Here's updated information from Summer FinRus (Sabre, I know you busy now)
FINLAND - RUSSIA
JATKOSOTA 1941-1944
(CONTINUATION WAR 1941-1944)
Summer FinRus is a historical Eastern Front map between Finland and Russia. The current time is June 1944 and the Russian's GREAT OFFENSIVE against Finland has just begun on the Karelian Isthmus near Leningrad and Viipuri towns.
FIELDS SETUP:
* Bishops (Russian) fields are fields 1 - 38 and fleets 77 and 78.
* Germany (Rooks) fields are 39-53 in the Lapland, 68 in the western Finaland and 75-76 in the Estonia. They have fleet 79, too.
* Finnish (Rooks) fields are 54-67 and 69-74 and they have fleet 80.
* Field 72 is both Lappeenranta (Finns) and Immola (Germans), because they were so near each other. From there you can fly all the Finnish and Germany planes.
* Fields 81-83 are Knights (Sweden) and there are no planes available.
* All the Ports have airfields and all the setup planes are available from there, too.
* All the frontline fields are only for the fighters. Rear fields are for the bombers and the fighters, too.
ROOKS/FINLAND AIRPLANES SETUP:
* Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 ("Mersu")
* Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 ("Tykkimersu")
* Hurricane Mk I
* FM2 Wildcat (actually Brewster Model 239 "Bylly Waltteri")
* Junkers Ju88A-4 ("Junnu")
* Douglas C-47A (actually Douglas DC-2 "Hanssin Jukka")
ROOKS/GERMANY AIRPLANES SETUP:
* Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 ("Friedrich")
* Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4b
* Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-2
* Focke Wulf Fw 190A-5
* Focke Wulf Fw F-8
* Junkers Ju87D-3 ("Stuka")
* Junkers Ju88A-4
* Douglas C-47A (actually Junkers Ju-52 "Tante-Ju")
BISHOPS/RUSSIA AIRPLANES SETUP:
* Lavochin La-5FN ("Lavochka")
* Yak-9T ("Tankoviy")
* Hurricane Mk II C (actually Mk II B)
* Curtiss P-40B ("Tomahawk")
* Curtiss P-40E ("Warhawk")
* Ilyushin Il-2 Type 3
* Boston III
* Douglas C-47A (actually Li-2 under licence)
SPECS:
* Fuel Burn is set at 1.5
* Down time is set at 30 min for field objects and guns
* All other variables per CT norms
HINTS AND TIPS:
* All the airfields are historical. The little "Backwoods Airfields" don't have normally runaways and hangers. They have plane dugouts, but they react like hangers and need the same amount of bombs to destroy (1250 kg or 2500 lb). The Rearm pad is other side of the field opposite of the tower.
* Be worth to shoot the trucks and the little fuel barrels in enemy fields, too! For ex. in the trucks are fuel, ammo, troops or even Vodka :-)
* When you are landing to "Backwoods Airfield" you can stop everywhere on the open sand-grass area in the centre of the field and middle of the trees. Be cautious with the trees when landing and taking off! :-)
* The airfileds are marked with a little black crosses to the Clipboard map. Cities and Factories are marked with a little black squares. Ground Vehicle entries are marked with little gray points. You don't need to always keep the red and green guidange lights on!
* There are 14 Tank Battle (TB) Villages near the frontline. They are marked with a red striped circles on the map. The owner of the TB Village is always the nearest airfield. You can stop your tank safe in the middle of the village. In the TB Villages are three 20-30 mm acks and one of them is mannable.
* You can see there are some bridges. They are bombable objects with no affect on gameplay and owned by the nearest airfields. You can't drive with GV's over the bridges.
SOME HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
* In Northern Finland (called Lapland), Norway and Estonia there were Germans, because Finland and Germany had a common enemy in 1941 - 1944.
* Finland didn't support any political views that were affecting in Germany at the time. The only reason Finland fought beside Germany was the common enemy, Soviet Union.
* The blue svastika sign on Finnish planes is an old symbol from Swedish Count VonRosen, who presented the first aeroplane to Finnish Air Forces (FAF) in 1918. As you can see, that was many years before the nazis affected in Germany. Nowadays FAF national insignia is a blue/white roundel similar to Finnish military cocarde.
* The Continuation War ended in 4th of September 1944. Both FAF's fighter pilots and bomber crews made honourable work during those hard day's like all the Finnish 500 000 Soldiers in the front lines. All the Finnish Virtual Pilots like to thank them all for their heroic deeds during the whole Continuation War.
