New CT Tour starts this Saturday!

[Sabre]

Starting this Saturday around 1900 GMT, a new CT tour will begin.  "Fire in the Sky: War in the Southwest Pacific" will feature the PTO theater, circa 1943.  Fields and plane set will be posted here sometime today.  It is with regret that I must report that the Philippines terrain was not ready in time.  Because of this, we will have to use the Ndisles terrain.  I know, I know...it's not exactly new; however, I've tried to preserve some of the flavor that Invasion of the Philippines was to have.  One third of the map will be neutral.  One third will be Allied, but with no active fields close to enemy-held islands.  The last third will be Japanese.  Their island bases have been selected to loosely resemble the Solomon Islands chain.  Keep in mind that I'm not trying to precisely recreate an actual place and time so much as give people a chance to try historical matchups.

The Allies get two USN carrier groups and one Royal Navy carrier group.  The Japanese get two carrier groups.  Because the initial Allied airbases are a bit far in the rear, they will have to capture some land bases in the Solomons via amphibious assault (or a fairly long-ranged airborne assault) before the Allied land based aircraft can become readily available at the front.

To win, the Allies will have to capture all the enemy bases on the Japanese' HQ island.  This will be checked at midnight EST (0300 GMT).  If the victory conditions are met at that time, the arena will be reset; otherwise the battle continues.

Due to the limited Japanese plane set, I've had to make a couple substitutions.  Please keep an open mind about them regarding gameplay.  Also, even though we are simulating the mid to late 1943 time frame, I've included the N1K2.  It will have a heavy (for the CT, at least) perk value, and will only be available at the two large bases on the Japanese HQ island.  I will keep a close eye on it's usuage and effect on the arena, and will adjust it's cost and availability as necessary.  Again, this is mainly to give the Japanese enough choices to keep it interesting for them.  And yes...the P38 is in there .

[K West]

I'll miss Stalingrad but this should be a good setup too

Thanks for trying. Ndisles will work ok

Westy

[mauser]

Big thank you for the Stalingrad setup, it is awesome

Will now look forward to flying allies more often in the Pacific setups

mauser

[deSelys]

I will fly both sides for sure.

See you in the blue tropical skies

[brady]

Cont me in , I will be flying for the Empire of the Sun:)

[Sabre]

"Fire in the Sky"

Allied Fields: A10, P14, A51, A53, P55, A56, A57, A59, A60, P65, C13, C54, C62

Aircraft/vehicles :
- Seafire, Sea Hurricane (HurrIIC) TBM, LVT available on  C13
- F6F, TBM, LVT available on C54/62
- B17, B26, P38, P47D-11, C47 available at A57 & A59
- SpitV, C47 available at A10/51/53/56/60
- M8, M16, M3, LVT available at all bases

Available at Captured bases:
- Captured sml. A/B: F4U-1, TBM, C47
- Captured med. A/B: Above +  P38, P47, B26, C47
- Captured lrg. A/B: All + B17
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Japanese Fields:
A19, P21, A24, A25, V26, A27, A28, A29, A30, P32, A33, A34, A35, V36, A37, A38, A39, A40, C20, C31

Aircraft/vehicles:
- A6M, TBM, LVT available on C20/31
- N1K2 available at A33/34
- A6M, Ki61, Ki43 (C202), G5M (Ju88), C47 available at all IJ airbases
- M8, M16, M3, LVT available at all bases

Available at Captured bases:
- All captured bases: All except N1K2
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Notes:
- P14 island is neutral except for P14, which is Allied
- P42 is neutral and may not be captured; C41 is may not be attacked
- Other neutral bases may be captured, but no A/C or vehicles are available there
- N1K2 will be perked at 10 points
- B17 will be perked at 10 points

Victory Conditions:
Allies must capture all the bases on the Japanese HQ Island (large island centered on grid 6,8); anything else is a Japanese victory.  Victory conditions will be checked by the CT Team member each midnight (EST).  If the Allies are in possesion of the Japanese HQ island, the arena will be reset.

Sabre
CT Team

[Kronos]

WOOOHOOO 348th FG "Kearby's Thunderbolts" Homeland!!!!!!

Watch out for the P47!!

Any chance we can get wingtanks for this setup?  (Ofcourse, we'll play without them if we cant )Historically the P47 didnt have the range required in the south pacific, so Gen. Kenney had them field modded to add 200 gal drop tanks.


btw "Fire in the Sky" Airwar in the South Pacific is a book by Eric Bergerud.

[Nifty]

You didn't put a Spitfire F. MkVb in this did you?    You did!!!  mmm, more Spitfire goodness...  *drool*

Spit dweebs rejoice!  

[K West]

This is going to be interesting

  Westysan

[Sabre]

Kronos: Yep, great book.  Read it twice myself, and it's a great reference.  Regarding wing tanks, it is not within my power (awsome tho they are:)) to restrict ordnance via arena settings.  So you may use what ever weapons and loadouts (including DTs) that show up on the Hanger clipboard.

I had to put Spits in...I just had too.  Those Zekes have to have a challenge, after all .  I plan to monitor their usage quite closely, and will probably not allow them at captured fields.  They are there to represent the ANZAC forces, and to the best of my knowledge were used primarily in the defense of Australia and New Zealand.  That's why they're at only a couple of rear-area fields.

[Eagler]

you guys forgot the 109's

[Lephturn]

Lemme see... F6F and P-47.  Whee, yep, I'm gonna like this one!

Looks sweet, I'll check it out.

[Nifty]

what I wouldn't give for a Kate or Jill for this setup.  There's just something weird about having to use Avengers for both sides, but a VERY necessary weirdness.  If it goes over well, I'll see about asking to do this in a Special Event (believe me, we WANT to do Pacific stuff, our hands are just really tied with the planeset on the Japanese side.)

Glad to see you interested, Leph.  If I see you on, I'll wing with you in a Hellkittie.    Contrary to popular belief, I will fly something other than Spits.  

Sabre, I like how the Marine Corsairs don't come in unless fields are captured.  Adds a very nice touch.  

[K West]

Two questions if I may based on this, "Other neutral bases may be captured, but no A/C or vehicles are available there"  from the write-up?

1. Will ack fire at Allies and Axis planes from these neutral bases?

2. Even though nothing can spwan from a captured 'neutral' base' will the rearm pads work once a base is captured?  

  Just to keep busy on this slow day I printed Vruth's map on Snefens AH map page and hilighted the Axis and Allied starting bases. and I see much fun.   I wish I could fly this one 24hrs a day for the next week. A lot of interesting tactics and strategy (since there are no "overwhelming numbers" in there) will be need to be employed to kick off the territory taking.  

maps:http://home14.inet.tele.dk/snefens/maps.html

 I think this map and design was well thought out. !

   Westy

[Vermillion]

People are probably gonna yell at me... but .....  

If your gonna perk the N1K2, you should perk the F6F,  for the exact same reasons.

The N1K2 (late 44/early 45)  is the upgraded version of the N1K1 which was available in late 43.  Performancewise, the K2, is about 5 mph faster than the earlier version.

Our Hellcat is the F6F-5, which also wasn't available until 1944.  The version that became available in August of 1943 was the F6F-3.  Wanna guess the performance difference between the -3 and the -5 ?

Five (5) miles per hour.

Fair is fair.