OVERLORD - The ultimate Normandy SP Missions

Hi All,

Ever since the release of Normandy I've been working on something big. I dreamed up a single mission where you would spawn either parked or in the air, and everything around you would be a blank canvas, and it's up to you what you feel like painting. You can tune your radio to local radio channels - sometimes more than one - listen to Axis Sally, Lord Haw-Haw, or the latest CBS news, and many, many great songs from the 40s.

Select your task from your radio menu under F10 and units will come alive. Fighter Sweeps, Ground attacks, Intercepts, Escorts, Scrambles... What's even better is that each task is randomized to some extent, so you don't always face the same number of enemy at the same place and with the same AI level. You can re-play the mission over 50 times before you face the same situation.

There are also some easter eggs such as voice acting thanks to Compans, Datek, and Rakuzard. The missions are using my skins, CLICK HERE to download them for a better experience, as well as KZIR's B-17 skins HERE

The mission is still in beta, I will improve it once we get more AI planes and units, I just didn't want to wait a year until they're all released. I tried not to overdo the units keeping performance in mind, but in the current state of 2.1 it wasn't always possible. I hope you will like them, I put hundreds of hours in these, so I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Mustang Ace

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2855577/

BOMBER ESCORT - ST LO

Rendez vous with a group of B-17s over Azeville, and escort them all the way to the target: St. Lo. Don't go off chasing German fighters, stick to the heavies like glue!

BOMBER ESCORT - Rouen

The 91st Bombardment Group isfyling a raid to Rouen. Your job is to protect the heavies at all cost. Remember, you save one bomber, you save 10 lives.

BOMBER ESCORT - CAEN

Escort a formation of Bombers to Caen, then drop down and destroy what's left of the railway station.

FIGHTER SWEEP - CARENTAN

Patrol the area between Carentan and St. Mere Eglise. The 487th boys are also in the area, so make sure you shoot at the planes with the black crosses.

FIGHTER SWEEP - LE HAVRE

Patrol the area of Le Havre. There are some RAF Spitfires in the area, so ID the bogeys before giving them the whole nine yards.

GROUND ATTACK - CARPIQUET

Our intel reports suggest that the two best Luftwaffe squadrons are stationed at Carpiquet airfield. We are planning a little surprise for them, let's catch them with their pants down and destroy them on the ground.

GROUND ATTACK - BAYEUX

Intel reported a large Jerry troop concentration at the Bayeux marshalling yards. Go strafe and bomb everything that moves!

GROUND ATTACK - POINTE DU HOC

There is a fortified area at the Pointe du Hoc. Our heavies have been pounding it for a while but recon says there are still some trucks and tanks left intact.

AIR SUPPORT - OMAHA BEACH

Our troops have just landed on the beaches of Normandy. The battle is fierce, and casualities are heavy. Provide close air support to them, destroy any German planes or vehicles you see.

Spitfire Ace

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2855576/

CIRCUS - CAEN

Rendez vous with a formation of B-17s over Azeville, and escort them all the way to the target: St. Lo. Don't go off chasing Jerry fighters , stick to the heavies like glue!

CIRCUS - BAYEUX

Escort a flight of bombers that are attacking the Bayeux railway station. Let's cut the German supply lines!

RODEO - Cherbourg

Patrol the area between Cherbourg and Azeville. Some Yankee Mustangs are also in the area, so make sure you shoot at the planes with the black crosses.

RODEO - LE HAVRE

Patrol the area of Le Havre. There are some other RAF squadrons in the area, so ID the aircraft before clobbering them!

RHUBARB - POINTE DU HOC

There is a fortified area at the Pointe du Hoc. Our bomber boys have been pounding it for a while but recon says there are still some trucks and tanks left intact.

RHUBARB - CARPIQUET

Our intel reports suggest that the two best Luftwaffe squadrons are stationed at Carpiquet airfield. We are planning a little surprise for them, let's catch them with their pants down and destroy them on the ground.

SWORD BEACH LANDINGS

Our boys have just landed on Sword Beach. Provide close air support and destroy any Jerry aeroplanes or vehicles you see.

SCRAMBLE!

Enemy fighters are approaching Tangmere. Get off the ground and shoot the bastards down!

109 Ace

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2855571/

BOMBER INTERCEPT - ST. LO

A large formation of enemy heavy bombers is approaching St. Lo. Your job is to prevent the Boeings from reaching their targets. Watch your back, you don't want to be jumped by Mustangs!

BOMBER INTERCEPT - CAEN

Enemy B-26s launched an attack agains the railway station in Caen. The bombers must not get through!

FREE HUNT - CARENTAN

Free hunt in the area of Carentan. Clean the skies from any enemy fighters you may encounter!

FREE HUNT - LE HAVRE

Free hunt in the area of Le Havre. A great day to increase your score!

DEFEND CARPIQUET

Enemy fighters are ttacking our airfield. Get back and shoot them down!

AIRFIELD ATTACK - AZEVILLE

Attack the enemy airfield at Azeville. This time we can surprise the Yankees with their pants down!

GROUND ATTACK - OMAHA BEACH

Enemy forces have landed on our beaches! Troops, trucks, Jeeps and tanks are being unloaded onto the sand. Let them all burn before they can regroup!

Focke-Wulf Ace

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2855574/

BOMBER INTERCEPT - ST. LO

A large formation of enemy heavy bombers is approaching St. Lo. Your job is to prevent the Boeings from reaching their targets. Watch your back, you don't want to be jumped by Mustangs!

BOMBER INTERCEPT - CAEN

Enemy B-26s launched an attack agains the railway station in Caen. The bombers must not get through!

FREE HUNT - CARENTAN

Free hunt in the area of Carentan. Clean the skies from any enemy fighters you may encounter!

FREE HUNT - LE HAVRE

Free hunt in the area of Le Havre. A great day to increase your score!

DEFEND CARPIQUET

Enemy fighters are ttacking our airfield. Get back and shoot them down!

AIRFIELD ATTACK - AZEVILLE

Attack the enemy airfield at Azeville. This time we can surprise the Yankees with their pants down!

GROUND ATTACK - OMAHA BEACH

Enemy forces have landed on our beaches! Troops, trucks, Jeeps and tanks are being unloaded onto the sand. Let them all burn before they can regroup!

Wow! Great work!

Thank you!

So, anyone managed to test them?

a great work :thumbup:

trhanks a lot for

I will test your mission for you :) check your MP please

see you next:)

Wow. I just popped in here to see if anyone had made a decent Normandy mission lately. This is more than I expected!

Thanks for the effort!

Not used with puitting new skins in. Where do they go please? Is it in the Mods - Aircraft folder or Bazar - Liveries (there are no Spitfire or B-17G folders here). Cheers

The best is to put them all in this folder:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha\Liveries

Example B-17G Hey Daddy skin goes to:

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha\Liveries\B-17G\322nd BS - 91st BG_LG-H_Hey Daddy

Holy Cow, thanks! I'm gonna check these out.

The best is to put them all in this folder:

 

C:\Users\*yourusername*\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha\Liveries

Just adding that you will have to create the Liveries folder.

These missions look great. Thanks Reflected.

Yes, figured that out. Done. Thanks. Will check this out later

I downloaded all the missions and played the first mission for each plane. GREAT JOB! The period radio broadcasts are a real treat! I would call these mini-campaigns rather than single missions which makes them even better. My only suggestion is perhaps toning down the fighter contrails somewhat. They look a little overdone in my opinion. The B17 contrails look very good and proper. I had to tone down my graphics settings to keep a decent frame rate (I only have a relatively weak GTX 1050 card) which I think was due to the all the contrails along with the thick clouds. I love flying through your thick clouds! I always wondered why DCS rarely models thick clouds you can fly through like Cliffs of Dover. I thought it was it was just not possible until I saw your beautiful work. Cant wait to see your future updates to these excellent missions.

The mission designer has no control over the visual effects such as contrails; these simply occur under the correct atmospheric conditions. Here's a period photo showing a similar scene.

Weather, however, -is- under the mission maker's control! If you'd like to add weather to any unprotected mission, simply open it in the mission editor and click the cloud icon on the left side of the screen.

You can set the cloud base, a relative thickness between 1 and 10, temperature, and toggle precipitation and fog. If you know a little about meteorology you can even create pressure systems and have dynamic weather. (stormy in one area, clear in others.)

Downloaded it the other day and made it multiplayer. I post the Mustang Ace Cold start version on my server and had a couple of squad members and a few random players join in. We had a blast!

Here are a couple of observations, for the Cold version, move the bomber spawn positions over England otherwise they have hit the target and are heading home before you get across the channel.

There did not appear to be any en fighters spawned to attack the mission to Rouen.

Also, did you start using the WWII bomber mod at some point? It might add some variety until the Asset Pack gets updated.

Thanks for the feedback!

If you don't like the clouds, you can change the coverage in ME. Equally, you can remove the contrails by raising the temperature.

@Rob: If you start on the ground in England/ France, you need to fly to WP1 as the briefing says before you activate one of the missions, right where the air start mission begins. The distance and timings are calculated from there. I will check the Rouen mission, although that particular one has 7 different combos of attacking fighters. Sometimes you get more than you can handle. Did you try it just once, or several times?

:thumbup:

:pilotfly:

These are great but how can we make them multiplayer so that I can fly them with the rest of my group? How do I adapt them so that there are three more "clients" in my grouping?

A note: the cold start Spitfire mission just doesn't work, because your AI wingmen will run out of fuel before you reach the French coast. AI fuel management is totally messed up :(

flown the FW190 mission; started in the AIR

how do you manage the radio ?

my joystick bouton Comm menu ... does'nt work !!! in this mission

the comm menu appeared ...but only when I was landing on ground . ( At Caen ...)

nothing in the AIR ... not able to see the F10 menu ...

Check your settings, I think there are 2 buttons: "radio push to talk button" and "comms menu" - try both.

Does anyone know why te B-17s scatter and go back to previous waypoints upon reaching WP4 on the Rouen raid in the Mustang missions? I can't figure it out...

Check your settings, I think there are 2 buttons: "radio push to talk button" and "comms menu" - try both.

I tried one of the FW-190D missions. I figured out the comms, and was able to pick a mission, but never saw any enemy a/c, nor could I get ATC to respond to things like heading info.

Also, how do I pick from your skins I have downloaded?

I think you have created some really great missions for us. Looking to see them in MP.

Cheers

I tried one of the FW-190D missions. I figured out the comms, and was able to pick a mission, but never saw any enemy a/c, nor could I get ATC to respond to things like heading info.

 

Also, how do I pick from your skins I have downloaded?

 

I think you have created some really great missions for us. Looking to see them in MP.

 

Cheers

The mission name has a general location in it. Fly there, and be patient. The enemy will come sooner or later. If you want to "cheat" a little, check out the map view (F10) and see where the enemy is. You can also hit F2 to cycle through all the aircraft in the air.

But again, like the briefing says: make sure you select the mission upon reaching WP1 (where the airstart mission begins) not while you are on the ground.