"Never before...have so many owed so much to so few."
By popular demand, the CT is proud to present “The Battle of Britain.” This is essentially a war of attrition, with the simplest of victory conditions…whichever side destroys more enemy aircraft over the course of the week wins! This will be determined by examining the tour stats and simply counting up the number of each aircraft type destroyed. We are providing each side the basic means to allow base capture, not as a determination of victory, but as a means to tactically influencing the battle. Because the field layouts make it impossible to prevent ground vehicle spawning, it won’t be easy to capture contested bases. The normal v1.09 strat system will be disabled, as this terrain lacks the essential elements to make it run (trains and convoys). Field object rebuild time will be set to approximately 20 minutes, except for hangers which will remain at 15 minutes.
NOTE: PLANES WILL NOT BE ENABLED AT CAPTURED FIELDS. Thus, capturing enemy fields gives your side a refuel and re-arm point, but will not provide a jumping off point to continue your advance. Hence, capturing fields is mostly a case of denying the enemy a base of operation.
Radar: Dot-dar and bar-dar will be set to 50 miles, with radar detection altitude from 500 feet and up. Update rate will be once a minute.
Icons: CT normal (short)
Fuel-burn rate modifier: 1.3
Fleet re-spawn time: Two hours (so be careful with them!)
Order of Battle –
Great Britain
Bases: All bases and ports on the British Isles, three CV battle groups (CVBG)
Aircraft/vehicles: Spit-I, Hurricane-I, TBM (generic strike aircraft), C-47, M-8, M-3 available at all land bases. Hurricane-I, LVT(2), PT available from CVBG. PT available from ports.
Germany
Bases: All bases on continental Europe, plus one CVBG (no A/C enabled).
Aircraft/vehicles: Bf109E-4, Bf110C-4b, Ju88, C-47, M-8, M-3 available from all land bases. LVT(2) and PT available from CVBG.
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Some will no doubt disapprove of the inclusion of the TMB, but the CT Team felt it important to give the RAF at least a token strike capability. The Ju88 was considered as a substitute for the Wellington or Blenheim, but felt it would hurt the immersion factor more to see a German plane flown by Great Britain than it would to see the TBM (out of place and time, but at least England operated them). It is not meant to represent any particular aircraft. Its speed, load out, and armament are however reasonably representative of Bomber Command's and Coastal Command's resources at the time.
Please note again that captured fields will only have A/C or vehicles enabled for the original owners. This, in combo with the short rebuild times and GV spawn anomaly (i.e. can't destroy GV spawing at fields) should make capturing enemy fields very difficult to do, and even harder to keep. The inclusion of the British CV's with Hurricanes is for play balance, as the British have less than half the number of airfields in the Dover area as the Germans do in Calais. Hope that explains some of our thinking on the set up. Hope everyone enjoys it.
