Time for most-popular "This Day in WWII" of them all--Pearl Harbor

[Brooke]

December 7th approaches.

It's the most-popular "This Day in WWII" event of them all.

And . . .

IT'S SUPER FUN!

It will run two times on Dec 7th:  3 pm Eastern and 10 pm Eastern in Special Events 2 arena.

Please join us.  Everyone is welcome.  Bring your friends.  Bring your enemies.

[Brooke]

[Brooke]

IJN Command to Striking Force:
Climb Mount Niitaka.  Repeat:  Climb Mount Niitaka

Fleet command to all ships:
Carriers, turn into wind.
Prepare to launch planes.

IJN pilots, man your planes.  Prepare to launch.

IJN pilots, launch your planes.

USS Ward to Pearl HQ:
Submarine spotted near harbor entrance.
Engaging.
Ward reports enemy submarine engaged and sunk.

Opana Point radar to Pearl HQ:
Massive radar contacts north of Oahu, inbound.

Pearl HQ to Opana Point:
That is a flight of B-17's coming in.

Opana Point to HQ:
Many, many contacts, HQ.

HQ to Opana Point:
Roger.  Will evaluate.  Stand by.

HQ to all military personel:
Return to base.  Repeat:  return to base.  This is not a drill.

Opana Point to HQ:
We are picking up emergency calls of aircraft being attacked near Oahu.
Large formations of aircraft still inbound.

HQ to all military personel:
All personel, man your posts.
Pilots, man your planes.
This is not a drill.
Enemy attack inbound.
All Pearl aircraft, launch when ready.

[TequilaChaser]

As Brooke posted, this is one event that I recommend that everyone should try to participate in!

The sheer amount of excitement and adrenaline pumping that you will experience is nothing like you will find in the regular Main Arenas!

Hope I can switch my schedule around for December so I can possibly be there

TC

[DubiousKB]

Highly recommend this one if you've never tried an event or scenario. Alot of fun and intense action!  Brook

[Zoney]

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[ONTOS]

Will the number of American planes be limited to number in the air at one time, because so few got off the ground (only eight as far as I have been able to search).If not, it will be just another Axis's v Allies. But I do like the idea.

[Zoney]

Will the number of American planes be limited to number in the air at one time, because so few got off the ground (only eight as far as I have been able to search).If not, it will be just another Axis's v Allies. But I do like the idea.

This is not another re-enactment of what historically happened.  Concessions will be made for playability.  This will be set up so everyone can have a fight and everyone can have some fun, just like every special event that is run.  Numbers per side will be reasonably balanced.

This is always a very fun event, please join if you can.

[Shuffler]

IN like Flint

[Devil 505]

Save me a Zeke. 

[Molsman]

screw the Zeke just save me some geisha girls

[Brooke]

Will the ...

If we ran a historical recreation, it would of course not be a playable event.

However, one of the things I like to do in this event is show people how much warning the US actually had of the attack:  USS Ward engaging and sinking an enemy submarine off the mouth of the harbor at 6:30 am; massive radar contacts spotted by Opana Point radar station at 7 am (while Japanese were over 120 miles from Oahu); those contacts being plotted all the way in and resolved as large numbers of aircraft; radio reports from civilian aircraft reporting being attacked and shot down by Japanese fighters north of Oahu.  The first Japanese bombs fell at 7:53 am -- 1.25 hours after first indications of hostilities.

What I thought would be fun (and certainly something like this is needed to make a playable event out of it) is to consider what if the US hadn't disregarded all of those indications but instead was able to scramble some fighters several minutes before the whole Japanese swarm descended on all the bases.

That makes it a fun fight (judging by the past many runnings of this event), and is perhaps the most-plausible way to make it that way.

[Brooke]

[Brooke]