This weekend in the CT, Buzzbait if giving us the following offering in the CT...
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For all those who love the Perk planes, and never get enough of an opportunity to fly them...
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Background: On December 5, 1941, a Fw200 Kondor lifts off from a military airfield just outside Berlin. On board is Adolph Hitler and some of his key staff, starting an impromptu tour of some of the newly conquered territories. At their first stop on the trip, wind-shear causes the Kondor’s pilot to set the aircraft down hard. The endemic weakness of the Fw200’s fuselage results in the aircraft breaking up, killing almost everyone on board…almost everyone.
The German dictator miraculously survives, but is in a coma for the next three weeks, and spends another two months recovering. Two days after the accident, the Japanese attack’s the United States. Because Hitler is in a coma, Germany does NOT declare war on the United States. As a result, President Roosevelt is able to garner support in Congress for a US declaration of war against Japan, but not against Germany. Without a second front to support, the US buries the Empire of Japan under the weight of America’s industrial might. By late June of 1944, Japan is hanging on the ropes; the US gears up for an invasion of the Japanese islands.
In the mean time, Germany has consolidated its hold over Europe. They offer England an armistice which ‘guarantees’ British autonomy, in exchange for non-interference on the continent. Without the active support of the United States (US Lend-Lease support continues, but with a “Japan, first” policy in effect), Churchill is forced by domestic pressure to accept. This leaves Germany free to launch Operation Barbarossa unhindered by interference from the West. Germany quickly takes over the better half of Western Russia, including Moscow, forcing Stalin to move his government East of the Urals.
After consolidating his gains, Hitler again turns his eye westward. The lack of an air threat to Germany has allowed the Luftwaffe to complete a new weapons development cycle unhindered by constant bombardment. Additionally, the aircraft carrier GRAF ZEPPELIN, as well as a second one, the ADOLF HITLER, have been completed. Because defense of the Reich is not a driving factor, Hitler orders that the production of jet powered bombers be given priority. The German despot recognizes that Japan is about to be knocked out of the war, at which point the USA will be free to significantly increase aid to Great Britain. Hitler decides the window of opportunity to destroy England once and for all is closing fast. He orders full-scale preparations for the aerial bombardment and subsequent invasion of the British Isles to commence. Operation Sea Lion is a go. The stage is set for the second Battle of Britain!
Map: Europe
Germans are Knight and control all the bases in France and the Continent except for a few neutral Rook bases in the North.
British are Rook and control all Bases in Britain.
Both sides have 2 CV`s.
Order of Battle:
Germany:
At Land bases
190D9
190A8
190F8
109G10
110G2
TA-152H
Me262 (3 perks)
Ju88a
Arado
C-47
On CV`s
190A5
190F8
109G10
GV etc.
MkIV
Ostwind
M3
M8
CV`s
LVT2
LVT4
British
At Land bases
P-51B (Lendlease)
P-51D (Lendlease)
P-47D-25 (Lendlease)
Spit IX
Spit XIV
Typhoon
Tempest
Mosquito
TBM
Lancaster
C-47
CV Based
Spit IX
F6f5 (Lendlease)
F4U-1D (Lendlease)
TBM (Lendlease)
GV`s
MKIV
Ostwind
M16
M8
M3
CV`s
LVT2
LVT4
The Setup will give a bit of an advantage to the British until players build up a few perks. Then as the Me262`s come into action, the Germans will start to have an edge. The fact that the Arado is unperked will also give the British side fits...
The Scenario will give players an opportunity to see how the `Monsters` match up against each other. Massed Furballs at 25,000 with Spit XIV`s versus TA-152H`s will be a possibility...
Buzzbait
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"The Arados darkened the British skies like a plague of locusts, and the unfamiliar roar of jet engines was as the voice of doom!" (sorry, but sometimes I wax poetic:D)
Sabre
CT Staff
