Thank you all who joined in the mission. I think we did pretty good. For most of the mission, we had a decent formation. As we figured, when you are trying to keep formation and gun, it eventually breaks down.
Since we didnt really know what we were going to hit before I created the mission, I simply packed on 250lb bombs since the strats were the anticipated target. Then we decided on HQ, and they just werent heavy enough to drop it.
Many of us dropped on MGD's call, and the pattern was right on target.
Special thanks to MGD, Delta, and Tedrbr for taking the lead, high and low sections. To everyone else, excellent work!
We started with 29 B17 elements, and I believe it ended up 30+ by the time we formed up. We had very little escort, but the guys we had were much appreciated. At one point in the film, the formation looked just like the pick that Ted posted of the B17 formation.
We had 1k separation between the sections. After seeing the enemy attacks, I think we could make it 500ft or less and it would further increase the firepower.
We ended up losing quite a few of us, which was expected with such light escort. However, the enemy lost a whole bunch of fighters..and quite a few 163s. The target was hit, and many got home.
Thanks for being patient in the beginning. (I promise to buy a new mic tomorrow) It takes a little bit of time to get situated. We had no problem finding an arena to move to.
I plan on keeping a record of who attended each time. I like will post a pic showing the crew, and the number of missions flown for each pilot. I'd post kills and rtb/kia status too, but without individual aars its impossible.
Lets plan on a once a month mission for Bomb Wing. Which btw was close to the actual size of a bomb wing used in ww2, tonight.
Keep an eye on the General Discussion forum. Someone feel free to create a tactics thread that we can discuss how to improve our performance, on what we learned tonight. Practice flying real close with squaddies and people you fly with. Try to fit your plane inside your wingmans. Once you can do that and stay together, then flying 100 feet apart seems easy.
Thanks again all. And thanks to the interceptors who made it challenging!
PS the film is pretty cool! I can't host it though. Or atleast I don't know how to 
