News for new and old fighter pilots
AI bombers now know about the objective and recon lists and target objectives on the list.
This has a few ramifications:
#1. Recon provides targets & coordinates to AI bombers as well as breather pilots. If the recon is old/stale they’ll all be attacking incorrect coordinates.
#2. As a fighter pilot, if you see enemy bomber formations flying your way, you need to stop them. If you don’t, they will be attacking objectives in your territory. Doesn’t matter whether the bombers are AI or breather pilots – the all have the same mission: destroying objectives.
#3. Flying cover for your own bombers–whether AI or breather pilots–is an important and useful mission. If you can help your own bombers arrive at their target safe and sound, they’ll be attacking mission objectives. So flying cover for your own bombers – whether piloted by breathers or AI – is an important job.
* Weather improved and more varied. I actually worked out this weather system a month or two ago but CLOD bugs kept it from working properly until this last update.
Ongoing continuous Campaign Time=Real Time campaign over the entire 113 Days of the Battle of Britain.
Long continuous sessions–15+ hours dawn to dusk with no server restarts.
Persistent damage to objectives with realistic repair times persistent over sessions. For example, radar towers and airfields are out for days in Real Time as repairs happen; they’ll stay out for longer if you keep hitting them.
Real results from objective damage the hurt the other team. If an airport is knocked out, the other team can’t use it until it’s repaired, which might be days from now in Campaign Time (and real time). If a radar tower is destroyed, radar in that area (for the enemy) is knocked out until it is repaired. Knock out the Spitfire Factory, stop Spitfire production until it’s repaired. Etc.
Team’s Objective List & Objectives Accomplished List are persistent over session restarts and from day to day in Campaign Time=Real Time. So if you took out a difficult objective yesterday, it’s still taken out today–no need to revisit it (unless you want to–to add more damage). Continue working on your team’s Primary Objectives as assigned by HQ over time until you take them out–whether that takes a day, a week, or a month.
Group credit for Mission Objective destruction – everyone who helped take it out, from recon photo to escort fighter to bomber squadron leader, gets a share of the credit for the victory.
Bomber pilots can call in a squadron of bomber and/or escort aircraft & lead them to attack objectives – bring in a large high-altitude bomber formation, with cover to attack the London Docks, Le Havre Naval Headquarters, and dozens of other potential Mission Objectives across the map. Exciting battles ensue, at 20000ft/6000m and up as fighter pilots try to stop the large, well defended bomber formations–always led by at least one real player–and the bombers battle to get through. And . . . they bombers always do get through, don’t they?
High altitude bomber airports (Paris-Orly, Tours, RAF Wittering, RAF Coltishall, etc–look very near the edges of the map for spawn points). Real Battle of Britain high altitude bomber missions started off the map & joined fighter cover near the coast – now you can, too. Come into London, Southampton, Le Havre, or Dunkirk at 20000ft/6000m or more.
Recon flights to identify primary & secondary mission objectives & their precise location via the Photo Intelligence Division.
Objective coordinates as identified by the Photo Intelligence Division can be used to plan & fly missions using a historical-based but flexible Knickebein system, and also to guide/fly/target your cover bomber formations.
Find the General. The General’s approximate position is ID’ed via recon photos, you must search to find exact location (difficult!) & return a low-level detailed recon photo of the General & staff–before the other side finds YOUR General!
Additional helpful info added to Campaign Radar/General Situation Map web page.
New large Area Bombing Objectives & small, difficult, hardened Bunker Objectives for bomber pilots & squadron leaders, plus dozens and dozens of other interesting–and sometimes difficult–mission objectives.
Play as TopHat and guide your side’s fighters and bombers to their targets, or help them evade enemy fighter groups, using the TWC Radar/General Situation Map – now improved with more of the information commanders and squadron leaders need. But if your radar is knocked out ……….
Detailed individual & team stats and scoring system, rank & awards given for meritorious service; detailed record of objectives destroyed and battles won over the entire campaign; updated & improved for this campaign.
Fun to fly and challenging whether there are 2 other players in, or 102.
[b]Discord Channels available for teams flying both sides.