I didn't make a post earlier because last time I looked, the discussion was fairly civil. It has rapidly gone downhill.
The scoring will reflect some penalties here, for reasons that will be discussed in the scoring thread that you'll see posted later tonight. A credible attack is defined as an attack conducted by a squadron-sized force or larger. The Admin CM has some leeway with how that gets interpreted, and we've even started to define it for each FSO. Typically, 12 aircraft or more is the baseline. That being said, flashing bases does not constitute an attack. There were objectives that weren't attacked, and for different reasons.
The fact that some attack groups got whacked before they got to their objectives is a design flaw in the setup, a.k.a. Stoney's fault, and no one elses. A good set of objectives sets up 2D geometry that will prevent different forces from blundering into each other. Partially that's a factor of the geography of Italy, and in trying to preserve some historical context, I took a bit of a risk of having this type of scenario play out. For the most part, what should have happened is that LCA and Sax's boys wouldn't have gotten engaged until they ran into the defenders of their objective.
Was there some poor planning in Frame 2? Perhaps, or perhaps it was merely poor execution. Ultimately the goal of FSO is to maximize the amount of action that the players get--after all, that's why you guys all show up for. It is my, and if I may speak for the rest of the FSO staff, our, goal to provide setups that are coherent, historically representative, and fun. Sometimes we fail at one or all of those facets, even though we mean not to. Sometimes CICs put together plans that are skewed from our preconceptions and expectations of how each side would plan and execute a frame; we sometimes don't anticipate the "creativity" of the players
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That being said, no one on either side was purposefully trying to wreck anyone's FSO. Lets all just remember that we're all here for the same reasons, and that's to have fun. See you guys for Frame 3, and I personally look forward to the opportunity to meet everyone's expectations for a fun, action-packed FSO that you've all learned to expect.
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Stoney
p.s. Can we please have an end to the sniping back and forth?
