RAIN OF FIRE
After three and a half bloody years of savage combat on beaches, in jungles, on the seas and in the skies, the Allies at last are poised on the doorstep of Japan. By night, the full horror of their vengeance is visited on the islands' inhabitants as the mighty B-29s burn their cities to cinders. By day, the blue carrier planes and the silver long-range American fighters bomb and strafe the few remaining targets of significance. Both sides know that the final amphibious assault of the war - the campaign that will cost a million American lives, and will destroy Japanese civilization forever - is only a few weeks away.
Russia is rumoured to have an active base north of Japan.
ALLIES
On carriers:
F6F-5 (all carriers)
F4U-1C (C77, C89)
F4U-1D (all carriers)
F4U-4 (C79, C90, C92, C95, C97)
FM2 (all carriers)
Seafire IIC (C78, C93, C99)
TBM (all carriers)
At air starts (A88, A122):
P-38L
P-47N
P-51D
B-24J (pretend it's a B-29)
AXIS
A6M5b
Ki-61
Ki-84
Nik2-J
B5N2
D3A1
Ki-67
M-16
Ostwind
(Note Axis air start is at A119)
NOTE ON AIR STARTS:
Look for the blue boxes out in the ocean. Each is associated with a land base (for Allies, typically on the bottom edge of the map). Each blue box has one square filled in. Go to the associated land base and take off in the direction of the filled-in box. Note that each of the land bases has several air starts. (For example, if an Allied player takes off from A122's north runway, he will begin in Sector 8,1; if he takes off to the northeast, he will begin in 12,1; to the northwest, at Sector 4,1.) You will begin high in the sky, by the blue box, with your gear down and your engine off. Remember to take care of those two things promptly.
The Japanese air starts are governed by A119, in Sector 6,12. The Allied air starts are at A88 (0,0) and A122 (8,0).
For playability purposes, Allied aircraft can land at A3. However, all aircraft are disabled at that base, so you cannot begin flight from there.
SETTINGS:
Radar: Tower 237,600, Sector 369,600
Visibility is 12 miles
Field Ack: low-level and puffy are both .25
Killshooter is on
Fuel burn rate is 1.0
Strat is disabled
The invasion hasn't come yet, so there are no vehicles
available to capture bases.
AND PLEASE REMEMBER: Civil behavior is valued, and required, in this arena.
