Med Leauge: Hang resigns

[Hangtime]

Whelp; was all ready to roll my sleeves up and wade back into this thing.. Zig; Busc and Camo have asked to form a committiee to better help manage the development, etc..

Then disaster stikes yet again. My In-laws, while on the way home Sunday night from visting my ex-wife in the hospital, perished in a car accident.

I'm gonna be outta circulation for awile, so I won't be back to Med Leauge. I sure hope they get the bugs worked out; it has all the makings for a great immersive experience.

Take note of Fatty's comment.. it don't matter one bit who wins.. as long as you had fun, and learned something of war in the air; the way it was.

And on that note... the hell with Alt caps. No B17 group, regardless of theatre, to my knowledge ever attacked a defended target at 15k. To do so would be suicide. To order them to do so is murder. I'm definitly against an alt cap in a scenario where the B17 is present.

To this point; the b17's in Med leauge have bombed from the 26-28k range. Yah.. it's a bit high.. but dammit; they are not in the scenario to be bait.. they have a critical mission. A significant portion of the allied assests have been dedicated to screening and escorting those buffs; and to date; they've been very effective. I hope they continue to do so.

As far as those high alt fights are concerned.. seems the axis is giving as good as it's getting. I've read and heard of several high co-alt skirmishes that have lasted up to 40 minutes with negligible losses on either side.

Good flying is happening on both sides in the scenario.. when pilots are briefed correctly; and no MA dweebishness takes place, no one rushes in for a dweeb kill. Those that do (usually the walk ons) become fodder in just a few moments. Easy come; fast to go.  

These kinds of superb 'on the edge of your seat' encounters thoughout the scenario have really warmed my cockels.. the guys are learning how to fight and live; not repeating the old MA 'rush in; hop on the dogpile and die' crap. It DOES require disipline and co-operation to be successful. Those that fly like idiots die, and damn fast.

SALUTE!, all of you who've flown, and endured... WTG, on both sides.  

Duty calls.. I have things I must get done.

I'll be back.

Hang

[Lizard3]

Hang brought up some interesting points. I disagree with him completely. Allied B17's did in fact bomb at low altitudes. From what I've read when they absolutley had to hit a target, they wen't in low. When the V-1 sites in France were bombed, I believe it was from an altitude of 10 to 14k. How about the Ploesti raid? They often bombed from 18 to 24k, but never have I read once that they bombed from 30k. The norden bombsight was good, but not that good. It never would've been able to hit with any degree of accuracy a target from 30k. We have the luxury of having a very accurate bombsite. You push the button when the x gets near the spot and by god, she's going to blow. We have wind modeled in AH, but I don't believe it affects bombs. In reality, it did. You also frequently had winds traveling in different directions at different altitudes, much like the ocean currents. I feel that bombers should be capped at 25k, if not 20, here and in the MA. (the proceeding diatribe was the opinion of the author, and only the author. This station has no opinion on the subject and therefore no liability)
 

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Lizard

"Engage the enemy; not the keyboard"
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