I had a plan, it was a good plan. To build a 4 tier campain around 1 mans journey through the war for myslef and 3 friends who got the game about a year ago. It was to follow an American pilot who joined the RAFVR in 1939, take him through his training in a Glouster Galdiator into the fields of France PT 1, BOB Pt2, Africa PT3 and finaly onto PTO in Pt4.

Then life and time came along, a year later and due to other comitments I am still working on part 1 Battle for France(24 missions). The campain is ficticious and has been set up (in my mind; dates/locations and some aircarft to be fun rather than historically accurate, thought i have tried to stick to key dates Dunkirk etc )

Where I am going with this is...I have played other campains during developing my own, and feel that my campain is not up to the standard of others I have dl and played from M4T but I think the idea is a sound one I am therefore putting out feelers to see if anyone would like to adopt the idea and take it to its conclusion (ie finish all 4 parts, or at least do a better job han I can (this is my first campain attempt).

I have decided that I will finish my campain Pt1 and share it with my 3 friends as planned but feel the idea could be taken forward in a much shorter timescale and to a better conclusion by a much more experienced campain builder. Please let me know if anyone is interested. I will happily forward by mail what I have done so far (24 missions..some without briefs as yet) for adaptation competion.

Like I say this is only putting out feelers at this stage, but if you are interested please PM me or cantact me by hotmail (addy myforumnameathotamildotcom)

If you are reading this for the screenshots of "Just One Mans Story Pt 1 Battle For France" here they are :

Wow! That's some incredible scenery you've got there mate!

I would definitely love to try this out, and I know I can't be the only one.

Thanks DW I decided to finish this campain myself and have almost completed it. I am just flying through it now to test it so that should all be done in the next few days. I dont intend to make it available to general but let me know if you want to try it and i can upload it to a fileshare (possibly rapid) somewhere and send you the link if you want. Thanks.

Mr C

Looking forward to it.

Personally, I'd say upload it to M4T. If you've put this much work into it, it'd be a shame to keep it private!

Great!

I'm looking forward it too!

Divine and King I have just PM'd you both.

Regards.

Mr C

Did you finish this campain? I really would like to play it

I did finish the campaign (part 1) Nakkimus and it has been tested by myself (which I feel is a bit of a con as I know whats going to happen).

It is now being tested by Divine-Wind and King_Franky and when I get their final feedback I will make the descision as to whether I am going to release it to all from M4T.

Thanks for your interest and I will post again here when I get the final feedback.

Mr C

Cool, thanks for your answer

Nakkimus just thought I would post to keep you updated.

King Franky has finished his testing on the campain now, and feedback is very positive.

Subject to Divine Wind finding any major problems in it I hope to do a few final touch ups, contact skin/sounds creators etc where I can identify them and subject to their agreement hopefully release it via m4t sometime early in the new year.

I've only finished the first dozen or so missions, but so far it's been excellent, and I'm looking forward to the rest. Briefings are well done (Personally, I find them to be the hardest part of mission building, so kudos), skins are also excellent, and the missions themselves are well put together.

I've finished the campaign and must say it's a really good one.
Same opinion here like Divine Wind.
A very detailed little world on the ground and some stories mentioned before in the briefings are seen there. That gives a nice "Live" Feeling to the whole campaign.
The missions are challeging and attractive, and with the briefings and historically background the campaign let me desire for the next 3 tiers...

Good work

I would love to play your campaign. Can you tell me in which version of IL2 you made it.
I have 1946 4.08m but i don't have soldiers or some other objects you used.
And please tell me how you did it? I am just a new guy who realy wants to learn to make campaigns.

thanks and good luck with your new campaigns.

DutchEric,

The campain will not run on 4.08 you need 4.09 with some mods installed.

Below is the content of the read me file with exactly what is require (link paths removed as not allowed on this forum) but it gives you the full details of what you need installed to play the campain.

If you decide to go ahead and install what is required drop me a pm and I will upload the campain files somewhere where you can download them from.

As for learning to build missions and campains the best place to start learning is http://www.il2-fullmissionbuilder.com/index.php excellent site and also this forum is great too for questions and things that are not covered on there.

ok so here is the read me..
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Welcome to Just One Mans Story Part 1 by Mr C
You may want to print this read me before you start the campain.


You should have 3 main folders with this read me.

The campain
Additional Files
Screenshots

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The campian

Inside this folder is a folder called "joms"
Copy this "joms" folder inside the following path:
Whatever your il2 Directory/Missions/Campaign/GB/

Starting this campaign......

******IMPORTANT *****
You will need LAL_Normandie-44 and flyzo BOB MOD maps as well as the Gladiators and Sptifire mkI MOD
to play this campaign.

You need to have patched to 4.09b and have the MOD Uni Installer v1.0 installed...
from *****(You will need to register to download)

You can get the Uni Installer from here *****

You will also need the language fix for English and the RAF ranks fix both can be found at this site.
You can get Normandie Map from here *****
You can get the BOB map from here *****


The aim in all missions is to make it home and land (Except mission 1 which is a take off/recon mission)

You may also find (deliberately) that on the train recon mission your waypoints do not take you all the way
to the train (or else it wouldn't be a night navigate as it is intended).

Select the Group Captain rank at campaign start screen.
This will ensure you are in the correct plane for which the campaign has been created.

Once you start a campaign the difficulty settings are then locked on
the GUI and you cannot amend them.

I have tested this campaign on full difficulty settings with the exception of:
Map Icons ON
Minimap Path ON
External Views ON

but it should be fine whatever settings you use but dont use Instant Success. Also be aware without the map
settings on you will be required to navigate by looking at the surroundings.


Playing the campaign
You primarily fly a hurricane MKI but when bombing ground targets is required...
I have had to sub this for the MKII.


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Additional Files
Inside this folder you should have 2 folders and 2 files

The skins folder contains skins for the aircraft used in this campain.
Copy this folder to :
Whatever your il2 Directory/PaintSchemes
If prompted to overwrite say yes to all

The gb.wav is background music from the period if you want to use this on...
your main IL2 menu screen then go to :
Whatever your il2 Directory/samples/Music/Menu/
Rename your existing gb.wav to something link gb_original.wav
Then copy in the gb.wav from this campain

The speech folder replaces AI pilots speech in the game.
To use it go to:
Whatever your il2 Directory/Samples/Speech/GB/
rename the GB folder to something like GB_Original
then copy the GB folder from this campain into
Whatever your il2 Directory/Samples/Speech/

The Background.tga is a file that will give you the campain background
image as the campain loads if you want to use this....
Go to...
Whatever your il2 Directory/Missions/Campain/GB/
rename your original background.tga to something like background_original.tga
and copy and paste in the background.tga from this campain.


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Screenshots is exactly what it says on the tin.

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All of the mission were created by myself, but the sound files and skins used
in this campaign are from other campaigns I have downloaded and credit goes to those people who created them.

I got all the files form campaigns and skins downloaded from the website Mission 4 Today and can strongly recommend it.


Hope you enjoy the campaign.


Mr C.