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[Shakaali]

Battle of Arras 1917
A Dynamic Campaign for DCG and BAT




Download Mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dvat492pelvob4s/Arras.rar/file
Download M4T:
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3099

The battle of Arras was a British offensive on the Western Front. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the city of Arras.


The Royal Flying Corps offered succesful air support to the attack, but suffered heavy losses as their aircraft were inferior to the Luftstreitkräfte. Furthermore, German units were more experienced and they had better training. One of the German squadrons in the area was the famous Jasta 11 led by the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. Besides the Red Baron there were several famous fighter aces in Jasta 11, including Lothar von Richthofen, Kurt Wolff, Karl Schäfer, Sebastian Festner and Karl Allmenröder.
British casualties were so heavy that the April 1917 is known as the Bloody April.

In this campaign Jasta 11 uses red Albatroses. As in real life, whenever you see a red Albatros you feel great joy or great despair, depending on which side you fight...

You can fly this campaign as:

Royal Flying Corps Fighter Pilot:

-   Sopwith Triplane
-   Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
-   Bristol F.2B
-   Sopwith Pup
-   SPAD S.VII
-   Nieuport 17
-   Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2d
-   Airco DH.2

Royal Flying Corps Bomber Pilot:

-   Airco DH.9 (representing Airco DH.4)
-   Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8

Royal Flying Corps Recon Pilot:

-   Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c
-   Sopwith 1½ Strutter

Luftstreitkräfte Fighter Pilot:

-   Albatros D.III
-   Albatros D.II
-   LFG Roland D.II
-   Halberstadt D.II

Luftstreitkräfte Ground Attack Pilot:

-   LFG Roland C.II
-   AEG J.I

Luftstreitkräfte Bomber Pilot:

-   Gotha G.III
-   AEG G.IV

Luftstreitkräfte Recon Pilot:

-   Rumpler C.IV
-   AEG C.IV

For campaign to work as planned, please select corresponding aircraft and squadron (1st squadron on the list should use 1st aircraft on the list, 2nd squadron on the list should use 2nd aircraft on the list, and so on)


Requirements:

B.A.T. v4.2.2
DCG 3.50 beta  (https://forum.jg1.org/forum/68-dcg-announcements/)

Installation:

Decompress the Arras.rar into your DCG home directory.
Make a backup of the DGEN directory in you IL-2 game directory 
Copy Dgen & Paintschemes folders from your Arras folder and paste them in your IL-2 game directory. Overwrite if prompted.
Start DCG, select Optional Third Party Data Folder.
Navigate to the Arras folder and select allcampaigns.dcg
Select "Replace Career Generator (DGen)" in the DCG main screen.
Select Off Line Career (Full Auto-Generation Mode) in the DCG main screen.
Launch Il-2 DOF module and select one of the above-mentioned careers.


Recommended DCG Settings:

Air Starts: On
Delayed Start Times: On
Historical Production Dates: Off

Note:

There is an error that sometimes happens if BAT has too many skin folders for DCG to handle. DCG has a weird way of regocnizing aircraft by its skin folder and it was created a long time ago when number of aircraft was significantly smaller than today. The error should have been corrected, but it still pops up every once in the while preventing the campaign from launching.

However, there is a walkaround. Go to PaintSchemes and rename Skins folder (eg. Skins_Backup. Then  copy the Skins folder fro this package to the PaintSchemes. Later on if you need skin folder for another aircraft you can copy it from Skins_Backup to Skins, or if you install another DCG campaign you can install the skins from the campaign.

Credits and thanks:

SAS team for BAT
Paul Lowengrin for DCG
Tailspin and Lonestar for DCG tutorials that got me started creating DCG campaigns a long time ago
All skin artist involved (sorry, I don't know who you are).
vonOben for suggesting a WWI campaign

[stoney69]

A WWI campaign! Thank you Shakaali!

[vonOben]

Much appreciated Shakaali!   

[Witchy]

awesone sauce

[Witchy]

Encountered a problem in the campaigns,

Started one flying for germans in ground attack in roland CII's

One first mission at takeoff it seemed like the flight had serious issues staying airborne after takeoff. They all gradually lost altitude and one even entered a laggy nose dive and Crashed. The SL then glided right into a forest and vanished. I got to target with one other plane. That AI plane then overshot the target nd crashed into a train station. Everyone was KIA when I got back to base.

Noot sure whats the problem here.

[Shakaali]

Encountered a problem in the campaigns,

Started one flying for germans in ground attack in roland CII's

One first mission at takeoff it seemed like the flight had serious issues staying airborne after takeoff. They all gradually lost altitude and one even entered a laggy nose dive and Crashed. The SL then glided right into a forest and vanished. I got to target with one other plane. That AI plane then overshot the target nd crashed into a train station. Everyone was KIA when I got back to base.

Noot sure whats the problem here.

Yep, unfortunately the Walfisch tends to do that     The engine is too weak for heavy loads.  Rumpler and AEG C.IV are even worse in that respct: getting airbourne with bombs is next to impossible.

[vonOben]

Yep, unfortunately the Walfisch tends to do that     The engine is too weak for heavy loads.  Rumpler and AEG C.IV are even worse in that respct: getting airbourne with bombs is next to impossible.

Since those problems are not related to the campaign, but to the mentioned planes, would it be better to post in the BAT "Tech Help" section IMHO.

[Shakaali]

Since those problems are not related to the campaign, but to the mentioned planes, would it be better to post in the BAT "Tech Help" section IMHO.

It's not a bug, it's a feature 

[czarek422]

Completed first mission. I noticed two cases where AI failed to take off, leaving collumns of aircraft staying in place.

Sopwith Pups at Doullens. I noticed that ground is uneven there:


Rolands D.II at Roulers. For this one I can't find a cause.

[Shakaali]

Completed first mission. I noticed two cases where AI failed to take off, leaving collumns of aircraft staying in place.

Yes,I noticed that when testing. Sometimes AI can take off, but sometimes it cannot.