Fjord Fury
Version 8
Through most of the war, hardened German targets had proven nearly impervious to conventional attacks. But starting after mid 1944, a new British weapon appeared: the Tallboy -- a 12,000 lb, 21 ft long “earthquake bomb”. It was designed to drop from high altitude, attain a high terminal velocity, penetrate deep into earth, rock, or concrete, then detonate to create a gigantic crater, demolishing the target’s structure.
Tallboy missions, using specially modified Lancasters, were flown against u-boat pens, e-boat pens, V-1 bunkers, viaducts, dams, tunnels, and Germany’s last great ships at anchor, at locations ranging from the coast of France, to inside Germany, to the fjords of Norway.
Now it’s 1945 and time for a collection of late-war action and Lancaster Tallboy missions to the fjords, against u-boat pens, dockyards, and two of the last great German warships.
If the allied side fails to do this in the frame, it will get no points at all for that frame:
Frame Points:
Each frame is scored separately, and the winner of the frame is the side with the most points.
Victory Points (scored at end of scenario):
The final winner is the side that has the most victory points.
Allowed targets are the fighter hangars, bomber hangars, vehicle hangars, ammo bunkers, fuel bunkers, and barracks at: A70, A69, V68, and V64.
Allowed targets are also the Tirpitz and Lutzow in sector 11.17.3 in the fjords. If Tirpitz or Lutzow is sunk, it stays down for the rest of the scenario.
28 Fighters, 16 Bombers, 44 total
# Slots | Group Name | Aircraft |
RAF |
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8 | 65 Sqn. | Mustang IV (P-51D) |
8 | 315 Sqn. | Mustang III (P-51B) |
6 | 130 Sqn. | Spitfire XIV |
6 | 3 Sqn. | Tempest |
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8 | 9 Sqn. | Lancaster |
8 | 617 Sqn. | Lancaster |
Available bases for fresh takeoff: airlaunch in 6.13 (21NW), airlaunch in 6.17 (21N), and airlaunch in 7.18 (90N). You can land on the CV’s in sectors 6.17 and 6.13 or ditch close to them to end your Mission.
30 Fighters (0.68 of allied total aircraft)
# Slots | Group Name | Aircraft |
Luftwaffe |
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8 | 10./JG5 | Bf 109K-4 |
6 | 13./JG5 | Bf 109K-4 |
6 | 14./JG5 | FW 190D-9 |
4 | Stab./JG301 | Ta 152 |
6 | 15./JG5 | FW 190A-8 |
Available bases for fresh takeoff: any airbase. You can land at any friendly base including vbases.
Show-Up Time is noon Pacific.
Luftwaffe takeoff is approximately at 12:23 pm Pacific.
RAF air launch is approximately at 12:35 pm Pacific.
End of hostilities is approximately at 3:45 pm Pacific. RAF bombers must be in the restricted red zone (in or west of column 6) at this time.
The given slots for Tempests, Lancasters, Ta 152’s, and the variable LW group may not be exceeded.
CO's may split fighter groups up into separate flights and send them on separate missions as they see fit.
If walkons overfill the event, the allied CO may put extra pilots in P-51’s or Spit 14’s, and the axis CO may put extra pilots in Bf 109K-4’s or FW 190D-9’s.
CO's may move registered pilots to different aircraft if the registered pilots are willing. But if a registered pilot wants to keep the plane he is registered for, he must be allowed to stay in that plane.
“Settings” section shows items set differently from defaults.
Note that fuel conservation might be needed by some of the allied planes in this scenario. We suggest that you figure out what works best for your aircraft for range.
Fighters will not have rockets or bombs.
Lancasters will have only 14x 1000 lb bombs.
Terrain. Nrthseaw (winter version of northsea)
Wind. Downwind at 30k.
Clouds. Scattered cumulus.
Radar and Sector Counters. Update rate is 2 minutes, to model lag in communication to units. Sector counters only, and of enemies only. No sector counters below 1000 ft. Radar radius is 64 miles. No radar on allied ships closer in.
