Fei Hou, INTO THE TIGERS DEN

                                                           

 

The handful of American mercenaries who scorched earth and sky in defense of China were officially known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG), but, of course, are best remembered as the 'Flying Tigers'-the English translation of Fei Hou. The nickname was bestowed by the grateful Chinese after the American pilots attacked a large number of Japanese fighters over Kunming on December 20, 1941. In just seven months of intense aerial combat, the AVG earned a lasting niche in aviation history, reportedly destroying nearly 300 Japanese aircraft for the loss of only 69 planes.
Equally famous is their brilliant and controversial commander, Claire L. Chennault, whose genius for leadership in the face of overwhelming odds made him a hero in the United States as well as in China. Chennault was a unique individual who could inspire great accomplishments from all those who served under him. In creating his legendary group of airmen-composed of former U.S. Navy, Marine and Army Air Corps pilots who quietly entered China posing as artists and missionaries-Chennault established his own version of an ideal mercenary band. To him it was clear that paid soldiers could play a vital role in aerial combat, and in his attempts to sell his sometimes radical ideas to military officials he frequently quoted lines from 'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries,' his favorite A.E. Houseman poem:
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling,
Took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended:
They stood and earth's foundations stay.
What God abandoned these defended
And saved the sum of things for pay.

40/60 side split(allies/axis)

Allied: Bishop
B-25C  15 min(no straffer)
P-40C
HURRICANE MKII w/8 .303 guns package  MIN 20
HURRICANE MKII w/12 .303 guns package max 20

*P-40’S May carry bombs. Allied bombers will have a 18,000 alt cap.
*Allied fighters will have 23k alt cap. Allied fighters may strafe or otherwise damage/destroy ground targets.

IJAAF/IJNAF: Knight

A6M2(SUB FOR  KI-43)
D3A1(SUB FOR KI-27)MIN 25
G4M1 MODEL11(SUB FOR KI-21) MIN 15(Either of the GP bomb options only)

*A6M2 may carry bombs. IJAAF/IJNAF fighters will have 23,000 alt cap.
*IJNAF/IJAAF  bombers will have 18k alt cap.  IJN/IJAAF fighters may strafe or otherwise damage/destroy ground targets

SPECIAL NOTES:
*Both sides must launch from a minimum of 4 separate bases
*Fighters will operate out of v-bases only. This is to simulate the unimproved airfields that were in use in this area. Bombers will use rear airbases only.
*Fighters may carry ordinance. Fighters may hunt/kill enemy aircraft, once released by their bomber groups.
*Fighters may strafe/attack targets of opportunity once released by their bomber groups.
*Fighters may refuel/rearm at any active base.

*G4M1 may use only GP bomb options.

 

**Special note on altitude limitations.If an infraction of altitude ceilings is witnessed, please contact myself or another CM with a film clip showing only the infractions. Please also understand a few hundred feet is not necessarily a deliberate infraction, so please just focus on having fun.

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