In one week from today, on September 7th, the Battle Of Britain 2013 Scenario begins.
Each side has been preparing plans, testing flight times, working out strategies, discussing options, and immersing themselves in the historical elements of the fierce battle that raged so long ago.
This event provides a wide range of opportunities to out fly, out think, and out live your opposition. There is a great demand for players who will take advantage of every opportunity their side has and use it to achieve their goals. Yes, you can fly a fighter and/or bomber. That's the easy part. But, can you stay with the team long after you lost your plane? Do you have what it takes to fly a rescue craft and help keep a surviving team mate in the game? Do you have the willingness to crew a bomber and defend her in the guns? Can you man a ground gun, or fleet gun, and help defend the airfields? Can you scout? Can you do more than simply jump in a plane at the last minute and fly till you die, then leave?
This is what sets a Scenario apart from the daily grind, the routine, the average game play. This is where you get the closest you can get to the real thing. This is where what you do matters, it is the one place where one person putting it all on the line and pushing it to the last minute can, will and has made the difference.
Prior BoB events have been close, as much as a couple of buildings coming down made the difference between a win and a loss. A minor portion of one persons effort, at the last minute. Can you go the distance? Can you do what needs to be done? Can you overcome the obstacles in front of you and really be a part of this? Can you believe that one side can dominate the entire event but still lose if they fail to meet the overall objectives, that the other side can pull out a final rally and comes back to stop the momentum?
Nothing typed will ever surpass what you can actually do. Let's go do something big next Saturday. Fight to the end, no matter what, you never know what might happen, you have no control over anything but your own actions. But I can promise this, if you enter the field accepting your defeat, accepting your limitations, accepting the enemies advantage, accepting their dominance, then you already lost.
This event is objective based, it's win or lose. There is no spreadsheet accumulating a score, there is no "behind" or "ahead" only progressing towards the objective. Secure the objective or don't. One person, that last person rescued, that last bomber in the air, that last plane flying, that last gunner in the ground gun at the final hanger at the final base, it can come down to that one moment, and win or lose the event. Are you the one who will be that deciding moment? Will you quit when it gets tough and hand the win over to the other side or make them pay dearly for the effort?
This is the big one, this is the Battle Of Britain, one of the most complex Scenarios out there, the one with the most options to participate up to the very last minute of the very last frame. This is the one you have to think through, if you can manage your flight, and manage your plane, and bail out instead of get killed, you will benefit from as many sorties as you wish. Just like the real thing, you have an incentive to live, and continue to fight.
There is still room to sign up, there are still slots available, join up.
http://www.ahevents.org/events/scenarios/current-or-next-scenario.html 
