Today is anniversay of Coral Sea -please join us at 8:30 pm Eastern for battle

[Brooke]

Join us to commemorate the Battle of the Coral Sea, which ended on May 8, 1942.  Runs at 8:30 pm Eastern in Special Events II arena.  All are welcome to play.  Unlimited-life event.
 
Coral Sea was one of the most-important naval battles between the allies and Japan. It was the first major naval battle following the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the world's first carrier-vs-carrier battle, and was the first battle between Japan and the US where the US was not routed.
 
The carriers in the battle were the USS Lexington and Yorktown, both fleet carriers, and on the IJN side, the fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku and the light carrier Shoho. Lexington and Shoho were sunk, and Yorktown and Shokaku were heavily damaged.
 
As a result of the battle, Japan cancelled its invasion of Port Moresby, which it desired as a staging point for an invasion of Australia.
 

[Brooke]

Objective: Kill enemies and sink enemy ships.
 
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 7-minute span. It says "Your max deaths have been exceeded" until you can fly again.
 
Allies (Bishops):
 -- F4F-4 (no DT's, no bombs, no 6 mg's), TBM-3 (torpedo only), SBD-5.
 -- Two carriers.
 -- c32 and c33 start in 10.8.
 
Axis (Knights):
 -- A6M2 (no bombs), B5N2 (torpedo only), D3A1.
 -- Three carriers.
 -- c57 and c58 start in 11.11.
 -- c59 starts in 10.11.
 
Auto ack lethality turned way, way down -- be aware auto ack won't save you.
All ships require 20,000 lbs of damage each to sink.
 No radar or sector counters.
 No 5" guns or quad 40 mm.
 So, torpedo bombers have a chance vs. ack.
 One torpedo does 4650 lbs of damage.
 Ships stay down once sunk.
 Cruisers have no 8" guns.
 Destroyed objects stay down (no respawn).

Points:
 -- 1 point per kill of an enemy.
 -- 50 points per enemy ship sunk.
 
Side split 50/50.

Arena Settings:
 Terrain = coralsea
 ArenaFlags = 5177
CountryChangeTime = 0
 DeathMaxCount = 2
 DeathTimeMin = 7
 DownTimeMult = 190
 ExitWhileMoving = 508
 FlightModeFlags = 5248
 FuelBurnRateMult = 1.0
 GroundAutoLethality[Armored] = 0.02
 GroundAutoLethality[Hard] = 0.02
 GroundAutoLethality[Soft] = 0.02
 ObjectHardnessMults[SHP] = 2.96
 RadarMode = 48 (disable friendly counters, disable enemy counters)
ResetAirFieldCnt = 1
ResetTotalFieldCnt = 1
 StratFlags = 1
TaskGroupCommandCnt = 6
 TaskGroupRespawnTime = 360

Object Settings:
 Ship, Hardness = 6.76
 Destroy 5" and quad 40 mm (".det f32baa 1"; ".det f32bat 1"; and so on).
 
Weapons settings:
F4F-4:  disable drop tanks, bombs, 6 mg's
TBM:  disable bombs and rockets.
A6M2:  disable bombs.
B5N:  disable bombs.
 
Battle area:

[Brooke]

This will run in Special Events II arena.  (I mistakenly posted the wrong arena originally.)

[Slash27]

Was good times, thanks.

Nice job Stokes. Show off.

[BaldEagl]

Wish I'd have been home from work before 10:30 central.

[Brooke]

We had 92 players -- thanks for flying, folks! <S>

It was a lot of fun, and there were many excellent fights and action.

Logs are up here (in the "TDI" section):  http://ahevents.org/event-logs.html

Results:

allies
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kills = 120
ships sunk = 0
points = 120

axis
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kills = 87
ships sunk = 2
points = 187

Axis wins.

[Brooke]

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