THE UPDATED FUTURE GROUP BUILDS POLL....

[Wayne Little]

Here is a proposal of the top half dozen set out in a possible order to (A) cover the top vote getters, and (B) allow some to fit Important dates....remember they don't necessarily have to be in order of their final vote tally..do they?

Something to think about....

 

[rochie]

looks good to me Wayne

 

[Lucky13]

Don't see any problems with that idea Wayne!

 

[lesofprimus]

Copy/Paste of Waynes Pdf.....

GROUP BUILD – Proposed 2009 – 2010 Schedule

2009
Jan FEB MAR APR MAY Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
----1---------------------- Defence of the Reich

Jan Feb Mar APR MAY JUN Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
-----2--------------- Pacific Theatre of Operations

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun JUL AUG SEP Oct Nov Dec
-----3-------------- Mediterranean Theatre

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC
-----4-------------- Bombers/Heavy Hitters

2010
JAN FEB MAR Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
-----5-------------- Cold War Protagonists '49- '89

Jan Feb Mar APR MAY JUN Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
-----6--------------- D-Day/Invasion Stripes ** Moved to Suit June 6th

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun JUL AUG SEP OCT Nov Dec
-----7-------------------- Battle of Britain ** Moved to Suit Oct.31st

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC
-----8-------------- C'wealth Forces

 

[lesofprimus]

Final Tally:

Mediteranean Theatre/North Africa: 11 Group Build #3

Bombers/Heavy Hitters, Europe, '39 - '45: 6 Group Build #4
D-Day / Invasion Stripes: 6 Group Build #6

Cold War Protagonists, '49 - '89: 5 Group Build #5
Commonwealth Air Forces, RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF, IAF etc.: 5 Group Build #8
Nightfighters vs. Bombers: 5

Eastern Front, '41-'45: 4
Tank Busters: 4
Freezing Hell, Northern Europe/Winter War: 4
Red Stars, VVS: 4

The Jet Age 1944-45: 3
Anti Shipping: 3
Foreign Spitfires etc: 3
Photo Recce, '40 -'45: 3
The Golden Years, Between The Wars, '18-'39: 3
Captured: 3
Support Vehicles, '39-'45: 3
*ARMOR Battle of Kursk, July 1943.*: 3
*ARMOR Battle of Stalingrad, 17 Jul 1942 and 2 Feb 1943.*: 3

 

[lesofprimus]

Everything looks OK to me Wayne....

As the Split Builds go, I recommend Joint Ventures on the following:

JAN FEB MAR Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
-----5-------------- Cold War Protagonists '49- '89 AND ARMOR Battle of Kursk, July 1943.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC
-----8-------------- C'wealth Forces AND ARMOR Battle of Stalingrad, 17 Jul 1942 and 2 Feb 1943.

 

[lesofprimus]

I have no idea how Im going to utilize my Ju87G now tho... I thought for sure Tank Busters would get atleast 5 votes......

 

[lesofprimus]

Actually, just looking at the votes:

Eastern Front, '41-'45: 4
Tank Busters: 4
Freezing Hell, Northern Europe/Winter War: 4
Red Stars, VVS: 4
*ARMOR Battle of Kursk, July 1943.*: 3
*ARMOR Battle of Stalingrad, 17 Jul 1942 and 2 Feb 1943.*: 3

Thats alot of votes for something either on freezing cold Russian soil or stopping the Russian onslaught that went right out the door....

Hmmm......

We gotta get something fit in fellas.........

 

[lesofprimus]

How bout this....

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC
-----4-------------- Bombers/Heavy Hitters (Including Tank Busters) help a brother out...

JAN FEB MAR Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
-----5-------------- Cold War Protagonists '49- '89 AND ARMOR Battle of Kursk, July 1943.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OCT NOV DEC
-----8-------------- Commonwealth Forces RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF, IAF AND ARMOR Battle of Stalingrad, 17 Jul 1942 and 2 Feb 1943. AND add on VVS Russian

Make it like a The Other Allies Build or something......

 

[Lucky13]

I'm up for any of those Brother....a bit of pick n mix! Like the first one, could do a No 105 or No 139 Mosquito and a IL-2 or whatever, second one...Mig-21/F-8 Crusader and/or a tank....endless possibilities!

 

[Airframes]

Yep, like the ideas of both Dan and Wayne. If nowhere else, could your JU87 fit in the tank-battle builds, with aircraft included? Certainly fits for '...Heavy Hitters' anyway.

 

[Lucky13]

Aye, the G had a good punch!

 

[lesofprimus]

Thanks guys, I think I like the idea of putting Tank Busters into the Heavy Hitters catagory...

So the New Catagory name for the Commonwealth Build will be:

Build #8 Commonwealth/VVS SPLITBUILD w/Armor Battle of Stalingrad

 

[Njaco]

Is the Stalingrad build alittle restrictive? How about "Armour from Stalingrad to Kursk"?

I'll go away now.

 

[Lucky13]

We could just leave off the "Bombers/Heavy Hitters (Including Tank Busters)" name, and call it simply "Heavyweights"...
We all know what that word mean, right? And bombers and tankbusters would fit in just nicely into that category, having the heaviest punch.
As for "Armour, from Stalingrad to Kursk", I think that would work just fine as it says in Wikipedia "The Kursk salient (also known as the Kursk bulge) was created in the aftermath of the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad. The Germans hoped to shorten their lines by eliminating the salient, with pincers breaking through its northern and southern flanks to achieve yet another great encirclement of Red Army forces." They walk pretty much hand in hand as Kursk was because of the loss of Stalingrad. Both Luftwaffe and VVS were heavily involved there as well....

Edit: Come to think about it! Why not include the "Anti Shipping" with the "Tankbuster" build? Thinking that they only swapped the tank targets for shipping instead....

 

[lesofprimus]

If everyone else if fine with making the Bombers/Heavy Hitters Build include Anti-Shipping and change the name to Heavyweights, Im cool with it....

 

[Wayne Little]

Sounds fine to me....

If you want a tank build in there to run in parallel make it as Chris says "Stalingrad to Kursk" maybe across 5# and 6# GB's?
Latter part of Stalingrad Jan/Feb through July for Kursk. gives plenty of time for two aircraft builds and a Tank or a tank and one aircraft or one aircraft and Tank? which ever combo takes your fancy and fits your budget and time frame....

 

[lesofprimus]

So we want to included the armor battles of Stalingrad AND Kursk into one build, or are we saying 2 split builds, one with Kursk armor and the other with armour from Staligrad up till Kursk????

I like that better, as it gives us the chance to build 2 tanks in a year, with the 4 planes (or more)....

 

[Njaco]

Sorry, I didn't see Kursk already up there. Didn't mean to throw a monkey wrench in there.

 

[Lucky13]

Sounds good to me chaps! Been wanting to do tank for some time now...