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This item has a Codex entry: London Calling: Raiders
This item has a Codex entry: London Calling: Scourge
"With your fellow knights of the sky, join the aerial clashes high above the British capital in the new Air Assault game mode."

DLC Overview - Battlefield.com

London Calling is a map featured in the Battlefield 1: Apocalypse expansion.[1] It is one of two maps designed exclusively for aerial combat, the other being Razor's Edge.

Overview[]

As the name suggests, London Calling takes place in the skies above the English capital of London, in the midst of a dusk incursion by the Imperial German Luftstreitkräfte. Below the clouds, searchlights rake the sky and gold flashes of anti-aircraft fire can be seen erupting from batteries across the city, as well as the resulting bursts of black smoke from the exploding shells. From high above, the only recognisable landmark amidst the vast urban sprawl is the Thames, which snakes westwards through a carpet of gray and green.

Unlike Razor's Edge, there are no physical obstructions to flying, save for a few Barrage Balloons at lower altitudes - as a result, clouds are the only means of breaking line of sight. The map features an altitude limit that forbids pilots from straying too far below or above the cloud layer, as well as horizontal boundaries that concentrate the battle to an oblong-shaped section of the sky.

The British spawn at the south end of the play area while the Germans deploy from the north.

Air Assault[]

Raiders[]

In Air Assault: Raiders, each side has their own Airship L30, deployed simultaneously, that can be spawned on to support friendly aircraft dogfighting in the skies around it with QF 1 AAs (on seats two, three, and five) in place of the usual 20mm Autocannons, as well as the usual 2 Heavy Machine Guns (on seats four & six) on the top bow and stern of the ship. The objective of the game is to be the first team to score 1000 points, achieved by shooting down various enemy aircraft.

100 points are awarded for every tenth of the enemy behemoth's health is removed, meaning that destroying the Airship L30 automatically wins the round.

Both sides have access to their full complement of aircraft, including a C-Class Airship unique to this specific version of Air Assault.

Equipment[]

BF1 United Kingdom Icon British Empire
Fixed-wing aircraft

20 Sopwith Camel/Bristol F2.B/Airco DH.10/Ilya-Muromets

Airship

1 Airship L30 (Behemoth)
1 C-Class Airship

BF1 German Empire Icon German Empire
Fixed-wing aircraft

20 Dr.1 Scout/Halberstadt CL.II/Gotha G.IV/Ilya-Muromets

Airship

1 Airship L30 (Behemoth)
1 C-Class Airship

Scourge[]

Air Assault: Scourge takes place over two rounds - during which the German team is deployed with an Airship L30 (Which has the same arnament as the Airships in Raiders), and a point lead of 400. As with Raiders, the objective is to the first team to reach 1000 points, either by shooting down enemy aircraft, or damaging or destroying the "attacking" team's behemoth. After the round ends, the teams switch with the other team now spawning with the a friendly Airship L30. At the end of the two rounds, the team with the most points total wins overall.

The German team can only spawn in Fighters and Attack Planes, while the British have additional access to Bombers and Heavy Bombers.

Equipment[]

BF1 United Kingdom Icon British Empire
Fixed-wing aircraft

20 Sopwith Camel/Bristol F2.B/Airco DH.10/Ilya-Muromets

BF1 German Empire Icon German Empire
Self-propelled artillery

1 Airship L30 (Behemoth)

Fixed-wing aircraft

20 Dr.1 Scout/Halberstadt CL.II

Scoring Chart[]

Vehicle Value
Airship L30 1000 Points
Bristol F2.B / Halberstadt CL.II 15 Points
Sopwith Camel / Fokker Dr.I 10 Points
Ilya-Muromets 10 Points
C-Class Airship 10 Points
Airco DH.10 / Gotha G.IV 5 Points

Gallery[]


Trivia[]

  • The Scourge and Raiders gamemodes are technically separate maps, as can be seen in the server browser.
    • The internal name for London Calling: Scourge in the Community Test Environment is MP_London.
    • The internal name for London Calling: Raiders is MP_Blitz.
  • This map along with with other maps from Apocalypse were publicly trialled in the Community Test Environment with a "white box" prototype texture (which the map incidentally lacks since much of the environment is empty aside from the skybox) like the one seen in Operation Outbreak in Battlefield 4 and four maps from Battlefield 1: Turning Tides.
  • This map was also featured in the singleplayer story Friends in High Places.
  • Despite their models being exactly the same (visually) as the 20mm Cannon on regular L30's, the guns on seats two, three and five shoot airbursting AA flak rounds instead of High Explosive.
  • The name "London Calling" references the station identification used by the BBC World Service during World War II radio broadcasts in Allied occupied territories: "This is London calling..." The phrase is more commonly known in the mainstream from its use as the title of the Clash's third studio album as well as the title of the album's lead single.
    • In the polish language version of the game, the map is called "Niebo nad Londynem" (London skies), since neither the song nor the radio message translates well to polish

References[]

  1. [1] - retrieved January 18, 2018
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