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I have really enjoyed the Pearl to Japan missions we have been flying on Sundays over the past few weeks.

I think Rabitski and Ardmore have done a great job with this and we have enough missions apparently to keep us going until Christmas.

So where to next?

I have started playing with the FMB over the past few days - I know, its only taken me 3 years

If there is an interest I would be happy to try and put together a Stalingrad campaign as our next project? I will need some help from our more experienced campaign designers I am sure but I am very happy to do the grunt work and the research in terms of units deployed aircraft types etc.

If anyone has any data on this they can share then so much the better.

Assuming we fly red there would be the following stages:

1. Initial Luftwaffe air assualt of the city in late summer of 1942 - glamour boys attack the bomber formations and escorting fighters, mudmovers attack advancing German army units.
2. German army ground offensive as units push into the city - fighters attack Luftwaffe divebombers and ground attack go for the german army units.
3. Russian counterattack which encircles the German 6th Army in November 1942 - we fly in support of the counter attack.
4. Luftwaffe attempt to supply the 6th Army by air - fighter units suppress these flights, mudmovers attack German ground units under seige in the city.
5. German counter offensive in December attempts to break through Russian encirclement of the city. Ground attack boys go for the 4th Panzer Army as it tries to reach Stalingrad, fighters fly escort.
6. Final battle, January 1943 - fighters maintain air superiority over the city and ground attack continue to go for the German army in the city.

If I did 2 or 3 missions for each phase that would give us maybe 15 missions in total?

It would be a big change to the Pacific, only one map with landmarks so easier to navigate, I would model the poor weather, and the flak would get less as the campaign progressed as German supplies get lower.

Interested in your views.

I'm interested!



Ege, who prefers east over pacific.

Sounds interesting to me m8. Maybe I can put up a site for you to utilize just for this campaign?

Hell of a change in the weather, but you know the line from the movie "If you build it they will come"

Well it is final then, I am going to build a site for TBD campaign(s).

If you want to brainstorm some stuff, lets do it on Sunday maybe before the usual session.

I would like to see us do this if possible:

1941:
• Operation Barbarossa
• Siege of Leningrad
• Battle of Moscow
• Second Battle of Kharkov
• Battle of Sevastopol
1942:
• Fall Blau
• Battle of Stalingrad

There are some more skirmishes and such mixed in between these , but I think these are the major ones.

Kind of an Eastern Front Grand Campaign of sorts. Do we think this is possible? We can divide the workload across a couple of people who can make missions for it all.

If we can do it, I would say 2-3 weeks per conflict with 6-12 missions ought to sort us out. There is a lot to some of the conflicts but I think we can narrow it down to sections where the Allied side is attacking in a hope to repeat history.

Seeing as how there are plenty of Pacific Theatre missions still left, if we start on this thing now, we could have the first couple of conflicts finished and ready by the time the current campaign ends.

Who thinks I am crazy???? HUH!!!