Black Sea Raiders [A-20]

[CzechTexan]

Black Sea Raiders

Download:  https://www.mediafire.com/file/kjq4w9rjnrnypd5/Black+Sea+Raiders.zip/file

Black Sea Raiders is a 7-mission single player scripted campaign in which the Player will fly the A-20 Havoc on the Odessa map.  Missions take place during April and May 1944, just as the Red Army has liberated Odessa and has pushed the Axis armies back, all the way to the Dnestr River.  However, the German Army is still in Crimea and is trying to evacuate its troops by air and sea to Romania.  The Black Sea Fleet Aviation has Lend-Lease Douglas A-20 bombers (Boston B-3 is the Soviet name for the A-20 Havoc) based in southern Ukraine.  The Bostons are used against the retreating Germans, fleeing across the Black Sea.

*Notes:  

• You MUST HAVE the Siege and Liberation module for the ODESSA MAP and the A-20 plane from the KUBAN module.
• A mission automatically becomes successful when the player reaches the rally point (waypoint-4), after attacking the target.
• The first two missions start on the runway with engines running.  All other missions start in the air.
• Mission briefings are in English only, sorry.
• Books cited:  Bagration to Berlin by Christer Bergstrom

Enjoy!--created by CzechTexan

Setting afire after a strafing run...

Edited April 5 by CzechTexan

[CzechTexan]

Be sure to man your defensive guns when needed!

 

 

Edited April 4 by CzechTexan

[CzechTexan]

A better title pic...

[easterling77]

Very cool stuff Sir.

I'll run them as soon as I get time in the next days.

 

 

Edited April 5 by easterling77

[SARFlytitus]

@CzechTexan GREAT campaign , thanx so much !

[CzechTexan]

@easterling77 and @SARFlytitus THANKS for the comments!

[taffy2]

Hi Czech Texan, Could you tell me what the installation path is.

Cheers

[Vendigo]

I installed it the same as all other campaigns:

IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles/data/Campaigns 

[taffy2]

On 4/6/2026 at 2:54 PM, Vendigo said:

I installed it the same as all other campaigns:

IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles/data/Campaigns 

Thanks for the info

[Vendigo]

In the first mission my wingmen never attacked the targets, didn't drop the bombs despite my command "attack closest ground target". 

Is there a trick to make them commence attack?

Btw, I wonder whether there has been any news from the devs regarding the missing bombardier station, maybe they are going to add it in the Bomber DLC?     

[CzechTexan]

48 minutes ago, Vendigo said:

In the first mission my wingmen never attacked the targets, didn't drop the bombs despite my command "attack closest ground target". 

Is there a trick to make them commence attack?

In my testing, I flew the formation over target and they all dropped bombs in the targeted area.  Maybe the problem is because it's an "area" target - the command is to bomb "ground" - not "ground targets."

[Vendigo]

16 minutes ago, CzechTexan said:

In my testing, I flew the formation over target and they all dropped bombs in the targeted area.  Maybe the problem is because it's an "area" target - the command is to bomb "ground" - not "ground targets."

So the wingmen drop their bombs exactly when the player drops his bombs, right? ..and I think you did the high altitude level bombing. 

The missing bombardier station confused me, so I decended and dropped bombs in shallow dives and strafed the targets... But the radio commands don't work - the wingmen didn't follow my orders, it's a pity the radios haven't been fixed.       

 

Edited Friday at 10:16 PM by Vendigo

[CzechTexan]

1 hour ago, Vendigo said:

So the wingmen drop their bombs exactly when the player drops his bombs, right? ..and I think you did the high altitude level bombing.

yes, it's more like medium-level bombing.  I suppose you could also give the order to "do like me."  I don't remember if I used that command or not.  I should have been more clear about the level bombing of the buildings.  I sometimes forget that I know everything about the mission and assume others do too.

All other missions attack shipping targets EXCEPT the last mission where you also level-bomb warehouses.