Wolf, welcome to the world of CO'ing. The way I see it: as long as you don't get hate mails, everything is fine.
Most of my CO's don't send me emails, but I can usually count on them to show up. If they won't, thats why there's an XO in each squad. If they don't show up, they usually have a good reason. To prevent unintentional no-shows, I try to keep them updated on the mission and schedule beforehand. Regardless of the troubles, my pilots have had a GREAT time. Like Nash said, the pilots are enjoying this.
The timetable has been decided already: The official start times are on Zigrats page:
http://www.iit.edu/~buonmic/med.htm and the conversion to your own time can be done here:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc Make sure your pilots know WHERE to be and WHEN, they will show up. Keep your plans simple and use the mission editor. That way your pilots can easily be briefed on WHAT to do.
In most of the frames, atleast half of the axis squads have been heavily undermanned. I believe only the italian 205 squads had their roster full last saturday. Most squads had 4-6 planes in the air. But that is ok - as we all know, an event of this magnitude has never been done before in AH, so growing pains must be accepted.
Have faith Wolf, this will come out just fine. Don't take things too seriously or you will loose the fun. Most of the time CO'ing is like a one way street, you simply won't get much feedback. But that doesn't mean that your pilots don't care or are not listening. They are, and they are willing to do their job. Silence is the sign of trust, which means you are a good CO.
But what you really need to pound into their heads is to send you reports. I've solved the problem by posting here and sending them emails. Look at my tuesday's axis aar's post. That is what I tell my CO's to fill. Most have, and those that haven't, will receive emails from me until they have.
This is the hardest part in CM'ing - getting reports from pilots. Hopefully, when HTC finishes the score logging system, all this will become much easier.
Take a look at the Axis Med League page for the info on axis scores, plane strenghts etc:
http://www.hut.fi/u/vpitkane/LLv34/med How is the progress with the allied score page? If none of your pilots want to take the job, I can add an allied score page to that website. That means you will have to email me a report so I can update the scores.
Wolf, keep up the good work. You are doing fine as the Allied CO. Don't let your men down and they will reward you on saturday.
Good luck,
Axis CO - Camo
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