Odessa and Leningrad Module

[Jaegermeister]

21 hours ago, Kubert said:

I like to see finnish aircrafts to be in development, but what concern me is that when I asked few months back if Finnish voice communication will be included in the S&L modul, Luke said it won't be. But in one old post (I think from 2024), you @LLv44_Kanttori , mentioned that it is planned. So, what is situation about that? Was finnish voice comms planned but scratched? Or will be added later? Or some technical difficulties make impossible to implement it? 

It is possible to add new languages such as Finnish or Romanian to your game installation as either a file replacement or a Mod. It will not replace the localized language in subtitles. It is not impossible to add new countries such as Romania or Finland as a new faction, but I can imagine it would be a very large amount of work to translate, rewrite all the voice to text code and implement it for no financial benefit. Replacement Romanian voice tracks are already available for the Romanian missions on the Odessa map if players want to use them. 

You are correct, we have been told that new factions will not be officially added to the game. 

[LukeFF]

On a related note, I have a question about awards for Romanian pilots. What German awards right now that are in the game are valid awards for them to receive? Right now, it's pretty much every award outside of the Front Flying Clasps. If that needs to be narrowed down I can do it; I just need to know which ones.

[sandmarken]

5 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

On a related note, I have a question about awards for Romanian pilots. What German awards right now that are in the game are valid awards for them to receive? Right now, it's pretty much every award outside of the Front Flying Clasps. If that needs to be narrowed down I can do it; I just need to know which ones.

Only @AndreiTomescu knows this stuff! 😁

[LukeFF]

4 minutes ago, sandmarken said:

Only @AndreiTomescu knows this stuff! 😁

Thanks! Yes, I'm guessing we should pare it down to just the Iron Cross Second and First Class but I just want to make sure before I start making any changes.

[Malixi]

@LLv44_Kanttori asked me to share some drafts for FAF unit emblems I have been working on for the relevant units for both 1941 and 1944 careers in addition to rank tabs and awards he shared previously, so here are the ones that are most ready right now.

As a small note, some squadrons in the Finnish Air Force at the time did not have a standard emblem they used, so some of these are from either a certain flight within a squadron or the squadron commander's personal emblems, in those cases they have been chosen so they represent the whole squadron in the best possible way.

In order:

• LeLv 6 (1942-1944, used by the 2nd Flight with SB-2s, in-game a stand-in for 3rd flight operating I-153s, which never had an emblem of their own)
• LeLv 30 (1941, squadron commander L. Bremer's personal insignia because the squadron had no standardized emblem)
• LeLv 24 (1941-1944)
• HLeLv 24 (1944)
• HLeLv 34 (1944)
• 1/PLeLv 44 (1944)

More to come in the future 🙂

 

Edited December 17 by Malixi
Incorrect HLeLv 24 emblem changed to the correct one

[AndreiTomescu]

Hello guys, sorry, it's a busy life/time this damn weeks. I'm slow to respond.

So: aircrafts for Odessa campaign at its start:

German awards and decorations attributed to Romanian aviators: usually Iron Cross, third and second class. The first class was awarded only for a few aces, and i don't think that during this campaign, only later.

[AndreiTomescu]

For example, Dan Vizanty, Romanian ace, 43 air victories, the guy who led the IARs against the Lightings, received after the Odesssa campaign (3 victories) Iron Cross second class (20.02.1942) beside ro awards.

Unfortunately we don't have in-game any ro awards.

[AndreiTomescu]

The IARs had Browning MGs. First units equipped with FF MGs or 13,2 mm along 7,92s came towards Stalingrad and not really standardised. As FFs became available as they were stripped off written off 109s, they were mounted. And so on.

Edited December 16 by AndreiTomescu

[LukeFF]

20 hours ago, AndreiTomescu said:

For example, Dan Vizanty, Romanian ace, 43 air victories, the guy who led the IARs against the Lightings, received after the Odesssa campaign (3 victories) Iron Cross second class (20.02.1942) beside ro awards.

Unfortunately we don't have in-game any ro awards.

Okay, thanks, I will adjust it so that pilots in Romanian squadrons will only be eligible for the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class.

[kraut1]

22 hours ago, AndreiTomescu said:

So: aircrafts for Odessa campaign at its start:

German awards and decorations attributed to Romanian aviators: usually Iron Cross, third and second class. The first class was awarded only for a few aces, and i don't think that during this campaign, only later.

Thanks very much!
This means from our in IL-2 available planes:
He111-H6
Me109-E4 (or E7)
IAR-80 (I suppose without bombs)
Hawker Hurricane
For my EMG / the 1941 campaign I will use these plane types maybe by default only for Romanian air force.
(and the BF109-E7, -F4, the Ju87, Ju88, Ju52 only for the German side)
 

The question is: do we have for the  He111-H6 now a "blanc" or "generic" Romanian skin without tactical numbers?
 

@AndreiTomescu @sandmarken
 

[sandmarken]

9 minutes ago, kraut1 said:

Thanks very much!
This means from our in IL-2 available planes:
He111-H6
Me109-E4 (or E7)
IAR-80 (I suppose without bombs)
Hawker Hurricane
For my EMG / the 1941 campaign I will use these plane types maybe by default only for Romanian air force.
(and the BF109-E7, -F4, the Ju87, Ju88, Ju52 only for the German side)
 

The question is: do we have for the  He111-H6 now a "blanc" or "generic" Romanian skin without tactical numbers?
 

