A fun thing to do with Gubi's chronology is to fly "this day in 19xx," since there are missions for pretty much any calendar day, for one year or another. The missions may not be strictly historical, but they give an idea what was happening on this date in history, sometimes in theaters you haven't thought of for a while.
This week, being Battle of the Bulge +75Y, there are a lot of 1944 missions for any given day.
I often wake up at 0500 and can't get back to sleep, so I went down to the PC and flew the first red and first blue mission from 12/16/1944, both over Bastogne. The red mission went fine; I kept my distance from a flight of 190s and eventually picked off an unescorted Fw 189. In the blue mission I was not so cautious, got low and slow with too many Mustangs in my 109G-10, and paid for it. Both missions ran perfectly and were dawn flights with pretty skies, although the maps used were a bit too summery.
This type of thing is what keeps 1946/BAT the most clicked of the dozen or so flight sim shortcuts on my desktop. Endless variety and the ability to tailor the mission to your whim.
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