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Manchuria - 1945

August 21, 2007.

The Battle of Smolensk, 1942-1943 is over. Noone won this map.

The next bonus map (AFW2 Test) - Manchuria, 1945.

The victory conditions:

  1. Capture/disable all enemy airfields.
  2. +3 more cities from starting position at the moment of the ending of a map.
  3. Destroy all enemy fighters. Good luck!

Forum

August 17, 2007.

We moved to the new forum. For all users password set idetifical with login. Please go to your profile and change the password with a new one.

Smolensk - 1942-1943

July 16, 2007.

The Battle of France, 1940 is over. Blue side won this map! Congradulations!

The next bonus map - Smolensk, 1942-1943. There is no attacking side on this map.

The victory conditions:

  1. Capture/disable all enemy airfields.
  2. +5 more cities from starting position at the moment of the ending of a map. Good luck!

France -1940

June 28, 2007.

Bonus map started: France, 1940.

There is no attacking side on this map. Warning: read briefing about forbidden weapon. Punishment for usage it: -50% fairplay and 0 points for the mission.

The victory conditions:

  1. Capture/disable all enemy airfields.
  2. +3 more cities from starting position at the moment of the ending of a map. Good luck!

WAR IS OVER!

July 25, 2007.

The Battle of Berlin, 1945 is over. Red side won this! Congradulations!

War is over! Results and awards you can see in forum.

http://war.by-airforce.com/forum/showpost.php?p=55794&postcount=1

Berlin - 1945

June 18, 2007.

The Battle of Balaton, 1945 is over. Blue side won this map with Blitzkrieg! Congradulations! Good work!

The next map - Berlin, 1945. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 50 days. Good luck!

Balaton - 1944

June 13, 2007.

The Battle of Kurland, 1944 is over. Blue side won this map!

The next map - Balaton, 1945. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 50 days. Good luck!

Changes:

  1. The number of pilots-humans should not differ more than on 1 in the smaller party. For example: mission 10 on 10 was ordered. In case 12-9 or 10-9 - mission will be accepted. If 10-8 - will not.
The Battle of Kurland - 1944 May 6, 2007.

The Battle of Norway, 1944 is over. Nobody capturead 3 more cities from starting position for time of 55 days. Draw!

The next map - Kurland, 1944. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 65 days. Good luck!

WARNING April 19, 2007.

The insult of administration of the project in a game chat, at a forum or different ways entails ban in the AFW project with clearing all game statistics.

The Battle of Norway - 1944

April 3, 2007.

The Battle of Smolensk, 1944 is over. Red side won this map!

The next map - Norway, 1944. There is no attacking side on this map. The victory conditions: capture 3 more cities from starting position for time of 55 days. Good luck!

Changes:

  1. Capture of cities on this map will be possible only with sea and air landings.
  2. Minimum players for mission of capture cities now is 8x8 and minimum humans in such mission is 6x6.

Liberation of Belarus - 1944

March 28, 2007.

Belarus suffered from fascist enslavement for 3 years. Among the chief methods that the fascists used to implement their “new order” in Belarus were genocide and mass and bloody terror. Hitler's soldiers committed unheard atrocities here, regardless of whom they were killing: women, men, old people or children. Concentration camps, prisons and ghettos functioned practically in every region of Belarus. All in all there were 260 death camps and 70 ghettos in the Republic. Only in Trostenz concentration camp about 206.5 thousand people were killed...

Read a new article in History pages - Liberation of Belarus

The Battle of Smolensk - 1944

March 25, 2007.

The Battle of Normandy, 1944 is over. Blue side won this map!

The next map - Smolensk, 1944. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 55 days. Good luck!

Changes in Aiforce War March 22, 2007.

Now only the planes having a bombing sight are considered as scouts-bombers.

The Battle of Normandy - 1944 March 21, 2007.

The Battle of Crimea, 1943 is over. Blue side won this map!

The next map - Normandy, 1944. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 45 days. Good luck!

The Battle of Crimea - 1944 March 11, 2007.

The Battle of Italy, 1943 is over. Blue side won this map!

The next map - Crimea, 1944. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 55 days. Good luck!

The Battle of Italy - 1943 February 25, 2007.

The Battle of Kiev, 1943 is ended before the 70 days have passed under the decision of the administration of the project. The reason - complaints to technical problems during flights on this map. On a condition of a front line at the moment of closing the map, the victory is gained by the Luftwaffe pilots.

The next map - Italy, 1943. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 45 days. Good luck!

4 years of =BY=! February 21, 2007.

Today is a birthday of our squad. 4 years ago was our first mission in VEF. Gongratulations and thx to all our pilots, all our friends and all our enemies. Without your tribute the existence of our squad and AIRFORCE WAR is impossible.
S!
HQ of =BY=

Changes in Aiforce War February 20, 2007.

Changes in parser and the generator:

  1. Generator can create and process missions of a sea landing. Missions of a sea landing will be tried in a test mode on Italy map, their further use is not planned yet. The description of new mission can be found in a manual.
  2. On the map page added values of defense levels of all sectors with cities.
Il-2 Skins February 7, 2007.

Updated section of the site: Il-2 Skins. Added new page with skins of: Bf-109G-6, A-20, La-5, Spitfire Mk-VIII, Tempest, Hurricane-MkI, Yak-3, Focke Wulf Fw 190A-6.

Photogallery January 31, 2007.

Modified section of the site: Photogallery. The best moments of War in the form of screenshots, your own art-works, photos of pilots - real and virtual, will be placed here. Welcome!

History Pages January 31, 2007.

New articles you can read in History articles: Battle of Kursk, Battle of Kuban, Battle of Kiev. And some new programs added to Downloads.

The Battle of Kiev - 1943 January 31, 2007.

The Battle of Kuban, 1943 is over.Blue side won this map!

The next map - Kiev, 1943. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 70 days. Good luck!

The Battle of Kuban - 1943 January 15, 2007.

The Battle of Kursk, 1943 is over.Red side won this map!

The next map - Kuban, 1943. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 45 days. Good luck!

Changes in war:

  1. Now AFW based on IL-2 ver 4.071m. Host and players must have this version of game.
The Battle of Kursk - 1943 January 2, 2007.

The Battle of Stalingrad, 1943 is over. Blue side won this map.

The next map - Kursk, 1943 - will start on January 3. Attacking side is blue. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 50 days. Good luck!

Next changes in generator:

  1. Removed fortress wall in HQ and killing all vehicles will not decrease Tank Live Limit.
  2. Now host in AFW can set server based on IL-2 Shturmovik FB/AEP/Pacific Fighters version 4.071m or 4.05m. Host must write version of server in creation info.
Happy New Year January 1, 2007.

Happy New Year to all pilots and their patient wives!

Happy New Year to all pilots and their patient wives!

The Battle of Stalingrad - 1943 December 21, 2006.

The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942 is over.Red side won this map!

The next map - Stalingrad, 1943. Attacking side is red. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 50 days. Good luck!

Again forbidden weapon is Mk-108.

Changes in war:

  1. Time to strategic attack and recon missions now is 50 minutes.
Changes in AIRFORCE WAR December 17, 2006.
Next changes in generator:
  1. Added night missions. They random generated at the simultaneous order of strategic attacks by both parties, but not more often than 1 time in 45 generated missions. Host informed about night mission after the termination of generation, and also It is specified in a mission briefing.
  2. Increased quontity of AAA in recon HQ.
  3. The sector with targets is specified in a briefing of mission.

Changes in parser:
  1. Attacks of cities now allowed at a level of recon 0%. Maximum damage of the city in this case - 10%. This number can be decreased to 6-8%. Maximum damage of the city with recon level 100 - 50%.
The Battle of Stalingrad - 1942 December 17, 2006.

The Battle of Kuban, 1942 is over. Blue side won this map.

The next map - Stalingrad, 1942. Attacking side is blue. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 50 days. If at this moment reds have at least one airfields to start from, reds win.

