Dirk "Emil" Schoorens
April 2001


1943 SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN    
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A campaign made for Pacific Tide, the new Solomons theater for European Air War.  

The 1943 Solomons Campaign replaces the 1944 Campaign with one starting in March 
of 1943, as Guadalcanal is left by the Japanese forces and secured for the Allies.
The campaign ends in the spring of 1944.

The aim of this campaign is to simulate the air war in the Solomon Islands between
American, RNZAF and Japanese air forces and tries to represent the Allied offensive
climbing up the Solomons island chain, ending with the isolation and abandonment
of Rabaul, the main Japanese naval base in the theater.

In a normal campaign you fly a mission every 4 days, if you choose a long 
campaign be prepared to fly a mission every 2 days for a total of > 100 sorties.

All American, RNZAF and Japanese units mainly fly armed sweep, escort and intercept missions,
that are more or less equal in number. The farther time progresses in the Japanese campaign,
the more intercept missions will be flown.
A few bombing missions may also be present, especially for the Americans. For reasons
unknown you will not be asked to fly interdiction missions. This is the reason why there
aren't any flyable bomber squadrons in the campaign : no interdiction and maybe a few
bombing missions. You will all agree that it isn't much fun to fly continuous fighter
sweeps in a Dauntless or Kate.