Description

COMBAT BOX by Red Flight is is focused on late-war, historically-inspired scenarios including BoBP plane sets. Each map has been meticulously hand-crafted including realistic airfields, challenging targets, spectacular effects and strategic mechanics such as radar zones.

Available planes and maps will evolve over time.

Server Rules

• Be nice. A little bit of smack talk is expected in online gaming, but don't get nasty. All chat is logged. Leave politics and religion to other servers. Racist, sexist, homophobic or religion-based slurs will result in temporary bans from the server.
• Play fair. If you find something unbalanced or broken, please let the server admins know so we can fix it. Exploiters will be warned, then banned.
• Attacking enemy players on the ground or within 30 seconds of takeoff is not allowed. While airfields should not be considered "safe", being killed while your engine spools up is not fun. Player airfields are not mission objectives.
• Disconnecting shortly after being damaged awards a kill to your opponent and ends your streak. While network connections can be flaky and the game can crash, 'convenient' disconnects can be very tempting for pilots, so we discourage them.
• Default Player-12345 usernames are not allowed.. There are just too many gunner trolls with that kind of username. Pilots need to use the Profile feature on the IL2 website to change their name name. If it's a Steam copy of the game, use the "link accounts" feature to link through to the IL2 website and then change the pilot name.
• These rules are not comprehensive. Admins reserve the right to use their own judgement rather than a big rulebook. Don't be a dick, and we'll all get along fine.

Rules around airfield "vulching"

The admins take a dim view of vulching; we think it is anti-fun and unrealistic; airfields historically would have had upwards of 300 flak guns protecting them. Airfields on Combat Box are not absolute "safe zones" — pilots who take off while their field is under attack should know they are taking their virtual life in their hands. Players who repeatedly engage in vulching — whether they are breaking the letter of the rules or not — will be asked politely to desist, then given a short vacation from the server. The admin team will process complaints in the #support channel on Discord only, and any complaint should be backed up by a sortie log from our website and/or a TacView showing the problem.

Examples of how these rules apply:

• Chasing a bandit back to base and shooting them down before they land - ALLOWED
• Patrolling airspace between an enemy field and mission objectives, and attacking players while they are in their initial climb out - ALLOWED
• Attacking players who have their wheels on the ground at an airfield, strafing, bombing, rockets, whatever - NOT ALLOWED
• Attacking players who have recently taken off - NOT ALLOWED
• Taking a squad to patrol an enemy airfield and claiming "we're preventing enemy pilots from entering the fight" - probably fails the "being a dick" rule, likely to incite an opposite and escalating response from the enemy team, not recommended, might result in a ban.

As always, the admin team reserves the right to use their discretion when applying these rules. If you think your actions might be reducing another player's fun, or that you might be being a dick, you should probably trust that feeling and go do something else in the mission instead.

Server Team

Administrators: Alonzo, Haluter, Mordrac, Psyrion, Talon
Mission designers: Alonzo, Bjorn, Hawkmoon, Talon, The Nines, Psyrion and our Patreons.
Massive thanks to: Red Flight for all their help testing, especially Col. Ninny and Haluter for in-depth airfield testing and feedback.

Combat Box has been migrated to new server hardware! Thank you to all who generously donated to the cause. In alphabetical order: Alonzo, Atomic_359, Blake, Haluter, HE187, IngegnerTommy, Jakerthesnak, Jim, Jon, Jorge HFJ, JG1/Vonrd, Mewt, Mordrac, Nabuli0, Siggi, Strat, Talon, The Nines, Tim and VA_SDRiEMLiNE. Thank you also to our Patreon donors who allow us to continue to operate! See the Supporters page for more info.

Join our Discord to get help, report problems, or give feedback: discord.combatbox.net