New ideas for "Historic missions" in Sim?

[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

[McQ59]

Originally Posted by 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

Thanks bud! Good idea. Send me a friendrequest.

[Gilly]

I've set up a social group where we can formulate ideas as well as lay down some ground rules. Anyone who wishes to join let me know and I'll drop the invite.

[Mage_016]

This sounds great McQ, prescheduled matches with similiar settings.

HUD off and maybe the flight leader(s) is allowed to check map every now and then?

[Gilly]

So that we can get the ball rolling may I suggest we pencil in something for this coming Saturday 26th at 10pm GMT. I'll post more details within the social club once we formulate the plan but suggest we keep it simple and use one of the previous mission outlines as a starter eg 1940 BoB H3's/109's vs MkII Spits and Hurri's. That way the more experienced guys can impart their knowledge.
Anyone who wishes to join post here and we'll add you into the social group.

[McQ59]

I totally second that Gilly.
This weekend it seemed like the Plague had hit both the BoP-skies and the forum. I couldn't spot a single pilot in the horizon, neither on saturday or sunday.

Let's see what this week can bring along.

[P-51]

Originally Posted by Gilly

So that we can get the ball rolling may I suggest we pencil in something for this coming Saturday 26th at 10pm GMT. I'll post more details within the social club once we formulate the plan but suggest we keep it simple and use one of the previous mission outlines as a starter eg 1940 BoB H3's/109's vs MkII Spits and Hurri's. That way the more experienced guys can impart their knowledge.
Anyone who wishes to join post here and we'll add you into the social group.

Couldn't pencil in a time a little closer to daylight could we? For us student types?

[Gilly]

Originally Posted by P-51

Couldn't pencil in a time a little closer to daylight could we? For us student types?

Daylight? student? I thought the two were diametrically opposed!!!!
I would have thought nightime would have suited you better!
The reason for evenings is so the guys across the pond can fit in with the schedule although if it does get off the ground, as McQs mentioned Sunday afternoons are a possibility.

[MACADEMIC]

Hello all,

Our friend Ruffmonk has developed some very interesting ideas for historical battles for his friends in Arcade mode and has kindly shared them with me.

They are all themed after the Battle of Britain, he has studied actual war diaries. It would be great if we could adapt his missions for our purposes.

Here it goes:

Battle 1:
The first scenario covered the opening of The Channel Battles Wednesday, July 10th. Historically, at 1350 British radar picked up a German formation consisting of 24 Do-17s, 30+ Bf-110s and 20+ Bf109s crossing the Channel. So for the game I set the Luftwaffe to 2 He-111s, 3 Bf-110s and 2 Bf-109s. 3 Hurricane and 2 Spitfire squadrons scrambled to intercept, so the RAF players were set with 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires. The day was rainy according to weather report, so the weather for the game was set to rain in a Strike mission with the RAF on team A.

In the lobby, I was the only player bold enough to select a Bf-110 as all of my other Germans claimed to not have the plane, so we played with 2 extra 109s to my disappointment, but I wasn't going to argue the point if people didn't want to fly the 110. As expected, we got shot to hell, but we did have some success getting to Strike targets to drop our bombs.

Battle 2:
The second battle was a continuation of The Channel Battles that covered Sunday July 14th. Historically at 1150, 80 Ju-87s and an unknown number of Bf-109s attacked a convoy in the English Channel and so this was the battle we recreated. The RAF scrambled 2 Hurricane and a single Spitfire squadron to intercept. So for the game, I set the Luftwaffe with 4 Ju-87s and 3 Bf-109s. The RAF again had 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spits to maintain an accurate proportion of real life counterparts. Again we did a Strike mission, though I switched the RAF to Team B, so we (Germans) would be attacking the ships in the scenario. The weather that day called for a fair bit of cloud, so the weather was set to Hazy.

We had much more success in this mission as the RAF guys, as they did in the first mission, sat over top of the targets allowing the much more maneuverable Stukas to generally get our bombs off on a majority of our bomb runs. That tactic worked better for them in the first game with the slower 111s. I had told them prior to the first match that even though we will be doing Strike missions, not to worry with bombing as it was simply a way for us to have targets to bomb. I guess they took it literally and just hung over the targets. I told a few of them that night that they should move out further so they have more time to jump on us as a way to clarify things.

Battle 3:
Again continuing with The Channel Battles we covered a battle that took place on Saturday, July 20th. It was another Stuka attack, but I decided to change things up a bit. It's mentioned that Bf-109s buy this time in history were trying to lure the RAF out over the open waters and so I decided to do a fighter vs. fighter scenario for the 3rd mission. So we had 7 Bf-109s vs. 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires in another Strike mission instead of the standard Team Battle as I didn't want planes to just be popping up when they respawned. I had set the weather to poor as it was mentioned in the site that weather over the course of several days was either rainy, foggy or storming.

Thanks a lot Ruffmonk, and keep them coming!

MAC

[McQ59]

Brilliant. The ideas are popping up
The Battle of Brittain is a sure hit.