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#3482704 - 12/28/11 03:35 PM 13 May: Circuses and Rhubarbs 1941, Chapter 1 available now! *****  
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It is 1941.

After the inconclusive battle that was Operation Sealion, Germany has turned its attentions to the East, initiating Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia.

In the West, just 226 German fighters, primarily those of JG2 and JG26, are left to defend against the constant threat of RAF bomber and fighter attacks. The RAF Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Sholto Douglas, initiates Operation Circus - large scale bomber raids deep into France and Holland, with the intent of drawing the Luftwaffe into combat and reducing their ability to defend against RAF bomber command's planned incursions into Germany.

The Circuses and Rhubarbs mission pack

Chapter one available for download now as self installing file:

3 missions:

Flight of the Intruder
Operation Circus mission 1
A Knight Falls


Download the self installer here: https://www.box.com/s/27f8ede06b87c314652e

15 painstakingly populated airfields: Wissant, Peuplinge, Audembert, Marquise West, Caffiers, Hermelingen, Campagne Les Guines, Coquelles, Calais Marck, St Omer Wizernes, St Omer Arques, St Omer Claimarais / RAF Lympne, RAF North Weald

3 newly populated locations: Calais and Dunkirk Ports, Cassel

Ground targets include the above airfields, road traffic, port infrastructure. As usual, the mission can be fought from the point of view of every flyable unit, by using the CUSTOM button to choose your flight. Both grounds starts and air starts catered for.

This chapter comprises around 20 flyable sorties.

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FROM THE CREATOR OF THE OPERATION SEALION MISSION PACKS


Not tried Operation Sealion yet?

Read player comments at the Cliff of Dover official forum: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=30948

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Well I'm about 8 or 9 missions into the Luftwaffe campaign and its fantastic! Honestly more fun than the one that comes with the game. Very well done and it is much appreciated.

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Really really awesome!
I have just finished 11 Luftwaffe missions and I can't get enough.


The Operation Sealion 1 mission packs

Full 28 mission RAF and Luftwaffe pack:

Sealion RAF Point of View: http://www.box.com/s/5d8236170f3da466a4fb
Sealion LW Point of View: http://www.box.com/s/55339e8c4d9fcaa73623


For those who have just joined us, a small intro to the Sealion Mission Packs...





Read the PDF here http://www.box.com/s/zgjue1vczq9vlqufyhcq

All my CoD missions (more than 50) are available at www.bobgamehub.blogspot.com

The Operation Sealion mission pack missions are minutely based on the notes from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst wargame conducted in 1974 to simulate a September 1940 invasion by Germany. In this exercise, each side (played by British and German officers respectively) was based in a command room, and the actual moves plotted on a scale model of SE England constructed at the School of Infantry. The panel of umpires included Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland, Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, Rear Admiral Edward Gueritz, General Heinz Trettner and Major General Glyn Gilbert. The main problems the Germans face are that a) the Luftwaffe has not yet won air supremacy; b) the possible invasion dates are constrained by the weather and tides (for a high water attack) and c) it has taken until late September to assemble the necessary shipping.

Each mission in the BoB Game Hub Sealion mission pack is designed with multiple flyable aircraft available to players flying either RAF or Luftwaffe. Wherever practical, mission design includes both ground starts and airstarts. Mission design takes an 'open battlefield' approach - the player will be given an objective, but once airborne, you have full freedom of operation to either prosecute the assigned target, or attack other targets of opportunity.

As an example, in mission 1, flyables include Blenheim IV and Hurricane for RAF, Bf109E4 and Bf110C for Luftwaffe, while RAF targets include German ships and barges at sea, German harbour facilities, and Luftwaffe standing patrols, while Luftwaffe targets include attacking RAF bombers and fighters. Later in the conflict, targets will include land forces, encampments, fuel and supply depots, bridges, armour and convoys.

Designed with a self install program to run from within the CoD Single Missions menu, each mission can therefore be played from several perspectives, with the player fully able to customise the missions (piloted aircraft, number of allies, number of enemies etc) to suit themselves.

The mission pack is designed to be flown from 2 points of view: either RAF or Luftwaffe, you choose!

I have aimed for nothing less than 'epic' with these missions. Enjoy!

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#3482714 - 12/28/11 03:58 PM Re: Announcing: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack - preview [Re: HeinKill]  
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Wow! Sounds awesome, can't wait to get my hands on this!

#3483246 - 12/29/11 05:17 AM Re: Announcing: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack - preview [Re: HeinKill]  
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#3486455 - 01/03/12 10:41 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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Sealion minus 1, September 21: In accordance with Goering’s historical directive of Sept 16, the Luftwaffe has once again intensified attacks on RAF airfields and aircraft industry targets. In the morning, the Brooklands Hawker factory was hit by Ju88s. More hit and run raids are expected throughout the day. From France come coded reports from French agents that German transport ships are beginning to move out of Calais, Le Havre and Dunkerque. If correct, these reports could either indicate an invasion fleet is beginning preparations to sail, or equally that the fleet is being disbanded. Better intelligence is urgently needed.



