Formosa Air Battle

Formosa Air Battle

In the summer of 1944, the Imperial Japanese high command altered its strategy for dealing with the oncoming and ever-present United States Navy. With a smaller and weaker fleet, the Japanese focused more on stealthy attacks with submarines as well as an emphasis on aerial attacks. In this new strategy, the T Attack Force was born. Before it could be put to use in October of 1944, the Americans were on the offensive in Formosa and Ryukyu Islands.

Before Japanese plans could be carried out, the Americans successfully engaged the IJN and IJAAF in Formosa in early October, 1944. Japanese command were aware of impending large scale landings in the Phillipines but were not absolutely sure where. As aerial attacks and task group presence increased in Formosa, the Japanese command correctly predicted that the landings would take place elsewhere but still chose to engage the Fast Carriers. What occurred from October 12-16, 1944 in the Taiwan Sea became known as the Formosa Air Battle.

Side Split: 50% Allies/50% Axis

Special Rules:

Because there is no Formosa map, we will use Luzon as the geography is similar.

All aircraft have a 20K altitude cap.

Ordnance carrying aircraft alt cap is 14K.

Objects destroyed by fighters will not be scored or counted towars objectives.

Hour 1 targets will not be scored past T+60.

Scoring:

Fighter - 1

Bomber - 1

Hangar - 5

Bunker - 1

CV - 16

CA/DD - 4

Hour 2 Scoring:

Frame 1: Destroy 4 Hangars and 8 Bunkers. If achieved, Allies receive 30 points. If not achieved, Axis receive 30 points. Fighters and Bombers are worth 0.5 points after T+60.

Frames 2 and 3: Destroy CV and two escort ships. If achieved, Axis receive 25 points. If not achieved, Allies receive 25 points. Fighters and Bombers are worth 0.5 points after T+60.

 

Arena Settings:

- Terrain: luzon

- Clouds: med5kmed15k

- Fuel Burn: 1.0

- Icons: 3K Friendly/Enemy

- Ack: .3

- Fighter and Bomber warning range: 52800 (about 10 miles)

- Tower range set to 52800 (for display only to match the above setting)

- Haze/Fog: 15 miles

- Radar: Off

- Enemy collisions: on

- Friendly collisions: off

- Killshooter: off

- Time: 1000 (10AM) Game Clock

- Formations: On

- Formation Autopilot: On

- Bomber calibration: Automatic

- Wind:

0K-2K NO WIND

2K-8K: S TO N - Speed 5

8K-14K: SW TO NE - Speed 10

14K-20K: SW to NE - Speed 15

20K+: 45 MPH Downwind

Area of Operations:

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