NORTHERN STAR: Leningrad Front Spring 1942

NORTHERN STAR: Leningrad Front Spring 1942

By the beginning of 1942 much had changed in the war in Europe. Operation Barbarossa, the Third Reich's invasion of the Soviet Union had begun in June of 1941. It had stalled at the gates of Moscow that winter with the Soviets desperately hanging on as they attempted to rebuild the army and air force. The German invasion of the USSR had also drawn Finland into the war for a second time, after a brief armistice between Finland and the Soviets in the aftermath of the Winter War between 1939 and 1940. In the northern sector, the Baltic Sea city of Leningrad had been under siege by the Axis since September of 1941 with no sign of victory yet in sight. Throughout the winter of 1941-42 Allied aid had continued to the Soviets via Murmansk and other routes with vital supplies of combat aircraft and other vital war material to keep the Red Army in the conflict as the Soviet Union labored to rebuild its industrial capacity. Domestic Soviet aircraft like the workhorse I-16 were joined by P-40s, P-39s, Hurricanes and other western types. Some 18 percent of all combat aircraft used by the USSR in WW2 were of foreign manufacture, with more than 100 pilots achieving ace status flying them

For the  Luftwaffes part the fighter arm would see its zenith on the Eastern Front with many aces achieving victories above the century mark. The Finnish Air Force fighter squadrons would also add their own impressive chapter in air combat, flying a small mix of fighter planes from both the west and Germany during the years fighting the USSR from 1939-1944.

This FSO recreates the contest between these combatants when the war in the East was still less than a year old, and would ultimately claim the lives of tens of millions on both sides.

Country Percentages:

Axis 50%
Allied 50%

Field Assignments:

AC-

Bf 109F-4 (48 max)
Bf 109E-4 (48 min)
Brewster B-239 (20 min-36 max)
Bf 110C-4b (20 min-24 max)
Ju-87D 'Stuka' (20 min)
Ju-88A (20 min)

GV-

AC-

I-16 (48 min)
P-39D (20 min-24 max)
P-40B
Hurricane IIC (20 min-24 max)
IL-2 'Sturmovik'' (20min)
B-25C Glass nose bomber (20 min)

GV-

Arena Settings:

Please note the updated rules:

http://ahevents.org/fso-related/fso-rules.html

Design by Warloc

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