"On the Sight II"...please give opinion.

[FiLtH]

With the new patch can you imagine what the sky will look like with so many bombers burning?

[chris3]

Originally posted by FiLtH
With the new patch can you imagine what the sky will look like with so many bombers burning?

moin

would be nice if city and flack factory(in 7, 10) is hiting by the roocks and
the ammo and fuel facktory(in 7, 10) is hit by the knights.


i think it would be the best target to get some fun, but 163s are going to be a problem we need to think about killing there fild.
cu

[FiLtH]

Neg Chris...we arent going to hit fields. Just the strats. If guys want to spend perks, and have cool targets to hit...thats the idea. Few even like flying jets, others arent good at it, and know(as I would) Id only end up spending 1000 perks before the night was over.

  Im going to wait till tonight to see who hits what. The way the maps change I dont want to plan till the last minute. Last minute being 7pm et. See ya tonight!

[ROC]

See you all tonight!  Getting all warmed up for the blast

[koda76]

Rip Roarin and ready 2 go.....Are we going to communicate on 200?

[ROC]

I'll have 200 going

[koda76]

Roger Wilco

[FiLtH]

Thanks all who participated!  RAF took a beating. We hit the Munitions, and the refinery. I havent got a clear aar from the Lanc run but ROC can fill us in.

   1st Strike we had 1 mission as lancs and 1 as Bostons. I was in the Boston raid and died. We got jumped and lost alot of planes to madmitch's crew in 190s. Survivng planes hit the munitions good. Plink led BostonIII raid.

   Lancs hit hard too. ROC ran this raid.

   2nd Strike was a mossie raid to refinery. Some of us got through and damaged it pretty good.

   3rd Strike was Lancs..we upped a12..2 lucky b26 met us as we rolled blowing up a bunch of us

   Rest of us tried to hit refinery again but clock expired. Im anxious to hear how the Knights USAF did.

   Great defense Bishops! We paid heavy for the hits we got.

   Special thanks to Chris3 for idea to involve all 3 countries, to ROC,SIM,Plink for planning missions for Rooks, to Koda and Falcon3 for planning Knight missions and getting their side involved, and to all the cool buds who took part in it! WTG!

[ROC]

Bish were on Fire tonight with their defense!  Very Nice Work all.

Mission formed and we were ready to roll.    A21 would let me assign the spits and mossies to an East runway takeoff, but I couldn't get any choices other than NE and SW for the Lancs, so I chose NE.  We spawned to the hanger.

Wiped everyone out, so we free formed and ran the mission without the waypoints.

We had great escorts with us, and the flight was pretty routine until we were near the coastline.

Then we got jumped, big time.  Flossy was the only bomber to even reach the coastline, but not one of the Lancasters got to target.

We were hit with just about everything they could throw at us, jets, props, you name it, it came.  Looks like the Axis hit the black market and picked up some overstocked P38s and P51s, few TBFs lol  but it was fun, really wouldn't have mattered if they had 100% german planes or not, they had a good blockade up against us and fought well.

Our second run was a Mossie raid, again targeting the deeper strats, and I got tangled up early just past the coastline again and taken down.

While flying the mossie run, setup another Lancaster raid and as the pilots from Mossie Run got wiped, they attached for the last run of the night in that mission.

Again, we were hit hard by the 262s and I was about the 5th bomber to go down in a blaze of new graphics brilliance.

Fantastic night.


I'd like to open the question now, since this seems like it is quite a popular battle, do we run this in SEA?

I think if we set the map up based on normal arena settings, nothing fancy, nothing to learn, just allow the planeset to match the mission, we could draw enough to make the battle worth fighting.

With little setup other than selecting the planes, anyone from the MA could come in, join up with really very little in the way of mission planning and preperation.  

I'd be happy to handle the arena setup, wouldn't be much to it, and I think this could be very popular for those who really like the MA but are interested in longer, more planned attack and defensive missions.

Each event the joy of defense would rotate, and we could pick any map we wanted to play on.

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Suggestions?  Opinions?   Ice for my Soda that's getting warm?

[FiLtH]

Lets try it ROC!   Next time its gonna be Rooks as defenders. We also want an earlier time so more euros can get in on it. You know how I feel about the MA/attendance vs trying to get people to leave it to goto another arena, but its worth a try!

[wombat]

What fun! Thanks FiLtH and your staff for putting this on. I have been waiting all week for the event.

I posted a mission for our squad (DUSTOFF) of 190A-8's (most our my guys never drove one until that Saturday) as luck would have it "Madmitch" joined. After a nasty disco I turned the misson over to Mitch...I think they did ok.

Second mission: We regrouped and up a mix of 109G-10's & 190A-8's and intercepted the mossie raid on the refinery. The refinery was at 100% so we knew where the RAF was going. The mossies made a great strike, flew right by us (we were thinking Lancs not mossies) and had the site down below 50% in no time. I would say RAF won that wave.

Last mission: Again we regrouped and upped another mix of aircraft, but only came across a mission of B-24's...don't think was part of the event.

Not sure of the number of kills the squad had...not sure if I care, but we did have fun and thats why we are here!

FiLth thanks again...DUSTOFF is ready for the next one. We love flying buffs.

wombat
XO DUSTOFF

[SilverFox]

I think this is a good idea.  

We'll need to coordinate because there is already a Euro event, very similar to this that has been occuring in the SEA on Saturdays.   You may have noticed the Fin-Rus map up in recent weeks.  

There are some benefits as well as pitfalls to doing this:

First we can run logs, so people can see who accomplished what.  This will show people the extended aspect of events.  Anyone can look at the logs here Event Logs

Second, this is minor, but worth noting, many special events are registered events, so players need to be aware when the registered events are taking place.  Not that walking into a Scenario would be a bad thing, but walking into a Squad Ops, which is a pre-registered only event would cause some disruption.

 And here I'll end my Sea Lawyer stint.   Just food for thought

[rabbidrabbit]

The big problem with the SEA is getting folks to go there.  You need to advertise heavily.  Might want to talk with HT and have them put it in the message of the day as well as on these forums since I doubt more than 5 percent actually come here.

[FiLtH]

ALthough Im willing to try SF, its the little stuff that gives me reservations about how it will turn out. As you said there are already many events in the SEA, snapshots, and that Euro thing.

       Between having to worry about interphering with another event, and the general lack of folks wanting to leave the MA to goto another arena,during primetime, where their scores count, Id have to say we can try it, and compare the attendance. If it doesnt pan out, we can always head back to the MA.

      Although I wanted to hold an afternoon running of this next time, to get a better idea of attendance in the SEA, lets keep it at 8pm et. The next one will be Feb 12th at 8pm ET, in the SEA.

       We can plan the details over the next week or so. Thanks for your help!

[FiLtH]

Wombat nice work! You guys defended brillantly! We're thinking of trying this in the special events arena next time...comments?