Sounds of World War 2 December 15, 2006.
New history materials (sound files) you can find in Articles:
  • June, 22nd 1941г. The government message about the beginning of war.
  • Aviation march of Soviet Military Air Forces
IL-2 Compare v4.07 December 13, 2006.
New version of IL-2 Compare - v4.07 is available in downloads. Thanks to =BY=YOUSS!
Airforce War Team Speak 1.5 Server December 3, 2006.
Airforce War Team Speak 1.5 Server: 208.109.118.165. Team Speak 1.5 Client you can download here. Welcome!
Dynamic PlaneSet Monitoring December 1, 2006.
Now every pilot can see, what planes he will fly on. Introducing: plane set monitoring page. This page autogenerating after each change in the plane percentage distribution. It will stop (we think) forum battles about planes at war. Good luck pilots!
The Battle of Kuban, 1942 December 2, 2006.

The Battle of Crimea, 1942 is over. Blue side was an a attacking side and they had to capture or disable all enemy airfilds to achive a victory. But, it wasn't clearily written in the rules and for this reason nobody win this map.

The next map - Kuban, 1942. Attacking side is blue. The victory conditions: capture or disable all enemy airfields for time of 45 days. If at this moment reds have at least one airfields to start from, reds win. Again forbidden weapon for Bf-110G2: all version with Mk-108.

Following changes:

  1. HQ now protected by 20 and 25 mm antiaircraft guns. Be carefull.
  2. Changed influence of reconnaissance on damage of cities.
New changes in AIRFORCE WAR November 30, 2006.

The following changes in the project:

  1. Minimum pilots in missions now 6+6.
  2. Number of human pilots must be equal to quantity of fighters in mission. This can stop generating mission with bot deathmatch.
The Battle of Crimea, 1942 November 11, 2006.

The Moscow, 1942 map is over. Blue pilots win this map. It's a first LuftWaffe victory. Congradulation! It was a really great battle! The next map - Crimea, 1942. Attacking side is blue. Forbidden weapon for Bf-110G2: all version with Mk-108.

Programs for IL-2 November 11, 2006.
Added new menu item "Downloads". There you can download all necessary programs for IL-2 Shturmovik FB/AEP/PF and skins for IL-2 planes.
World War 2 - History pages November 9, 2006.
We added new menu item "History". In this part of the site you can read about real history of the World War 2 and more completly realise, what happend those days long time ago. Worl War 2 Aircraft cockpits, Battle of Moscow, Battle of Crimea, usage Il-2 against tanks....Also you can find here World War 2 military aircrafts pictures. If you want to see here something special - write to west-kis@tut.by - and i'll try to add this. Together we will make this site better!
Best Tank killers November 7, 2006.
Add new statistics - Best Tank Killer. Also added number of tank kills for squads and pilots.
Changes in AIRFORCE WAR October 27, 2006.
The following corrections and additions into the parser is introduced:
  1. Increased the maximum level of ground-based supply for the airfields. From 25 to 30%
  2. Decreased the maximum level of human supply for the airfields. From 12 to 9%
  3. Decreased the level of recon obtained without return the aircraft for the landing. From 10 to 5%
  4. Decreased reconnaissance level done by fighter. From 15 to 10%.
  5. Changed the daily automatic supply. Into the day of each army recieve supply with 30% for the cities, 50% for the airfields. This supply now distributed between all damaged cities/airfields, in direct dependence of damage level.
    Example: there are 3 damaged cities with damage level = 40, 20, 5%%. After automatic supply damage level will become - 21, 10, 3%. If in one side, one city o field is remained - all supply will be given to it.
  6. ATTENTION!!! For blue side choosing of bombers to the strategic attack missions is now manual.
  7. Reworked ground models of attack - now they are more balanced in tanks and AT guns.
The Battle of Moscow, 1942 October 27, 2006.
The next map - Moscow, 1942. Attacking side is red! Attention! Forbidden weapon for Bf-110G2: all version with Mk-108. Good luck for all on this map!
Congratulation! October 27, 2006.
The Moscow,1941 map is over. Red win this map. Congratulation for all bravery VVS pilots.
The Battle of Moscow, 1941 October 19, 2006.

