALL
Where does the HONOUR come in? It is an offline tournament, so you are the only one who knows if you followed the rules, and we trust that you will. Only two tries per mission. Fly at your usual realism settings. Fess up when you are shot down! Doubt that this concept works? Then it is not for you! I have run several Honour Tournaments for EAW, and BOBII and they have been a great success.
SCORE TALLY
When you report your combat for each mission here on SimHQ CoD forum, your tally on the CoD Honour Roll will be updated over at BoB Game Hub. Feel free to drop in there any time and see who is the CoD Ace of Aces!
WHAT CAN I DO UNTIL THE TOURNAMENT MISSIONS ARE UPLOADED?
- Get some stick time in a Spit IIa
- Learn how to add 'kill marks' to your skin...previous tournament participants have had fun doing this
- If you don't already know, learn how to take a screen dump of the Single Mission Summary Screen. The easiest way, without installing any new software, is to press 'Prnt Screen', go to Windows Accessories, open Windows Paint, paste and save.
- You can upload the file to any photo sharing site. If you don't already use one, I recommend Photobucket.com
- If you can't work out how to upload a photo, you can PM me and I will send you an email address you can email your screen dump to.
Of course if you just want to play the missions and post your end result, feel free...
BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM MISSIONS!
The tournament download will include a self-installer. Just point it at the CoD Folder on your hard drive and it will do the rest for you. The missions will appear in your Single Missions menu. If you get stuck, someone here will talk you through it.
WANT TO JOIN IN?
Just indicate your interest below...ask any questions, start psyching out your opposition with tales of your aerial derring-do or plain old fashioned trash-talk. I hereby declare the tournament...OPEN
Go to SimHQ to register
Next weekend I will be uploading ten specially designed offline missions which together form a tournament that you can fly at your own pace and in your own time.
The challenge is two-fold:
- Fly each mission in the tournament at your usual realism settings
- Score as many victories as you can with your pilot
The winner is the pilot who completes the ten missions with the greatest number of victories!
Some missions will include bonus challenges, such as bringing down enemy bombers (scores as 2 victories) or protecting your own bombers (scores as one victory for each bomber that survives).
You will be flying the RAFs finest fighter, a Spitfire IIa, as part of the famous 54 Squadron.
PSEUDO-DYNAMIC(TM) MISSION DIFFICULTY
Missions and enemies increase in difficulty as you progress. You start against fewer, slower, weaker opponents. You finish in all out melees against the Luftwaffe's finest.
You are not flying alone - your wingman 'Fatty' is at your side. Try not to lose him. Losing your wingman is bad karma. He is a tough nut, and if he is shot down he will walk, swim or limp back so that he is with you again for your next mission, but you will lose 1 victory each time he is shot down.
'Fatty', before his first solo flight, last week. Note the flight manual for his Hurricane in his hand...
Your wingman's skill and aggression will increase as you progress. Fatty starts mission 1 as a timid undisciplined Rookie, and ends as an aggressive and disciplined Veteran.
RULES
You can fly each mission only twice: once for practice, and once for real. The best of your two missions can be submitted. If you are shot down in the mission, no victories count. You must move on to the next mission.
You must submit a screenshot of your summary screen to qualify. Remember, sometimes just surviving is a good result, so submit your results as a screenshot and include a short combat report, even if you don't score a victory!
HONOUR IS ALL
Where does the HONOUR come in? It is an offline tournament, so you are the only one who knows if you followed the rules, and we trust that you will. Only two tries per mission. Fly at your usual realism settings. Fess up when you are shot down! Doubt that this concept works? Then it is not for you! I have run several Honour Tournaments for EAW, and BOBII and they have been a great success.
SCORE TALLY
When you report your combat for each mission here on SimHQ CoD forum, your tally on the CoD Honour Roll will be updated over at BoB Game Hub. Feel free to drop in there any time and see who is the CoD Ace of Aces!
WHAT CAN I DO UNTIL THE TOURNAMENT MISSIONS ARE UPLOADED?
