Frame 3 Hunter Killer results

[daddog]

Gents the following took place on May 13th in Frame 3 for the Friday night Squad Operations with about 215 pilots attending. 115 Axis pilots and 102 Allied pilots.

Allied pilots shot down and destroyed:
3 – Me262’s  – 60 points
30 – Fw190D – 300 points
17 – Me109G10 – 170 points
3 – Ta152 – 30 points
19 – Fw190F8 – 190 points

Luftwaffe Flak Factory 0% down – 0 points
Luftwaffe City 99% down – 198 points
Luftwaffe Fuel Factory – 100% down – 200 points
Defending points - 200
Total Allied Points 1348 points

Axis pilots shot down and defended:
10 – Spit IVX – 100 points
4 – Tempests – 40 points
27 – P51 – 270 points
10 – P38 – 150 points
3– P47 - 30 points
2 – A20 – 30 points
11 – M8 – 66 points
A68 0% down – 0 points
Defending points 202
Total Axis Points 888 points

Allies lost 57 aircraft, the Axis lost 72 aircraft, again a surprise to me since the Allies are having to go in heavy and attack despite having fewer pilots. Frame 3 went to the Allies.

Ace Fighter Pilots
Redge – 7 kills
SkyChimp – 6 kills
RHINO – 5 kills

Top Bomber/Jabo Pilots
left00t – 39 objects
Nomde – 32 objects
buster – 18 objects
Pepper – 14 objects
Spaatz – 13 objects
Rotax447 – 11 objects
Vlkyrie1 – 10 objects

I made some change to the event stemming from the comments others made after frame 2. Next time we run this the Axis pilots will have up to 20 Me-262’s in a frame and the losses would not be carried over. On the flip side the Allies will be limited to 20 Temp’s per frame and will have to use all 6 of the aircraft listed. I would hope this would help balance the event next time someone was to run it. I also made note that the M8’s would have to greatly out number the Panzers to have any hope. I saw that not a single Panzer was destroyed. Maybe by then we will have a Sherman or some other Allied tank to counter the Panzer with. The M8’s are totally out classed. My apologizes to the M8 drivers.

As always, any errors please post or e-mail me.

[GooseAW]

Why not use the T34?

[daddog]

Only because I hate using substitutes, but that would probably be best if we were to use GV's again.

[WxMan]

Daddog,

The following may or may not help in planning this event again.

In preparing the Allied orders for the final frame, I took into account some of the sensititives expressed by the Axis in previous frames.  

 1. All aircraft were used
 2. I planned on approximately 20 of each of the perked planes.  At T=0 we actually launched 19 Spit XIVs and 13 Tempest Vs.  Of the 19 second lifers in the frame who were entitled to a plane of choice, 8 launched Tempests and 3 launched Spits within T+60.
3. The largest precentage of aircraft used at T+0 were the P51's, aproximately 31%.

From a quick scan of the logs, an interesting note is that in Frame 3 the ME262's scored 3 kills, and in the prior 2 frames 6 kills, of which all but one were A20's in the first frame.  

AKWxMan

[daddog]

Thanks much WxMan.