New ideas for "Historic missions" in Sim?

[McQ59]

Hi guys. The simplayer-community in BoP has the few last weeks been buzy flying P51's in the ongoing tournament "Ace of aces", but pretty soon we all will know who will be The One on top. The tournament has been, and by all means are, a real challenge and a top notch experience. Thing is... It will end! And, then what?

Way back when I was part of a great gang that played historic sceneries in TB in realistic mode on saturday nights. Great fun! We organized Battle of Brittain scenes where 3-4 Heinkels took off from Manston to bomb the cathedral at Canterbury, escorted by 3 - 4 Bf. 109 E3's, and wherethey got attacked by Hurries and Spits that scrambled at Hawkinge. Great battles. I think we might have done this a cpl of times in sim-mode too, but my memory don't allways serve me well...

Do any of you guys have new ideas to develop new kind of "Historic missions"?
Like high altitude B17's escorted by P51's over the english channel attacked by K4's, 190's, jets or pure dogfights with allied vs. huns or whatever... or any other scenario that is possible to make in BoP?

Would have been just brilliant to make a playground where both new and old, noobs and vets could gather theire crates in sim to have a good time.

All ideas and simmers wellcome!

[Gilly]

9 Squadron reporting for duty Sar!
Count me in mate.
Happy to do any of the above

[McQ59]

A privelige to have you on board major!
Gilly the Bomberjock is back on track.

[MACADEMIC]

Hi McQ,

Great idea! I'm more than happy to support your initiative. A weekly 'jour fixe' / set time to get together and play BOP also sounds good.

There was one game we were trying in the Club sometime ago but it was never published. German Bombers with escorting fighters were to attack Manston and make an escape back to France. Defenders were P-51s (not historically accurate, but well...) who first had to land in Manston and be ready to scramble. The bombers then set in motion, when they came over the Southern coastline they were spotted (they reported themselves via text chat) and the P-51s scrambled to intercept. We didn't allow the use of map in this game and everyone had only one life. Winner was either the P-51s if all the Germans were downed, or the Germans if at least one of them made it back to France (leave the map in the South). P-51s flew in Club rules (of course).

Perhaps we could try this sometime in a public version. This is the nice thing about BOP, it's really a sandbox that allows for such things. All we need to do is agree on what rules we want to play under.

MAC

[McQ59]

Brilliant MAC. The forum is here, and the possibilities to both develop new ideas, games and rules are legio. I guess all who has, or had, ideas they want(ed) to realise, saw the limits when the actual lobby was buliding up and "fresh nicks" didn't see the score or what was about to happend, but with a mic, a cpl of vets on each team - and a bit of patience it will all be possible. I think the critical succes depends on starting with easy and understandable rules - and then bulid it up to a more advanced set of rules.
I think it's absolutely critical to get the players to use the forum. And a mic!

Not to use the map/radar is a cool idea! Like the "Last bird flying" approach. Gives us the incitament to be a bit careful...

[SEE]

Originally Posted by McQ59

Battle of Brittain scenes

high altitude B17's escorted by P51's over the english channel attacked by K4's, 190's

We have had good sessions with both the above on Xbox SIM ) other than we use other appropriate Strike Maps (i.e. Berlin for B17).

There are many variations e.g. BOB with weather set to blind so that combat has to take place at altitude or restricting a/c to the correct type for a particular year/arena - Yaks V Bf's or FW's.

Despite the limited MP there is opportunity to exploit whats there.

[Chowbird2]

Great idea. I'm in. The newly regenerated interest in the game has been terrific. See you out there.

[P-51]

Permission to join your wing, Sir?

I'd be happy to join in with some games - Hurri's and mk2 spits Vs. early 109's would be a good one. Maybe scrambling etc? Some good ideas here though so keep me informed when there is a match on!

[McQ59]

Permission granted Reaper, a privilege
Keep it comong guys! Every idea is mostly welcome. So are of course every singel pilot!

To have the oppotunity to play a quality game with qualityplayers dedicated to this beautiful birds is a true joy for me.

[grislawskijg52]

Please add me, on CST but would love to participate.. A good idea would be Stuka, 110s, e-3 going after shipping in the channel ie. Kanalkampf..No hud sounds great...Stukas and 110s getting bounced