- Get some stick time in a Spit IIa
- Learn how to add 'kill marks' to your skin...previous tournament participants have had fun doing this
- If you don't already know, learn how to take a screen dump of the Single Mission Summary Screen. The easiest way, without installing any new software, is to press 'Prnt Screen', go to Windows Accessories, open Windows Paint, paste and save.
- You can upload the file to any photo sharing site. If you don't already use one, I recommend Photobucket.com
- If you can't work out how to upload a photo, you can PM me and I will send you an email address you can email your screen dump to.
Of course if you just want to play the missions and post your end result, feel free...
BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO INSTALL CUSTOM MISSIONS!
The tournament download will include a self-installer. Just point it at the CoD Folder on your hard drive and it will do the rest for you. The missions will appear in your Single Missions menu. If you get stuck, someone here will talk you through it.
WANT TO JOIN IN?
Just indicate your interest below...ask any questions, start psyching out your opposition with tales of your aerial derring-do or plain old fashioned trash-talk. I hereby declare the tournament...OPEN
Go to SimHQ to register
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Mission of the week 20 November: Wick's Big Day Out, Part 1
Download here: http://www.box.com/s/xkz1qo9a9gqn8371y48t
Helmut Wick was arguably the greatest fighter ace of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. In 7 months he went from a trainee under Werner Molders, to the leading ace of the Luftwaffe with 56 victories to his name.
In this recreation of his first sortie on October 5 1940, you can fly as Wick (or against him) on the mission where he scored 3 victories. The mission features a fantastic skin by Shado.
In this mission the player can fly as Wick, or against, him. Or you can fly for any of the other historically correct units in the mission, including RAF 238 and 607 Sq, and Ju88 gruppe KG54. (Just click 'custom' at the first menu screen to choose your aircraft and unit.)
Helmut Wick was arguably the greatest fighter ace of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. In 7 months he went from a trainee under Werner Molders, to the leading ace of the Luftwaffe with 56 victories to his name.
In this recreation of his first sortie on October 5 1940, you can fly as Wick (or against him) on the mission where he scored 3 victories. The mission features a fantastic skin by Shado.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Update from CoD devs 14 Nov 2011
Hi everyone,
Quick status update.
We are aware of the issues many of you are having. We are monitoring the forums, and we are checking the crash dumps you are sending, for which we are especially grateful.
The crashes are caused by an old graphics bug that’s been in the game all year. Since we are in the process of seriously overhauling graphics, we cannot release a quick fix. The bug simply doesn’t exist in the current version of the graphics at all. It got thrown out with a lot of other bad code, but the overall feature isn’t ready for the world quite yet.
We’re also improving the sound quite a bit, doing exciting things with aircraft, and generally progressing along the same fronts I’ve listed in my older updates.
These are all major features so they take time. We only have a tentative ETA at this point, but considering this forum’s special relationship with the word “tentative” I’m not going to say what it is. It’s not this Friday or the next – take that as you will. We’ll keep you updated as we get closer.
Luthier
Quick status update.
We are aware of the issues many of you are having. We are monitoring the forums, and we are checking the crash dumps you are sending, for which we are especially grateful.
The crashes are caused by an old graphics bug that’s been in the game all year. Since we are in the process of seriously overhauling graphics, we cannot release a quick fix. The bug simply doesn’t exist in the current version of the graphics at all. It got thrown out with a lot of other bad code, but the overall feature isn’t ready for the world quite yet.
We’re also improving the sound quite a bit, doing exciting things with aircraft, and generally progressing along the same fronts I’ve listed in my older updates.
These are all major features so they take time. We only have a tentative ETA at this point, but considering this forum’s special relationship with the word “tentative” I’m not going to say what it is. It’s not this Friday or the next – take that as you will. We’ll keep you updated as we get closer.
Luthier
Ramming Speed video
A quick video based on the RT Holmes mission...
How crazy would you have to have been to do what that man did?
