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A LONG WAY FROM HOME
February 1944. The 8th Air force is building up to what will become known as Big Week
In preparation for the invasion of Europe, the Americans were tasked with destroying the factories and complexes producing fighters and told to also destroy the Luftwaffe in the air
However, the weapon that was the 8th Air force was still growing, and learning how to use that weapon still being developed
The principle bomber escort fighters, P47’s had only started to use pressurized auxiliary fuel tanks in September 43 P38’s had only arrived in England in October
The blind bombing radar H2X, enabling some kind of accuracy when bombing through solid cloud, was first used by pathfinders in November
The fighter that was to become the key to large daylight raids deep into Germany, the P51, had only just been introduced in December
The defensive armament of the bombers themselves was being developed, and the introduction of the B17-G, with extra forward facing guns in a chin turret, only happening in December also
The image shows a typical situation of this air war: the bombers of 381st BG, at an altitude of 20,000ft, with an air temperature of –32C, being attacked head on by a pair of Bf 109G’s of III/JG11
The attacks continued almost constantly from the Belgian border to the target and back
During this days hundreds of allied Bombers were lost under the defensive German reaction along as thousands of brave young airmen
Also Germans suffered high losses, especially considering more then hundred irreplaceable skilled fighter pilots
Anyway, may we suggest that, at this stage of the war, winning for Allies was certainly not yet a …done deal
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SEOW Campaign The Big Week
This campaign, though not 100% historical due to the lack of proper maps, is a re-enactment of the “Big Week” strategic bombing campaign.
“Between February 20–25, 1944, as part of the European strategic bombing campaign, the United States Strategic Air Forces (USSTAF) launched Operation Argument, a series of missions against the Third Reich that became known as Big Week. The planners intended to lure the Luftwaffe into a decisive battle by launching massive attacks on the German aircraft industry. By defeating the Luftwaffe, the Allies would achieve air superiority and the invasion of Europe could proceed. The daylight bombing campaign was also supported by RAF Bomber Command, when they operated against the same targets at night” (source: Wikipedia)
Map: AsH Battle of France Online
Game version: HSFX 5.0
Campaign duration: 12 Missions (8 day missions, 4 night missions)
Campaign Objectives:
Allied bombers must destroy enemy industrial areas to 25% of their total strength.
Each 5.000 lost points difference (for each side) does contribute to 5% of Factory strength.
(so, for instance, if Axis loses 10.000 points more than the enemy, Allies win if they destroy factories to 35% of overall strength).
Ancillary campaign objective: Luftwaffe has some night bombers who have to destroy factories in England. Destruction of factories in England weights 10% of German factories, so, for instance, if English factories are destroyed up to 20% of their value, this adds 2% to strength of German factories.
German bombing is not important in this campaign, it is added just for gameplay.
IMPORTANT NOTE for Campaign Objectives
This will be mainly a campaign of air fighting. So basically the Allies must bomb (and also the German must bomb at night, as a secondary campaign objective), and the German must defend. As an important objective, both sides must try to save their lives and planes, because they have a big impact on campaign results.
All these rules are aimed at having all players behaving in a realistic way and recreating great air battles. So, the final outcome of the campaign and the “strategic” side of the campaign are not really very important, the important thing will be having 70 players fighting together in a coordinate and realistic way and reproducing the epic air battles that raged over Europe sky in those days.
Radar: yes (both sides)
IFF: yes (both sides)
Campaign length: 12 missions:
8 day missions
4 night missions
(so one day is 2 day missions and 1 night missions)
Slots:
Day missions
Allies 45 (minimum 50% bombers)
Axis 25
Night Missions
Allies 35 (minimum 50% 4 engine bombers)
Axis 35
Land Moves: 0
Sea Moves: 0
Supply management: Off
Industrial production: Off (to be confirmed)
Reinforcements: Off (to be confirmed)
Rules:
This campaign is meant to recreate strategic bombing raids over Germany (and, at night, also over England). So its aim is recreating large battles, at high altitude, between Allied heavy bombers and their escorts, and German fighters.
So, only heavy bombers (and Mosquitos at night) will be able to carry any ordnance. Bombers and Mosquitoes will be allowed to fly and release their ordnance at altitude not below 2000m. Bombers will be allowed to fly below 2000m only in case of emergency (damaged bomber). In other words, low level penetration below radar altitude is not allowed to bombers. Fighters can fly at any altitude but cannot carry bombs (they can do strafing attacks on airfields, though).
Targets: factories are represented by new “area target” objects. These are very large objects (circles of 400-600-800m diameter) but very tough. A single bomb will not be able to destroy one of these factories. You will need tons of bomb, whole flights of heavy bombers, to destroy one. But partial damage to a factory will be logged and will be registered by SEOW engine. So you will be able to destroy a factory area in several missions.
As an approximate example, you need a flight of 4 B-17 with maximum bombload, all bombs hitting their target, to completely destroy a medium sized factory area.
Other allowed targets of this campaign are airfields, with parked aircraft and AAA, and also AAA batteries near factories.
Night missions:
We have a different planeset for night missions. Unfortunately we don’t have in IL-2 onboard radar, so night fighting will resemble more what happened in 1941-1942 than in 1944. Night fighters will have to rely on SEOW radar (broadly resembling ground based radar) and searchlights.
As in real war, a searchlights and AAA defence (Himmelbett) will be set up in Belgium/Holland/France at the border with Germany.
A similar defence will be set at the coast of England.
Pathfinders: use of pathfinders units (aircraft dropping flares to mark targets) is allowed. Pathfinders can be both human and AI.
Airstarts
Allied bombers will have only airstart. This is done to reduce mission length. Travel to targets in Germany from Great Britain is about 1h to 1h 15m. Adding time needed by 20 to 30 bombers for takeoff, climb to altitude and rejoin formation would easily take to 1h 30m – 1h 45m flight to target. Then there is time needed to return to base and land. This could be too much for some players. So airstart is used to save time.
Mission duration: 2h 30m
As said above, this is barely the time needed to reach the target, come back and land. No tactics like “we will wait 1 hour over England and then start going toward Germany” are allowed. Strategic raids were done by hundreds of bombers and fighters, these raids were easily detected by radar and ground observers and always meet fierce fighter opposition. In 1944 escort fighters were able to escort bombers through the whole mission. So, the aim of this campaign will be recreating these large air battles, not having pilot waiting doing nothing. So the Allies will not be expected to try avoiding battle, arrive to the target undetected by flying at treetop height, etc. Of course it will be allowed mounting feint or fake attacks to show on Radar to cover the real target of the mission.
Radio aids:
Some large airfields will have Lorenz/ILS, NDBs and lights
Some smaller airfields will just have NDBs and lights
Some small airfields, just used as emergency landing fields, will just have lights
A BBC station is located at XXX (TBD)
A Deutsches Rundfunk station is located at XXX (TBD)
Planeset (to be confirmed)
Day Missions
Axis:
Me410B
Fw190A-7
Fw190A-8
Bf109G-10
Allies:
B-17G Flying Fortress
B-24J Liberator
P-38J Lightning
P-51C Mustang
P-47D Razorback Thunderbolt
Night missions
Axis:
Me.110G
Ju88C
Do.217
Allies:
Halifax
Mosquito Mk.VI
Mosquito Mk.IV
Plane Strength (to be completed and detailed per plane type)
Day Missions
Allies è 180 (100 bombers, 80 fighters)
Axis è 100 fighters
Night Missions
Allies è 100 (60 bombers, 40 Mosquito fighters)
Axis è70 (20 bombers, 50 fighters)
המספרים המעודכנים של המטוסים למשימות
Day missions:
Allies 48 including minimum of 20 heavy bombers
Axis 32
Night Missions:
Allies 40 including minimum of 50% in 4 engine bombers
Axis 30
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