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Hi Folks!

Further update on the Operation Sealion mission set…

Unlike most single missions where the player is directed ‘in this aircraft, go there, and do this’, each mission file in the Sealion set comprises several independently created sorties with different flyable aircraft and objectives, within the one mission file.

As an example of what you can expect, the ‘Day 1: Sept 21 a.m.’ mission file features flyable sorties by both RAF and LW aircraft – with a variety of airstart and ground starts, and includes the following sorties:

- Recon escort with RAF 111 Squadron Hurricanes
- Recon flight with RAF 212 PR (Photo Recon) Squadron Blenheim
- Defensive Combat air patrol with 64 Squadron Spitfires
- Offensive Combat air patrol with 64 Squadron Spitfires
- Defensive Combat air patrols with LW LG2 Bf109s or ZG76 Bf110s
- Offensive strike mission with ErPro 210 Bf109E4Bs

To the extent possible within CoD these mission files are intended to give the player the feeling of participating in a wider conflict, with targets and goals for each sortie very much dependent on each other and tied to the storyline of the Sealion invasion.

All of these individual missions are fully customisable – the player can choose the sortie they will fly in, the aircraft type, and number of aircraft in each unit. The missions have been designed with fewer aircraft/objects in each flight/squadron to allow several unique sorties in each mission file without overloading CPU/GPUs; but aircraft numbers can easily be scaled up or down by the player as they wish. For example you can zero some of the units in the sortie you are not flying, if you want to reduce the CPU/GPU load, or make the sortie easier. Conversely, you can increase the number of opponents to make it harder (PC specs allowing!).

As usual with BoB Game Hub missions, the files are delivered with a self installer/uninstaller for easy installation. Missions draw heavily on historical events, coupled with the report of the 1974 Sandhurst military academy Sealion wargame. The first download will include 2 mission files:

Day, September 21, morning: briefing as above. Video shows just a selection of possible sorties.

Day 1, September 21 evening: Briefing - Night-time bombing raids on London are expected to continue, with heavy raids detected building over France at 7 pm. Luftflotte 2 has been specially tasked with providing air cover for shipping movements along the French coast between Le Havre and Calais. The RAF has been ordered to increase its efforts to attack German ships and materiel in France, Belgium and Norway which could be used to support a potential invasion. A special warning has been issued regarding Kriegsmarine AAA defences at French ports after the loss of recon flights earlier in the day to heavy AAA fire.


Sorry for the time it is taking to build these, but with each mission comprising several possible sorties with multiple but integrated briefings, objectives and flyables, I need to fine tune each sortie individually… I hope your patience is rewarded!


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#3486498 - 01/03/12 12:44 PM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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Thanks for your work. Very interesting.


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#3488075 - 01/05/12 04:57 PM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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For info - the 1974 Sandhurst wargame concluded with the invasion failing due to the inability of Germany to resupply. This result may have reflected an over-representation of naval commanders on the wargame adjudication panel, which decided British naval power was the decisive element in thwarting the simulated invasion. An alternate scenario with greater recognition of Luftwaffe air transport capabilities, could build on the fact that the German forces in that wargame captured two airfields (Lympne, Hawkinge) which should have allowed an airbridge to France to be created using Ju52s and DFS230s, via which men, fuel and light armour could have been ferried to reinforce German divisions.

The reason I mention it is that this mission pack will have two 'end-games', one in which the invasion is thwarted due to naval intervention, and one in which air resupply enables the invasion force to be resupplied via Lympne, Hawkinge and finally Manston, ie one in which the invasion fails, and one in which it doesn't.

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I would have to agree with the naval assessment, we saw how well the airlift worked in Stalingrad! wink The RN so outgunned the Kreigsmarine, it would have been a slaughter, even with the LW support.

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Missions for "Sealion Day Minus One" avail now!

This self installer includes two mission files:

- Sealion minus One, afternoon
- Sealion minus One, evening

Flyable aircraft in both missions: Spitfire 1a, Bf109E4, Bf109E4b, Blenheim, Hurricane, Bf110C4. Individually crafted sorties with separate targets and mission objectives have been designed for every flyable aircraft.

Download here:

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Nice stuff Heinkel , without your missions ..( is anyone else making any ? ) there would not be a lot going on offline smile Awesome stuff man.


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#3489194 - 01/07/12 01:02 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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HeinKill, looking forward to the mission this weekend!

@ Ajay, Spitgirl (I laugh everytime... rofl ) is looking kinda pasty and creepy in the screenshot on your CoD page. Is that what I have to look forward to???

