New Campaign - The Goths Ride East

:FI:Nellip · Post by **:FI:Nellip** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:23 pm

OK - now Pearl to Japan is over (kind of) I would like to start a new thread for the Eastern Front campaign I would like to offer you.

Title of the Campaign is provisionally "The Goths Ride East" - but any better ideas on this?

Vin has kindly offered to do the hosting again

and I will write the missions - although any help on this will be gratefully received.

Maps will be used in the following order and rough time lines

Lvov - Summer 41
Smolensk - Summer 41
Kiev - Autumn 41
Crimea - Autumn 41
Moscow - Autumn/Winter 41
Kuban - Summer 42
Stalingrad - Autumn/Winter 42 to 43
Kursk - Summer 43
Kuban - Autumn 43
Crimea - Autumn 43
Smolensk - Spring/Summer 44
Kiev - Summer 44
Balaton - Autumn 44
Berlin - Spring 45

I have looked at medals and ranks and subject to some help from Admin we can get stats etc up on the website.

Oh well - time to get writing the missions!

:FI:TacticalS! · Post by **:FI:TacticalS!** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:40 pm

Looks like fun mate!

:FI:Falcon · Post by **:FI:Falcon** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:42 pm

Lookin' good Nelli!

"The Goths Ride East" sounds fine. Being an old board gamer I can recall another good title: "Drang Noch Osten" and its sequel "Unentschiden".

Frank, help with the spelling and translation here please.

The first means something like urge toward the east

and the second title has something to do with sausages and latex gloves ...

or something.

But "Goths ... " is neat. Just give me time to find my leather boots and hood and cape.

Fal "jk" con

AltarBoy · Post by **AltarBoy** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:22 pm

Goths? Now, why does that conjure up images of The Cure and black make-up?

Sounds like fun anyway.

Post by **:FI:Genosse** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:30 pm

:FI:Falcon wrote:"Drang Nach Osten" and its sequel "Unentschieden".

Frank, help with the spelling and translation here please.

The first means something like urge toward the east

and the second title has something to do with sausages and latex gloves ...

or something.

Well, Herr Schtuart!

"Der Drang nach Osten" really means "The urge towards the east". But "Unentschieden" has nothing to do with sausages and/or latex gloves. It´s simply "even" or "undecided". Maybe there´s a correlation to sausages, gloves and sheeps ...

Who knows?

:FI:Macca · Post by **:FI:Macca** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:27 am

Are we going to play the Dark Side (Axis) or the Dark Side (USSR) of the force?

:FI:Nellip · Post by **:FI:Nellip** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:03 am

:FI:Macca wrote:Are we going to play the Dark Side (Axis) or the Dark Side (USSR) of the force?

We will fly red - VVS - so get ready for some tough missions early on in the campaign

For the first 5 Lvov missions we will fly either I16's or IL2's so make sure you have the skins downloaded for these.

I have some idea on medals similar to the PtoJ campaign - with the same level of awards (although don't think many people will be sinking ships

) - in order as follows:

Medal for Bravery
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class
Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Hero of the Soviet Union

If this order is wrong let me know!

:FI:Scott · Post by **:FI:Scott** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:34 am

Sounds damn good to me.

I would help with the missions if you want me to, but be warned I am in the uber-noob category in that respect.

:FI:Macca · Post by **:FI:Macca** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:43 am

Is the campaign going to be a story of a specific squadron/squadrons?

:FI:Nellip · Post by **:FI:Nellip** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:58 am

:FI:Macca wrote:Is the campaign going to be a story of a specific squadron/squadrons?

Yes - the :FI:

Seriously I originally was just going to write a Stalingrad campaign - which is finished, with 21 missions in total - and that was based on 2 Squadrons, the 7th GvSHap and the 9th GvIAP. Since then it has kind of expanded into a full Eastern Front campaign (excluding Leningrad/Finland) and the FI skin project has come along, so if we are going to use the FI skins then the concept of using an historical squadron is probably irrelevant?

Not sure what others think but I would say using the FI skin pack will mean using a specific squadron is pointless?

:FI:Nellip · Post by **:FI:Nellip** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:00 pm

:FI:Scott wrote: I would help with the missions if you want me to, but be warned I am in the uber-noob category in that respect.

Scott

I am not exactly an expert myself! Not compared to the masters like Genosse, Ardmore, and others anyway.

If you are serious send me a PM and I can go through aircraft, maps and numbers of missions required etc.

:FI:Macca · Post by **:FI:Macca** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:02 pm

There was Normandie-Niemen, so wy not the :FI:, you're right;)

How about making a continuation of this campaign in 46;) Soviet Hordes drive West

We've got Normandy, Western Europe,

just kiddin'.

Nel, count me in , if I can be of any help in the mission building, too.

M

Post by **:FI:Genosse** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:12 pm

:FI:Nellip wrote:I have some idea on medals similar to the PtoJ campaign - with the same level of awards (although don't think many people will be sinking ships ) - in order as follows:

Medal for Bravery
Order of the Red Star
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class
Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class
Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Hero of the Soviet Union

If this order is wrong let me know!

Folks!

The new medals/orders have been included into the site. They look like this ...

Dawai, Tavarishi!

:FI:Macca · Post by **:FI:Macca** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:21 pm

Wow, the're sweet, Gen

For the glory of the Soviet Union, Tavarish Polkovnik!

How about adding the Order of Glory 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class?

"The Order of Glory, modelled closely upon the Tsarist Cross of St. George, was awarded to non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the armed forces, as well as junior lieutenants of the air force, for bravery in the face of the enemy. A person initially received the third degree, and would subsequently be promoted to higher degrees for further acts of bravery."

:FI:Nellip · Post by **:FI:Nellip** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:40 pm

:FI:Macca wrote:Wow, the're sweet, Gen

For the glory of the Soviet Union, Tavarish Polkovnik!

How about adding the Order of Glory 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class?

"The Order of Glory, modelled closely upon the Tsarist Cross of St. George, was awarded to non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the armed forces, as well as junior lieutenants of the air force, for bravery in the face of the enemy. A person initially received the third degree, and would subsequently be promoted to higher degrees for further acts of bravery."

Macca

I think "The Order of Glory" is the same as the "Medal for Bravery" - gets translated differently on different sites. I did not know there were different levels though.

I have just tried to map some awards to the same triggers as Ardmore used for the Pacific campaign so I needed the same number.

If we want more levels with more medals I can look at it.

By the way Genosse - thanks for finding some better pictures than the ones I sent you

Nellip