Combat Box

[Fabry_ASW19]

Visual Navigation by Map only with some ADF aid and reasonably long flights are a great characteristic of Combat Box just like it was and is for GB nothing to change there.

[Haluter]

On 8/5/2026 at 1:03 PM, Flyingadjo said:

Hi,

I have never flown CB before. Where can I find explanation about how to communicate appart from the chat ? Do i need to install SRS ? 

Noob over

You can use either Discord or SRS. For SRS I recommend downloading & running IL2-SRS-AutoUpdater.

Edited August 7 by Haluter

[Dash,Polder]

It's really the mountainous terrain, but man I wouldn't trade it for the world.  This is the absolute best map in any IL-2 version for fighting a war in.  It's a breeze to navigate from altitude, but to low level it through the valleys following the notches and low cut passes takes some talent and experience.   You really have to pay attention to sun positioning and have some recognizable land marks set as way points should your compass go haywire, like the F-80's is highly prone to do.

These are anything but boring milk runs to target like it was in Great Battles.  It takes some real team work to get there and back now.

[Stoikiy]

unabe to connect on this server very often. Any reasons for that? 

[Bemused]

On 8/9/2026 at 4:16 PM, Stoikiy said:

unabe to connect on this server very often. Any reasons for that? 

Same for me. Trying to join just now, showing 50/54 and it loads to 83% before dumping me back to server list. It has happened before - maybe reserved slots?

[Haluter]

1 hour ago, Bemused said:

Same for me. Trying to join just now, showing 50/54 and it loads to 83% before dumping me back to server list. It has happened before - maybe reserved slots?

Reserved slots isn't a thing, I wish it was so admins could always get in 😄
The issue is more likely a bug with dserver. We have reported it to the devs.

[Banzai]

Not really a complaint, more of a question. Why is the server 54 players only. Is it technical limitation or a gameplay related choice?

[Dash,Polder]

15 hours ago, Banzai said:

Not really a complaint, more of a question. Why is the server 54 players only. Is it technical limitation or a gameplay related choice?

Because it's the less capable former Combat Box Great Battles training server, but they'll be happy to upgrade it if you wish to make a donation.   

[Husar]

8 hours ago, Dash,Polder said:

Because it's the less capable former Combat Box Great Battles training server, but they'll be happy to upgrade it if you wish to make a donation.   

They are testing whether dserver can handle 64 players with their current missions. I already saw dsever messages about erratic behavior .

[Fabry_ASW19]

 I've set a recurring monthly donation for Combat Box Patreon they certainly deserve it! Thanks for giving a Purpose to IL Korea for people that have zero interest to offline mode.

[FlightBud]

Can anyone clarify if SRS works on this version of CB and what is the server to enter in SRS?

 

[Haluter]

2 hours ago, FlightBud said:

Can anyone clarify if SRS works on this version of CB and what is the server to enter in SRS?

 

SRS works on both CB servers, and you don't need to enter the server address in SRS, it connects automatically when IL-2 connects to the server.

[Mrpink7]

some of the maps have too many spread out objectives for 50 players.. It is often 40m of flying to find 1 enemy 

[Haluter]

4 hours ago, Mrpink7 said:

some of the maps have too many spread out objectives for 50 players.. It is often 40m of flying to find 1 enemy 

Combat Box missions are not designed for air to air combat. We focus on ground objectives, and these need to be destroyed to win the mission. Positions of objectives are based on the average flight times from frontal airfields.

[iflyflightsims]

Hello! I just wanted to provide feedback on the mission Advance to the North v0.4 on Combat Box. I came across a couple of bugs when playing this mission last night. 

1. The fires marking mission objectives were hovering in the air.
2. At the Enemy Tank Column objective located at grid 2830, I destroyed an IS-2 tank. When it exploded, three turrets flew off instead of one. I was unable to replicate this on my own in a mission that I created, so I think it could be an issue with the mission file.

Here are some attachments that you may find helpful. 

Track Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X74kaX2THcKpgQLm9AoZcgmULwfaNz00/view?usp=sharing

Video on YouTube: (See below)

 Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. 🙂

 

[Fabry_ASW19]

On 8/15/2026 at 5:10 PM, Haluter said:

SRS works on both CB servers, and you don't need to enter the server address in SRS, it connects automatically when IL-2 connects to the server.

for SRS I think we still need to add the code lines to the data/startup.cfg in the game directory

 

[KEY = telemetrydevice]

      addr = "127.0.0.1"

      decimation = 2

      enable = true

      port = 4322

[END]

 

Can anyone confirm?

[Haluter]

7 minutes ago, Fabry_ASW19 said:

for SRS I think we still need to add the code lines to the data/startup.cfg in the game directory

 

[KEY = telemetrydevice]

      addr = "127.0.0.1"

      decimation = 2

      enable = true

      port = 4322

[END]

 

Can anyone confirm?

You don't need to manually add the telemetrydevice section if you're using the new Community Edition version (I've taken over the SRS project)

https://github.com/riaanjutte/IL2-SimpleRadioStandalone

Edited August 17 by Haluter

[KoN]

Just flown your server. A few things I noticed only one airfield for USA this was bombed or two large creators in the middle of runway can not land or take off.

Some one said some die on airfield maybe drop their bombs or they caused two large creators. 

I Can not see creators as not rendering in until last minute for me anyhow as VR not good in this game at the moment waiting for patch .

Is there away to make Home Base not take damage so we can all take off and land. Or are we supposed to use small strip on landing. ?? As this will be hard to land on. 

Keep up the good work And can we have AAA please at airfields or at least close by. Players' are following you all the way back to airfields. 

 

[Banzai]

I am not sure if this is mission/server related or game related. Why is there no notification on the map when there are enemy planes spotted near the airfields? 

This was present in GB and helped with avoiding airfields were enemy planes were camping.

Currently common scenario is being attacked close to the airfield by Migs that intercept planes shortly after take off or on the way back.

I know there is 5km no vulching rule enforced but being bounced 3 minutes after take off is not fun.

Will EWR and GCI be implemented at some stage. This was one of the selling points/improvements of the sim, yet we seem to regressed to a point where there is no warning about campers at all.

Edited August 19 by Banzai
more questions 😉

[KoN]

North Korea had two airfields. South only had one and this was 50% out of action due too one of the main runways being  bombed or a friendly fire incident. 

There were only 7 players online,  not sure what's happening here. 

If there is only one airfield guess where the enemy is going to be, With no AAA defending it and no ATC information about enemy close by than its a loose loose situation on a certain map. 

Yes of course check six over and over but when your lining up for a landing then shot down on your approach the player still gets its kill and you are still killed in action even with a 5km vulching  kill zone. 

Question is there AAA defending the airfield like in real life or along the routes to airfields. 

 

[Haluter]

6 hours ago, KoN said:

North Korea had two airfields. South only had one and this was 50% out of action due too one of the main runways being  bombed or a friendly fire incident. 

There were only 7 players online,  not sure what's happening here. 

If there is only one airfield guess where the enemy is going to be, With no AAA defending it and no ATC information about enemy close by than its a loose loose situation on a certain map. 

Yes of course check six over and over but when your lining up for a landing then shot down on your approach the player still gets its kill and you are still killed in action even with a 5km vulching  kill zone. 

Question is there AAA defending the airfield like in real life or along the routes to airfields. 

 

Ideally airfields would be protected by AAA, but we are limited by the current state of the game. If the situation improves (AAA less resource intensive and craters on runways are only visual) we will of course go that route.

[KoN]

3 hours ago, Haluter said:

Ideally airfields would be protected by AAA, but we are limited by the current state of the game. If the situation improves (AAA less resource intensive and craters on runways are only visual) we will of course go that route.

Ok thank you yes this game needs optimizing big especially in VR. 

[TheTonester]

How does one get SRS to connect…do i have to do something special? flew one mission the other day but it didnt detect it…what am i doing wrong?

[KoN]

 

3 hours ago, TheTonester said:

How does one get SRS to connect…do i have to do something special? flew one mission the other day but it didnt detect it…what am i doing wrong?

To be honest hardly anyone is using SRS,  I was on today and no one spoke. Download the il-2 SRS and auto run it and will pick it up automatically. 

[KoN]

This Server is eating my VRAM or should I say il-2 Korea is eating it up. 

I managed two missions and ran out of Vram a Error message top right in red pops up I had to restart computer.

This Sim really needs some fixing. 

Question are the AF beacons working I followed mine in il-10 but could not see airfield flying around in circles. Lol.