cowards! ;-)

[Anaxogoras]

A lone 109 pilot flew to the allied airfield 75 today, circled for a while, and waited for radar blips or some kind of enemy contact.  Low on fuel and still without enemy confrontation, he expended all of his ammunition strafing the hangers, only to see a lone M16 exit the vehicle hanger.  "Where are the spitfires and P51s?" he grumbled, and then landed uneventfully at his home base.

When asked why they failed to put up resistance despite allied numerical superiority (15:10), the allied wing commander could only be heard mumbling about cold toes and hot chocolate with whipped cream.

[stodd]

lol u fly to a base where there is no opposition and expect to find opposition......

[captain1ma]

how do you find out if theres opposition, unless you go fly there???

[MjTalon]

Originally posted by Redlegs
 You do know theres dar bars, right?

Only friendly, no enemy.

[republic]

Originally posted by MjTalon
Only friendly, no enemy.

Ya but those green guys are hard to kill.  I keep shooting them and somehow I keep dying.

If they don't fix this I'm going to cancel my subscription!

[captain1ma]

so thats why my kill ratio sucks!! damn no one told me that!!!

[heythere]

last night two or maybe three allied squads put up a combined bomber and fighter escort attack at about 25,000 feet deep into axisland.

it was beautiful to see with high altitude fighters and everything.  they accomplished a little damage to a radar strat but other than that not much because they would not engage.  since the strat needed to be taken down to 0% for points to be awarded the mission was fruitless in that respect.

they axis side had no clue due to the lack of enemy darbar in the AvA by the time they showed up on dot dar there was little the axis could do.

there was a discussion on 200 between a few of the players on both sides.  the allied side contended that the mission was historic.  the axis contended that the mission was pointless within the context of a game.

reflecting a bit on this pretty mission here at work I thought I might offer up some suggestions for any future missions in the AvA.

Post the mission on 200 stating the objective with the general path of ingress and egress. for example we will bomb base xx from base xx

give all the players in the arena the opportunity to participate by starting the mission within the following ten minutes allowing interested participants to land and up for defense of target or defense of bomber force.

award points to the respective sides for either a good prosecution of the objective and for a good prosecution of the interception.

this might be difficult to tabulate and confirm for the points to be awarded but this type of incentive could be a good vehicle for further growth of the style of play evolving within the AvA.

or not

[waystin2]

Originally posted by heythere

Post the mission on 200 stating the objective with the general path of ingress and egress. for example we will bomb base xx from base xx

One of the silliest ideas I have seen in while.

[KONG1]

Originally posted by waystin2
One of the silliest ideas I have seen in while.

Doing exactly that has created some of the best missions and most fun (for both sides) ever to be had in the AvA. Since you think it's a silly idea maybe you should try to figure out exactly what it is your missing. I could tell you but you would dismiss it off hand. Better that you figure it out for yourself.

[KONG1]

Originally posted by stodd
lol u fly to a base where there is no opposition and expect to find opposition......

Yes, some of us actually like to fight, even (gasp) at a disadvantage, and will up at a base under attack just to mix it up. Since you can't conceive of this maybe you should try to figure out exactly what it is your missing. I could tell you but you would dismiss it off hand. Better that you figure it out for yourself.

[waystin2]

Originally posted by KONG1
Doing exactly that has created some of the best missions and most fun (for both sides) ever to be had in the AvA. Since you think it's a silly idea maybe you should try to figure out exactly what it is your missing. I could tell you but you would dismiss it off hand. Better that you figure it out for yourself.

Please Kong never assume that I will dismiss out of hand a good conversation.  I do see what is being suggested.  The silly comes in when you actually think that both sides would willingly telegraph their plans of attack.  I just do not see this happening.  If both sides did this, I would be all for it.  I would love to hear comments from both Truekill & Chapel on this.

[captain1ma]

if they wanna let us know they're coming, we'd be happy to show em' a good time!!!!

[Larry]

We used to have a thursday night mission that I and a few others used to setup. We'd give the possible targets, planes, and max alts. They were some of the best times Iv had in the AvA/CT, and the only time Iv seen 50+ people in there in the last few years. One rhine setup we had about 15boxs of bombers and around 10 P51 escort roll into germany. Axis rolled some Ta152s and 109G10s and two Me262 it was great.


I dont think they were saying post every flight on 200. They were saying if your going to roll a huge bombing mission it would be fun. If you have ever been in one youd know the best part is when the fighters start zooming in. Thats the only reason I would fly a two hour bombing mission.

[waystin2]

So as the Axis commander are you saying that large bombing missions should be somewhat advertised in future AVA evolutions?  I agree with the fun part!  Shooting planes is the fun part, whether you knew they were coming or not.  It's why I waste 60+ hours of my life every month on this god-forsaken addiction that we all have!  LOL:lol

[Larry]

Im not saying should be, but it would be alot more fun trying to shoot them down then looking up at them from the tower because by the time they show up on radar the hangers are already down.