Additions/amendments will be in RED text.
It's the spring of 1941. Germany has turned its attention to the Soviet Union with most of its fighter units being withdrawn from occupied France. The RAF goes on the offensive using daylight attacks by small bomber formations to draw the remaining LW fighters into combat. These bombers were protected by scores of RAF fighters.
Circus Circus is a four frame series, with each team flying Allied or Axis for two frames. Allied objective is to destroy as many LW aircraft as possible while getting their bombers to target. LW objective is to destroy the Allied bombers. Given player numbers are low, to offset the absence of "clouds of RAF fighters" BUFF TOUGH will be set at 3 vice the usual 1.0.
Allied Bombers. Buffs are the "bait" that the LW must attack. Each will have one AI wingman. Buffs must operate between 10K and 15K, maintain close formation, and attack the same target. AI wingmen must stay in formation and drop their bombs at the same time as their leader. The buffs must attempt to attack one of the four targets marked by red circles on the planning map: F91, F95, F96 and F111. Bombers must destroy a minimum of two objects at a target location for the Allies to score points.
- A minimum of one player and a maximum of two players can fly a buff at the same time.
- Bombers may only attack one target location per bomber sortie, i.e. all aircraft must attack the same target.
- Once successfully attacked, additional attacks on a target location do not score VPs for that team.
Allied fighters MAY NOT conduct ground attacks.
Planning Map Frame 1 - Channel 1944 terrain. Many fields in the terrain in both the UK and France did not exist in 1941. They will be set neutral, closed and hidden on the tower and inflight maps. Pilots are cautioned not to land at these locations as it will count as a ditch with the aircraft lost.
Flight ops are only permitted in non-shaded areas. With the exception of F19 (East Church) and F95 (Merville), all aircraft will be available at all airfields. F19 will have a 10K air start and will only be available to RAF bombers. F95 is a LW bomber field and will have no aircraft enabled. LW pilots landing at F95 can avoid losing their aircraft, but do lose one of their lives as they have to teleport to fly again.
LW MAY NOT OVERFLY THE UK
Use of the modified inflight map is strongly recommended.
The file can be found at the link below and saved to your warbirds root directory:
channel1944.dds
Prior to flight, in the tower map view ICONS should be selected ON and FIELD NAMES selected OFF.
Side assignments
Frames 1 and 2
Allied (Team Gold): 352nd FG, okdoc-
Axis (Team Green): RCAF, 4th FG, 23rd FG
Frames 3 and 4
Allied (Team Green): RCAF, 4th FG, 23rd FG
Axis (Team Gold): 352nd FG, okdoc-
Any lone wolves be be assigned to the Allied side in all 4 frames
Voice Comms for frame 1
Allied - TEAMSPEAK 45.77.206.51:9745 - 352nd channel --->352nd encouraged to set up a channel on the iEN DISCORD server.
Axis- DISCORD - If you do not already have Discord, or do not have access to the iEN Discord server, go to this address https://discord.com/invite/8u6MfGzxJQ
Game Settings and basic rules
Standard and bomber login.
Icons – d24 friendly, d12 range, d6 enemy plane
Weather - clear
Radar – Allied 40 miles. Axis had limited radar installations in France at this point in time. Range limited to 15 miles, representing limited radar installations and ground spotters. Grey dots, inflight arrow. Minimum alt is 250 ft.
Flak - AAA limited to 30,000ft in height.
Fuel Multiplier - set at 1 for all aircraft. Minfuel fighters is 100%, bombers 50%.
BUFF Tough - set at 3 (normally 1)
Rebuild Time - 300 mins
Game Length – 180 mins
Lives – 3 lives per frame. Players may not re-up in an aircraft type they have already lost (i.e. anything other than a safe landing).
1. Frame Timings
T-30 Log starts.
T-5 (or sooner) - Players log in for pre-flight coord.
T+0 (2030hrs EST) - Flight enabled.
T+160 (2310hrs EST) - Last surface attacks completed all a/c must disengage ASAP.
T+180 (2330hrs EST) - Dark(ish), any aircraft still in flight will be considered lost.
2. Field closure requirements - N/A for this series.
3. Plane Set:
Pilots may fly different aircraft on different sorties, but may NOT re-fly an aircraft type/vehicle that they have previously lost (KIA, bail, ditch, crash, DISCO w damage, etc).
Axis: Bf 109F-2, Bf 109F-1, Bf 109E-3
Allied: Spitfire MkVb, Spitfire MkII, Hurricane MkIIb. Blenheim Mk IV (1 AI wingman)
Players flying the Blenheim should use the bomber login.
4. Teleporting
S3 mantra, teleporting is not permitted. At frame start players may launch from any airfield, but subsequently may only re-launch from the field they landed at.
Bombers may not teleport to F19 after landing elsewhere. Players who have lost their aircraft (KIA, Bail, Ditch, crash, etc) may re-up from any field.
5. Scoring
Victory Points are earned as follows:
Each bomber target successfully attacked scores 10 VPs for the Allies.
Each LW fighter lost (any cause) scores 2 VPs for the Allies.
Each Bomber/AI lost scores 5 VPs for the Axis.
Allied fighter losses do not score points for the Axis.
Team with the most VPs after 4 frames will be victorious.
6. Series Schedule
Frame 1: 12 Nov
Frame 2: 19 Nov
Frame 3: 26 Nov
Frame 4: 3 Dec
S3 Clarifications - the S3 staff reserves the right to make a ruling on questions or game situations not answered completely or missed by the rules.
Questions/comments are welcome.