July 18 - France: March 1943

[Mister Fork]

Welcome to England and France, March 1943

Hitler's plan for an invasion of England (Operation SeaLion) has been cancelled. Russia has proven to be a thorn in the side and resources have consumed any chance of landing in the UK for now.  Nightly raids into England have turned into a defence of France.  Italy has sent up several squadrons to support the
Germans at fields 53-57, and from fields 98-102.

England, however, has been preparing for an invasion for almost a year, and it's  nearing the June deadline.  The Americans have just brought out the P-47D-5 (D-11) to support bombing raids into France and Germany.

Arena Settings
Fuel: 1.0
Dar: 35 miles
Dar Alt: 1500ft
Full friendly
Resupply: 10 minutes
Downtimes: AAA - 30 minutes
FH/VH/BH: 20 minutes
Winds: WNW, N, NEN various altitudes
All other CT norms

Axis
Bf 109F-4
Bf 109G-2
Bf 109G-6
Bf 110 G-2
Fw 190 A5
Ju-88A5
Stuka
C.205 (Exchange squad, 53-57,98-102)
C-47
M Series
LVT's on ships
Panzer
Tiger (limited to France only)

Allies
A-20G
B-26B
Boston
C-47
Hurricane IIC&D
Lancaster III
LVT's on ships
M Series
P-47D-11
Panzer
Spitfire V
Spitfire Mk IX
Typhoon

[JensK]

I like the set up!

...but... I got the message "You cant change countries for another 81 minutes".
Is that right?

I would like the opportunity to switch for # balancing reasons.

[Eagler]

Axis
Bf 109F-4

[_Schadenfreude_]

Gosh.....another horde of Spit9's what a surprise!! Such fun!!

[humble]

Spit IX isnt really as much of a threat in the CT enviornment as in the MA. I really didn't have much of a problem with them in 109 (g-2,6). Guessing that it's a numbers issue. In a 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 SA and tactics dont get overloaded as easily and fights are easier to manage. Obviously pilot quality is a part of the equation and an excellent spit driver should have the edge...least it seemed to me that spitty is a bit faster than G-6 at lower alts. I'd be more worried about tiffies:)

[Dennis]

n/t

[JensK]

Could you pls fix the radar so that you see the nme bar dar?
Its so hard to find opposition!
Since the fields are so far apart, it would be nice to have means
of finding the nme.

tnx

[JensK]

Why no nme dar bar over enemy territory?

[brady]

The Fields are not fartehr apart on the larger maps they are the same sized sectors as on anyother map, most all the bases on the France map are withen nornal MA distances 20 to 25 miles, some are a bit farther though but not many.

 The setings Fork will look at when he get's in.

[Slash27]

Was there really a 205 "exchange" squadron?

[Shane]

weren't the p-51b's around?  and weren't there some 38 sqauds operating, albeit p-38f/g's in escort roles?

 n/m  the raf had some Mustang-I's running at the time, but with allison engines...   38's arrived later.

here's an interesting quote, tho'

"The newly-arrived Mustang was quickly recognized as being the best fighter aircraft yet to be delivered from the USA. It was found to be superior to the Kittyhawk, Airacobra and Spitfire in both speed and maneuverability at low altitudes. Maximum speed was 382 mph at 13,000 feet. The armament of four 0.50-inch and four 0.30-inch machine guns was heavy and effective. Handling was excellent. The range was nearly double that of any RAF single-engined fighter. It was 25 to 45 mph faster than the Spitfire V at altitudes up to 15,000 feet. The problem was the rapid fall-off in performance at altitudes above 15,000 feet, caused by its low-altitude Allison engine. This was more than just a minor deficiency, since most aerial combat over Europe at that time was taking place at medium to high altitudes. Consequently, it was decided that the Mustang I could be best used for low-level tactical reconnaissance and ground attack, where full advantage could be taken of its exceptional low-altitude performance."

http://www.simtechflightdesign.com/showHistory.php?ID=P-51

[Mister Fork]

It's all fixed for now.  For some reason, the arena table settings got ALL messed up. Every value was set to 0. Weird.  Rebooted it and reset arena table values, presto - working like a charm.

Yes, there were exchange squadrons in WWII.

[Miska]

That wasn't exactly slash's question.

[brady]

No their were no 205 exchange squadrons but it is a decent excuse to add this rarely and much loved plane in to another CT set up, espichaly a slightly A-Historical set like we have hear, one that looks to be very fun indead, I think Fork did a good job on this one. The Germans did howeraver use some 205's after Italy fell, then later on the ANR used them as well.

[Slash27]

With this not being Italy the 205 seems out of place to me.  



Thanks for the link Shane.