The next map - Moscow, 1941. Attacking side is blue! Attention! Forbidden weapon for Bf-110G2: all version with Mk-108. New changes:

  1. Defend level in attacked sector in generator and parser is equal;
  2. In defend HQ added Fortress Wall to protect vehicles against tanks fire. Now, if you want decrease Tank Live Limit, you need to attack vehicles yourself;
  3. Added supply point for Human and AI SUM missions. Good luck for all on this map, but more GL for blue side!
Congratulation! October 19, 2006.
The Kurland,1941 map is over. Red win this map. Congratulation for all bravery VVS pilots.
Changes in AIRFORCE WAR October 15, 2006.
New changes in parcer code:
- if recon plane landed in enemy territory - recon will not be counted;
- shute killing punish only later 10 sec after bailed out. If you see error - send to my e-mail: artem.rudy@tut.by
No forbidden weapon October 12, 2006.
All weapon is allowed
Moscow, 1941 October 17, 2006.

The next map - Moscow, 1941. Attacking side is blue!

Attention! Forbidden weapon for Bf-110G2: all version with Mk-108.

New change:
Defend level in attacked sector in generator and parser is equal;
In defend HQ add FortressWall for protect vehicles against tanks fire. Now, if you want decrease Tank Live Limit, need attack vehicles yourself;
Add supply points for Human and AI SUM missions.

Good luck for all on this map, but more GL for blue side!

Congratulation October 17, 2006.

The Kurland,1941 map is over. Red win on this map. Congratulation for all bravery VVS pilots.

Code change October 15, 2006.

New change in parcer code:
- if recon plane landed in enemy teritory - recon not include;
- shute killing punish only later 10 sec after bailed out.

If you see error - send to my e-mail: artem.rudy@tut.by

No Forbidden Weapon October 12, 2006.

All weapon is allow

Kurland, 1941 October 7, 2006.

The next map - Kurland, 1941.

Attention! Forbidden weapon:
Blue side: 2xSC2000, 2xSC1800 for HE-111 and JU-88;
Red side: AJ-2 for IL-2, more then 3000 kg bomb for TB-3.

On this and next maps one of the side will be attack. On this map, this side - blue. For attack task we have more Pz-IV.

Good luck for all on this map!

Draw October 7, 2006.

The Smolensk map is over for time limit. Nobody win on Smolensk, 1941. Blue safe situation on last moment. Red captured three town in comparison with start map, Blue only one. But 3-1=2 less for win. It's very good buttle.

Smolensk, 1941 September 21, 2006.

The next map - Smolensk, 1941. Weapon and fuel is free. Many human bombers!

Attention! Forbidden weapon:
Blue side: 2xSC2000, 2xSC1800 for HE-111 and JU-88;
Red side: AJ-2 for IL-2, more then 3000 kg bomb for TB-3.

May be not rightly work for determination forbidden weapon for TB-3. If you see it, write about this bug to me (=BY=RUDY).

Good luck for all on this map!

Congratulation September 21, 2006.

The first map is over. Red win on Finland,1939-1940. Congratulation for all bravery VVS pilots. You win in hard battle.

New awards and rank September 14, 2006.

New system of change rank and presentation of awards. All based on current live.

Special thank to =BLS=MnemoniC for awards and rank pictures.

Finland Map September 10, 2006.

First map of project - Finland, 1939-1940, Winter War. Weapon is constant, not human bomber, not human bomber recon, not human supply.

Real War is begin September 10, 2006.

Airforce War is begin now. Minimal human pilots in mission - 4x4. Good luck for all pilots on our projcet.

New change September 10, 2006.

Length of day - 35 mission.

Recon level decrease on 45% every day.

Penalty for use forbidden weapon - 40% fairplay.

Test is over September 10, 2006.

Test of Airforce War is over. Thank very much to all, who take part in this test. Now we ready to start Real War.

Manual is ready September 10, 2006.

Full version of both manual is ready. See English and Russian manuals.

New map for testing August 30, 2006.

Now starting new map - Crimea, 1942

We not want set ban to some type of weapon, and so we ask - dont use next weapon in this map:
Blue side: 2xSC2000, 2xSC1800 for HE-111 and JU-88; 2xMk-108 for Bf-110G2
Red side: AG-2 for IL-2, more then 3000 kg bomb for TB-3

New change August 30, 2006.

