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Old 02-21-2011, 05:48 PM
RuffMonk RuffMonk is offline
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Sounds like a plan! I basically looked through all the battles listed in the website and picked out the most significant battle for each week spanning the first three phases of the battle with one or two having two battles picked out. I then just basically tried to mirror that particular engagement as close as I could. I tried to make the aircraft as proportionally close to the real thing as possible. For example:

Our first battle will be the first engagement on July 10th where 24 Do-17s, 30 Bf-110s and 20+ Bf-109s crossed the Channel and attacked. In game, it will be a Strike mission on the Britain map with 2 He-111s (in place of the Do-17s), 3 Bf-110s and 2 Bf-109s going head to head with 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires (the listed squadrons that engaged the Luftwaffe in that battle). It will be a daytime attack b/c it's listed on the website as 1350 during the rain as the weather called for rain that day according to the site. I even asked the top aces in arcade to fly for the Luftwaffe as a way to somewhat level the skill differences and b/c the Luftwaffe had the better pilots historically.

Another mission I have set is at the outset of phase 2. There was a communication mix up where the first assault was called off and in one particular case only the escorts of Oberst Johannes Fink's bomber group got the message. The Do-17s went on and ultimately had no fighter escort. So one of our missions will mirror this SNAFU where 9 He-111s will tangle with 4 fighters. On the opposite side we'll be doing the same with Blenheims and 109s to recreate Britain's first nighttime bombing raid of Berlin. These are perhaps the ones I'm looking forward to the most as they just scream "Red Skies Over Dover" in the single campaign (one of my favorites). None of these are meant to be competitive and is more for the experience then anything else.

So nothing special on my part here, but I do have some surprises in store for the the RAF guys once phase 2 of the Battle of Britain battles begin that I will pm you about in case some of them visit the site. I don't want to spoil anything, lol!

Anyway, feel free to pick my brain as I will help you as much as I can. I'm also open to suggestions as this will the first time I've organized anything like this and so I'm just making it up as I go along, lmao!!!

Last edited by RuffMonk; 02-21-2011 at 06:12 PM.
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