Grits this is exactly what guys like oldman dont like (lack of the "quick furball"). This is why some of us do not like base capture. This is really what we (Checkertails and Duxford Eagles) like to do instead of the typical furballing kill then be killed atmosphere normally seen in the CT.
I do recall you comming after us. It was our responsability to decoy...not to see a single con and shoot it down if it was not a threat to the mission.
As you approached the La flight, Lowe set out to keep an eye on you. As he said, we wanted to drag what we could north away from the river. When you started back we started to worry. I really thought you gave up and was RTB. Then Stream sent out an SOS. Thats where our comunication broke down. When we met with the bombers, I saw you smoking a single bomber. That was me that enguaged you but it was spoiled when I dove too fast, was still too late, then missed the shot. I had no idea Deej was comming after me...my wingman and I were slit up and I had no 6 call. When I over shot you, I looked back to see what you were going to do. If you had turned back, I was to continue climbing and get back to the bombers and form with my wingman. If you were to head back to the bombers, I was to eliminate you which is what I expected you to do. Well, Deej kinda eliminated me. When I looked to see what you were going to go, Deej stole my wing then I exploded. We were, or at least I, was expecting only one con to be after the bombers...YOU! Because of a simple comunication problem, plus me not "rubbernecking", I died. It was a tuff sortie. We had a plan, that included strategic base "flashing". We were too far from the bombers then too close, then too far, then too close. Due to the capturing of A1, fuel was a big concern. The rest of the La7s had no choice, even when we departed we knew, but had to land at the port. That is when oldman joined in...but not for long {
oldman}
Jg3 captures bases in an organised but suicidel type mass formation..ruthless and relentless but you know were they will end up. (At a VH Base or an Airfield). We know what targets they will select first, whet needs to be eliminated in order for it to be captured. We try to pick a target that we decide is a realistic type (strat) target and treat it as Jg3 would treat the importance of a base capture. The bridge was bombed and the mission was considered a huge success, although the CT flyers may not think so, and those front line bases could not get thier beer. We take pride in these types of missions. The way Deej was thinking is what we want, we want others to get interested in these realistic type missions.
We dont normaly concern ourselves with the typical "shane mentality" of "turn&burn" furballing skills. Some of our squadmates fly for weeks and never even have the opertunity to land a kill. They do it for the love of the mission. However, we do understand some players like oldman have little time to play and want a quick fight.
Some of these maps have great (gameplay meaningless) strat targets that require tough, deep planning and fuel management(hard to do with the crazy base capture). You should see thay mission orders that were sent to the 78th by Stream. They are in Adobe format with screenshots (recon pics) of the targets.
Ask stream how long it took him to recon the mission, plan it and write up the orders. Things like "basecapture" can cause a well, time consuming, planed mission to get waisted.
You guys will be seeing more missions like this on tuesdays and thursday nights.
I am glad you and deej enjoyed it. We enjoyed it as well.
Hopefully on tuesday and thursday nights, axis CT players will enter the arena at 9pm eastern and begin to wonder what target the 78th and/or 325th plan to attack. Much harder to figure out when it isnt a base!
Lt Col LtMagee
Deputy Commander for Operations "DCO"
78th Duxford Eagles
