Nuisance Raids 1942
Version 11

An Aces High Scenario

Please read “Dates and Times” and “Main Rules” sections.

Dates and Times  

Click here for registration.  Please register for the event if you can play at least 3 frames.

If you can’t play in at least 3 frames, you can still show up as a walkon (unregistered player) on game day.

Battles/Frames:

Please show up at or before 3 pm US Eastern time in Special Events 2 arena -- the arena will lock after that. (For how that translates to your time, here is a time converter.)  End of frame will be nominally at 6:45 pm US Eastern time.

Setup

It’s 1942.  The Battle of Britain is over, and now the Luftwaffe and the RAF are trading blows across the Channel.

This battle will pit Spitfires, Typhoons, and Bostons of the RAF against Bf 109’s, FW 190’s, and Ju 88’s of the Luftwaffe in a series of coastal raids and combats over the Channel.

Main Rules

Map

Victory Conditions

If your side fails to do this within the frame, it will get no points at all for that frame:

Frame points:

Winner of a frame is the side with most points.  Winner of the Scenario is the side that wins the most frames.

Fighters and Fighter-Bombers can strafe objects if they so choose.

Targets

Towns and cities in rectangles on the Map.  Ovals are not targets.

Order of Battle

Luftwaffe Units (6 Bombers and 24 Fighters, 30 total):

Unit Name

Aircraft Type

No. of Seats

4./KG 77

Ju 88A-4

6

10.(Jabo)/JG 26

FW 190A-5 (Jabos)

6

5./JG 26

FW 190A-5

6

2./JG 1

Bf 109F-4

6

11.(Höhe.)/JG 2

Bf 109G-2

6

Ju 88’s can carry 4x 250 kg and/or 10x50 kg bombs but no other bombs.  FW 190 Jabos can carry a 500 kg bomb but no other bombs or rockets.  109’s cannot carry bombs or rockets, but can use gondolas.

Active fields: a95, a96, a100, a101.

Royal Air Force Units (6 Bombers and 24 Fighters):

Unit Name

Aircraft Type

No. of Seats

No. 88 Squadron

Boston III

6

No. 56 Squadron

Typhoon IB (Fighter-Bomber)

6

No. 1 Squadron

Typhoon IB

6

No. 91 Squadron

Spitfire V

6

No. 611 Squadron

Spitfire IX

6

Bostons can carry 4x 500 lb bombs but no other bombs.  Typhoon Fighter-Bombers can carry 2x 500 lb bombs but no other bombs or rockets.  Spitfires cannot carry bombs.

Active fields: a33, a44, a46, a72.

Moving Around Pilots

CO's may split groups up into separate flights and send them on separate missions as they see fit.

CO's may assign walkons as they see fit up to the limit of slots available.  If a side is overfull on game day, the axis may put extra pilots into anything except non-jabo (i.e., pure-fighter) FW 190’s, and the allies may put extra pilots into anything except Spitfire IX’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.

Items of Note

“Settings” section shows items set differently from defaults.

We try our best at Scenario balance, but we are not perfect, and no Scenario is perfect.  Because Scenarios are not 30 P-51’s and 10 B-25’s vs. 30 P-51’s and 10 B-25’s on a pizza map, it might end up being harder on one side than the other.

Settings

Disable:

CM Items  

MOTD

Welcome to the Scenario "Nuisance Raids 1942"!

To play, please show up by 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 three 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 akwarhwk

let me in" into any text buffer.  Then try to come in

even if the arena says its locked.

Historical Content

The Baedeker Raids of 1942


The Baedeker Raids or Baedeker Bombings took place between April and June 1942. The Baedeker bombing raids on old historic English cities were named after the Baedeker travel guidebooks that the Germans used to identify their targets, which were three-starred, i.e. worth visiting, old English cities. On March 28th 1942, Bomber Command attacked the city of Lűbeck. A great deal of damage was done to the most historic part of the city known as the ‘Old Town’. In total, over 1,000 people were killed and the ‘Old Town’, which was primarily made up of old wooden buildings, was all-but destroyed by incendiary bombs. Hitler was incensed and ordered retaliatory raids against similar targets.

Just under a month later, on April 23rd, Exeter was the first of these cities to be attacked. A great deal of the city was damaged and 70 people were killed. On the following day, Baron Gustav Braun von Sturm stated that:

“’We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide.”

The task was given to Luftflotte 3.

Exeter was bombed again that evening. Exeter was attacked for the third time on May 3rd.

Between April 24th and April 29th, Bath (April 25th and 26th), York (April 28th) and Norwich (April 27th and 29th) were bombed. Following Bomber Command’s ‘1000 Bomber’ raid on Cologne, the Luftwaffe targeted Canterbury, which was bombed on three occasions with the city suffering major destruction (May 31st, June 2nd and June 6th).

The attack on Bath resulted in 417 deaths with over 19,000 buildings being destroyed or damaged.

In total, 1,637 civilians were killed with 1,760 injured. Over 50,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. Some famous historic buildings were destroyed, such as the Guildhall in York, but many were not and as such the Luftwaffe failed in its aim – which was to hit hard cities that were quintessentially ‘English’ – old-timbered homes in a city dominated by a cathedral. The destruction of Canterbury Cathedral would have been a blow to British morale – but it was barely touched by any of the raids.

Luftflotte 3 paid a heavy price after being tasked for these raids. Many of its bombers were shot down. What the raids also highlighted was how ineffective these raids were in terms of the impact they had. Morale in the five historic cities did not break down.

In reality the last attack on Canterbury was the last of the Baedeker raids. However, a few Luftwaffe fighter aircraft did make hit-and-run attacks on historic towns on the Kent coast and in East Anglia. These were invariably small-scale as the aircraft involved could not carry large amounts of bombs. The worst of these raids was on Deal in Kent when over 30 people were killed.

References

Credits

Initial design:  AKWarHwk

Allied CO:  Brooke

Axis CO:  Ditto

Change log

Rev 1 - 12/28/2017:

Rev 2 - 12/30/2017

Rev 3 - 7/7/2018

Rev 4 - 12/20/2018

V5 (12/29/2018)

V6 (12/31/2018)

V7 (1/5/2019)

V8 (1/18/2019)

V9 (1/22/2019)

V10 (1/24/2019)

V11 (2/2/2019)