And here comes a completely NEW campaign, regarding a subject I haven't tried before, using a completely new method, at least for me:
This is a 18-mission static campaign portraying the fighting in the beginning of the Tunisian campaign from the RAF perspective: it starts with the landings in early November, and ends on the last days in that month. During this campaign the Allies and the Axis were for the last time during WW2 evenly matched in the air, and what was thought to be a pretty easy rush into Tunis turned into a tough and drawn-out slogging match, as both the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica rushed reinforcements to the scene. (And they did this on a scale that, ironically enough, would have made quite a difference in the earlier stage of the war in North Africa, but now only delayed an inevitable defeat.)
You can download it HERE: https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=1600Note that
ALL missions are based on history, within the limitations given by the game. I have used that very detailed, day-by-day account compiled by Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello and others. (See below.) Note also that
this is not a standard campaign in the sense that you participate in a series missions flown by a single unit. Instead you take part in a mission flown by the RAF on a special day, following the historical chronology of the campaign. (See the Appendix table that comes with the D/L.)
This means that you will fly a number of different aircraft, from different units, performing a number of different tasks. You will often fly as a fighter, in a Spitfire or a Beaufighter, but you will also fly a Martlet off a carrier, an Avro Sunderland in search of a downed pilot, a Hudson on sub-hunting patrol and a Albacore torpedo plane looking for Axis shipping. You will also pilot a Wellington in a night attack on a target in Sicily, and a Beaufighter MkIF night fighter hunting for enemy bombers in the dark over Algiers. You will use bases both in Algeria and on Malta. You can say that
the campaign is mission oriented instead of unit oriented, but it still aims to give you a sense of what it was like to participate in the actual fighting in the air during the initial phase of Battle for Tunisia. (A detailed mission overview comes with the "Read-Me".)
This campaign has been built with and for
BAT, the WAW Module. If you have BAT 4.1.3 or above you have everything you need! (Note that you need this version or above, not least because the missions makes frequent use of the new "Triggers" feature.)
My main source has of course been the huge and very detailed "A History of the Mediterranean Air War", Volume 3, "Tunisia and the End in North Africa November 1942 - May 1943", by Christopher Shores and Giovanni Massimello et al. You can't better this one, I assure you. If you are seriously interested in this subject, this is THE book to get. Highly recommended!
A lot of shiny screenies here:
Thanks for looking!
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Topic: Battle for Tunisia - The RAF Story (Read 3898 times)
