Peabody Mission Collection: Now 16 missions

[bbosen]

Greetings, fellow combat flight sim fanatics! My "Peabody" staged mission collection has now grown to sixteen offerings with my latest addition "Rabaul 18Oct1943". All of these are available for old Aces High Version 2.12.4. Most of them have also been compiled for compatibility with later versions, and the status of each can be accessed (along with YouTube video clip previews, detailed installation instructions, source code, terrain maps, and other required resouces) from my website here:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/Ah2OfflineMissionsFullPage.htm


PeabodySimple                         My simplest mission. A good starting point.
PacMix01                                 Many types of allied planes versus many types of Japanese
Hollandia 30Apr1944               P38s and B24s bomb the Japanese base at Hollandia, New Guinea
Yamamoto (by Soda)                 Major John Mitchell leads P38s to shoot down Yamamoto at Bougainville
FlaxChapter1                           P38s in a Mediterranean "Turkey Shoot" vs. Me109s and transport planes
FlaxChapter2                           More P38s vs. Me109s and transports North of Tunisia
EuroMix                                   Many types of allied fighters escort allied bombers vs. Axis planes over France
Hanna at Scarpantos               P38s versus Stukas in the Eastern Mediterranean.
MacDonald at Dobodura          Charles MacDonald leads desperate P38s in defense of his airfield
Shubin at Guadalcanal            P38s versus a huge array of Japanese fighters and bombers
McGuire 18Aug1943                 Tom McGuire's first combat. P38s escort American Bombers vs. Japanese
Ilfrey at Bizerte, 26Dec1942     Jack Ilfrey and other P38s escort B24s in North Africa vs 109s and 190s.
DesertMix                                 Many types of allied planes versus many types of axis planes in North Africa
McGuire at Tacloban                 Tom McGuire's arrival in the Philippines with his P38s. He came in style!
Bong's 31st Victory 27Oct1944 P38s vs. Japanese Zeroes and dive bombers in the Philippines
Rabaul431018                           P38s escort B25s from New Guinea to strike fortress Rabaul.

My favorite plane is the P38, and you can fly P38s in all of these missions. A variety of other aircraft participate. The widest variety of planes are available in the "Mix" missions (PacMix, EuroMix, and DesertMix), which are fictional encounters designed simply to allow a wide choice of aircraft. All of the other missions are historically based, and generally take place in terrains I created specifically for them, using real-world maps based on satellite images.

I continue to update these from time to time as I get the opportunity.
 

[bbosen]

Update 20Dec2013:

I just compiled my "EuroMix" mission for compatibility with the latest, greatest version of Aces High as of this date (version 2.31.3). Although most missions seem not to work offline with 2.31.3, this one does. It is the second one that I have discovered to work among my collection (the other is "PacMix").

Description here:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/EuroMix/EuroMixPage01Full.htm
(Last link at the bottom of the page includes installation kit and instructions for version 2.31.3).

We've had a lot of trouble getting missions to work properly with this version, and we're still seeking input from testers. Kindly report problems (and/or successes) through this thread. We want to know about different platforms (XP, Win7, Win8, etc.) succeeding and failing.
 

[bbosen]

Update 03Feb2014:

I just remembered something I should have published here last month. I updated and recompiled my "Hollandia" mission for compatibility with version 2.31.3 and it is among three of my offline missions that are known to work well with that version. Today I updated my Aces High to the newest version (2.32.2) and verified that this mission still works well. Here is the link that can get you going with this mission:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/Hollandia440330/Ah2HollandiaMissionsFullPage.htm

From there, click on "Hollandia30Apr1944" for a general overview of the mission. Then, at the bottom of that page, click on version "6 of 6: Updated for Version 2.31.3 (December 2013)" for the latest version as of January 2014.

I will be recompiling and testing more of my missions to determine how many of them work correctly with this new version 2.32.2.
 

[wpeters]

Update 03Feb2014:

I just remembered something I should have published here last month. I updated and recompiled my "Hollandia" mission for compatibility with version 2.31.3 and it is among three of my offline missions that are known to work well with that version. Today I updated my Aces High to the newest version (2.32.2) and verified that this mission still works well. Here is the link that can get you going with this mission:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/Hollandia440330/Ah2HollandiaMissionsFullPage.htm

From there, click on "Hollandia30Apr1944" for a general overview of the mission. Then, at the bottom of that page, click on version "6 of 6: Updated for Version 2.31.3 (December 2013)" for the latest version as of January 2014.

I will be recompiling and testing more of my missions to determine how many of them work correctly with this new version 2.32.2.
 

Do you mix missions work with the newest updates, and were can I download it

[bbosen]

Do you mix missions work with the newest updates, and were can I download it

As of this date in mid-May 2014, the current version of Aces High is V2.32.2, and it does NOT work with most Staged Missions. However, for some strange reason, my "PacMix" mission DOES work with Version 2.32.2. I don't know why it works, since so many of the others do not, but I'm pleased to report that I just tried the latest PacMix (which had been compiled and published for AH 2.28.x) and found it to be well behaved with AH 2.32.2. I updated my published mission description accordingly, as you can see here:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/PacMix01/Ah2PacMixMissionFullPage.htm

Those that want to enjoy my entire collection of offline missions (now 18 of them) will probably have best success if they download and use old AH Version 2.12.4, which is the stable version I always use when I create missions. It is easy to manage this old version in addition to the latest, greatest version: just store them in separate folders of your Windoze "C:" drive.
 

[bbosen]

My collection has now grown to 19 missions as follows:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/Ah2OfflineMissionsFullPage.htm

01:  PeabodySimple                       My simplest mission. A good starting point.
02:  PacMix01                               Many types of allied planes versus many types of Japanese
03:  Hollandia 30Apr1944               P38s and B24s bomb the Japanese base at Hollandia, New Guinea
04:  Yamamoto (by Soda)              Major John Mitchell leads P38s to shoot down Yamamoto at Bougainville
05:  FlaxChapter1                          P38s in a Mediterranean "Turkey Shoot" vs. Me109s and transport planes
06:  FlaxChapter2                          More P38s vs. Me109s and transports North of Tunisia
07:  EuroMix                                  Many types of allied fighters escort allied bombers vs. Axis planes over France
08:  Hanna at Scarpantos               P38s versus Stukas in the Eastern Mediterranean.
09:  MacDonald at Dobodura           Charles MacDonald leads desperate P38s in defense of his airfield
10:  Shubin at Guadalcanal             P38s versus a huge array of Japanese fighters and bombers
11:  McGuire 18Aug1943                Tom McGuire's first combat. P38s escort American Bombers vs. Japanese
12:  Ilfrey at Bizerte, 26Dec1942    Jack Ilfrey and other P38s escort B24s in North Africa vs 109s and 190s.
13:  DesertMix                               Many types of allied planes versus many types of axis planes in North Africa
14:  McGuire at Tacloban                Tom McGuire's arrival in the Philippines with his P38s. He came in style!
15:  Bong's 31st Victory 27Oct1944 P38s vs. Japanese Zeroes and dive bombers in the Philippines
16:  Rabaul 431018                        P38s escort B25s from New Guinea to strike fortress Rabaul.
17:  Rabaul Mix                              Huge variety of American fighters vs. Japanese fighters
18:  LAN Party 2014                       Good for LAN Parties with 8 players all in the same room
19:  Johnson at Ormoc Bay             Gerald R. Johnson and 3 other P38 "Fat Cats" in the Phillippines.

All of these have P38s in them. All with "Mix" in their names have a large variety of other planes. All
work well with old version 2.12.4 of Aces High. Some of them are also compiled for newer versions of
Aces High. "EuroMix", "PacMix", and "Hollandia" have been tested with good results on the current
version of Aces High as of Jan2015 (V2.32.2).

 

[bbosen]

I added a 20th mission over a month ago, but I just realized I had never updated this thread to announce it. The new mission is named "McGuire at Luzon", and it re-enacts the battle of 26Oct1944 over Luzon (most prominent of the Phillippine Islands), in which Major Thomas B. McGuire scored his 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th victories. Mission details, video preview, source code, and download instructions can be found through the last link at the bottom of this page:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Ah2Missions/Ah2OfflineMissionsFullPage.htm