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Title: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 16, 2009, 05:43:42 PM
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Only a few days left to register for Coral Sea 2009, an Aces High scenario.  All players are welcome, new players included.  If you haven't played in a scenario yet, come join us for the fun!

Kermit's promo movie for the event:  http://www.lgmcomputers.com/AH/Films/CoralSea.zip

Registration is here:  http://ahevents.org/scenario_registration.html

More info is here:  http://ahevents.org/pacific-theatre/current-or-next-scenario.html

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Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: vonKrimm on July 16, 2009, 05:48:53 PM
Wife ack.   :furious  :cry
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: JunkyII on July 16, 2009, 05:51:17 PM
I finally signed up on the Specail events site and im in the fighters i think  :rock
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Dragon on July 16, 2009, 05:52:44 PM
Wife ack.   :furious  :cry

+1
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: dunnrite on July 16, 2009, 06:07:45 PM
Registered.  I have only been in one scenario (Battle of Tunisia), and was in HB555's squad.  If possible, I would like to remain with him, had a hellofa good time bs-ing during the long bomber runs.

 :salute
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: stodd on July 16, 2009, 06:16:04 PM
My P.O :lol  :D
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Becinhu on July 16, 2009, 06:36:35 PM
I have to work every saturday afternoon.
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: texastc316 on July 16, 2009, 06:38:40 PM
Ill be there. Lotsa folks missing out on one of the best parts of AH
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 16, 2009, 07:36:20 PM
6-minute documentary on the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Lot's of excellent footage from the actual battle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQaMzKwrX-Q
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: CAP1 on July 16, 2009, 08:29:54 PM
is there any such thing as a carrier based p38?  :D

sorry.....i'm doing my damndest to not fly anything else till i master this beast.  :aok
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: FireDrgn on July 16, 2009, 09:53:17 PM
Nothing against the scenario  I really wanted to fly this one ,especially after watching some of the Documentaries on the battles.

RL i promised the kids we would go Geocaching...

<S>  Maybe i can walk on we will see how it goes..
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Flipperk on July 16, 2009, 10:37:18 PM
you advertise kate.....where is it! :noid
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Shuffler on July 16, 2009, 10:38:11 PM
Sounded like fun but switching sides...... not interested.
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Kermit de frog on July 16, 2009, 11:24:49 PM
Sounded like fun but switching sides...... not interested.

Shufflerson, think of it as 2 short scenarios.


Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: zaraza2000 on July 17, 2009, 01:20:53 AM
Can someone explain timings?
If i got it right, frame 1 will last about 4 hours?
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Bodhi on July 17, 2009, 08:17:19 AM
Mid day Saturday's are impossible on the weekends, especially in the summer.
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Stogie on July 17, 2009, 09:33:03 AM
Switching sides turned me off this one
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: mike254 on July 17, 2009, 11:41:33 AM
I'll be there. Nice job on the video Kermit, as always.  :aok
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: CraneMan on July 17, 2009, 11:54:48 AM
Registered and ready to Rock & Roll!!  :rock :rock

 :salute
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Vudak on July 17, 2009, 12:00:39 PM
I'd love to fly with you Brooke, but real life is a real pain sometimes, and committing to a several-frame scenario just doesn't work for me.  I had to withdraw from the last scenario I signed up for and don't want to do that again (it just isn't fair to anyone). 

If I happen to be free, I'd love to sign on as a walk on.  Scenarios are a blast, and if anyone has the spare time but has never tried it, I can't encourage them enough :aok
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 17, 2009, 02:42:21 PM
Switching sides turned me off this one

Sorry -- "side switch" was a typo in the writeup.  Kermit had it right.  It is a 2-frame scenario of the USN vs. the IJN!  You should fly in it.

(By the way, we already have scheduled the scenario after that.  It is a separate, unrelated, 2-frame scenario -- completely different.  In that one, it's the IJN vs. the USN.  I think this other scenario will be fun, too, though.  So I hope you fly in both, but maybe you can make only one.  ;) )
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 17, 2009, 02:50:20 PM
Can someone explain timings?
If i got it right, frame 1 will last about 4 hours?

Show-Up Time (show up at least by then, as arena is locked immediately after that time).
Takeoff = approx. S+30 minutes (gives time for briefings, assignment of walkons, organization).
End of hostilities = T+3 hours (3 hours potentially of fighting).
End of frame = T+3.5 hours (30 minutes to get landed after end of hostilities, which is S+4 hours).
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Shuffler on July 17, 2009, 02:50:59 PM
HAHAHA Brooke and Kermit.... genius   :t
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: detch01 on July 17, 2009, 04:33:42 PM
Just registered - cya's all tomorrow for the beta frame  :aok



asw
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 17, 2009, 07:41:15 PM
The real Battle of Coral Sea was predominantly a 2-day battle:  May 7 and May 8, 1942.

That's what we are modelling here.  Two frames of battle (May 7 and 8).  Then to make a 4-frame scenario, a side switch and replaying May 7 and May 8.

By May 6, both fleets had spotted each other.  On May 7, both launched strikes early. The IJN destroyed the Neosho (an oiler) and sank the Sims (destroyer escorting the Neosho), and the US sank the Shoho.

On May 8, the IJN destroyed the Lexington and damaged the Yorktown, and the US damaged the Shokaku.
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: SIK1 on July 17, 2009, 08:38:30 PM
Just signed up, this will be my first scenario in AH. I flew a couple in AW a long time ago.

When, and how will I find out what my assignment is?

SIK1
Title: Re: What is keeping you from this?
Post by: Brooke on July 17, 2009, 10:06:47 PM
Just signed up, this will be my first scenario in AH. I flew a couple in AW a long time ago.

When, and how will I find out what my assignment is?

SIK1

You'll get briefed before the mission.

Also, you'll get access to the "Coral Sea Team Alpha" or "Coral Sea Team Zulu" forum, where the sides post orders, squadron assignments, and so on.  Folks typcially get access to those forums within a 2-3 days of registering.

And welcome to AH scenarios!  Glad to see you in the skies of Coral Sea!  :aok