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#3489374 - 01/07/12 09:02 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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I didn't know that that 1974 wargame was based on a situation where the LW did not gain air superiority. eek Given that I consider the whole wargame pointless, nobody with at least some basic intelligence between his ears would have gone ahead with a risky operation like Seelöwe if the main striking element (the Luftwaffe) couldn't operate just as they pleased. That's just like the wargame the Japanese held before Midway - pointless as they bent the rules so that the desired result was achieved. Or like the german wargame before Barbarossa - wishful thinking glossed over any problems. screwy


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#3489380 - 01/07/12 09:32 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: csThor]  
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Well, we are talking bout Hitler and Goering here! While they had relatively decent judgement early in the war, no one could accuse them of having basic intelligence later on! lol

(Well, maybe for Hitler, there's a common theme from some sources that indicate he was bright, but very shielded from the realities that were occurring later in the war).

#3489385 - 01/07/12 09:52 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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Hitler was a compulsive gambler but only on dry land. Anything that involved water wasn't to his liking at all. wink

Besides there's a political component here. An operation like that, involving insane risks, may have sparked open rebellion within the german Army. Remember there were advanced plans to remove Hitler from power as early as 1938 and not by relatively low-level staff officers, either. A gamble like that might have prodded men like Halder into action to prevent a disaster. And Hitler knew that - which is why he began to erode the traditional chain of command to install himself as the one and only authority for the german armed forces.


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#3489391 - 01/07/12 10:11 AM Re: 3 Jan update and new video: BoB Game Hub Operation Sealion Mission Pack [Re: HeinKill]  
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Wow, this thread and posts have been notched up a level. Good stuff!

Just throwing in my bit that one must remember the two highest ranking Nazis were junkies, and I'm not talking a little spliff every-now-and-then wacky And not just Hitler and Goring, most of those in power were screwed up in one way or another. Living by the sword I suppose... The success of the initial campaigns (annexes, Poland, BoF) and German public opinion, also largely silenced the early usurpers to power.

If seriously interested in this topic, and I find this era a pivotal point in history, there is a terrific book written by Peter Flemming in 1957 entitled (just guess) "Operation Sea Lion: The projected invasion of England in 1940 - An account of the German preparations and the British countermeasures". It is so well researched with archival docs, interviews (written within recent memory of those who were involved), etc. that it could/may have been a PhD dissertation. Well worth looking it up.

EDIT: The above book is not to be confused with his later work, "Operation Sea Lion (Grand Strategy)", which I have not read and just discovered is available in paperback. May be easier to find...

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Originally Posted By: Bandy
HeinKill, looking forward to the mission this weekend!

@ Ajay, Spitgirl (I laugh everytime... rofl ) is looking kinda pasty and creepy in the screenshot on your page...


Depends on your POV smile



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Originally Posted By: Bandy
Wow, this thread and posts have been notched up a level. Good stuff!

Just throwing in my bit that one must remember the two highest ranking Nazis were junkies, and I'm not talking a little spliff every-now-and-then wacky And not just Hitler and Goring, most of those in power were screwed up in one way or another. Living by the sword I suppose... The success of the initial campaigns (annexes, Poland, BoF) and German public opinion, also largely silenced the early usurpers to power.

If seriously interested in this topic, and I find this era a pivotal point in history, there is a terrific book written by Peter Flemming in 1957 entitled (just guess) "Operation Sea Lion: The projected invasion of England in 1940 - An account of the German preparations and the British countermeasures". It is so well researched with archival docs, interviews (written within recent memory of those who were involved), etc. that it could/may have been a PhD dissertation. Well worth looking it up.

EDIT: The above book is not to be confused with his later work, "Operation Sea Lion (Grand Strategy)", which I have not read and just discovered is available in paperback. May be easier to find...


+1

I have used the Flemming book as background for writing the plot and knowing which army units may have been involved on both sides. You can actually get it free in epub format from internetarchive.org.

Would Sealion have proceeded if the Luftwaffe didn't have air superiority? One camp says obviously not, since it didn't. Another says it was only ever a bluff anyway. But the wargame in 74 wanted to test if it could have succeeded anyway, and the interesting thing, I think, was that the German army did get 330,000 men ashore, despite lacking air superiority, and it was not lack of air superiority, but naval inferiority, which was decisive after that because British naval forces made resupply impossible.

To the point of rebellion at home, imagine how strengthened Hitler's position would have been if he had fought England to an armistice through Sealion. Total capitulation by Britain wouldn't have been necessary, just a cessation of hostilities. Another victory under his belt and he could have drawn down forces in the west to throw everything at Russia... It may have been a different and darker world we live in today...

