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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #45 on: February 29, 2016, 03:28:07 AM »
I suggest to take a look on this great source: http://www.airpages.ru/eng/

Regarding radars, I know soviets copied some British radars and had some home-build however I need to find the sources. From what I've read due to lack of equipment the radars where mostly used by PVO units at high value targets.
Tactical/frontline operation mostly was based on visual observation. But I'll try to find the sources I've seen.


https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%A3%D0%A1-2 (needs google translate)

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #46 on: February 29, 2016, 10:16:51 PM »
Thanks.

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #47 on: March 03, 2016, 12:40:26 PM »
Anyone have the unit names for:
-- the Ju 88's present
-- Yak-7's
-- Yak-9's
-- Il-2's
-- Tu-2's (or Pe-2's if no Tu-2 units are found)
-- German tank forces
-- Soviet tank forces

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #48 on: March 03, 2016, 09:25:10 PM »
The only Ju88 near Ukraine were in KG 3.

I Gruppe: Kirowograd until October, Kalinowka, Poland through December (Off map but same latitude as Kiev)
II Gruppe: Orscha
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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #49 on: March 07, 2016, 09:37:00 PM »
So were there any B25s operating in the area? Any Eastern Front battle has got to have some B25s.  :D


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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #50 on: March 09, 2016, 07:08:36 AM »
Here's the Luftwaffe fighter unit breakdown with aircraft and location as of November/December '43


Jg 51
I. Gruppe - 190A - Kirowograd in November. moved to Bobruisk, Belarus in December and changed to 109Gs. 
III Gruppe - 109G - Orscha, Belarus (technically off the map, but base in 4,19 is close)
IV Gruppe - 109G - Orscha

Jg 52
I Gruppe - 109G - Kirowograd
II Gruppe - 109G - Uman
III Gruppe - 109G - Apostolowo

Jg 54
I Gruppe - 190A - Orscha in December, Vitebsk,Belarus before that (even farther north than Orscha)
II Gruppe - 190A - Zhitomir
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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #51 on: March 11, 2016, 08:51:42 PM »
Brooke
Just an FYI sideline since GV's were talked about earlier in the thread.  I have a plan for a GV battle with objectives that does not (but can) include a base capture.  I developed and tried out this and some other ideas when I was running the Tank Club ages ago and intending to eventually create a more involved and enjoyable GV-based scenario.
Simplified description, you need a location on a map with a large (or several fairly close together) city or factory complex.  This provides the offensive mission objective for the aggressor-side.  They are assigned a mix of destroyer type GV's (ostwinds, wirblewinds, M4's with rockets, M3 and LVT with howitzers) whose purpose is the destruction of city/factory objects.  They have a attached group of escort battle tanks for mission defense.  The have a choice of spawns to come out of and must travel to their target objective.
The defensive-side, has a very small number of spotter aircraft and high-speed scout GV's (M3, Jeep, etc.) to recon the enemy column(s) approach to the target.  At a certain time point in the frame, they can spawn small tank groups to interdict the incoming offensive before they can get close enough to the target city, where the destroyer GV's ONLY may take down buildings, etc.  No MBT's may destroy any city objects and are only for column defense.
Just an idea for the future that can be used as part of a standard air campaign, or a basically GV-only scenario.
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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #52 on: March 13, 2016, 05:27:28 AM »
Hello. And greetings from Finland. Been reading this thread with interest and have been wondering if I should activate my account again just to take part. I was just having a conversation with other finns and we were pretty nostalgic about all the scenarios flown thus far. I am sorry to invade this development thread but wanted to give heads up. Finns have been pretty inactive as of late, but it seems something is brewing...

Btw. when was this scenario scheduled to take place?

Sorry again, carry on  :aok
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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #53 on: March 13, 2016, 03:25:34 PM »
Hello. And greetings from Finland. Been reading this thread with interest and have been wondering if I should activate my account again just to take part. I was just having a conversation with other finns and we were pretty nostalgic about all the scenarios flown thus far. I am sorry to invade this development thread but wanted to give heads up. Finns have been pretty inactive as of late, but it seems something is brewing...

Btw. when was this scenario scheduled to take place?

Sorry again, carry on  :aok

I have a proposal for you.

Different nations are known for different distilled alcoholic beverages.  For Britain (specifically Scotland), it is scotch.  For France, it is cognac (named after the town Cognac, France).  For Poland and Russia, it is vodka ("vodka" being Polish for "little water").  And so on.  The quintessential American distilled alcoholic beverage is bourbon (named after Bourbon County, Kentucky).

My favorite high-quality bourbon is Woodford Reserve, and I will ship a bottle of that to you Finns if you get six or more of you to register for the next scenario.  It is produced at the oldest distillery site in Kentucky, dating back to 1780.

More info on Woodford Reserve:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodford_Reserve

...it seems something is brewing...

Yes, and it could be shipped your way.  :aok

Are you agreeable to that?

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #54 on: March 13, 2016, 03:26:17 PM »
Btw. when was this scenario scheduled to take place?

In June.

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #55 on: March 13, 2016, 03:31:10 PM »
"The name is ultimately derived from the French Bourbon dynasty, although it is disputed whether Bourbon County in Kentucky or Bourbon Street in New Orleans inspired the whiskey's name."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #56 on: March 13, 2016, 03:33:30 PM »
"The name is ultimately derived from the French Bourbon dynasty, although it is disputed whether Bourbon County in Kentucky or Bourbon Street in New Orleans inspired the whiskey's name."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_whiskey

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Re: Help with design of upcoming Eastern Front scenario
« Reply #59 on: March 13, 2016, 03:50:32 PM »
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