I love that the anti aircraft fire damage is heavily exagerratted. By the way, altough this film shows incredible amounts of damage to the refinery, in fact the refinerys production level decreased only by 2% because before the raid, the refinery was not at full capacity, so the germans just brought the unused portion back into service
Excellent video, except the Liberators you show are the B24 J model, but in Operation Tidal Wave, all of the B24's were "D" models, which did not have the front gun turrets or lower ball turrets!
Can you please upload to rapidshare this video on high quality? I love all the films that you have made until now and I would like to have all of them on High Quality.
@NLFonsseals 1. He creates some 3d effects and adds them later tothe Il2 footage in a movie-editing-programm (Look the Video: Creating special effects) 2. This oilfield is made with Full Mission Builder for this only Mission (Film-scenery). You can see Objects like the V2rocket, Some Hangars, and islamic looking buildings, great compiled. Look for this objects in FMB and you will see. (I work often with those Objects, so I cognize them immediatly.
From the wiki article Operation Tidal Wave involved a total commitment of 178 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers on a 2,400-mile round trip flight to conduct low-level attack on the refineries. All aircraft were based near Benghazi, Libya. The B-24Ds had their combat range increased with special 3100 gallon wing tanks. This info is in many books btw.
@Eboreg2 Actually, The Tidal wave operation was not so efficient. They restart bombing Ploiesti only after they took the airfields from South Italy. And after that, it was somethink else, becouse the romanian fighters were forced to fight in an inferiority of 1:10, sometimes 1:20 if we add the P51 Mustang and P38 Lightning. It was very hard to be a romanian fighter pilot in these days...
Did you do anything to add to the game? I've played this game and have never seen the human characters interact. Like the anti-aircraft gunners and the people inside the planes. Plus there are views and images i've never seen before....
Filmul este destul de reusit, dar data viitoare cand mai faci ceva documenteaza-te bine inainte sa incepi. Acum nu stiu a cui este vina....a ta ca nu te-ai documentat sau a celor care au facut jocul. succes in continuare ;)
You can fight on the western front!!! Just flight made an expansion called Battle over europe!!!You can only order it online. There are also dozens of downloadabel mods compleetly with skins, including the Africa front.There is even a mod for the Italian aircraft. Look into it. It makes Il2 so much better
First bombers in formation had bombs with long delay time and the last had bombs exploded with short time delay - 45 seconds). 35 out of 162 had been shooted down and 110 pows have been captured. 7 B-24 out of 35 hit de cables of the protection baloons (filled with hidrogen). All of them exploded. The Wellcome cometee was performed by 89 german airplane fighters and 59 romanians. In Ploiesti the following oil rafinery were not affected: Unirea, Standard, Dacia Romana, Redeventa, Xenia.
@4my8kngck its a 10. its one of the best,if not the best,WW2 simulator. If you think about buying it,you should get IL-2:1946 with all previous versions and a new campaign along with some 300+ flyable aircraft,with 400+ total. People have also created mods to fly the unflyable planes
it was and out of the 178 planes, 53 were lost and many were damaged and 310 Killed and some 200 captured and it was one of the biggest air raids and after that all raids on ploesti were made from high altitude.
Closing text: The raid ended in Ploiesti The last B-24 landed, after being in the air for 16 hours Of 178 bombers, only 11 of them returned 54 were shot down over Romania 3 above sea level 7 made an emergency landing in Turkey Other collapsed for various reasons Loss of aircraft personnel - 532 men And the result? A reduced oil production of 40% a month.
Doc, can you make a movie about Kursk battle please? Or about Kuban? Or about june 22 1941? You are realy great il 2 moviemaker! Respect! I will wait your new movies about that! Thanks
The Ploesti raids're depicted as being a lot more effective than they really were. (Perhaps the Czech narration at the end spells out the ineffectiveness of the operation.) And where was the Romanian Air Force, darn it? Yes, I know the game may not have a model for the IAR.80, but I can always wish.
Ahoj Tady v tom videu jsou jenom přidaný panáčci do záběrů.Veškerý efekty jsou součástí ILa(hry).Na to jak přidávám 3d figurky na pozadí jsem sem dával takové videjko.Ono to ukázat je daleko lepší než zdlouhavě vysvětlovat.Myslím
Ahhh youtube does not allow links posted in comments. Guys, google "Operation Tidal Wave" and you will get some very good pages including official USAF sites. Even the wiki article is a pretty good overview...and well sourced. These guys had to fly over the Pindus mountains and the intricate coordination was messed up which contributed to the heavy losses. Read up very interesting.
It's the result of real air strike. From 178 bombers only 11 returned to base (last after 16 hours in air). 54 was shot down over Romania, 3 over the sea, 7 forced land in Turkey, rest lost from different reasons (probably crashes, damages, aa guns, low fuel...). Air staff losses 532 men. Result: oil production reduced by 40 % for several months.
