I have now posted a Soviet campaign for modded 4.101, using the
superb Khalkin-Gol map by Mixx. The campaign is called
"High Above the Khalkin-Gol":
The campaign can be downloaded here: http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=843This is a semi-historical, 14-mission campaign, set in the period of June and July 1939, when the border conflict in the Far East between Japan and the USSR escalated into full war.
You are Soviet Fighter Pilot in 22 IAP, based on the air-strip at Buir, and flying the gun equipped I-16 type 24. Most action is based on actual missions. The outline of the campaign, basic facts, dates etc, also all follow history.
This campaign uses the new Khalkin-Gol map by Mixx, and it is incredible! It is both bigger and much, much more stunning visually than the original stock map. Most missions will result in dogfights, most of them big or even very big, but the map is quite FPS-friendly. There are one ground-attack mission, where you got to test rockets (they were actually used operationally for the first time by the VVS in this battle.)
This campaign has been built for
modded IL-2 v.4.101, using HSFX 5.0. So it comes with the refinements of this latest patch, including navigation and more advanced weather. If you have this version of HSFX running you will not need any additional material. (Except for the 13 skins that comes with the download, but these are of course optional.)
About the battle: In mid-1939 in the Far East the Japanese and Russians met in a battle which though often ignored in history books, did much to shape the final outcome of WW2.
Pressure had been building in eastern Asia between the Russians and Japanese for decades, but tensions came to a head on in early May 1939 when a small force of Russia’s Mongolian vassals accidentally moved across a disputed border into what was then the Japanese controlled region of Manchuria.
The Japanese pushed them out of this small and arid patch of land, but were consequently repelled by a larger force of Mongolian’s. The Japanese then began funneling large amounts of troops to the disputed region, which led the Russians to do the same. (The Japanese Kwantung Army, which had long been stationed in Manchuria far from the home islands, had become largely autonomous and did not seek approval from the Tokyo before acting very aggressively against the Soviets.) In late May a small force of Japanese reconnaissance troops was surrounded and destroyed by Russian soldiers.
This skirmish quickly led to a large scale escalation by both the Japanese and the Russians.
The Japanese attempted two major offensives, first in May and then in June. Both were repulsed by the Russian forces being led by the later so famous Soviet commander Georgy Zhukov. Finally in August, Zhukov decided to go on the offensive, and with a force of some 50,000 Soviet and Mongolian troops, almost 500 tanks, and an impressive array of air power, Zhukov led a classic encircling movement of the Japanese forces.
The move was so successful that the entire Japanese force was either beaten back or surrounded. The battle concluded on August 31st with the total defeat of the Japanese (and the next day, September 1st, Germany invaded Poland, thus starting World War II).
The defeat convinced Tokyo that the policy favoured by the army, which wanted a northern move, to seize Siberia for its resources, was untenable. Instead the police favoured by the navy, which aimed to seize the resources of Southeast Asia, gained the ascendancy, leading directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor two and a half years later in December 1941. And the Japanese didn’t attack the Soviet Union when the Germans invaded in 1941, a move which at a critical time could have decided the outcome of Operation Barbarossa.
So although this engagement is little-known in the West, it may be said to be the first decisive battle of World War II.
Thanks for looking!
And thanks to Mixx for making such a super map!
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