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Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Sabre on March 21, 2002, 01:16:08 PM

"Never before...have so many owed so much to so few."

By popular demand, the CT is proud to present “The Battle of Britain.” This is essentially a war of attrition, with the simplest of victory conditions…whichever side destroys more enemy aircraft over the course of the week wins! This will be determined by examining the tour stats and simply counting up the number of each aircraft type destroyed. We are providing each side the basic means to allow base capture, not as a determination of victory, but as a means to tactically influencing the battle. Because the field layouts make it impossible to prevent ground vehicle spawning, it won’t be easy to capture contested bases. The normal v1.09 strat system will be disabled, as this terrain lacks the essential elements to make it run (trains and convoys). Field object rebuild time will be set to approximately 20 minutes, except for hangers which will remain at 15 minutes.

NOTE: PLANES WILL NOT BE ENABLED AT CAPTURED FIELDS. Thus, capturing enemy fields gives your side a refuel and re-arm point, but will not provide a jumping off point to continue your advance. Hence, capturing fields is mostly a case of denying the enemy a base of operation.

Radar: Dot-dar and bar-dar will be set to 50 miles, with radar detection altitude from 500 feet and up. Update rate will be once a minute.
Icons: CT normal (short)
Fuel-burn rate modifier: 1.3
Fleet re-spawn time: Two hours (so be careful with them!)

Order of Battle –

Great Britain

Bases: All bases and ports on the British Isles, three CV battle groups (CVBG)
Aircraft/vehicles: Spit-I, Hurricane-I, TBM (generic strike aircraft), C-47, M-8, M-3 available at all land bases. Hurricane-I, LVT(2), PT available from CVBG. PT available from ports.

Germany
Bases: All bases on continental Europe, plus one CVBG (no A/C enabled).
Aircraft/vehicles: Bf109E-4, Bf110C-4b, Ju88, C-47, M-8, M-3 available from all land bases. LVT(2) and PT available from CVBG.
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Some will no doubt disapprove of the inclusion of the TMB, but the CT Team felt it important to give the RAF at least a token strike capability.  The Ju88 was considered as a substitute for the Wellington or Blenheim, but felt it would hurt the immersion factor more to see a German plane flown by Great Britain than it would to see the TBM (out of place and time, but at least England operated them).  It is not meant to represent any particular aircraft.  Its speed, load out, and armament are however reasonably representative of Bomber Command's and Coastal Command's resources at the time.

Please note again that captured fields will only have A/C or vehicles enabled for the original owners.  This, in combo with the short rebuild times and GV spawn anomaly (i.e. can't destroy GV spawing at fields) should make capturing enemy fields very difficult to do, and even harder to keep.  The inclusion of the British CV's with Hurricanes is for play balance, as the British have less than half the number of airfields in the Dover area as the Germans do in Calais.  Hope that explains some of our thinking on the set up.  Hope everyone enjoys it.

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: delta on March 21, 2002, 01:38:50 PM

Sabre,

Looking forward to this one.

Let's work on getting the Bucs to make their presence known.:cool:

Gonzo

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: popeye on March 21, 2002, 01:44:37 PM

Sounds great, Sabre.  I'm especially interested to see how the low update rate works for dar.  Thanks for your effort!

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: keyapaha on March 21, 2002, 02:01:26 PM

sounds good cant wait  looks like ill be bombing all week in my ju88  be interesting to see how durabale it is against non cannon armed planes.

   i definitly like the attrition factor for the victory:cool:

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Nifty on March 21, 2002, 03:08:42 PM

Sabre, what are the chances of making the BoB setup starting Friday night?  With the TODs out of commission due to Invasion Sicily and no snapshot in place of the Friday night TOD, a BoB CT setup might be appealing to a great number of the normal TOD participants.  Could have a fantastic turnout if the setup is in place by 10 pm ET on Friday night.    It's only half a day sooner than you'd normally set it up anyways!   :D

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Sabre on March 21, 2002, 03:45:30 PM

Good point, Niffty.  Let me check with Pyro and see if he's available at a mutually convenient time on Friday.

Sabre

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Nifty on March 21, 2002, 05:18:58 PM

Thx Sabre!  

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Raubvogel on March 21, 2002, 05:58:55 PM

Hell yeah! I'm suffering from TOD withdrawal. Friday night sounds like a winner.

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Oldman731 on March 22, 2002, 02:32:40 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Raubvogel
Friday night sounds like a winner.

Agreed.

- Oldman

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Steven on March 22, 2002, 08:04:12 PM

<<Bases: All bases on continental Europe, plus one CVBG (no A/C enabled).
Aircraft/vehicles: Bf109E-4, Bf110C-4b, Ju88, C-47, M-8, M-3 available from all land bases. LVT(2) and PT available from CVBG. >>>

I personally couldn't find a single JU88 enabled anywhere.  I'm not sure if this is an oversight or my machine is burping on the setup.

Title: BoB comes to the CT this Weekend
Post by: Sabre on March 23, 2002, 09:03:56 PM

Oversite on my part.  Hblair saved the day by enabling Ju88's at all German fields.

Sabre
CT Staff