S3 Series

This is the map of the battle area.

Green forces will be based at 167 and attack in and surrounding Kobe Bay (F132 Area)
Red Forces will oppose from Kobe area bases
Map overlay lines are exactly 60 miles long

The white numbers on each line are the bearing TO/FROM the center point and are centered at the 30 mile point on each line.

Fuel divider will be 1 for fuel planning. B25's will be primary strike aircraft.
Fighters to be announced but late war models can be expected.

Questions and comments welcome (Including how to use this map overlay to plan and navigate.)

This will be a NON HISTORICAL EVENTS and planesets WILL be mixed. So decide if you want offense or defense. Defense will have simpler navigation as all you need is a .vor to homeplate to figure out how to get home.

Each side may need a ground based radar operator for vectoring and lost souls.

When is this event happening? If it is this coming Sunday I won't be able to make it, otherwise, I would like to fly IJN

No date set yet but as soon as I can finish it up basically.

It will NOT Axis/Allied Split. I am sure there will be IJN available.

I will probably alternate Historical with Fantasy.

I do have a Rabaul event planned (This was going to be it actually) when the New Guinea terrain shows up

Thanks for the info

Dont know how he does this stuff! We were really missing Goebel so its great to have Dawger back.

Looking good and looks like fun!

As long as you have 2 fields that you can do a VOR on, you can always fix your position. You can do it with 1, but then you need to know how to reverse the degrees. It tells you the course to your home field, for example, ".VOR 167" and it returns, 100 miles, course 270, then you simply plot your space as 100 miles, 090 from your field. The simplest was to figure the reciprocal, is to subtract the VOR heading to your base from 360. That will give you your approximate position (remember you are moving at least 2 miles per minute, probably more like 5 miles per minute, so if you take a minute to figure out the reciprocal, you have moved from the spot)

+2-2 for figuring reciprocal real fast... If I'm on a 020 heading to the field, Add 2 to the first and subtract 2 from the second number...200 recip. Now you do have to do some quick analysis on the +2-2 to determine if you add or subtract from the first number...

Reverse the above and you on a 200 heading to the field. To find the radial you are on a quick analysis shows that adding 2 to the first will give you a 4 (oops...too much for a 360 degree compass!), so subtract 2 from first number and add 2 to the second...and voila 020 radial.

Some just find it easier to 180 addition or subtraction:) Add if less than 180 subtract if more than . Some useful hints at using .VOR without a helmet fire.

A quick recap on Dead Reckoning: For every 60 mph you are flying at 1 mile a minute. So flying at 300mph means you are at 5 miles a minute, and if I fly for 7 minutes, I should be 35 miles from where I started my timing (did I mention you need a watch you can start?) .

You need a map, a stopwatch, and an idea of where you are heading to keep track of where you are:) What makes it fun is when you get engaged and end up dragging or pursuing...and realize you have no clue which way you went in the process:)

Cheers!
Dobs

I recently learned how to have the GENERAL cause the execution of dot commands on the Front End of EVERYONE in an arena.

This is global so its usefulness is limited to stuff you want to happen to everyone simultaneously.

Using this technique the GENERAL can cause a series of map draw commands to happen to everyone.

So the map in this thread can be recreated live in the arena so everyone will have the compass rose depictions (whether they want them or not)

As for the nuts and bolts of creating a compass rose.....

Warbirds in game maps use an X, Y world coordinate system so I determine the X, Y coordinate of the field then use some trigonometry (Cosine and Sine functions) to determine the X, Y offset of the various compass rose lines. Then some addition and subtraction. All of this is in a spreadsheet so I then have to type all of those numbers into a dotfile for the General to execute.

This is what the end result looks like .....



.mapclear
.mapcolor 255 0 0 255
# Field 132
#270 090
.mapline 1606800 1634700 973200 1634700
# 240 060
.mapline 1564357 1793100 1015643 1476300
# 210 030
.mapline 1448400 1909057 1131600 1360343
## North Line
.mapline 1290000 1951500 1290000 1317900
## 330 150
.mapline 1131600 1909057 1448400 1360343
# 300 120
.mapline 1015643 1793100 1564357 1476300
#
.mapcolor 255 0 255 255
# field 167 vor
#270 090
.mapline 814200 1366000 1131000 1366000
# 240 060
.mapline 814200 1366000 1088557 1524400
# 210 030
.mapline 814200 1366000 972600 1640357
## North Line
.mapline 814200 1366000 814200 1682800
## 300 120
.mapline 814200 1366000 1088557 1207600
# 330 150
.mapline 814200 1366000 972600 1091643
# 360 180
.mapline 814200 1366000 814200 1049200
##
.mapcolor 0 255 0 255
# field 117 VOR
#270 090
.mapline 1487900 1504800 854300 1504800
# 240 060
.mapline 1445457 1663200 896743 1346400
# 210 030
.mapline 1329500 1779157 1012700 1230443
## North Line
.mapline 1171100 1821600 1171100 1188000
## 300 120
.mapline 1445457 1346400 896743 1663200
# 330 150
.mapline 1329500 1230443 1012700 1779157
##
# red field vor
##TEXT
##Field 167
.mapcolor 255 255 255 255
.mapworldtext 972600 1366000 270/090
.mapworldtext 951378 1445200 240/060
.mapworldtext 893400 1503178 210/030
.mapworldtext 814200 1524400 180/360
.mapworldtext 951378 1286800 300/120
.mapworldtext 893400 1228822 330/150
.mapworldtext 814200 1207600 360/180
## Field 117
.mapcolor 255 255 255 255
.mapworldtext 1329500 1504800 270/090
.mapworldtext 1308278 1584000 240/060
.mapworldtext 1250300 1641978 210/030
.mapworldtext 1171100 1663200 180/360
.mapworldtext 1308278 1425600 300/120
.mapworldtext 1250300 1367622 330/150
.mapworldtext 1171100 1346400 360/180
.mapworldtext 1091900 1641978 150/330
.mapworldtext 1033922 1584000 120/300
.mapworldtext 1012700 1504800 090/270
.mapworldtext 1091900 1367622 030/210
.mapworldtext 1033922 1425600 060/240
## Red Field
.mapcolor 255 255 255 255
.mapworldtext 1448400 1634700 270/090
.mapworldtext 1427178 1713900 240/060
.mapworldtext 1369200 1771878 210/030
.mapworldtext 1290000 1793100 180/360
.mapworldtext 1427178 1555500 300/120
.mapworldtext 1369200 1497522 330/150
.mapworldtext 1290000 1476300 360/180
.mapworldtext 1210800 1771878 150/330
.mapworldtext 1152822 1713900 120/300
.mapworldtext 1131600 1634700 090/270
.mapworldtext 1210800 1497522 030/210
.mapworldtext 1152822 1555500 060/240
## General Text
.mapworldtext 814200 1029200 Lines are 60 miles
.mapworldtext 814200 1009200 Bearings are To/From
.mapworldtext 814200 989200 centered at 30 miles

Probably a lot more than anyone wanted to know but I am sure there are guys still using mapdraws who MIGHT be interested

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Now the General doing it is kewl.

Juice