Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Axis vs Allies => Topic started by: Mister Fork on December 04, 2003, 11:31:58 PM
-
FINLAND - RUSSIA (WINTER)
JATKOSOTA 1941-1944
(CONTINUATION WAR 1941-1944)
This is a historical Eastern Front map between Finland and Russia. The current time is February 1944.
The bombing of Helsinki in February 1944 was an attempt by the Soviet Union to get Finland ask for peace quickly and with harsh terms so it could concentrate on the southern fronts alone. The attempt failed however and Helsinki survived the allied terror bombing with minimal losses compared other axis cities in Italy and Germany.
This February bombing campaign consisted of three big raids in 10 day intervals on 6th, 16th and 26th of February. The bomber force attacking
Helsinki was part of the so called "Soviet long range airforces", ADD (Aviatsiya Dalnego Deistviya). It had a strength of 25 air regiments,
500-600 bombers.
During those three February nights this force made 2000 sorties dropping 20000 bombs. About 5% of the bombs hit the city itself. Casualties were 149 civilians killed and 356 wounded. 109 buildings were destroyed and 325 damaged. Soviet losses were about 28 bombers shot down.
Helsinki suffered relatively small losses thanks to fairly modern anti aircraft artillery equipped with fire control radars. Radio intelligence
also played an important role. Twelve Bf109G-6/R6 night fighters from I/JG 302 also participated the defence of Helsinki during the last two
nights of the offensive.
Source: "ILMATORJUNTAVOITTO 1944, HELSINKI PELASTUI"
FIELDS SETUP:
* Bishops (Russian) fields are fields 1 - 38.
* Germany (Rooks) fields are 39-53 in the Lapland, 68 (Pori) in the Western Finland and 75-76 in the Estonia.
* Finnish (Rooks) fields are 54-67 and 69-74.
* From Finnish field 70 (Helsinki/Malmi) you can fly also Germany Bf 109 G6 Night fighters.
* Fields 77-79 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. In the rear fields both fighters and bombers are enabled.
* In the winter time all the fleets are in the harbours and not usable.
ROOKS/FINLAND AIRPLANES SETUP:
* Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-2 ("Mersu")
* FM2 Wildcat (actually Brewster Model 239 "Bylly Waltteri")
* Hurricane Mk I
* 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 109 G-6 ("Gustav")
* Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4b
* Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-2
* Focke Wulf Fw 190A-5
* 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)
WINTER SKINS AND TEXTURES:
* All airplane's and GV's skins by Kanttori except couple of Russian planes by Kweassa, Ramzey and Dux. Winter textures by Dux and Kanttori. Clipboard map by Dux. Historical backgrounds, old photos and airplane profile pictures catching by WMaker.
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
* The dark night time lasts one hour giving chance to night bombing raids and night fighter's action.
HINTS AND TIPS:
* Ice on the lakes is actually whitewashed water, so you can do only emercengy landings there.
* 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 sure 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 snow 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 field icons 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.
-
pardon me while i do the snoopy dance around my den! :D
-
YAY! Finruskia! woooooooooooooooooooohooooooo!
-
Oh ya this will be entertaining and qualifies for my request for a mediocre planeset!
Question when are we going to do this setup with late war planes? Everytime I see it it is always same planeset. Lets see the LA7, YAK9U, 109G10, and 190D9!
-
Originally posted by scJazz
Lets see the LA7, YAK9U, 109G10, and 190D9!
lets not.
:D
-
So lets bring up at some point "The Last Days of Lufwaffe" setup I have purposed. ;) we will have all late war planes :aok
-
I agree with Jazz.For someone to put this map up and a set of JANKY prettythang planez is just not right.Makes you think"How do people get a job doing this".Dude just doesn,t like the 7 or the G-10 or what?
-
hooray!!!
man i love this setup. please run it 2 weeks please!!! just remove the goons and m3 and it would be perfect.
-
OK I take it back found something I don't like about the setup. There is a night time :( Turn it off!
-
Woohooo! Excellent map choice, my man.. excellent choice.
Though, I agree with the people going late war.... Lets do it again sometime, really. ;)