Kanalkampf to Blitz

An Ace High™ Target for Today

Version 1.0

Please read “Dates and Times” and “Main Rules” sections.

Dates and Times  

Click here for registration.  Please register for the event if you can play at least 1 Phase.

If you can’t play in at least 1 Phase, you can still show up as a walkon (unregistered player) on the day of the event.

Battles/Frames:

• TBD

Please show up at or before 12 PM US Eastern time in Special Events 2 arena -- the arena will lock after that. (For how that translates to your time, here is a time converter.)  End of frame will be nominally at 9 PM US Eastern time.

Setting

This event encompasses three major phases of the Battle of Britain: the Kanalkampf, Adler Tag, and the London Blitz. The squadrons chosen for this event are squadrons that took part in all three phases of the battle. The squadrons are also based at their historically accurate bases within 11 Group and Luftlotte 2. The squadrons chosen coordinated together in the battle and will do so again in this simulated event.

Main Rules

• Lives:

• Pilots get unlimited lives.
• At frame end, the logs are closed, and there are no further points awarded or subtracted.  Pilots can fly until the end of logs, after which they can land as they see fit.
• You can man a gun at any time (for bomber or ground gun), and deaths in guns don't count to your life total.

• Altitude:
• There is a downwind at 20k.  (You can fly into the downwind if you wish, but staying in it will sap your speed.)
• Level bombers (He 111’s and Ju 88’s) have a max altitude of 14k and a min altitude of 3k (except if damaged and going back to base, in which case pilot can fly lower if he chooses).

Maps

Phase One

Boxes are available airfields for launch.  Yellow line is the path of fleets for the Phase. The Northern fleet will not be a target until T+120. Individual ships will respawn within the fleet every 20 minutes.

Phase Two

Boxes are available airfields. Red stars are Target airfields. Hangars are objectives, a maximum of two destroyed hangars per pilot will be scored per sortie.

Phase Three

Boxes are available airfields. Red star is the target City. Destroying at least one City Building counts as a Successful Drop.

Victory Conditions

If your side fails to do this within the Phase, it will get no points at all for that Phase:

• Bomber group (Ju 87, He 111, Ju 88) must Attempt at least two Bombing Missions.

“Attempt” means to complete the Mission or either die trying or jettison ordnance because of enemy in icon range.

• One “Bombing Mission” is  to launch with bombs, travel toward a Target, drop bombs and/or rockets on a Target, and land back at a base if still alive.
• Luftwaffe MUST attempt 2 Bombing Missions with Ju 87D in Phase One against Ships.

Phase Scoring:Phase One will be scored with points. Phases Two and Three will be a                Win/Lose objective for the Axis.

                Phase One:

• +1 per kill.
• +2 per Destroyed Ship.

                Phase Two:

                Luftwaffe must destroy 20 Hangars.

                Phase Three:

                Luftwaffe must score 13 Successful Drops on London.

• For level-bomber pilots:

•  Points are acquired by destroying Ships in Phase One; Fighter, Bomber, and Vehicle Hangars at Target airfields in Phase Two; City Buildings in Phase Three. A maximum of two (2) Hangars will be scored per sortie. This is to say that a bomber pilot may only receive points for destroying 2 hangars per flight (Takeoff and Land/Die).
• “Successful Drop on London” means to destroy one or more City Building objects at the City in 9.12.9.

Winner of a Phase is the side with the most points.  Winner of the Scenario is the side that wins the most Phases. If there is a tie in one Phase, the winner will be the side with the most aggregate points.

Targets

Targets for each side are as follows in the boxes on the map:

• Hangars (fighter, bomber, vehicle)
• Ships (destroyers and cruisers)
• City Buildings

Note on targets:  Downtimes of hangars are 30 minutes. Manned Guns (37mm, 88mm, 17 lb. AT gun, and guns on Ships) will remain destroyed for the entire Phase. Autoack ground guns (at fields, towns, and flak towers) will respawn in 4 minutes. City Buildings will respawn in 20 minutes. Ships will respawn in 20 minutes.

Luftwaffe Order of Battle

22 Fighters, 10 Bombers: 32 Total

In Phase One: St.G 1 will fly Ju 87D ONLY.

