Author Topic: Buon giorno (Read 875 times)

Oldman731 · « **on:** March 13, 2006, 07:48:54 AM »

Welcome to Italy.

Setup is about where things were when Axis counterattacked the US beaches. Maybe a little after that.

Note that Corsica and Sardinia are occupied by the Bishops, who can't fly. There were two reasons for this:

1. Makes it harder to pork the map, which became a problem in Tunisia.
2. It's a pain to change all those extra bases to Allied, and historically it's not time yet. We may change this as the war progresses.

Although the map is going up a day late, we've kept up with the plane schedule and will continue to adhere to the original MOTD.

Please post any problems here.

Here's the MOTD, in case you can't remember where we last posted it:

MARE NOSTRUM

This setup will run two weeks, with the first spent on the
Tunisia map, and the second on the Italy map. Due to the
limits of our Italian plane set, we start in early 1941 with
the arrival of Luftwaffe fighters in theater.

Once again, thanks to Sable (a/k/a kneedrgr) for figuring
this out.

WELCOME TO ITALY. NOTE THESE CHANGES:

ALLIES ARE NOW ROOKS
AXIS ARE STILL KNIGHTS
BISHOPS (SARDINIA AND CORSICA) CAN'T FLY (and will
be harder to pork).

Although the map has been loaded a day late, we'll stick
with the changes noted on the MOTD as scheduled.

Allied Rear Fields in Italy:
A25, 103-105, 114

Axis Rear Fields in Italy:
A1, 2, 26, 27, 29-35, 48-50, 53-57, 63-69, 77-87

Day 1: Early 1941 - Sunday, March 5th

Allies
Hurricane I
Boston
C-47

Axis
Bf109E
Bf110C
Ju87
Ju88
C-47

Day 2: Mid 1941 - Monday, March 6th

Allies
add Hurricane IIC (rear fields)

Axis
No change

Day 3: Late 1941 - Tuesday, March 7th

Allies
add P-40B
Hurricane IIC now available at all fields

Axis
add C202 (rear fields only)
add Bf109F

Day 4: Early 1942 - Wednesday, March 8th
Allies
Add P-40E (rear fields)

Axis
C202 now available at all fields
remove Bf109E

Day 5: Mid 1942 - Thursday, March 9th

Allies
Add Hurricane IID (rear fields)
Add Seafire (rear fields) (Spit Vc sub)
P-40E now available at all fields
remove Hurricane I

Axis
add Bf109G2 (rear fields)

Day 6: Late 1942 - Friday, March 10th - Operation Torch! The Americans invade North Africa

USAAF bases: USAAF - A4, A16, A17, A18, A19, A20, P27, A32, P33, V36, C41, C42, V51
RAF (allied fields in the SE)
Seafire is now available at all fields
F4F and Seafire enabled on CVs for this day only

USAAF (allies get new fields in NW for US)
Add A-20
Add B-17 (rear fields)
Add B-24 (rear fields)
Add B-26
Add P-38G
F4F enabled on CVs for this day only
US fields also get P-40E and Seafire enabled

Axis
add Fw190A5 (rear fields)
Bf109G2 now available at all fields

Day 7: Early 1943 - Saturday, March 11th

RAF
Add Spit IX (rear fields)
Add Mosquito (rear fields)
remove P-40B

USAAF
Add Spit IX (rear fields)

Axis
Add Bf110G
remove Bf110C

Day 8: Mid 1943 - Sunday, March 12th
Switch to Italy map

Allies (RAF/USAAF now share bases)
Add Spit VIII (rear fields)
Spit IX now available at all fields
Mosquito now available at all fields

Axis
Add C205 (rear fields)
Add Bf109G6
Fw190A5 now available at all fields
remove Bf109F

Day 9: Late 1943 - Monday, March 13th

Allies
Add P-47D11 (rear fields)

Axis
C205 now available at all fields
remove C202
remove Ju87

Day 10: Early 1944 - Tuesday, March 14th

Allies
Add P-38J (rear fields)
Add P-51B (rear fields)
P-47D-11 now availalble at all fields
Spit VIII now available at all fields
remove Hurri IIC
remove Hurri IID

Axis
Add Fw190F8
Bf110G now available at rear fields only
remove Fw190A5
remove Bf109G2

Day 11: Mid 1944 - Wednesday, March 15th Operation Dragoon - the allies invade southern
France

Allies
Add P-38L (rear fields)
Add P-47D25 (rear fields)
Add P-51D (rear fields)
P-38J now available at all fields
P-51B now available at all fields
remove P-38G
remove Seafire
remove P-40E
Enable FM2, F6F, Seafire from carriers for this day only

Axis
no change

Day 12: Late 1944 - Thursday, March 16th

Allies
P-38L now available at all fields
P-47D25 now available at all fields
P-51D now available at all fields
remove Spit IX
Axis
Add Bf109G14
remove FW190F8

Day 13: Early 1945 - Friday, March 17th

Allies
Add P-47D40
remove P-51B
remove P-47D11

Axis
Add Bf109K4
remove C205

Carriers are enabled for only the two days listed, as carrier
based fighters saw action mainly during those two periods.

Arena settings:

Killshooter is off
Visibility is 11 miles
Fuel burn is 1.2
Strat is off'
Ack (all types) is .25

Jaekart · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2006, 10:57:54 AM »

Oldman, according to what the MOTD states, the countries ( Bishop and Knight ) are set wrong. You say the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica are supposed to be Bishop, while Mainland Italy is supposed to be Knight.

