Mission assignments

[oTRALFZo]

Wouldnt it be cool to have an option on the clipboard map for mission leaders to assign targets? just food for thought.

[Rich46yo]

Wouldnt it be cool to have an option on the clipboard map for mission leaders to assign targets? just food for thought.

Whats would be the difference? Everyone already knows the layout of the targets they are attacking anyways. And they screw it up anyways, if they even listened in the first place.

Whats it matter if you assign on a map or give verbal instructions? The result will be the same.

Lately the best missions Ive been on have been when Ive joined up with a squad. The general MA missions have been a drag, either guys in the mission dont listen, dont care, or are squeekers who think they have a right to babble the entire flight time. Think a map will change that?

[Adonai]

You hit Main pad hangers, Ill hit VH, you hit town results? = VH probably dead, 1 main paid hanger dead, 40 tree's around the field smashed.

I quit doing buff raids because when I assign targets, even just one target for a buff to hit, someone always misses one or more targets.
Last raid I did I assigned 6 buffs different targets, and 4 dropped on same hanger, other 2 plowed the bish a new tennis court.

[EskimoJoe]

other 2 plowed the bish a new tennis court.

Oh, is that what I saw over there the other day? Thought I saw something resembling a tennis court. I'm glad I placed a bunch of rockets on it! 

[Rich46yo]

Last time I was on a Dredger mission I was diving towards my assigned FH and was just about to release when I saw someone else kill it.

So now I have to pull back up, gain alt again, spin around looking for a different FH, and then drop from probably a disadvantageous position.

I never made it cause I was forced to drop and fight. But thats typical. You really get that one good shot to drop when flying into a heavily contested airfield.

That was 3 missions ago. 2 mission ago I was assigned to take over if the leader discoed. All we had was 110s and goons so I asked one expereinced guy in a 110 to access any incomings, engage if he thought it necessary, and then call for two more 110s "designated" if he needed em. After all what good is a town down if you have no goons? And that would still leave us with 10 110s to take the town down.


So what happens? 1/2 dozen 110s take off after an LA-7 while 3 or 4 cons are IB, leaving the few of us with a town 1/2 down and all of a sudden short of 110s. First off you cant catch an LA-7 in the first place. Not in a 110. So there is no reason for more then 1 to go after it. Well it was a screwup. My instructions were pretty simple. No more then 3 designated guys were to go after cons, and 1 of the 3 was to give the commands.


So you can make a map, assign a General, give him Godlike powers, but it aint going to change anything. A lot of these missions are doomed from the start due to some of the personel involved. There are still many, many Rooks I wont hesitate to fly missions with. We have a lot of great guys who do their jobs, dont babble, and most of all support the mission X/O. Whoever he is. But Im going to start being more selective about missions I fly in.

When Im flying with a squad and am assigned a target? I just do it. I follow instruction and just do it.

[BaldEagl]

Well, I think it's a good idea.  I could have used it for the one and only mission I ever posted...

... You hit the ord, you hit the fighter hanger, you hit the bomber hanger...

And that was before the 10 of us ever got off the ground