Welcome to This Day in WWII: D-Day!
All are welcome to play.
Runs on June 6, 8:30 pm Eastern in Special Eventa I Arena.
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Objective: Kill enemies, destroy ground objects, sink enemy ships, and capture bases.
Event duration: 2 hours, but play as much or as little as you want of that.
Unlimited lives, but arena enforces at most 2 deaths in any 7-minute span. It says "Your max deaths have been exceeded" until you can fly again.
Allies (Bishops):
-- Aircraft available from a17, a18, a20, a124.
-- Aircraft: A-20G, B-17G, B-24J, B-25C, B-26B, C-47, Mosquito VI, P-38J, P-47D-11, P-47D-25, P-51B, Spitfire IX, Typhoon I.
-- Vehicles available at all fields (including captured ones): M16, M3, M4A3(75), M8.
-- Sherman VC available only at v103.
-- LVTA2 and LVTA4 available from CV's.
-- Ships start in 9.8 (3 task groups).
Axis (Knights):
-- Aircraft available from a38, a39, a40, a72.
-- Aircraft: Bf 109G-2, Bf 109G-6, Bf 110G-2, C-47, FW 190A-5, FW 190A-8, FW 190F-8, Ju 88A-4.
-- Vehicles available at all fields: M8, Panzer, SdKfz, Wirblewind.
-- Tiger available only at a40.
No dot radar is available -- only sector counters.
Destroyed barracks and ammo bunkers stay down for 10 minutes.
All ships require 15,000 lbs of damage to sink.
Task groups (and ability to launch LVT's) stay around for 45 minutes after CV is sunk, then disappear.
Points:
-- 1 point per kill of an enemy.
-- 0.1 points per ground object destroyed.
-- 25 points per base capture.
-- 13 points per ship sunk.
Side split 50/50.
Arena Settings:
Terrain = bob09
ArenaFlags = 4398
DeathMaxCount = 2
DeathTimeMin = 7
ExitWhileMoving = 508
FlightModeFlags = 5248
FuelBurnRateMult = 1.0
ObjectHardnessMults[SHP] = 2.22
RadarMode = 0
StratFlags = 1
TaskGroupRespawnTime = 45
Object Settings:
Bunk Ammo, Down Time = 10
Bunk Barr, Down Time = 10
Ship, Hardness = 6.76
Map of the battle region:
