Setup for August 26 - Kuril Islands

[Mister Fork]

Battle of Kuril Islands

Stalin is hell-bent on smashing the Japanese forces to re-take the Kuril Islands for the motherland.  Japanese forces now have multi-front war. American forces are slamming them south, Chinese forces are pushing east, and now the Soviets from the north.

Soviet Union
La-5
Yak-9T
Yak-9U
P-47D-25 (lend-lease)
IL-2
Boston-III
C-47
M series

Japan
A6M5
NIK2
Ki-61
Ki-84
Ki-45 (sub Me110C)
Kate
Val
Ki-67
C-47
M Series

Setup notes:
- no naval forces
- AAA at .5
- fuel at 1.2
- no evenings/nights
- field capture at 15 troops
- all downtimes 60 minutes
- historical radar

[soda72]

ahh... finally something different....

[Slash27]

Ki-84!!!!!!!:aok

[Grits]

Looks suspiciously like my "Stalin's Surprize" idea.

Well done Fork!

[storch]

that's creative and it might be fun.

[tikky]

ahem!

Add La-7 with perks!

La-7 was the standard late ware fighter for VVS

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by tikky
ahem!

Add La-7 with perks!

La-7 was the standard late ware fighter for VVS

You planning to fly for the Japanese in that case?

- oldman

[storch]

Originally posted by Oldman731
You planning to fly for the Japanese in that case?

- oldman

no doubt he would be OM he just wants the VVS to have a fighting chance.  incidentally the standard La-7 at this time was not the one we have in AH which is probably modelled on the 368 examples that had the more powerful ASH-82FN engined and the three cannon option.  The most common La-7 was the M-82FN engined two cannon version.  This airplane was basically an La-5 with a few more metal parts and some aerodynamical refinements suggested by TsAGI.  The first La-7 variants performed much more like La-5s than the later models.  The later variants with the ASH-82FN engine and three cannon would have probably been posted with the elite "Guards" squadrons.  The later La-9 utilized the same ASH-82FN as did the even later La-11.  these aircraft were armed with 4x23mm cannon and were the first all metal La aircraft.

[tikky]

Ahh cc, thx for info

Originally posted by storch
incidentally the standard La-7 at this time was not the one we have in AH which is probably modelled on the 368 examples that had the more powerful ASH-82FN engined and the three cannon option.  The most common La-7 was the M-82FN engined two cannon version.  This airplane was basically an La-5 with a few more metal parts and some aerodynamical refinements suggested by TsAGI.  The first La-7 variants performed much more like La-5s than the later models.  The later variants with the ASH-82FN engine and three cannon would have probably been posted with the elite "Guards" squadrons.  

[Oldman731]

We had another CM scheduling issue; sorry about that.  

In the end, this was a cooperative effort all the way around.  The scenario was Sabre's idea.  Fork decided to run it.  Oldman and Duke implemented it.  

Imagine my surprise on finding that there isn't any Kurile map anymore - guess it didn't survive the transition to AH2.  Picked Rangoon because it's in the proper hemisphere and isn't a map we've used recently.  The base ownership is arranged so as to promote quick action, rather than to emulate history (hey, we'll do that if we ever get a real Kurile map).

Many thanks to Duke for actually setting this up, while he was also tending to a sick child.  Remember that the next time you're irritated by the CMs.

It's been a LONG while since we've done this setup, so observations and comments on the plane match will be welcome.

- oldman

[storch]

wtg CM staff.  anything you gentlemen do extend LW aircraft usage is greatly appreciated by me.