@AndreiTomescu @sandmarken
 

Not that I coud find, when i made the Hurricane Diaries campaign. The Luftwaffe had He-111s close to Odessa also! 

Edited December 17 by sandmarken

[kraut1]

12 hours ago, sandmarken said:

Not that I coud find, when i made the Hurricane Diaries campaign. The Luftwaffe had He-111s close to Odessa also! 

@sandmarken @AndreiTomescu

I have created this, maybe not perfect but from my point of view suitable for AI bomber formations:

[sandmarken]

2 hours ago, kraut1 said:

I have created this, maybe not perfect but from my point of view suitable for AI bomber formations:

Looking good! I think this skin represents how they looked during Stalingrad. For Odessa, they probably looked more like this:

[kraut1]

15 minutes ago, sandmarken said:

Looking good! I think this skin represents how they looked during Stalingrad. For Odessa, they probably looked more like this:

This is all what I can do with my limited knowledge, I have imported your picture and "taken over" the colors with the: and replaced the LW colors. The fusalage insignias I have moved to the center of the Balken Crosses just in case some tactical codes could work...
(based on template by  1CGS-ICDP / Prepared by ICDP)

Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wcretzpvn8samvi/He111H6_4K_Public-RO-summer-1941.zip/file

[kraut1]

1 hour ago, sandmarken said:

Looking good! I think this skin represents how they looked during Stalingrad. For Odessa, they probably looked more like this:

Okay, this is maybe a bit better, I picked a Olive RLM color that was available in a color table in the skin:

Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0dq2v1bcw92hcig/He111H6_4K_Public-RO-summer-1941-v2.zip/file

@sandmarken@AndreiTomescu

[sandmarken]

23 minutes ago, kraut1 said:

Okay, this is maybe a bit better, I picked a Olive RLM color that was available in a color table in the skin:

Download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0dq2v1bcw92hcig/He111H6_4K_Public-RO-summer-1941-v2.zip/file

@sandmarken@AndreiTomescu

Wow, perfect! I will use this in the hurricane diary campaign if you let me! I will update it when I get to it.😁

[kraut1]

9 minutes ago, sandmarken said:

Wow, perfect! I will use this in the hurricane diary campaign if you let me! I will update it when I get to it.😁

Of course you can use it!😀

[kraut1]

Next topic to be solved are the tactical codes, they are working a bit, but on 1 side before the insignia and on the other side behind, due to the german definition of 4 digits.

[kraut1]

On 12/12/2025 at 1:52 PM, Juri_JS said:

For my almost finished JG 52 campaign project on the Odessa map taking place in 1944 I still need standard Romanian skins for the Bf-109 G-6, Ju-87 D and Hs-129. Does anyone know if the devs plan to add such skins?

Moreover I noticed that we are also missing 1944 eastern front skins for the Bf-109 G-6 late, Fw-190 A-6 and Fw-190 A-8.  

I am quite sure that for the Karelia / Leningrad map some FW190-A6/A8 skins will be released for JG54 pilot careers.

[IckyAtlas]

On 12/16/2025 at 1:45 PM, LLv44_Kanttori said:

This work is also based on volunteerism, like everything in this Finnish project. 1CGS needs us because no one else in the world can speak the rare Finnish language.

Do you think that some Language production AI software could help. You can use some human Finnish speech examples and then start generating whatever text to voice in Finnish. 

[Juri_JS]

9 hours ago, kraut1 said:

I am quite sure that for the Karelia / Leningrad map some FW190-A6/A8 skins will be released for JG54 pilot careers.

I hope so, I will need them for my Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey campaigns that are basically finished, but without the correct skins I can't create the images for the campaign menu.

[kraut1]

18 minutes ago, Juri_JS said:

I hope so, I will need them for my Gefechtsverband Kuhlmey campaigns that are basically finished, but without the correct skins I can't create the images for the campaign menu.

I know that you want to use the original skins and I agree with you.
But just for your information I have requested a similar skin (blank or generic) JG54 FW190-A8 for my Kurland Mod + the Campaign uncesored and censored.

E69_julian57 has created these skins

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G_iSyh6l5itFVK3JD4ecL94hiDUeiux0/view?usp=sharing

[Juri_JS]

15 minutes ago, kraut1 said:

I know that you want to use the original skins and I agree with you.
But just for your information I have requested a similar skin (blank or generic) JG54 FW190-A8 for my Kurland Mod + the Campaign uncesored and censored.

I am still not completely sure what to do regarding the skins for the Kuhlmey campaigns. The Kuhlmey Fw-190 units had standard RLM 74/75/76 skins, but usually with heavy overpaint on the fuselage. In this case adding such user-made skins to the campaign is probably unavoidable.

[Fogliato]

Good morning, when will Odessa and Leningrad be released?

[kraut1]

1 hour ago, Juri_JS said:

I am still not completely sure what to do regarding the skins for the Kuhlmey campaigns. The Kuhlmey Fw-190 units had standard RLM 74/75/76 skins, but usually with heavy overpaint on the fuselage. In this case adding such user-made skins to the campaign is probably unavoidable.

Yes, withheavy overpaint!