Let's see. The setting would be the historical preparation of Sealion, when Germany was regrouping a lot of barges from all over, as well as assembling their tactical assault air force. Britain in the mean time is trying to break the invasion before it happens by destroying barges, attacking airfields and attacking the Luftwaffe. The ensuing mission/map would basically be what might have happened had Hitler not opted to bomb London. Not sure if feasible due to performance issues but compromises can always be found.
Britain
Objectives:
Barges at Calais Harbor
Barges at Boulogne
Barges in the canal west of Abbeville
Airfields with assault aircraft in them (boulogne and le toquet especially)
X amount of Barges moving along the coast (hopefully randomly scripted, as targets of opportunity)
Y amount of bomber/assault aircraft (e.g. if you're blue and flying JU 87/ JU 88/ HE 111, you're a
target)
Germany
Objectives:
Airfields Littlestone, Lymphe, Hawkinge, Manston, Ramsgate, Canterbury OR 4 of the above mentioned airfields and Eastchurch
Destruction of Z amount of RAF aircraft
Time: Dusk.. it would be set so the last 15-20 minutes of the map would be during the night (maybe have to wait for TF 5.0 ?). This is historical since Blennies liked attacking at dusk, afaik, so they could get back under the cover of darkness. Also for diversity.
Weather: If possible, weather that isn't pure blue skies, maybe a little more clouds (overcast-ish, for blennies)? Wouldn't this impact performance? Could the weather be scripted to change? ie overcast at start of the map, then skies get clear, then night hits.
Basically Britain is doing everything in its power to stop Germany from amassing the equipment required for Sealion, Germany is doing what it "should" have done during the war, destroying the RAF and taking air control over SE England.
An emphasis would be put spreading map objectives at other places than right next to Dover/Calais. No more ships in the straits of Dover either. Historically though, Calais had them barges, so it remains an objective. Aircraft would become actual objectives, not sure if that would encourage or deter on-the-deck dogfights though. Britain seems to have a lot of objectives compared to Germany, then again, you have a lot to do when you're trying to prevent someone from invading your country. You could balance out objectives through the variables X, Y and Z and through the tonnage required from bombs. Britain also has the disadvantage of being forced to go past Calais/Coquelles/trifields/etc. So perhaps it would be good, in the name of a fair map, to limit the amount of fighter aircraft there or something. You could privelege St Omer, Ligescourt, Tramecourt, Desvres, Colembert and so on as fighter bases.
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