And the next scenario should be....

[KCDitto]

Or factory smoke stacks..... That SMOKE   

[LCADolby]

Can't you just imagine flying across the ocean after a major raid over Paris, shot up, missing half your tail, 2 engines out, 2 more smoking and ahead you see the cliffs coming through the haze.  Ahh the potential in the new version, the terrain team has their work cut out for them for sure. 
Would probably be asking too much for a map that, at night, London and Paris light up, and when the air raid sirens go off, Lights Out! 

It's 2016, that really should be a given 

[wil3ur]

Why do the cliffs have to be white?  Racists!   

[swareiam]

AVG and ROCAF vs IJAF.
I16
P40


KI43
A6m
G4M

Plane set is a bit thin, I don't know if it has been done before

Yep, it's called Rangoon (2004, 2008 and 2011). You would replace the I16 with the Brewster Buffalo.

[Randall172]

SOVIET AIRCRAFT
A-20G
B-25C/D (formations enabled)
La5N or La-7 - two gun package

Mossie (sub for PE-2)
P-39Q
Yak-3
Yak-9U

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT
Ki-61
Ki-67
Ki-84
N1K2

The Ki-84 will dominate at 15k

[Chris79]

The Ki84 dominates no where

[Guppy35]

Also, if the AH3 map has some elevation at the coast like the Cliffs of Dover then there will be even more immersion.

Do the Summer of 1941 instead.  This time it's the RAF trying to keep the Luftwaffe busy to take some of the heat off the Russians suffering through the beginnings of Barbarossa.

11 Group vs JG26 and JG2,  109Es and Fs, Spitfire Is (subbing for IIs) and Spitfire Vb.  This was when they were running 2-3 Circus's a day.  Johnnie Johnson describes it as the most brutal air fighting of the war.  Galland commented on how they were ordered to engage by Goering, when it would have made more sense to pick their spots, so the dogfights were endless.  Might even consider letting one small group of 190s enter the fray at the end of the day as the 190 made it's appearance at the end of that summer.

There were no Hurricanes flying with 11 Group on those offensive sweeps, but I suppose if one wanted to include raids by 88s or 111s, there could be some for the defending the coast role.

Douglas Bader went down in August of 41 on one of those circus missions.  With the numbers where they are, you'd be containing the fighting to the range of the Spits without DTs so it would be them escorting Bostons to whichever airfield or port was on the target list, hoping to get the Luftwaffe to rise to the bait, which was all the bombers really were.  In reality the war of attrition took a huge toll on the RAF as they were over France while the Luftwaffe was over friendly turf.

[Randall172]

The Ki84 dominates no where

Maybe not speed wise, but better guns, turn performance, and fuel cap. if brooke runs this he'll have to limit the amount of them.

[Chris79]

The Ki84 would have a ever so slight turn advantage over the Soviet set. As for guns, the Japanese planes may have more, where as the Soviet planes don't have convergence issues. I can verify that the Yak3/9 are more then capable of dropping a buff in one pass so they are more then adequate.

[Brooke]

OK, folks, time for the primaries.

Each person, please pick which four of the following that you would like to see continue into the next round of voting:

1.  Battle of Britain.  Britain's finest hour.  Spit I's, Hurri I's vs. 109E's, 110C's, He 111's, and Ju 88's.

2.  New Guinea, 1943.  Fierce fighting involving Japan's highest-scoring aces.  Ki-43, Ki-61, maybe Betty?, P-40, P-38G, B-25.

3.  Channel Dash.  The Kriegsmarine is trying to get Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen to safety.  The Luftwaffe put up a huge moving CAP over the Channel, and the RAF struck in force.  Spit V, Hurri II, Beaufort, Wellington, Swordfish, 109F, 190A-5, 110C, maybe Ju 88.

4.  North Africa.  Fights in the desert of North Africa.  A very fun plane set and nice change of terrain.  Spit V, Spit IX, P-38G, P-40, P-39, A-20, B-25, Boston, 109G, 109F, 190A-5, 110C, C.202, Ju 88.

5.  Late-war 8th AF.  8th AF strategic bombing with high-alt escorts vs. high-alt Luftwaffe.  Like DGS/BOG.  P-51, P-47, P-38, B-17, B-24, 109G-14, 109K, 190D, maybe some 190A-8.

6.  Cactus Air Force.  These guys fought out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal under very tough conditions and held the place against concerted and repeated Japanese air attacks.  This is where Joe Foss fought.  A6M2, A6M3, D3A, G4M, F4F, P-39, SBD, TBM.

7.  Battle of the Bismarck Sea.  A major engagement in the Guadalcanal Campaign with a good matchup of aircraft.  Ki-43, Zero, P-40, P-39, P-38G, A-20, B-25, singleton B-17/B-24.

8.  Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.  A battle between carrier groups.  Zero, D3A, B5N, F4F, SBD, TBM.

9.  Late-war Philippines.  A fight with late-war Japanese fighters and bombers.  Ki-84, N1K1, Ki-61, A6M5b, Ki-67, P-47, P-38, F4U, F6F, B-25, B-24.

10.  Modified D-Day.  Like D-Day, but with strong Luftwaffe opposition.  So, D-Day aircraft set on allied side, but later-war Luftwaffe stuff in equal abundance in opposition.  This one is usually quite fun when we run it as This Day in WWII.  It would work as a 4-frame and perhaps especially well as 12-hour.

11. Operation Unthinkable.  A "what if" scenario of Soviets vs. RAF.

12. Late-war USAAF vs. Japan.  A6M5b, KI61, N1K2-J, KI-45 (BF110C-4b), KI84 vs. P-51D, P-47N, P-38L, B-29 -- like frame 4 of "The Pacific War" scenario, which was decently balanced.

13. Winter War -- Brewsters 109e 110c's  p39s i16s

14. Rangoon type (AVG/allies vs. IJAF)

15. Winter Germany/Spring Germany, BOG-like event.

16.  Late-war Soviet vs. Japan ("what if" scenario).

17. Summer 1941 RAF raids against Luftwaffe in France / coastal areas.  "Johnnie Johnson describes it as the most brutal air fighting of the war."

[Brooke]

My picks:

4 (North Africa)
7 (Bismarck Sea)
10 (modified D-Day)
17 (Summer 1941 RAF vs. LW)

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