Danish, I hope to plan the event such that 3 of the 5 days will occur on either a Saturday or Sunday early Afternoon on the east coast of the US. Which should allow the European players to play in their late evening. Nothing is certain yet, but we will try our best to accomadate everyone.
Sharky, (from your email) signups have not yet been announced. Right now we still need to build a the custom terrain, but hopefully with the terrain editor beta starting soon, we can get started on that. Once we get to a reasonable point, signups will be announced and planning can procede from there.
Sorrow, unfortunately altitude limits are a necessary evil in a scenario such as this. The focus of the North African Campaign, was much like the Russian front, close air support, and most of the fighting was done at much lower altitudes than we are use too. Without the limits, both sides escalate the "alt monkey" syndrome, and very quickly you have 30k 109's fighting 30k Spitfires (seen it before many times in the scenario's I have helped to run). This is quite unhistoric, ruins everything, and hence the limits of 15k for fighters.
Yes the Axis will have a hard time with Co-E Spitfires, but that is also why the Axis has more fighters overall, and more of the late model fighters (109G's&190's vs Spit IX's).
The Fw190F6 statement is just that, a 190F6. The Fw190F6 (at least according to one source I used), was an early model F variant derived from, A3's and A4's, with increased pilot protection, the x2 20mm + x2 MG option armament as a standard, and the ability to carry more bombs. Its performance was ironically almost identical to a Fw190A8, which we will be using to substitute for it.
The 190A4 statement was intentional so that it can be handled in one of two ways. Many rumors have been swirling around about the A4 or A5 being on the block as the next variant in the game, if so, it will be incorporated into the event in its historic role. If not, again we will substitute the A8, which is admittedly a slight disadvantage for the Axis. If we must use the A8 though, I didn't want anyone using the late war, anti-bomber 30mm cannon armaments. And thats why it was stated that way.
Sorry for the confusion guys
Any more questions?
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