Ack: Turned down from Main Arena default.
Objects: Destroyed objects stay down for whole frame.
ArenaFlags = 13358
BomberWarningRange = 52,800
CommunicationFlags = 3
CountryChangeTime = (no changing of countries once started)
DownTimeMult = 200
ExitWhileMoving = 508
FighterWarningRange = 31,680
FlightModeFlags = 5248
FuelBurnRateMult = 0.8 (model some of 90 imp. gal Spit 14 drop tank)
GroundAutoLethality[Armored] = 0.15
GroundAutoLethality[Hard] = 0.15
GroundAutoLethality[Soft] = 0.15
RadarMode = 400
RadarUpdateRate = 120
SectorCounterAlt = 1000
SectorCounterRange = 337,920 (64 miles)
TowerBasedRadarRange = 264,000 (50 miles)
StratFlags = 1
Bunker hardness = 2
CA hardness = 256
Allied task group under each each of 6.13 and 6.17 air spawn.
Destroy radar at allied two allied task groups: .det f125rdr 1, .det f126rdr 1
Change a90 to bishops.
Destroy radar at a90: .det f90rdr 1
Put allied ships in column 4 with radar to warn of any axis going into column 6.
Sink one of the three ships near Tirpitz and Lutzow, so there are only 2 ships there.
Sink Tirpitz/Lutzow if previously sunk.
Welcome to the Scenario "Fjord Fury"!
To play, please show up at 3 pm Eastern on Saturday.
If you are not registered, you are welcome to play,
but please stay in country Rook until you are assigned
to a side.
Pilots get two lives.
You use up a life if you die, crash, ditch, bail, or exit
your plane with anything other than a "landed successfully".
If you need back into the locked arena, type ".p flossy
let me in" into any text buffer. Then try to come in
even if the arena says its locked.
Scenario design: Scenario Team and Scenario community.
Game-day CM's: Brooke, AKWarhwk (BB: Swareiam), Ditto (BB: KCDitto), Flossy.
Allied CO: Brooke.
Axis CO: Ditto (BB: KCDitto).
Terrain: Ghostdancer
This section mentions the changes in each version, so that when changes are made to this document, people don't need to read the whole document to find out where the changes are. Note on terminology: In this section, "Clarified" has a very precise meaning. If a rule is listed as being "Clarified", it means that the rule and its intent is not being changed but that the explanation herein is being improved to make the rule and its intent more clear. Rules are sometimes clarified during a scenario based on player questions or misunderstandings about wording.
V1,4/12/2018
-- Beginning of document.
V2, 4/14/2018
-- Put in dates.
-- Set Lancaster to 14x 1000 lb loadout.
-- Filled in some other settings.
-- Made points scoring on ships more gradual, not just binary.
-- Clarified rules on ditching.
-- Clarified rules on attacking ships.
V3, 4/17/2018
-- Changed a group of P-51D’s to P-51B’s.
-- Settled discussion on 109’s. Will not turn one group from K’s to G-14’s with gondolas.
-- Added one more land target (to have 4 total).
-- Suggested group names put in.
-- Corrected one of the ship-scoring descriptions.
V4, 4/18/2018
-- Made allowable bomber .delay of 0.07 or less.
V5, 4/20/2018
-- Increased SectorCounterRange to 64 miles.
V6, 4/29/2018
-- Added two P-51B’s and removed two Ta 152’s because everyone in design discussion thought Lancs would have problems with previous numbers.
V7, 5/5/2018
-- Removed reference to “Luftwaffe forward fields”, which was holdover from Big Week not usable here.
-- Allow use of 90N air spawn.
-- Added 15 minutes to length of scenario.
-- Set up A90 correctly for air spawn.
-- Use winter version of terrain (as it is now available).
V8, 5/7/2018
-- Made ships significantly harder (41,000 lbs -> 256,000 lbs).
-- Reduced vp bonuses from 1 to 0.5.