Strategic attack of town can request, if this town have recon more than 0%

Any strategic attack of town decrease defend level of sectors, where this town placed. Any supply mission of town increase defend level of sectors, where this town placed.

New airfield on Kurland Map August 23, 2006.

Add 7 new airfield on Kurland Map for testing: L27, R19, H07, K08, Q08, W10, W06

New aircrafts for Blue side August 14, 2006.

Adding aircrafts: Bf-109G10, Bf-109G14, Bf-110G2, FW-190D9

New addition Jule 24, 2006.

Now we can attack any enemy airfields. Every destroyed airplane increase damege airfieln on 0.4%

Kurland-1944 map started June 29, 2006.

Kurland map is ready. Beta-test is begin. Mininal pilots in mission - 1x0

Final modification June 10, 2006.

All new types of mission is ready. Total list of mission:

  • Strategic attack;
  • Tactical attack;
  • Air Suply;
  • Ground Suply;
  • Sea Suply;
  • Recon.

Ready for continuation testing new map: Kurland, 1944. Within the next few days new map will be started.

Kurland, 1944.
Tanks: T-34, T-34-85, Sherman M4A2, Sherman M4A2-76W, SU-76M, SU-85, SU-100, Pz-IVJ, Pz-VA, StuG-IIIG, StuG-IV, Hetzer, Jagdpanther.
Aircrafts: La-5F, La-5FN, La-7, LaGG-3 s66, P-39N1, P-39Q1, P-39Q10, Yak-1B, Yak-7B, Yak-9, Yak-9D, Yak-9T, Yak-3, Yak-9M, IL-2 type 3, IL-2 type 3M, A-20-G, B-25-J1, IL-4, Pe-2 s110, Pe-2 s359, Tu-2S, Li-2, BF-109-G2, BF-109-G6 late, BF-109-G10, BF-109-G14, FW-190-A6, FW-190-A9, FW-190-D9, FW-190-F8, Ju-87-D5, Ju-87-G1, Bf-110-G2, Ju-88-A4, He-111-H6, Ju-52

Realy Winter War map started April 4, 2006.

Finland map is ready. New modification: ground suply, recon.

For testing human bomber recon in Finland map adding TB-3 and He-111.

Winter War is begin February 28, 2006.

Winter War is ready for testing. For the time bein, this campain based on Kursk map (Finland map in work).

Red side plane:

  • I-16 t18 (Human)
  • I-153 M62 (Human)
  • SB-2 M100A (AI)
  • SB-2 M-103 (AI)
  • IL-4 DB3B (AI)
  • Li-2 (AI)

  • Blue side plane:

  • Fiat CR42 (Human)
  • Fiat G.50 (Human)
  • B-239 (Human)
  • Hurricane MkIa (Human)
  • Gladiator J8A (Human)
  • Blenheim MK.I (AI)
  • Blenheim MK.IV (AI)
  • Ju-52 (AI)

  • Unfortunately, both side can not use human bomber, because blue side have only AI Blenheim.

    Other change: tanks - T-26, 7TP; defend tanks - BA-10, BA-6, 7TP; AAA - Maxim, '50 Brouning; AA - Bofors 40mm; All airfield static plane.

    Modification February 27, 2006.

    Modification of Bellum code:

  • On all airfield (including empty) added AAA canon;
  • Modyfy changed defend level of sector. Min=0, max=30. If sector in supply radius - defend level increase by 3 per mission, otherwise - decrease by 3 pm. Sector attack decrease defend level by 9;
  • Add use defend level of sector. Level 1 (max) - in defence, HQ cover 4 tanks of type A; Level 2 - 2 tanks of type A and 2 tanks of type B; Level 3 - 2 tanks of type B and 2 tanks of type C (howitzer); Level 4 - 4 tanks of type C (howitzer); Level 5 - 2 tanks of type C (howitzer);

  • New clone of BELLUM WAR February 25, 2006.

    The Individual Fightin-Attack squadron =BY= present...

    Start-on the new clone of BELLUM WAR for testing and modification. Initial name of project - Airforce War. We want make some change of BW. Probable, we make Winter War (Finland 1939-1940).


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