Welcome to SEC "Joachim Marseille"
an Aces High© event!
Event is open for everyone, welcome!
Start time 8:00pm UK, 21:00 CET, 10:00pm EET, 3:00pm EST
Hosted by dhyran
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READ THE ARENA MESSAGE CAREFULLY
AND PICK YOUR SIDE.
BOTH SIDES SHOULD PICK CO(leader)
TO COMMAND THEIR FORCES.
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Background
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Marseille developed his own special tactics, which differed
significantly from the methods of most other pilots.
(When attacking a Lufbery circle) he had to fly very slowly.
He even took it to the point where he had to operate his
landing flaps as not to fall down, because, of course he
had to fly his curve (turns) more tightly than the upper
defensive circle. He and his fighter were one unit, and
he was in command of that aircraft like no-one else.
Friedrich Körner (36 kills) also recognised this as unique:
Shooting in a curve (deflection shooting) is the most
difficult thing a pilot can do. The enemy flies in a
defensive circle, that means they are already lying
in a curve and the attacking fighter has to fly into
this defensive circle. By pulling his aircraft right
around, his curve radius must be smaller, but if he does
that, his target disappears in most cases below his wings.
So he cannot see it anymore and has to proceed simply by instinct.
Marseille receiving the Swords to the Knight's Cross with
Oak Leaves from Hitler, July 1942.
His attack method to break up formations, which he perfected,
resulted in a high lethality ratio, and in rapid, multiple
victories per attack. On 3 June 1942, Marseille attacked alone
a formation of 16 Curtiss P-40 fighters and shot down six
aircraft of No. 5 Squadron SAAF, five of them in six minutes,
including three aces: Robin Pare (six victories), Douglas Golding
(6.5 victories) and Andre Botha (five victories).
His wingman Rainer Pöttgen, nicknamed Fliegendes Zählwerk the
("Flying Counting Machine"), said of this fight:
All the enemy were shot down by Marseille in a turning dogfight.
As soon as he shot, he needed only to glance at the enemy plane.
His pattern [of gunfire] began at the front, the engine's nose,
and consistently ended in the cockpit. How he was able to do
this not even he could explain. With every dogfight he would
throttle back as far as possible; this enabled him to fly
tighter turns. His expenditure of ammunition in this air
battle was 360 rounds (60 per kill).
While returning to base, his new Bf 109G-2/trop's
cockpit began to fill with smoke; blinded and half asphyxiated,
At this point, Marseille deemed his aircraft no longer
flyable and decided to bail out, his last words to his
comrades being "I've got to get out now, I can't stand it any longer"
On 30 September 1942, Hauptmann Marseille died on the bail out.
Many of the other top Luftwaffe fighter aces like
Adolf Galland and Erich Hartmann regarded him as "the best".
Günther Rall said of Marseille, "an excellent pilot and
brilliant marksman.
I think he was the best shot in the Luftwaffe"
Allies
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Bishops, 50% of participants
Planes available:
- Hurrie I , Spitfire , P40E
- B25
Orders:
-Start from A19 A7 A1 A3
-Primery target: find enemy Airplanes and shoot them down
Restrictions:
-None
Axis
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Knights, 50% of participants
Planes:
- 109F4 C202
- JU88
Orders:
-Start from A20 A8 A4 A2
-Primery target: find enemy Airplanes and shoot them down
Arena Settings
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Terrains: twinriver
Event start, game time: 5:50
Time multiplier: 1.0
Icon range <1k enemy
Icon range 3K friendly
Fuel Multiplier: 1.0
Radar: Axis - tower radar range 65000, dar bar range 150000 (about one full sector), 2min update rate
Allies - tower radar range 65000, dar bar range 150000 (about one full sector), 2min update rate
Killshooter: Off.
Friendly collisions: Off.
Kill messages: Off.
Auto Ack strength: 0.25
Default downtimes.
DeathMaxCount: 2
DeathTimeMin: 120
2 lives for every player.
Design By
dhyran
