The battel expands...News Update...The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

[Nr_RaVeN]

**THE ACTIVE/AVAILABLE FIELDS ARE**
Axis:V86,A11, A71 ,V101,V102   Allie: V83,A16,,A15,C57,C56 V100,V103 see below maps



In addition to the curent active air fields, new bases have been added as the battel expands.

Death in the Sand



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JUST IN! Both Axis and Allied armor forces are massing in the desert. The battel rages...AIR,LAND and SEA
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Axis-Knight.. Deutsche Afrika Korps, led by the Desert Fox , General Erwin Rommel.

AxisBases V101 and V102   now have:

Panzer, Sdkfz,Ostwind


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Allies-Rook.. British 8th Army led by General Montgomery

Allied bases V100 and V102 now have
Sherman, M4A3,M3,M8,M16

There were continuous battles between the British 8th Army,under General Montgomery,  and the Deutsche Afrika Korps, led by the Desert Fox , General Erwin Rommel.


ACTIVE /AVAILABLE FIELDS ARE
Axis:V86,A11 A71  Allie: V83,A16,A15,C57,C56 see below map

 

**PLEASE READ MOTD WHEN YOU JOIN TO FIND AVAILABLE FIELDS**
 

**THE ACTIVE /AVAILABLE FIELDS ARE**

Axis:V86,A11 A71--V101,V102
Allies: V83,A16,,A15,C57,C56--V100,V103
Aircraft can be upped from most available V bases
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ALLIES-ROOK orders:

Your  heading SE 100 degrees. Attack German  fields in grid
(V86) Grid 5,10,5 and (A11) Grid-5,9,5
Keep your head on a swivel for enemy patrols.
Patrols defend your bases at all cost!

Allies available Equipment:
V83=Spit V, P40b
A15=Boston III
A16= P38G(no 1000k bombs or rockets), P40b, Shermin Fire fly Spit V
C57= SBD
C56= Seafire,F4F

Newly added bases:
 V100 and V102 now have
Sherman, M4A3,M3,M8,M16

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Aircraft can be upped from most available V bases
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AXIS-KNIGHT orders:

From base (V86)-Your heading W-NW270 degrees  
From base (A11)-Your heading is 300 degrees .
Attack Allied bases (V83) in grid 3,10,7 &
 (A16 ) grid 3,10,9
 Patrol for incoming cons.
Defend your bases at all cost.

AXIS available Equipment:

V86=109F4, C.202, 109E,Panzer
A11=Available Equipment
FWA5, Bf110,109E
A71- Ju88 (no Torpedo's)

Newly added Vbases:
AxisBases V101 and V102   now have:

Panzer, Sdkfz,Ostwind

Aircraft can be upped from most available V bases
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[Nr_RaVeN]

The P40 E has arrived At Rook A16

[Puma44]

Nice job with the setup this week, Raven! 

[Nr_RaVeN]

TY Sir. Glad your having fun 

[Krusty]

I'm sorry... I have to do this....


Battle


 

That said, the setup looks nice 

[Puma44]

He's not sorry, just can't resist throwing his turd in the punchbowl. 

[Krusty]

Puma, I was correcting a typo. You're the only one going around being crass.


P.S. I'm a fan of the desert war, so I like the setup. It was simply the use of "battel" so many times I had to correct him

[Nr_RaVeN]

Im a Bab Spelr...   

[Krusty]

Nah, you just emulate HiTech 

[Puma44]

Puma, I was correcting a typo. You're the only one going around being crass.


P.S. I'm a fan of the desert war, so I like the setup. It was simply the use of "battel" so many times I had to correct him

Well, it didn't come across like that.  Good on ya for the correction most of us missed.

[Nr_RaVeN]

Although the Tunisia map seems large we are only using a few bases on it up north. The distance between fighter bases and carries to bases are under a 5 min flight concentrating the action.
(basically its a half grid for each side till contact) much like the twin rivers map even, closer.  With  over 10 players in the AVA its no time till you have action!

The back bases are bomber bases. The bomber guys requested it to be that way as they need the time to grab. This set up is basically a meet in the middle and been allot of fun thanks for all the kind words in the Pm's I'm glad your enjoying it 

[Nr_RaVeN]

ALLIES MAKE A RUN FOR TUNNISIA,
P39D has arrived At Rook A16



The P-39 equipped the 81st Fighter Group, 350th Fighter Group and two squadrons of the 68th Observation Group in North Africa, coming into action by the end of 1942. All of these units struggled against the Luftwaffe. During the fighting in North Africa. The USAAF lost 107 P-39s, most of them lost to ground fire while undertaking ground attack missions. In return the P-39 pilots scored twenty confirmed aerial victories and destroyed a similar number of aircraft on the ground, but their main role by now was no longer as a air superiority fighter.

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AS ALLIES make a run for Tunisisa, Luftwaffe units flood  airfields  during the retreat to Tunisia

109G2 has arrived At Knight A11



The Bf 109G was issued to units in North Africa in June 1942. However, it took at least six months for every unit to move from the F to the G, so both versions were in use at El Alamein and during the retreat to Tunisia. This was the period that finally saw the allies gain air superiority over the desert, mostly due to their numerical advantages. The retreat also saw many aircraft abandoned due to faults that could otherwise have been easily fixed. However, this happened at the same time as the G-6 began to appear in North Africa, so many of the aircraft lost would soon have been replaced anyway. The Germans suffered increasingly heavy losses during this period. At the start of May 1943 the final Luftwaffe units in North Africa were evacuated to Sicily. The war in the desert was over.