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[Traveler]

I was going to say we don't need more BIG missions, we just need BETTER Missions

A better mission planner would help.

[Tec]

I fly all 3 sides so make sure I have access to all of em.  Kthx.

[grizz441]

If you post a farewell goodbye thread in the GD and "quit the game", at least try to be gone a year before coming back.   
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,317002.0.html

[thndregg]

If you post a farewell goodbye thread in the GD and "quit the game", at least try to be gone a year before coming back.  
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,317002.0.html

Thanks loads.

<EDIT> Let's just play the game. Stupid anonymous, as in NOT face to face crap like this is precisely what I wish to avoid. Have fun.

[Jayhawk]

If you post a farewell goodbye thread in the GD and "quit the game", at least try to be gone a year before coming back.  
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,317002.0.html

Grizz, don't you have a computer you should be working on?

[HawkerMKII]

As an avowed buff hunter, I'd like to submit a request that your escort fighters be something other than P-51Ds this time.
Something more like a P-40C would be more fun for all involved!   

Thinking maybe the B5N

[HawkerMKII]

Grizz, don't you have a computer you should be working on?

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Good one Jay

[Trukk]

Exactly... in the past, I saw a certain Jug squadron come down and take out the hangers at a field. Instead of augering for more eggs, they covered each other in a game of leapfrog all the way home while the few of us tried to engage them.

They could of done it with 30 people in the mission, but instead did it with 6 guys, more than one brain between them (unlike the huge missions), and it was far more impressive.

But that is only practical at the squad level, to try and do that with "walk-ons" just wouldn't work.  The only type of "public" mission you can expect to do, is what we have now, where you are doing well to just get everyone flying in the same direction.

I don't see what the problem is, these large missions rarely have a significant (if any) impact on the map and are really more of a social and "something different to do" thing.  If you don't like it, don't participate.

[thndregg]

At any rate, let's have some fun. Tomorrow night (big fat hint  ), we'll try & get something together. It would be pretty cool also to grab some screenies & films out of & write up an AAR- something rarely seen on the BBS anymore.

[B4Buster]

Happy to see you back thndr! Looking forward to some high alt B-17 strikes 

[DaCoon]

I remember a fellow that used to run MoMs on a regular basis.  GREric was his name.  I had tons of fun flying both with and against said monthly missions.  I too would like to see this "something different to do" aspect return in some form or other. 

I usually don't take sides on issues like this, but this time I have to agree with Lusche and EGG.  I will definately be looking for a huge Bish darbar Friday night and hope I have enough perkies to up a 262 or if not the mission is at an alt where other cannon birds can get at them.....


      thndrEGG

[infowars]

ThunderEgg...  I recommend attacking bish.

However let vDallas know in advance and maybe he can gather up a group to intercept.  He seems to able to get a horde together.

[Zoney]

This is just sad.


We have the daily routines of smash&grab, NOE sneak attempts and so on. The tactical air combat prevails, and we read complains on this BBS about this 'landgrabbin mono culture', 'win the war at all costs' mindset, about 'gamey Xbox generation with no clue about WW2 aviation' and so on.

The come Thunderegg and tries to resurrect something that has somewhat fallen into disuse, but was huge fun for literally hundreds of players for long times. A mission that promises to put the "multi" into multi player again, is not disrupting the gameplay in any way, has no ill effect on those not caring to defend against it, but offers a nice change of pace for those looking for it. Something that is closer to a facette of WW2 air battles that is rarely seen in the MA these days.
In fact, the participants in such a raid do "hurt" their country (taking several dozen players out of the landgrab play for 1-2 hours), and as a matter of fact they hurt their scores too. It's totally opposite of everything what's usually bemoaned here in the forum.

I'm almost speechless that Thndr is getting flak for this. If that's the reality of AH 2011, this game has indeed gone south.


If you find it boring to climb up to 25k to intercept the MoM ... then just don't do it. What is the problem with that? They don't sink yer CV, they don't shut down your frontline bases, they most probably don't even have a significant impact on the strats and thus the resupply system. They just don't fight the kind of battle you are interested in. So what?
What about those having fun to fly bombers in formations similar to those we all have seen in movies and on myriad of pictures? What about those having FUN in trying to intercept such bombers, having FUN in trying to set up an attack run on the bombers despite the presence of enemy escorts? Having FUN fighting in the unusual high altitude environment? Oh wait... yes, I forgot... alt monkeys are lame....




Another note on "overwhelming the defenses".  Another point that I can't grasp. Is it really that terrible, if the vile bombers do make it to the target and back? Would it really soo much better / honorable / fun if they get completely wiped out?
I have fought many a time vs the MoM and numerous similar missions over the years. Almost every one of them, even when flying at 25k and above, was badly mauled. Usually only a fraction of bombers makes it back home. Sometimes the whole mission died before reaching the target area.
At one point the escorts are dispersed all over the sky, a few Me 262 start to appear and tear holes in the main formation, and sooner or later the formation starts to erode anyway. Shot down defenders can quickly up a second time to catch the raid on it's return leg, while the attackers are just getting less and less.


As a fighter pilot and buff hunter I want both sides to have fun and I want a more than an only remote chance for the bomber & escort guys to have a successful mission. I'd like to see reaching the target by a sizeable portion of such missions as the norm, not the exception.

<S> Snailman.  I gotta agree with every pint you make here.  MoM's add to the game.  I love them, from either offense or defense side.  I too could care less who "wins" this engagement.  The whole thing is just cool.

[grizz441]

Grizz, don't you have a computer you should be working on?

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I'm not a fat nerd, in fact I am in really good shape, but thanks. 

[Jayhawk]

I'm not a fat nerd, in fact I am in really good shape, but thanks. 

Must have been an old picture.