Current Mission: 15th September 1940, Battle of Britain Day
Dawn start: 4am sunrise.
Red: United Kingdom
Blue: Germany & Italy
Red are on defence, defending the skies over UK and defending London & RAF bases under attack.
Blue on the attack, attacking RAF bases and London and fighting for dominance of the skies.
Red have 5 spawn locations Blue have 4. All usable aircraft are available on both sides at all spawn points.
The mission is based upon the 15th September 1940 know as Battle of Britain Day. One of the busiest days of the war and often seen as the day it turned in Britain's favour.
Quote:
Day 68 – 15th September 1940
Weather: fine
Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0600 hours:
Blenheim – 47
Spitfire – 192
Hurricane – 389
Defiant – 24
Gladiator – 8
Total – 660
Weather wise this was finally the opportunity the Luftwaffe had been waiting for. Accordingly, in mid-morning the radar along the south coast picked up evidence of mass raids which duly appeared over southern England heading for London. All three groups, 10, 11 and 12 in southern England now played their part in intercepting the incoming armada. There were no less than 30 squadrons who were engaged in intercepting and contesting the progress of this vast fleet of German bombers. Furthermore, the latter was accompanied by a very strong force of Me109s. Naturally, despite the aerial battles which developed, substantial damage was done to London.
Reported Casualties (RAF Campaign Diary 15th September1940):
* Enemy: 186confirmed, 42 probable, 72 damaged
* Own: 25 aircraft with 13 pilots killed or missing.
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Current script running.
Script calls from a pool of sub missions that are loaded every 35 minutes. The script randomly selects from the pool but does not choose the presently running sub mission to avoid mission repeat. (Presently there are 3 missions in the pool). I intend to have 6+ and have this mission run for long periods as a perpetual on-line war scenario.
The script also calls 2 submissions that have a delay of 10 & 30 minutes respectively and are repeated every 60 minutes.
So there are 5 sub missions in the current mission. These overlap and i hope they give a busy(ish) sky. I don't want it too busy while i test fps, but presently the server is silky smooth.
The scripts removes crashed & abandoned aircraft.
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If you are one of the 1st few on the server go red: i.e British.
As there are a series of raids by German & Italian bombers and you will see more action. You can have a lot of fun playing the mission as a coop if you want.
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Special thanks to Ataros for the scripts help and anyone else who has been helpful!