This is an historical campaign, centered on the wartime battles of the USS Saratoga CV-3. She survived several torpedo hits and a kamikaze attack and it took an atomic bomb to sink her. The campaign is semi historical in a sense, because it contains one “what if” mission. The dates, ship names, Task Force and squadron designations nomenclature and compositions for all US and most IJN ship types are historically accurate. They, along with dates and background comments were gotten from the "WW2 Task forces list" website and from Wikipedia.
Actual Task force formations, courses and exact launch coordinates are a best guess. The campaign runs from a “what if” Wake Island relief scenario – December 1941 thru Saratoga’s last wartime engagements with kamikazes off Iwo Jima. I used only one type of VN ship and most but not all classes of destroyers, heavy and light cruisers are relatively new uploads.
There are four campaigns in this package. The large campaign has you, the player flying a fighter, a dive bomber or a torpedo plane, randomly chosen for each mission. In addition. Included in this pack are separate pure fighter, torpedo plane and dive bomber campaigns for your choice.
A headwind is added to most missions to add additional realism of the carrier’s turning into the wind at takeoff. It also aids the player in taking off with heavy payloads and on landing. Where a wind direction and speed are noted in the intel portion of a mission briefing, the wind is to an altitude of up to 2000 feet. Keep that in mind when making low altitude attacks.
This campaign set is best installed on a “clean” install of CFS2, using stock scenery except where noted. It was created and plays well on Windows 7 and 10 systems and I suspect should be fine on XP and Win 8/8.1. Copies of all set up readmes, description, required downloads and installation documentation are included in MS Word and PDF format for your convenience. The campaign should prove challenging to novice (especially), intermediate and even advanced simmers. See the USS Saratoga CV-3 2020 Campaign Descrip doc for credits. The dowloads list has been edited 31 JUL 2020
Submitted by Shadow Wolf 07
Actual Task force formations, courses and exact launch coordinates are a best guess. The campaign runs from a “what if” Wake Island relief scenario – December 1941 thru Saratoga’s last wartime engagements with kamikazes off Iwo Jima. I used only one type of VN ship and most but not all classes of destroyers, heavy and light cruisers are relatively new uploads.
There are four campaigns in this package. The large campaign has you, the player flying a fighter, a dive bomber or a torpedo plane, randomly chosen for each mission. In addition. Included in this pack are separate pure fighter, torpedo plane and dive bomber campaigns for your choice.
A headwind is added to most missions to add additional realism of the carrier’s turning into the wind at takeoff. It also aids the player in taking off with heavy payloads and on landing. Where a wind direction and speed are noted in the intel portion of a mission briefing, the wind is to an altitude of up to 2000 feet. Keep that in mind when making low altitude attacks.
This campaign set is best installed on a “clean” install of CFS2, using stock scenery except where noted. It was created and plays well on Windows 7 and 10 systems and I suspect should be fine on XP and Win 8/8.1. Copies of all set up readmes, description, required downloads and installation documentation are included in MS Word and PDF format for your convenience. The campaign should prove challenging to novice (especially), intermediate and even advanced simmers. See the USS Saratoga CV-3 2020 Campaign Descrip doc for credits. The dowloads list has been edited 31 JUL 2020
Submitted by Shadow Wolf 07