While I was there, the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia are Knight, and the Mainland is all Bishop as well as most of the island of Sicily. The Bishops have the aircraft posted for the Axis, the Rooks have the aircraft posted for the Allied, and the Knights have most of the Posted Axis aircraft.

it looked like sfer, as a Knight, was attempting to capture all of the Italian Mainland by himself while I was in and out of the Arena. I can only assume sfer is the one capturing bases, as he was the only Knight showing on the roster while I was there.

and I saw two Bishop bases captured by the Knights.

RTR · « **Reply #2 on:** March 13, 2006, 11:25:24 AM »

I don't believe that sfr porked the map. Looked to me when iIpopped in a few minutes ago, he was just trying to regain fields that were already porked. No harm there.

But the map is porked.

Gotta be a frustrating week for the AvA staff.

Cheers,
RTR

Oldman731 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2006, 11:30:05 AM »

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Originally posted by RTR
I don't believe that sfr porked the map. Looked to me when iIpopped in a few minutes ago, he was just trying to regain fields that were already porked. No harm there.

But the map is porked.

Gotta be a frustrating week for the AvA staff.

Cheers,
RTR

Yes, it is.

Just reset the countries, seems to be working again.

Remember that allies are now ROOKS, not Bishops.

- oldman

RTR · « **Reply #4 on:** March 13, 2006, 11:35:29 AM »

Thanks Oldman!

~~RTR~~

Jaekart · « **Reply #5 on:** March 13, 2006, 04:43:52 PM »

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Originally posted by RTR
I don't believe that sfr porked the map. Looked to me when iIpopped in a few minutes ago, he was just trying to regain fields that were already porked. No harm there.

But the map is porked.

Gotta be a frustrating week for the AvA staff.

Cheers,
RTR

Didn't for a minute think sfer porked anything. Was just commenting on his attempt to regain control of the Italian Mainland by Himself. A BIG job, but he was takin a BIG swing at gettin it done, lol.

gear · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2006, 04:56:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Jaekart
Oldman, according to what the MOTD states, the countries ( Bishop and Knight ) are set wrong. You say the Islands of Sardinia and Corsica are supposed to be Bishop, while Mainland Italy is supposed to be Knight.

While I was there, the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia are Knight, and the Mainland is all Bishop as well as most of the island of Sicily. The Bishops have the aircraft posted for the Axis, the Rooks have the aircraft posted for the Allied, and the Knights have most of the Posted Axis aircraft.

it looked like sfer, as a Knight, was attempting to capture all of the Italian Mainland by himself while I was in and out of the Arena. I can only assume sfer is the one capturing bases, as he was the only Knight showing on the roster while I was there. and I saw two Bishop bases captured by the Knights.

I was on when the map was set up. The main land was all bish with the excption of a few bases in the far south,they where rook.The knights where confined to an island and that ment an allday flight to engadge the allied.There was an atemmpt to capture bases on the main land and work south to where the allied base were.There was no thought to pork the map,just move closer to the allied players otherwise it would ave been "fly forever fite for a few min die and repeat". As the move south was under way we declaired the northen most bases off limits to pervent porking the map. Then OM came in and set the map up properly.

Oldman731 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2006, 08:05:21 PM »

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Originally posted by gear
As the move south was under way we declaired the northen most bases off limits to pervent porking the map. Then OM came in and set the map up properly.

It was my fault, Gear, and no one should castigate you or anyone else. I screwed things up when I set up the map early this morning; fortunately you were there when I logged back on later in the a.m. to check on the status, and you gave me some good feedback.

This Italy map is beautiful, and we owe great thanks to asw and the others who made it. But it is a bear to set up in the CT (...er...AvA), because as designed it envisions a real three-way war. (You MA types should consider this.)

- oldman (and also because the competent people weren't available this weekend!)

gear · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2006, 09:29:12 PM »

It was an interesting twist to have to work south to engadge the allies.They would have had to move north diong the same until a front line is established.

Gianlupo · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2006, 03:45:27 AM »

Woo! An italian setup! Thanks, AvA staff, I'm sure I'm gonna like it!

I'd just like to see the arena more crowded in Euro evenings...

Oldman731 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2006, 07:39:14 AM »

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Originally posted by Gianlupo
Woo! An italian setup! Thanks, AvA staff, I'm sure I'm gonna like it! I'd just like to see the arena more crowded in Euro evenings...

So, kick your fellow Euros in the pants and get them in here!

The front has moved to approximately the 1943-44 Winter Line - we made some adjustments because of base placement. Could be hard times for the Axis for the next few days, because the FWs have all been withdrawn to face the Eighth AF. Learn to get good in the G6 and the 205.

- oldman

Gianlupo · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2006, 08:33:39 AM »

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The front has moved to approximately the 1943-44 Winter Line

Nice! So I can take off in my Veltro from the field near my home! ;D

Platano · « **Reply #12 on:** March 14, 2006, 12:44:04 PM »

Hey Om this Italy setup is great... I'm having no problems with it...well excluding my dryspell and seeming to land nothing but assists but other than that it's great.. one thing though.... do you have a timetable more or less of when we will be flying in a pacific setup?? Or did i miss it?? I've only been flying in this game for about 3 weeks and im loving it so far.. it's kinda on the addicting side..

Oldman731 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 14, 2006, 01:43:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Platano
one thing though.... do you have a timetable more or less of when we will be flying in a pacific setup?? Or did i miss it?? I've only been flying in this game for about 3 weeks and im loving it so far.. it's kinda on the addicting side..

Fork and Sable (and any other interested parties!) are working on a PAC RPS schedule now.

- oldman

Gianlupo · « **Reply #14 on:** March 15, 2006, 01:58:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Platano

it's kinda on the addicting side..

Welcome into perdition!

You won't find any drug more addicting than this!