The Battle of Britain was an aerial campaign of the German Luftwaffe against the British Royal Air Force. The Luftwaffe's mission was to cripple the RAF and set Britain up for an invasion. The Luftwaffe commenced air raids on RAF airbasses, infastructure, and shipping areas. The attacks were successful for that first few months, however, the Luftwaffe soon began bombing cities, which were harder to reach. Luftwaffe planes only carried enough fuel to fly to their objectives, hit them, and fly back. Thus, the Nazi fighters were unable to wage prolonged dogfights against the British fighters, which would leave the heavy bombers open for attack. The Battle of Britain was a terrible and crippling defeat for Nazi Germany and is believed to have been a major turning point in the war. It is featured as a map for Battlefield 1942, included as a bonus in the version 1.45 patch.
Conquest
As the player might expect, this map is almost entirely based on aerial combat. In fact, the map is unique in that victory is not reached by capturing flags. Indeed, there are no flags to capture. The map centres around a set of objectives - four radar towers and a factory.
As the German tickets tick down, they must damage and eventually destroy all of these objectives to win before their tickets reach zero, doing so then reduces Allied tickets. The radars and factory can be repaired by allied engineers at any point until they are destroyed completely. The Germans have an airfield, with two spawn points. The British have two airfields, all uncapturable.
Equipment
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 Royal Air Force
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 Luftwaffe
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