Campaign Command Style

[5./JG27.Farber]

I was about to ask if anyone had any RAF bombing data for te RAF Where there no daylight bombings of coastal airfields by the RAF? I thought there were.


Some radar reading: - see page 39 in particular.
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/download...C0609F97-3.pdf



As for radar, there will be some active Home Chain Stations, around 4 on any given map for the British. 0 for the german. However for both sides surely there should also be some kind of observer corps...

Last week end we flew against 56 RAF as part of a once a fortnght campaign composed of three missions and put some of these things into practice... The British radar works, albeit it not comprehensively. Although it also gives too much information for example aircraft type... It also never picks up false contacts... Like a large flight of large birds nor is it interfered with by atmospheric conditions. I let the 56 RAF make the air mission and loaded it onto our map with scripting without even looking at it, they were on the attack escorting 4 wellingtons. They had flown virtually around the map in a big circle and we didnt get a message via the game as to the position for over 50 mins! So the fact the vote seems to be for scripted rather than a C in C at this point is good.

One way to simulate this would be to use the bf108 and the anson for inland spotting... I dislike the use of triggers as they are a bit too automatic... Not to mention allot more scripting in a script that is complicated enough.

If anything the RAF have an advantage. They will have radar however both sides still need an artificial AOC... Home Chain stations could only look out, not in to England.


We are also hoping to have whether in the next campaign depending on the fps issues and ctd. This also adds new elements to spotting aircraft!


Its interesting that we are looking at scoring it. Ive just finished reading Mike Spicks book, Luftwaffe fighter Aces. At the end its very interesting, he asks who was the greatest LW fighter ace? Now allot of people will say Hartmann, some will say Marseille, Woerner Molders, Adolf Galland, Barkhorn...etc etc But what is the true measure? Is it just total victories? Victories per sortie? Who got the most fighters/bombers? It is impossible to declare one the greatest.

So for example blue are going to bomb england and red goes soley for the objective, red shoot down every bomber but get mauled in the process. Who is the victor? Air wars are wars of attrition. We could total up the stats at the end and say red shot down more aircraft but blue compleated all their objectives. Who was the victor? You could then further complicate it by asking further - which team took the most material losses? Tanks cost more than fighter aircraft, ships cost a LOT more... I say we let the stats do the talking, see if it comes out clear but I doubt it will.


Would be nice to hear from some LW squadrons about now, its 3 against 1!

[Osprey]

I don't have any bombing info but there were daylight raids only they were unescorted in the BoB. In the FoF they frequently were escorted, according to my limited knowledge on this. Many of the raids were at night though.

Certainly with the RDF we shouldn't have details on the types, it should be approximate numbers, location and heading, that's it. OC should be quite delayed as the information takes time to process.

I'm not concerned with scoring although I wouldn't want a situation where we 'lose' aircraft types because that isn't historical. The RAF got short on pilots, not aircraft.