Time for an unveiling...

[Rami]

Misson,

I am a person that likes to have a lot of "irons in the fire" (hierros en el fuego) at the same time. 486_Col_Wolf has been after me to get the German side to the Battle of Britain done, so I've been getting some done on that as well. Right now I have 37 missions done for the German side, (out of 108 total) and have everything done but the dynamic events for seven others. Possibly as early as tomorrow, I'll get a package to him for beta testing, and hop a transport back to Libya and Egypt.

[Rami]

Good morning,

I'm going to shift back to the Western Desert this weekend, but for the last few days, I've been working on "Operation Sealion," and thus far I have forty-six out of a final total of 108 missions that are ready for _486_Col_Wolf to beta test, including a completed "Stuka" campaign.

One thing that kept coming up in mission descriptions were "port facilities and docks in the Thames Estuary," so I made some I thought were suitable, located near where similar facilities are today. I hope they're realistic enough.

[sc7500]

Rami, if you make the Thames scenery any more realistic, I'm gonna have to pull my BoB install off the laptop and reload it onto the mainframe - it overheats my Dell video chip ! lolol

Very nice work
SC

[Discus]

Looks great. More than great. Spectacular!! I hope my rig doesn´t melt down. I´ll have to add extra fans to my PC housing.

Cheers, Discus

[CrisGer]

Great work Rami i see you are certainly earning your Air Marshal's stars with continuing brilliant campaign development and those sceneries look great.

[Rami]

I've got to take a break from the Battle of Britain and get back to the desert, I'm sick of looking at England. But at least now, 61 out of 108 missions for this package are completed.

[Rami]

Good morning,

I decided to build an oil refinery at Rochester. I did an earlier version, but decided it needed an upgrade. 79 out of 108 missions are completed, I'm pretty sure I can bang out the other four today.

[Captain Kurt]

Kudos Rami. This is looking really good.

[Discus]

What else to say!

[Rami]

Guten Tag,

It's now time, beginning tomorrow, for construction of the final piece to the German side of the Battle of Britain. (Operation Sea Lion)

I am going to be constructing this campaign from scratch, and would like some opinion on the general progression the campaign will take. It will be twenty-five missions in length, no more, no less, and it will include use of the He-111, the Do-17z, and the Ju-88a-4, in near-equal amounts.

Due to the high concentration of Stuka missions that deal with Kanalkampf, the amount of time spent with Do-17 and He-111 bombers making low-level shipping attacks I'd like to keep to a minimum.

Additionally, the exploits of Luftlotte 5 (the attacks from Norway on Northeast England) are already covered by the Heinkels! campaign.

I was planning on leaning strongly toward attacks on aerodromes, industrial targets, and port facilities, as well as attacks on London and the surrounding area.

The main question I have is....are there specific raids that anyone would like a focus on? And what about going beyond 15 September? Would ending on the Coventry raid in December be a good choice?

I am using this as my primary source: http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/campaign_diaries.cfm

[sc7500]

... There's always the "What If" Aspect...?

http://www.alternatehistories.com/?p=17

SC

[CrisGer]

If you stick to the actual history I am sure you will do fine, the What if is fun to think about but the sad fact for the Germans was that they just did not have the specialized landing craft and support vessels which took the Allies three years to design, create, train crews for and develop doctrine for to be able to use. The river barges that the Germans collected had neither the carrying capacity or the ability to navigate in deep water in typical Channel weather and if launched on that bizare campaign would have taken their cargoes to the bottom I am pretty sure, as the channel weather was so spotty and bad during that period that it would have been a miracle if they had been able to land. If they had, the chances of German armour making the difference it did on the Continent would have been small, due to small road size, steep shoreline and fanatical British opposition. I am sure most respoinsible German planners knew this and went along with the planning because Hitler was crazy.

[Robert John]

Hi Rami,

If you are doing any night bombing over London I have just made a gsl exploding Searchlight and if used as a mission object it can be used as a flak gun, although the .dp can be made better.

I have downloaded Night_Missions_Mod and made two one poly objects, one VEH and the other INF to be used insted of the Jeep and tent.

I can send to you if interested.
RJ

PS I could do a St Paul's that glows in the burning night sky.

[Rami]

Good evening,

This is one mission for the campaign...

"title_string"=Operation Sealion - The Coventry blitz
"summary_string"=Achtung, Luftlotte pilots! Tonight's raid will be on the industrial city of Coventry. Previous strikes on the city have caused considerable damage, but it's our hope that this evening, our bomber forces can achieve a knockout blow, and finally bring Great Britain to her knees!
"objective_string"=The night of 14 November, 1940 saw the industrial city of Coventry in the West Midlands suffer from a devastating strike by German medium bombers of Luftlotte 3. Because British industries in this city were intermixed within the residential areas, total casualties for the raid were very high.
"intelligence_string"=After taking off, you'll rendezvous with the other bombers near the French coast, and then maintain a due northwest course to the city of Coventry. En route, your course will take you right over South London, so you should be ready for the possibility of night interception. The city of Coventry is also heavily defended, due to its strategic importance as a manufacturing centre. Good luck!

Robert John,

Yes, I plan to do at least one London night blitz raid, and as you can see, I am ending with the late December London night blitz.

[Seagull V]

Hello Rami

What about an early Airbourne invasion as per the attack on Crete but modified as part of the Sea Lion attack.
Would need those Heinkels and Stukas attacking forts and defences before and during the attack.
Would also need a torpeado & Stuka attack on British Battleship, Cruisers and Destroyers that were attempting to attack the invasion force as per Narvik. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles...ik_second.html
Could also include a what if scenario of Me-321 gliders and tow planes with strong fighter escort being intercepted by a last ditch Spitfire-Hurricane-Gladiator defence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...antry_Division

If you want to bounce a few ideas around you are welcome to PM me.

A few links that might be helpful:-
http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/jscsc/...ration-sealion
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA421637
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...rder_of_battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...f_World_War_II
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/the-th...on-sealion.php
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles...on_primer.html
http://www.newhavenfort.org.uk/operation_sea_lion.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwa...n_ww2_01.shtml
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forum...ad.php?t=38099

Regards SGV