Welcome to This Day in WWII: D-Day!
All are welcome to play.
Runs on June 6, at 3 pm and 9 pm Eastern in Special Events II 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.
Allies (Bishops):
-- Aircraft available from a17, a18, 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).
-- Available at a72 if captured: Spit IX, Typhoon I, P-38J, P-47D-11, B-25C.
Axis (Knights):
-- Aircraft available from a38, a39, a40.
-- 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 IVH, SdKfz, Wirblewind.
-- Tiger I available only at a40.
No dot radar is available -- only sector counters.
Destroyed barracks and ammo bunkers stay down for 10 minutes.
Carriers require 16,000 lbs of damage to sink.
All other ships require 4,000 lbs of damage to sink.
Task groups (and ability to launch LVT's) stay around for 60 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 = 13358
ChangeCountryTime = 0
ColorFog[Day] = 169/169/172
ColorSky[Day] = 211/211/214
ExitWhileMoving = 508
FlightModeFlags = 5248
FuelBurnRateMult = 2.0
ObjectHardnessMults[SHP] = 2
RadarMode = 0
StratFlags = 1
TaskGroupCommandCnt = 6
TaskGroupRespawnTime = 60
Object Settings:
Bunk Ammo, Down Time = 10
Bunk Barr, Down Time = 10
Map of the battle region:
