Warbirds II for modders and experimenters, currently configured for AIX Options

[clivewil]

This is the final stage of my dabbling in WW2 aircraft. The Emil and Mustang which were previously released received some minor updates and so are re-included here...



...but there is now also:

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Junkers Ju-87B 'Stuka'

This aircraft's supremacy at dive-bombing and ground attack was matched only by its utter failure in the face of fighter opposition. This one carries a single SC500 bomb and 2x MGs for the pilot, plus a single MG for the rear gunner (It's a fairly meaty MG though, i wanted it to have *some* chance of survival against fighters.) It carries sirens to scare the absolute crap out of its intended victims.





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Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V

The Spitfire Mk.V was available in many different configurations; this one has 2x Hispano cannon and 2x 250-lb bombs for ground attack. The paint scheme is similar to that used in the earlier stages of WW2.





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Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX

The IX was purely an interim stop-gap measure between versions, but ironically was built in greater numbers than any other variant. Like the Mk.V, or even moreso, the IX was much modified and there were countless variations (I have even seen an IX with a low back and teardrop canopy.) This one carries 4x Hispano cannon - to stop it being uber, they are the same potency as the V's two cannon, sorry - and also has 8x RP3 rockets, which gives it a similar battlefield potency as the P-51D. Paint is similar to schemes used in the latter part of WW2.





Booby Prizes:

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Toy Quad Flak Emplacement

I have also included a very badly made and totally unrealistic flak emplacement. I make no apologies for this, and if anyone finds it offensive then they really need to get a flippin' life. Quoted from the ReadMe:

"A really cheesy cheap-arse 4-barrel anti-aircraft flak emplacement. Very loosely based on the German Flakvierling 38, these normally need a large crew to operate so i have made mine each usable by a single operator. In reality these smaller AA guns would only fire what amounts to cannon shells; i have adjusted mine so they are more like the proximity-fused shells you'd get from a Flak 88 or similar. In 95% of cases you can replace any stinger or TOW with this and it should appear in the correct position.

They are ugly to look at and bend the laws of reality somewhat. Please don't bother complaining to me about this, i really don't care - i built them to add to the overall atmosphere and to provide a hazard to aircraft, and in this regard they work exactly as intended."





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Daqing Air War map

I have included a re-work of Daqing just so you can get up and running straight away, with planes and flak already in place. Yes it's in China and not Europe, get over it. The large chimneys have been replaced with small factories to reduce air collisions and a new navmesh has been made to suit. View and fog distance is 1000 meters.

It is set to teamRatioPercent 400, which means you'll have four times the bots on the enemy side than your own, which should give you more of a fight than even teams would. If you want to adjust this, look in the ai\ai.ai file. If you run more than 64 bots and the map crashes, you will need to reduce this number accordingly. (I forgot to mention this in the readMe, how nasty of me)



Please Note: Unlike my previous free-use releases, this one has a caveat - you can do what you like to any of the other planes, but if you want to publicly post re-painted Spitfire skins you must clear it with me first. I'm trying to avoid any of those amateurishly applied abortions happening to my favourite plane. If you feel you can't comply with this condition, simple - don't download them. Bye bye, go play Freecell instead.

*** IMPORTANT *** - There is two versions of these aircraft, one download set is marked 'German' and the other is marked 'Historic' - The German set has no Hakenkreuz (swastika) on the tail fins, whereas the Historic version does have it. It is the responsibility of the downloader/user to ensure that they download and use the correct set, in accordance with the laws of their country. Both sets are identical apart from this one detail.

Download links:

WITHOUT Hakenkreuz, suitable for use in Germany:
http://www.clivewil.battlefieldsingleplaye...s_II_German.zip

WITH Hakenkreuz, NOT suitable for use in Germany:
http://www.clivewil.battlefieldsingleplaye...II_Historic.zip

enjoy.

-- clivewil

[lifeoftheparty21...]

great! they're here! durn! I'm going camping this weekend and can't play with them until sunday arfternoon!

[sid6.5]

Just awesome work clivewil!
As i said in the other thread, one or two of them might appear in our upcoming movie.

[clivewil]

thanks. i got your PM asking to test them at the same time as i was doing their write-up, so i hope you'll forgive my rudeness in not replying - they were already uploaded and available at that stage. if you didn't show up in here soon i would have sent you a heads-up

[TNE26]

Yahoo!! (not .com)..

Awesome job clive.. I'm drooling in the middle of french class

Downloading now!

This post has been edited by TNE26: Aug 28 2009, 04:28 AM

[sid6.5]

thanks. i got your PM asking to test them at the same time as i was doing their write-up, so i hope you'll forgive my rudeness in not replying - they were already uploaded and available at that stage. if you didn't show up in here soon i would have sent you a heads-up

No problem at all.
Thanks.

[Transportologist]

Once again, thank you clive for the new toys, I'm having a lot of fun in the SP map you conveniently put in the download.

YOU ARE THE MAN!!

[KHETTI]

Wow nice package, i like the flak 38, i think it looks great! Glad to hear your a spitfire fan, personally i think the Hawker Hurricane was the better aircraft . (if im not mistaken the HH racked up more kills than any other allied fighter).

Cheers once again Clive, astonishing work as usual & greatly appreciated!

PS. this has me thinking of the Bf1942 map "Battle of Britain".

[clivewil]

one good thing about all the flurry of interest in BF2 1.5 and the free boosters is that i will be able to finish and release this Op Harvest clone, Operation Farmer. it's a much more fitting environment for the warbirds than Daqing is, and with a little lighting treatment, a lick of paint, and removal of some of the more redundant items it could really shine



and yeah Khetti you are correct, the Hurri did score more kills. the Spit is still far sexier though

[KHETTI]

That map looks great, and yes the Spitfire is simply iconic in looks and sound, but im rather fond of the Hurricane MKII, the 4 cannons just make it look mean, like it could split a tank open with ease lol

[sid6.5]

I am not 100% sure if this is intentional, but in Daqing_AirWar, only the Singleplayer has spawnpoints/controlpoints/ect..
COOP and CQ don't (GamePlayObjects.con's are empty).
Easiely fixed by copying over the GamePlayObjects.con from SP3.

Airplains look and fly great!

This post has been edited by sid6.5: Aug 29 2009, 09:08 AM

[clivewil]

I am not 100% sure if this is intentional

i would hope you're just kidding. you are aren't you?

staring you in the face each time you load the map is this statement:

Forget about trying to play this map as co-op or multiplayer conquest, and forget about game balance, historical or geographical correctness, participating in ground battles, and general fairness. This map is purely for blowing stuff up with old World War II airplanes in single-player mode. If you try to make a balanced multiplayer game from this, or you complain that I have not done so, then you have obviously missed the whole point of the exercise.

i didn't forget the co-op and MP modes, i deleted them. there's a big difference.

p.s. please excuse my crabbiness. i should be used to this by now.

[anifan97203]

I can see why you've used this map for testing your wip aircraft. Nice job man. All four aircraft air nicely done, as expected. Now, for your own sake, have a nice cold one (or 12) and take some time off from rendering.

[GroovyDawg]

I've stated this privately, but now must make this a public statement.

That the readme clivewil wrote is HANDSDOWN the best readme the world has ever seen. The level of contractual obligations, rich encyclopediac information and sheer wit makes it a literary piece of art.

Epic win.

[clivewil]

I can see why you've used this map for testing your wip aircraft.

i have a new champion now, Operation Farmer (Operation Harvest) is proving to be better, for these planes at least. (and has nice big open fields for mass takeoffs)

i can't really put my finger on a reason, but in Op Farmer the Stukas occasionally go into these really long dives with the sirens screaming in agony. and, unlike with a heli, you can't cap flags in a Spitfire so i often have to bail out and go on foot for a while. then i hear their engines, then that siren, and by the time i've pinpointed it i have no ankles. a better strategy seems to be to crap in my duds and dive under the nearest rock, which was exactly the effect those sirens were intended to have.

the Stuka seems to be a lot more realistic than i planned: easily shot down by fighter from behind, but god help anybody on the ground while they're about

once the 1.5 is out and everything is legal, i'll try to neaten the map up a bit and release it as a second warbirds map - i thought 'Buying the Farm' would be a good name for it (trivia: to 'buy the farm' means to crash and burn, an old British pilot's phrase)

That the readme clivewil wrote

heh you should have read the first draft. i cut out huge chunks because it read like a page-long 'i hate everybody' statement. my offline friends would be quite shocked to see cuddly ol' me being capable of writing such venomous outbursts...