Baedeker Raids - Thursday 3/10/11 Challenge and Film Contest

[Chilli]

The Baedeker Raids

Hitler demanded reprisals for the more than 250 tons of incendiaries dropped on the Baltic seaport of Lubeck.  The Luftwaffe's attempts to follow the Fuhrer's wishes would become know as Baedeker raids.

*Thursday night's event, is a fictional mission that is loosely based on units that served in this area.

While on temporary detachment to the Low Countries KG30 was the sole Ju88 Kampfgeschwader to remain in action against the British Isles.  Its two Gruppen were supported by 3 of the ex-coastal units Kampfgruppen 106 506 and 606.  Combined with the Ju88 torpedo- bombers of II. and III. / KG26 (brought up from their bases in southern France), they set out to disrupt the Allied shipping amassing in the Channel.  Their target was to be all ships in harbours like Portland harbour, but especially the Allies submarines. 

Will the lessons learned at Pearl Harbor aide the Allies in their defenses, or are will they be doomed to repeat the tragedies on another front?  Come join in the AvA arena on Thursday March 10, 2011 recieve orders @ 8:30 pm EST and be sure to film every minute of it.  A contest will be held for the best edited film of the event.

• There will be a You tube video contest. The best video of the nights action will be posted on the AvA website.
• Greater than 50% percent of these ships destroyed will be an Axis victory, less will be an Allied Victory
• There are 5 ships at each port 1 carrier 2 submarines 1 cruiser 1 destroyer
• Targets are the ships at P-105, P-106, P-107 and P-108, and P-109
• Axis objective: Torpedo as many ships as possible.
• Allied objective: Defend ports.

[Chilli]

In order to accommodate, different time zones, I am proposing that a second frame for the event begin and 10:30 pm EST with participants welcome to join in at anytime.  There is no sign up, or side restrictions. 

Background Movie 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPN2NYN6so

Churchill speech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llT2ZYg-4E&feature=related

German fight song?? Ju88 formations over coastline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBXeTd61d3A&feature=related

[jimson]

Axis Objective is to use either escorted or unescorted Ju88's with torpedoes to destroy the docked ships at ports P105, P106, P107, P108, and P109.

Allied Objective is to defend ports.

1st frame will run til 10pm est, Ju88's with torpedoes will be enabled at 8:30pm est.

At 10pm est Ju88's will be disabled, objectives will be checked, reset and at 10:30 JU88's will be enabled again.

At 12pm est they will again be disabled and there will be a final tally of objectives.

[jimson]

At first checkpoint, only a few ships were destroyed at P-105.

Rather than reset, I decided to just extend the battle until 11:30pm est.

At that checkpoint, the axis just barely won, by a count of one ship over 50% destroyed.

A very close win for the Luftwaffe.

If you have any good films of the nights action, stand by for contest instructions from Chilli.

[Molsman]

i have some films from last night but when i convert them to avi they do not work for me so I need to figure it out then submit them. First film was good but got discoed and lost it

Crazy8s

[Devil 505]

I have some great film to work with. All I have to do is shoot some generic filler material.

[Chilli]

Awesome to hear, and can't wait to see the results of the filming.  I am just curious, did anyone catch film of torpedo bomber action?

Keep an eye out on the forums, I will be starting a thread for film submissions and ahf files if you wish to share.  As soon as I get the    we will post more info.

Thanks again all who participated and a special thanks to the staff for allowing the event to run.

[Devil 505]

I made one torp run near the end, and sunk a destroyer. I have that on film. I know JVnotch has film of his runs, he realy led the way with the port strikes.

[CAP1]

I made one torp run near the end, and sunk a destroyer. I have that on film. I know JVnotch has film of his runs, he realy led the way with the port strikes.

and he is one of the very few i've ever seen that actually know how to gun out of a ju88 too. 

[Devil 505]

Some screenies from Thursday.

Kommando Nowotny warming up. Myself, Sukov, and Shemp.  

The train! The train!

HMS Indestructable, my ass!

[Devil 505]

and he is one of the very few i've ever seen that actually know how to gun out of a ju88 too. 

He was a one man wrecking crew on Thuusday. I bet he had 75% of all ships sunk.  Notch

[Molsman]

will work on my films tonight and tomorrow Devil had a blast that night <S>

[noTch]

Thanks, you guys. It was a blast to have an objective to work off of.  I think I like that better than a mini-scenario.  It was very fun & got to direct some fighters for cover.  There is one run where I actually had some escorts that kept the heat off me so I could get a good torp run in.

 ~S~ to all that participated

[Chilli]

I would like to congratulate Axis on their win.

From all accounts, JVnotch lead the way for the Axis.    I would like to thank everyone who was able to participate in the event, especially JVnotch, Devil 505 (awesome screenies) and Crazy8s.  Jimson, did an awesome job as monitor and keeping me in my seat, so that objectives were made simple, yet challenging for both sides.

Please post contest submissions in the following thread, and good luck, may the best film win.  (I am taking the liberty of pasting 505s screenshots from this thread):  http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,308744.0.html

[Molsman]

I got lucky a few times that night lit up some junkers but they tore one of my engines and I rtbed next thing i know while rtbing  I scored 4 hides. Jvnotch was outstadning sorry about that first pick when I was climbing up and you were diving down and took your engine out