Bombing of Dresden?
 

allies bomb dresden and axis have to defend... just a idea... maybe alot of aa guns vs alot of planes

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

You're joking right?

Dresden was firebombed to hell. Incendiary bombs basically swallowed up the entire city. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed. Do you seriously think this would make for a "fun" map?

I'm not saying that the bombing by the British was evil, but come on, it's one of the "darker" chapters of WWII.

I mean, if you want a Dresden map, why not a liberation of Auschwitz map?

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

You must also add the fact, besides all the horrors that went on in real life, the map would just plain out be boring..flak vs airplanes just gets old..

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

Damn, Ping Pong's got an even better reason. :)

Just look at Battle of Britain, that map *was* fun the first few days people played it... But then... B O R I N G

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

hey... i said it was "just a idea"

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

And we just said..boring.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

Bomb something interesting like Schweinfurt or Regensberg.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

peeneemude is on the FH site for a s planned map

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

Dresden...

All I can say is... read up un your history!

Dresden was a crime of war, nothing more.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

You people are stupid, Dresden was firebombed because of how interspersed the industry was in the city, it had 127 DIFFERENT FACTORIES and alot of them were destroyed or damaged in the attack. Granted alot of innocent people died in the attack, but alls fair in love and war.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

You talk nonsense.

In 1941 Charles Portal of the British Air Staff advocated that entire cities and towns should be bombed. Portal claimed that this would quickly bring about the collapse of civilian morale in Germany. Air Marshall Arthur Harris agreed and when he became head of RAF Bomber Command in February 1942, he introduced a policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.

One tactic used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force was the creation of firestorms. This was achieved by dropping incendiary bombs, filled with highly combustible chemicals such as magnesium, phosphorus or petroleum jelly (napalm), in clusters over a specific target. After the area caught fire, the air above the bombed area, become extremely hot and rose rapidly. Cold air then rushed in at ground level from the outside and people were sucked into the fire.

In 1945, Arthur Harris decided to create a firestorm in the medieval city of Dresden. He considered it a good target as it had not been attacked during the war and was virtually undefended by anti-aircraft guns. The population of the city was now far greater than the normal 650,000 due to the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army.

On the 13th February 1945, 773 Avro Lancasters bombed Dresden. During the next two days the USAAF sent over 527 heavy bombers to follow up the RAF attack. Dresden was nearly totally destroyed. As a result of the firestorm it was afterwards impossible to count the number of victims. Recent research suggest that 35,000 were killed but some German sources have argued that it was over 100,000.


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden2.JPG


And try not to call me or the others stupid, kid.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

Dresden was a Red cross town, it should not have been bombed since it was full of people running away from the Red army. If it was a warcrime or not is not ours to judge, but it's at least tasteless, and such a scenario will never be in FH.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

It was a war crime plain and simple. On another note the luftwaffe did a similar thing to coventry in the midlands, although not to such enourmous casualties.

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

hmm the germans done the same thing to britain only on a smaller scale , they would have killed more but they lacked the heavy bombers to do so , they also fired thousands of v1's and v2's indescremenatly at london and other UK cities,

Re: Bombing of Dresden?
 

And there won't be a map like that either, so it's not an argument for including the bombing of Dresden