Aces High Bomber Group

[FiLtH]

Just an idea I had that may be fun to try. Each country has its group of guys who enjoy putting together large bomber groups. The ones Ive been part of usually put up anywheres from 10-25 pilots in bombers. Imagine being in a group 3 times that number.

      What we could do, is plan a night of the week, I suggest Friday,Saturday,or Sunday night, at 8pm et. Each week a notice would be posted on these boards of which country we will be for that night. This way it fairly rotates the duty.

      At that time we enter the arena as that country (or switch sides), and meet at a base to group up and plan. Then we choose a bomber CO for the night.  Next we plan on doing our missions. The mission is created, and all pilots join. Anyone not part of the bomber group, may also join in as escort for us.

      To make it more interesting, we could select different bombers than the standard fare. We could plan to do 2-3 missions, one using light or medium bombers, one heavy, maybe one as dive bombers.

      If interested in this please say so here. Then we can try it out once we get a few guys involved.

[Vudak]

I'd love to see more missions where the Mustang's and Jug's aren't loaded to the brink with bombs and rockets and instead are just escort duty.  If I happen to be on while yer doing this, I'll try to help escort you

Originally posted by FiLtH
Just an idea I had that may be fun to try. Each country has its group of guys who enjoy putting together large bomber groups. The ones Ive been part of usually put up anywheres from 10-25 pilots in bombers. Imagine being in a group 3 times that number.

      What we could do, is plan a night of the week, I suggest Friday,Saturday,or Sunday night, at 8pm et. Each week a notice would be posted on these boards of which country we will be for that night. This way it fairly rotates the duty.

      At that time we enter the arena as that country (or switch sides), and meet at a base to group up and plan. Then we choose a bomber CO for the night.  Next we plan on doing our missions. The mission is created, and all pilots join. Anyone not part of the bomber group, may also join in as escort for us.

      To make it more interesting, we could select different bombers than the standard fare. We could plan to do 2-3 missions, one using light or medium bombers, one heavy, maybe one as dive bombers.

      If interested in this please say so here. Then we can try it out once we get a few guys involved.

[WindX]

Probably one if the best suggestions Ive heard yet on here!:aok

[SpinDoc1]

I've been thinking of this as well, might be a nice pre-cursor to TOD!  Alright Filth, what's the plan this week?...

[FiLtH]

Lets get a few more inputs, maybe with best day and time. Im for Saturdays 8pm et.

[APDrone]

Not sure when I'll be able to play, but I'm all for some nice beefy missions.

Count me in.

[MOIL]

Sounds like a hell of an idea, would be fun to see a big formation of bombers with like escorts.

[Flossy]

Sounds good!  8pm Saturday is a little late (1am) for me, but not too bad with no work on Sunday to get up for.  

[FiLtH]

Hiya Flossy!  Ok..we'll go with saturday Aug 27th at 8pm et for the first gathering.

   We can start off alphabetically and go as Bish.  We will meet at a base in bishland, simply ask on country channel where the bomber group is meeting.  

   One thing id like to try that I thought would be cool. Have all of us take heavy bombers somewhere with loads of 100lb bombs and drop them on a target, while someone else is on the ground or low in the air filming the impact site.  Just 30 secs of explosions!

[Phaser11]

I don't even fly bombers and I'm in!

[Shane]

Originally posted by Vudak
I'd love to see more missions where the Mustang's and Jug's aren't loaded to the brink with bombs and rockets and instead are just escort duty.  If I happen to be on while yer doing this, I'll try to help escort you

those infrequent times when i ran missions, i always tried ot keep them themed (brit, yank, lw) with appropriate escort and sweep, etc...

damned if i ever saw many stay with their mission task once an enemy was spotted.  so much for "faux military" tactics/discipline.

[Heater]

Sounds good, but as Flossy stated the time is a bit late for people on the right side of the pond

[Hoarach]

I say BOOOOOOO.  With that many bomber pilots and going to be active all night, its going to be porking after porking.  I can see the fhs just being killed at each and every field.  I dont want to see fhs dead anywhere because it kills the fights (usually the best fights of the night) and there goes my night.

[101ABN]

nothing saying that the only thing bombed will be FHs.  I like the idea of hitting the base towns and the strat targets.  Saturday is good, im game.

[Flayed1]

Originally posted by Hoarach
I say BOOOOOOO.  With that many bomber pilots and going to be active all night, its going to be porking after porking.  I can see the fhs just being killed at each and every field.  I dont want to see fhs dead anywhere because it kills the fights (usually the best fights of the night) and there goes my night.

Hey you don't know if they plan on killing fields or not...    If they get a good turn out of bomber pilots I think it could make for a nice nite of porkin all of your strat factories down to nothing ... Well that is except for the fuel refineries, they don't matter much any more.