Ideas for Sunday 7th Feb

[:FI:Nellip]

I have been thinking about what we could do in 4.09 vanilla on Sunday, and thought maybe something using the Leningrad map?

We haven't flown that map at all in campaigns in the past (to my knowledge anyway) and it therefore has some novelty value there. Navigation is fairly easy (lots of landmarks) so we should be able to fly without minimap to make it interesting. It used to be we avoided that map because the ground objects resulted in low frames and stutter, but that was 5 years ago and the computers we are all running now and better connection speeds should make that a thing of the past- he hopes

I will write a DF mission first as a warm up and then a couple of coops. I will do missions for red fighter, red ground attack, blue fighter and blue ground attack. The seige of Leningrad was 900 days I think, so should keep us going for a while

[:FI:Falcon]

cool!

[:FI:Scott]

Sounds interesting Neil.

[:FI:Conman]

Neil if you want we could alternate between these and France, it would give me the time i need for mission making but like the thought of doing something new

[:FI:Rabitski]

Map can be a bit laggy Neil, great map though with the added advantage the front was very static for a long time, also the majority of the fighting was around the coast road within 10mls of the shore line more or less. Lot's of options, hell for the VVS till mid 44 though, going to put in some Snow Nazi's?

[:FI:Spitsfire]

Hey, maybe we could fly some actual il2!

[:FI:Nellip]

Hey, maybe we could fly some actual il2!

Yep - but just the "piece of shite" single seaters to start with!!!

[:FI:Wardog]

I'm up for this I might even try flying for the good guys in this one ( by flying I mean falling in flames and good guys I mean russians lol)

Wardog

[:FI:Nellip]

Dogfight and one coop written so far - hopefully I'll get one more coop written by Sunday.

Setting is December 41, so winter map and skins. Will be just Luftwaffe v VVS to start with but may get the Finns involved for blue later on (including those planes with ski's ).

16 seats in the coop (not counting rear gunners in the Stukas) as follows:

VVS - 4 x LaGG3, 4 x IL2 single seaters
Luftwaffe - 4 x Bf109F2, 4 x Ju87

First coop involves the famous ice road across Lake Lagoda.......

[:FI:Conman]

1x lagg for me please Neil

[:FI:Armitage]

this sounds good. I love the il2 300km+ at 20m

[:FI:Nellip]

Yes - low alt in an IL2 is good fun, but on testing the mission earlier I noticed a graphics issue when flying low over forests. When flying at less than 500 feet the forest texture changes to big square blocs, above 500 feet it looks fine. It's definitely altitude related and I have never had it on any other map. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

[:FI:Nellip]

1x lagg for me please Neil

No seat booking in advance for this Connor - just turn up and argue your case!

[:FI:Nellip]

Second coop now done.

Mig3's for the reds, 109F's for blue (8 a side).

[:FI:Gadje]

A wee thought Neil regarding fighters. The Mig and the F2 are a good matchup, both fast for 41, pretty fragile and crap guns. The LaGG however has the DM of a rhino in a suit of armour inside a battleship and I've unload many a time those less than braw 15mm cannon the F2 has into one and they just kept skooting along. Pk's your best bet there.

So what about the E-7 although it's slower than the F its got the cannons to do the job. Actually E7 v Yak1 is a really good match I find?

Either that or unlimited ammo