How crazy would you have to have been to do what that man did?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Mission #7 - Arty Holmes - Ramming Speed!
So, you think you're hard?
Hard enough to bring down a German bomber with jammed guns? This mission lets you find out!
On September 15, 1940, Sergeant Ray 'Arty' Holmes was flying a Hawker Hurricane fighter when he spotted a damaged Dornier Do17 bomber of KG 76 apparently making an bombing attempt on central London.
Avoiding the bomber's return fire, Holmes made a head-on attack on the Dornier, however upon firing discovered his machine guns failed. Holmes decided to ram the bomber hoping his plane could withstand the impact and cut through it. He cut the tail off the bomber with his wing, causing the bomber to crash near Victoria tube station. His Hurricane was badly damaged, crashing near the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Holmes bailed out injured.
See a video of the mission here:
Can you replicate his feat, and live to tell the tale?
Download here: http://www.box.net/s/gfp4toapu1zuikzcvd2n
Sunday, November 6, 2011
BoB Game Hub CoD Mission 6: Bader's Big Wing
Bader's Big Wing
Download HERE: http://www.box.net/shared/yiidfc5jqk3uzuc45015
Bitter was the rivalry between RAF 12 Group Commander Leigh Mallory, and 11 Group Commander Keith Park. Not least because Leigh Mallory was a strong supporter of the Big Wing theory of 242 Sq CO Douglas Bader, who advocated hitting the enemy en force, with massed fighters, while Park preferred the quicker and more efficient tactic of harrying the enemy constantly with smaller units. On 7 September Bader made his first Big Wing attack and took so long forming up, he effectively failed to engage the enemy. Park was enraged.
On 11 September Bader got his second chance, when his Big Wing comprising squadrons 19, 242 and 310 (Cz) met a heavy Luftwaffe raid over London. This time the Wing had formed up in time, and met the raid in strength, claiming 20 victories for the loss of 5 Hurricanes and 2 pilots.
Distinguished RAF historian Tom Gleave concluded about the Big Wing attacks, "of 32 Big Wings launched by 12 Group, only seven met the enemy, and only once did a Big Wing arrive first."
Can you make an impact in Bader's Big Wing?
(Features as flyables Hurricane, Spitfire, Bf110C, Bf109e4, Ju88.)
Big Wing forming up with 19, 242 and 310 Squadrons
Bader meets Luftwaffe raid over central London
Big Ben under attack
(*Note: this mission uses squadron strength unit sizes and is GPU intensive. The player can customise the number of aircraft to suit their machine specs.)
Download HERE: http://www.box.net/shared/yiidfc5jqk3uzuc45015
Bitter was the rivalry between RAF 12 Group Commander Leigh Mallory, and 11 Group Commander Keith Park. Not least because Leigh Mallory was a strong supporter of the Big Wing theory of 242 Sq CO Douglas Bader, who advocated hitting the enemy en force, with massed fighters, while Park preferred the quicker and more efficient tactic of harrying the enemy constantly with smaller units. On 7 September Bader made his first Big Wing attack and took so long forming up, he effectively failed to engage the enemy. Park was enraged.
On 11 September Bader got his second chance, when his Big Wing comprising squadrons 19, 242 and 310 (Cz) met a heavy Luftwaffe raid over London. This time the Wing had formed up in time, and met the raid in strength, claiming 20 victories for the loss of 5 Hurricanes and 2 pilots.
Distinguished RAF historian Tom Gleave concluded about the Big Wing attacks, "of 32 Big Wings launched by 12 Group, only seven met the enemy, and only once did a Big Wing arrive first."
Can you make an impact in Bader's Big Wing?
(Features as flyables Hurricane, Spitfire, Bf110C, Bf109e4, Ju88.)
Big Wing forming up with 19, 242 and 310 Squadrons
Bader meets Luftwaffe raid over central London
Big Ben under attack
(*Note: this mission uses squadron strength unit sizes and is GPU intensive. The player can customise the number of aircraft to suit their machine specs.)
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