Close Escorts’ Lancaster Night Mission - Sunday May 14th

[Easyscor]

Close Escorts’ Lancaster Night Mission

Sunday 3:00 pm EDT

Those of you who know what we've been missing with the loss of night can reclaim the emersion of a Bomber Command night mission this Sunday in the Special Events Arena and you guys who've never seen the cockpit or landing lighting in Aces High, come along for something new.  It is no longer necessary to turn your gamma up to see the instruments in the cockpit.

In addition, this is a preview of the work the CE team is putting together for future runs of these weekly walk-on events in the Special Events Arena.

Frame 1: Operation Goodwood
For nearly a month, the Allies had been bogged down in Normandy. General Bradley devised a plan called Operation Cobra to break out from the war of the hedgerows and revealed it to high command.   As they proceeded, however, Montgomery and Dempsey planned an alternate breakout of British and Canadian forces two days before the Americans' planned Cobra, it was Operation Goodwood.


Preparatory fire support was provided by almost 1,000 heavy and medium bombers dumping over 15,000 pounds of bombs on the German positions east of Caen.  Many of the villages were reduced to rubble disrupting the German defenses and providing high shock value against the German troops. Our target due to the terrain restrictions will be A35, Abbeville Airfield.
Frame 1 Target Abbeville - A35. All field objects including strat and guns.  Town is secondary target required if 8 or more Lancaster formations launch.


Frame 1 Units- Axis 50% / Allies 50%

Allies
P51B and D
P38J
P47D-25 and 40
Spit IX and XIV
Typhoon
Mosquito
Boston III
Lancaster
Fields: A1 and A12 only

Targets: All field objects including strat and guns.  Town is secondary target required if 8 or more Lancaster formations launch.
Recomendation: Drop the 4k bomb on the runway.  Additional unloading is up to the Allied CO.

Axis
109G-6, G2 and G-14
190A-5 A8 and F8
110G-2
Fields: A33 and A35
Restrictions in Frame 1: Axis must stay over land.

Note: A12 and A36 will be closed except for a brief window to allow late comers to participate.

Setup:
Deaths: 1
Terrain: bob04
Time - Frame 1: 01:00 x1
Icons: Short
Fuel burn: 1
Ack: 0.5
Fighter and Bomber warning: 53,000 (about 10 miles)
Radar: Off
Tower radar set to 53,000 for display only to match base warning
Fog / Visibility: 12 miles

Standard CE scoring

[Krusty]

Originally posted by Easyscor
Close Escorts’ Lancaster Night Mission

Recomendation: Drop the 4k bomb on the runway.

Why?? That won't do anything.

[Easyscor]

These are fast frames (90 minutes) without lots of time to climb so the lighter the higher.

[Krusty]

OOOOOOH!!!!

I read that as "Drop the 4k egg on the enemy runway as your target"!!!!

LOL

For me, if you want to drop the 4k egg just take 14x 1k eggs

[Easyscor]

Originally posted by Krusty
OOOOOOH!!!!

I read that as "Drop the 4k egg on the enemy runway as your target"!!!!

LOL

For me, if you want to drop the 4k egg just take 14x 1k eggs

These are mission based events and the Lancs have 1x4k + 18x500lb bombs.  Think about it.  A salvo two or even a single 500lb bomb is plenty to kill a ground gun or radar tower.  At most the bombardier will run only two hangers and maybe 3? single point targets so all you'd need is a (5 x salvo 3) 15x500 lb loadout even if you were tasked to hit the town. It's all up to the CO.

You want the job Krusty?

[Easyscor]

Krusty?

[68DevilM]

sounds fun, can you see the cockpit in fighters as well as bombers?

[FiLtH]

Looks great Easyscor!!

      Count me in!

[Easyscor]

I have two AH rigs now.  On the new one with an LCD screen night is beautiful.  No problem seeing at the default setting but it's clearly night time.

On the P3/Gforce2...  well it's worse then not too good.  It's almost totally pitch black - can't see the instruments type of bad. I have to recommend you check it when you get in-game and adjust the in-game gamma to something that allows the game to be playable without spoiling the emersion.

One thing I failed to call out earlier is the time to target on all bombers and a very stiff penalty of -10% damage for every minute late.  It will be posted in the MOTD but it looks like about T+50 minutes works allowing 40 minutes for rtb.

Look forward to seeing you guys in the arena tomorrow.

[Panzzer]

Originally posted by Easyscor
Look forward to seeing you guys in the arena tomorrow.

Yeah, I'll be there, and I'll try to get some other Finns in there as well...

[Easyscor]

Scores posted here.

Thanks for coming, we had a nice turnout.