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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Brooke on March 07, 2013, 12:34:25 AM
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Join us to commemorate the Siege of Malta. March 7, 1942 was the date Spitfires first arrived to shore up the desperate British defense of Malta.
The small island of Malta played an extremely important role in WWII. It was an ideal base for British airpower to attack axis supply shipping headed to North Africa. The axis knew this, and there were ferocious battles for control of the island, with the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica hurling their aerial might against tenacious, desperate RAF defense. It was a close thing, with the RAF defenders nearly being annihilated on several occasions. Had Malta fallen, the supply to and battles in North Africa could have gone quite differently.
On March 7, 1942, Spitfire reinforcements arrived from the carrier HMS Eagle. It marked the first overseas deployment of Spitfires and the beginning of a series of such vital aircraft-carrier reinfocements of Malta.
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Welcome to This Day in WWII: the Siege of Malta!
All are welcome to play.
Runs twice on March 7th, in Special Events II arena at:
-- 3 pm Eastern Time, and
-- 10:30 pm Eastern Time
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Objective: Kill enemies, sink enemy ships, and destroy enemy ground objects.
Event duration: 2 hours, but play as much or as little as you want of that.
Unlimited lives, but arena enforces at most 2 deaths in any 5-minute span. It says "Your max deaths have been exceeded" until you can fly again.
Allies (Bishops):
-- Hurricane IIC, Spitfire V, Boston III (for balance), Wirblewind (for field defense).
-- Planes enabled at Malta fields (a176, a177, a178), and Spit V at c5.
-- Wirblewind enabled everywhere on land.
Axis (Knights):
-- Bf 109F-4, C.202, Ju 88A-4, Ju 87D-3, Wirblewind (for field defense).
-- Planes enabled at a161, a167, and a171 (south coast of Sicily).
-- Wirblewind enabled everywhere on land.
CV's require 20,000 lbs of damage each to sink, CA's and DD's are 5000.
Ships stay down once sunk.
No dot radar is available -- only sector counters.
Ammo Bunkers stay down 10 minutes after destruction.
Ships do not have 8", 5", or quad 40 mm.
Lethality of auto ack turned way down.
Points:
-- 1 point per kill of an enemy.
-- 0.2 point per ground object destroyed.
-- 10 points per enemy ship sunk.
Side split 50/50.
Arena Settings:
Terrain = italy
ArenaFlags = 5166
CountryChangeTime = 0
DeathMaxCount = 2
DeathTimeMin = 5
ExitWhileMoving = 508
FlightModeFlags = 5248
FuelBurnRateMult = 1.0
GroundAutoLethality[Armored] = 0.02
GroundAutoLethality[Hard] = 0.02
GroundAutoLethality[Soft] = 0.02
ObjectHardnessMults[SHP] = 2.5
RadarMode = 0
StratFlags = 1
TaskGroupCommandCnt = 10
TaskGroupRespawnTime = 360
Object Settings:
Bunk Ammo, Down Time = 10
Ship, Down Time = 360
Gun Bat, Down Time = 360
Gun Bat Armor, Down Time = 360
Gun Bat Soft, Down Time = 360
Hard Gun Bat, Down Time = 360
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Are you flying in "Malta" Brooke? :old:
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Are you flying in "Malta" Brooke? :old:
Absolutely. Not only that, but after frame 1, three of us from the scenario went to the local British pub to recount our tales of bravery. I got a pie and a pint of Newcastle (in your honor!).
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Your awesome Brooke :)
Bruv flying in Spit V and using his "Rod of Iron" on everyone :cry
He demands I toe the line :cry
Its quite shocking really :old:
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Is there any particular problem why there is not a GMT time reference. If so, I’ am willing to help you out.
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Absolutely. Not only that, but after frame 1, three of us from the scenario went to the local British pub to recount our tales of bravery. I got a pie and a pint of Newcastle (in your honor!).
That would have been awesome.
:cheers: :salute
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Is there any particular problem why there is not a GMT time reference. If so, I’ am willing to help you out.
I'll put it in the future. 3 pm Eastern US is 8 pm GMT.
By the way, last week, I met Spiros Pisanos (the "Flying Greek") who was born and grew up in Athens. He flew Spitfires for the RAF and P-47's and P-51's for USAAF and ended the war with 10 kills. He also survived a crash landing of his P-51 while he had 1 foot in his cockpit and one foot on the wing of the plane at the point that the wingtip touched the ground. Yikes!
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Wow....I didn't realize the Ottoman Empire had an air force back in 1565! I'm amazed the Knights of Malta held out!
:O
Oh wait.......wrong "Siege of Malta". :D
Slightly off topic...I visited Malta back in 2010 while taking a cruise of the Western Med....absolutely stunning. If you ever have a chance to do so as well I highly recommend it.
Count me in for the 10:30 segment. :aok
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In the UK we have a chocolate called Malteasers, I don't know if they were invented in Malta?
How come the Germans and Italians never took Malta were they poo?
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In the UK we have a chocolate called Malteasers, I don't know if they were invented in Malta?
How come the Germans and Italians never took Malta were they poo?
European Axis partners were never very good at "amphibious" operations....not really their fault....Royal Navy kinda mucked up plans a bit.
Maybe the Japaneese should have sent them some "consultants".
:)
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In the UK we have a chocolate called Malteasers, I don't know if they were invented in Malta?
Mmmm . . . Malteasers. We have them in the US under the name "Whoppers".
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Whoppers?
Is this a colonial trick to hoodwink us in the old country :old:
Its sounds mucky :old:
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Whoppers?
Is this a colonial trick to hoodwink us in the old country :old:
Its sounds mucky :old:
Definitely. The first malted-milk balls were Malteasers (first sold in 1937 by Forrest Mars, Sr.). Next were Whoppers (first sold in 1939). So, not only is it a colonial trick, but Whoppers are merely a knock-off of the ingenious original.
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They were very fun fights. The results were very close, with the axis edging out the allies by just a little bit.
Thank you, all, for flying. <S>
Next month is the Doolittle Raid.
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European Axis partners were never very good at "amphibious" operations....not really their fault....Royal Navy kinda mucked up plans a bit.
There was a joint German/Italian plan to take it with paratroopers backed up by conventional landings, but too many resources got diverted to other fronts and in the end Herr Schicklgruber decided it wasn't worth the risk, especially given how heavy the paratroopers' losses had been on Crete the year before.
Wikipedia has a brief page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Herkules