It's all been said really so just a big <S> to all that were there.
To the OP, there are going to be times when you just can't get it done because the numbers are bad, the opposition is good, or often enough, just dumb luck. Next FSO it all changes and it feels good again.
The three squads you came up against are somewhat "seasoned". They pretty well know what the others can do and perhaps more importantly, know what the others want from them.
When we arrived at the target we didn't come in one group. We coordinated quickly and caught you in a pincer move initially, that meant that we had angles on you and you had too many directions to look. I guess you could say at that point we might have looked like 50 aircraft all around you, all trying to kill you. That's why we did it.
We quickly identified the aircraft types we were fighting and their disposition. Perdweeb and I split our tasks and my group took on the spits up high while his group took on pretty much the rest. The defenders got spread out from the initial aggression and we pushed and/or lured the high guys down into the charnel house that KN had set up in the mid and low levels. The A8s came in at precisely the right time and though they may have seen a red dot they wouldn't have been threatened by them.
At about the time the Strikers finished their job it was time to go home because of fuel states. There did seem to be another group coming in from the North to push us out but we left some time before they could have arrived.