In Phase Two: KG 1 will fly He 111 ONLY.

In Phase Three: KG 1 will fly Ju 88 ONLY.

RAF Order of Battle

26 Fighters

*See Designer Notes

Moving Around Pilots

CO's may split groups up into separate flights and send them on separate missions as they see fit.

CO's may assign walkons as they see fit up to the limit of slots available.  If there are more walkons than spots available, RAF may overfill in either aircraft and Axis can overfill Bf 109E-4’s.

CO's may move registered pilots to different aircraft if the registered pilots are willing.  But if a registered pilot wants to keep the plane he is registered for, he must be allowed to stay in that plane.

Items of Note

Please get your people into the appropriate named squads.  Useful squad dot commands that can be used from your text radio buffer:

• .sqdaccept [gameID] -- What you type to accept an         invite into a squad.
• .sqdwithdraw -- What you type to withdraw from whatever squad you are in.  Useful to do if you are having problems getting into a new squad.  Withdraw, then get a new invite and accept.
• .sqddecline [gameID] -- Decline a squad join request.
• .sqdeject GameID -- Eject a player from the squad.
• .sqdinvite [gameID] -- Sends squad invite while in         flight.
• .sqdname [SquadName] -- Rename squad, updates the roster.  Can be useful to get someone into your sqaud if having trouble.
• .sr -- display squad members.

Settings

Designer Notes

Disabled weapons

• Bomb on Bf 109E-4 and Bf 110C-4
• Torpedoes on He 111H
• 1800Kg and 1000Kg bombs on Ju 87D and He 111H

Details

• Terrain: BoB
• Wind: 45 mph downwind at 20k.
• Clouds: Light to medium scattered clouds.
• Radar and Sector Counters: No radar or sector counters below 1000 ft.  Sector counters above 1000 ft.
• Ack: Auto ack will be turned way down, to 0.1.

• ArenaFlags =
• BomberWarningRange = 26,400 (5 miles)
• CommunicationFlags =
• CountryChangeTime = (no changing of countries once started)
• ExitWhileMoving =
• FighterWarningRange = 26,400 (5 miles)
• FlightModeFlags =
• FogLoFarMiles = 12.0
• FogLoNearMiles = 1.0
• FuelBurnRateMult = 1.0
• GroundAutoLethality[Armored] = 0.10
• GroundAutoLethality[Hard] = 0.10
• GroundAutoLethality[Soft] = 0.10
• RadarMode = (counters above radar, range-based counters)
• RadarUpdateRate = 90
• SectorCounterAlt = 1000
• SectorCounterRange = 211,200 (40 miles)
• TowerBasedRadarRange = 211,200 (40 miles)
• StratFlags = 1

• Arm auto gun, down time = 600, hardness = 0.02 (gna, ship 5” autoack, flak tower puffy ack)
• Auto gun, down time = 4 (gng, ground autoack 30 mm, ship autoack 20 mm)
• Bmbr hgr, down time = 30, hardness = 1.0
• Bunk ammo, down time = 30
• Bunk barracks, down time = 30
• Bunk fuel, down time = 30
• Bunk radar, down time = 30
• Ftr hgr, down time = 30, hardness = 1.0
• Gun bat, down time = 600 (bat)
• Gun bat armor, down time = 600 (baa)
• Gun bat soft, down time = 600 (bas, manned ack ground and ship)
• Hard auto gun, down time = 4 (gnh, autoack ship, flak tower normal ack)
• Veh hgr, downtime = 30, hardness = 1.0
• Ship downtime = 20, hardness = 0.4

CM Items

MOTD

Welcome to the Target for Today "Kanalkampf to Blitz"!

To play, please show up by 12 PM Eastern on Saturday.

If you are not registered, you are welcome to play,

but please stay in country Rook until you are assigned

to a side.

Pilots get unlimited lives.

Credits

Scenario design: perdweeb and Scenario CM Team

Game-day CM:  Brooke

Change Log

v0.5, 4/28/2022

-- First draft.

v0.6, 5/10/2022

– Added setting, changed squadron names, added designer notes, adjusted radar ranges.

V1.0, 5/18/2022

– Changed squadron names, published to public.

V1.1, 5/25/2022

– Changed hardness of ships to 800.