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Originally Posted By: HeinKill
... Depends on your POV smile

OK, agreed, but what is the big pink vertical thing to the centre-left of your screenshot? eek2


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Originally Posted By: Bandy
Originally Posted By: HeinKill
... Depends on your POV smile

OK, agreed, but what is the big pink vertical thing to the centre-left of your screenshot? eek2


Dude! Now I'll never be able to look around the cockpit again without thinking this... Seriously just killed 1 plane for me, haha!

About the history, as I understand, AH wasn't a junkie yet at this time of the war? I thought most of that came after Barbarossa went sour, and AH started putting long nights in, he got his personal doctor to give him speedball injections. Goering always took morphine, at least, since WWI injury. He was never a brilliant strategist it seems, so not sure how much of that can be attributed to the pain meds, and how much of it should be placed on Goering simply being the wrong man for the job, just there due to his early support of AH.

Remember for years, the German public adored these men, they seemed to be quite able to function quite well, and our history does have a tendency to try to demonize them any ways possible. I think they probably weren't as bad of junkies early on, as t.v. makes them out to be.

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Really interesting passage in the Fleming Sealion book that I just came across, which shows just how conflicted AH was about the whole invasion...the language in his directive on the operation in Czech said, "It is my unalterable decision to smash Czechoslovakia by military action in the near future", and on Poland "The aim then will be to destroy Polish military strength", on France "The German attack is to be launched in such a way that it can lead to the annihilation of the French army," whereas with Britain it is very guarded and much softer, "Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England and, if necessary, to carry it out".

The Fuhrer directives themselves are very interesting reading for milhist types...it isn't easy to find them collected in one place on the net, but this site has the originals, described in a US postwar intel document...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/35919416/Fuehr...9-1941-USA-1948


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AAR and screenies from the Sealion Mission Pack, missions 3 & 4. (Missions 3,4 are in testing, for release next week). All screenshots taken from in game flyable sorties within the two Day 2 'single mission' files.

22 September 1940: Operation Sealion, S-Tag, Dawn (flyables 111 Sq Hurricanes, 64 Sq Spitfires, 212 Sq Blenheims, LG2 Bf109E4s, ZG76 Bf110C46s)

The first wave of a planned 330,000 men hit the English beaches at dawn. 4 divisions of Army Group A land between Folkestone and Rottingdean (near Brighton), XIII Army Corps under General Der Panzertruppe Von Vietinghoff gannant Scheel, 17th and 35th infantry division together with VII Army Corps under Generaloberst von Schobert, 1st Mountain Division and 7th Infantry Division. In addition 7th Paratroop Div land at Lympne to take the airfield.

Further West the 9th Army made shore between Bexhill and Eastbourne. 2 Divisions of the XXXVIII Army Corps under General von Mannstein, 26th and 34th Infantry Divisions, and from the VII Army Corp under General Heitz, the 6th Mountain Division, 8th and 28th Infantry Divisions.

Opposing them on the British GHQ stop line are the rebuilt forces of the VII Corps (1st Armoured Div, 1st Canadian and elements of 2nd Canadian Div, elements of New Zealand Army Corp Inf Div and the recently arrived Australian 9th infantry division diverted from Africa), Strategic Reserve centred on Surrey and North Hampshire, and the XII Corps (1st London Div, 45 Inf Div, 29 Inf Brigade, 1st Tank Brigade) based in Kent and West Sussex.

At first light, Blenheims make a run on a beach-head a Folkestone


Ju88s sweep across the battlefield to hit British reserves in the rear




German 7th Paratroop division attacks poorly prepared defences at Lympne as 111 Squadron scrambles to get their machines away





Gunners on German car ferries cover the beach as the armour unloads under fire from British defences





LG2 109s and 64 Sq Spitfires in a deadly dance



22 September 194, S-tag, afternoon: West of Folkestone (flyables, as above, plus Bf109E4bs and Bf110C7s of Erpro 210)

German troops of the 17th and 35th infantry divisions supported by the 8th Panzer division have established a beach-head west of Folkestone and are driving through the town of Hythe for the Port. Their objective is the bridge over the Canal. The land battle is taking place house by house, street by street, as British mobile reserves throughout Kent are mobilised. A second invasion fleet has been spotted leaving ports in Norway. Large numbers of German fighters and bombers are sweeping the coast, and attacking naval forces in the Channel.

64 Sq Spitfire scramble from Hawkinge in their third sortie of the day


British forces are caught on the bridge at Hythe as German troops, with motorcyle borne MGs in the vanguard, race to take the crossing


British light armour reinforcements, on the move to strengthen the GHQ stop line, while British anti-tank guns lie in wait in the grass outside Hythe



Anarchy on the beachhead west of Folkestone as Blenheims strike and freighters collide



Erpro 210 moves in to hit British land and sea forces around Hythe




German armour and troop carriers advance on the village, as the concealed British anti tank guns hit back




Erpro 210 strikes British positions along the canal



While in the air, the defenders and attackers tangle





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