slade I'm sure your version of events is different to mine but I will share my AAR so you do not think of me negatively.
We looked at the map and A5 / A219 is a bit of a dud fight. The distance is too great and the defenders at A5 have the luxury of a 5k base one grid back. Even if Rooks did get a partial cap they wouldn't have been able to seal the deal without a troop spawn.
So to liven things up and advance our "score" as you put it
we did a commando raid into A4 that dr7 eventually made 14 kills out of camping/defending the spawn in a panther. I was en-route in a mossie around the same time as Tilt single handedly destroyed 75% of town in his M4. I killed A4 dar and then de-acked 7 out of 8 guns in town. I took a pilot wound 1st pass but no other damage, this enabled me to get 5 kills that were trying un-successfully to bomb tilt in between black outs. A typh x2, la7x2 and stuka. The typhoon eventually HOed me to death and my pilot was going to be a goner anyway.
After chatting to some other squaddies to see if we were likely to get some troops going we found that they were porked at v218. Not to be deterred the British stiff upper lip kicked in and we took a 10 minute tea break to re-supply v218.
Meanwhile dr7 was still being a menace parked up in the spawn so I rolled a Tempest and 2x 500lbs (I did have to fly 2 grids to get there and this took another 10 minutes to get to target). Airbull, mike and cobrajet were trying to evade dr7's panther on the ground and tilt/bully managed to rush clear after dying quite a few times.
When I got there 2 sets of buffs were flying around aimlessly, popason (i think he was trying to land?) and another I didn't get the chance to kill. I ignored them and dr7 as I had to get the flag white. Dropped eggs on town then made one strafing pass that made the flag pop. Popason was within range of our m3s so I killed two of his planes to deter him and killed an la7 and typh again near the field. Troops got in and the thing all popped within about one minute of capture.
Cobrajet was getting a little hot under the collar that he didn't manage to smoke dr7 out of his nest, so I re-armed to get my eggs back but unfortunately dr7 was quick witted enough to chance a landing, as we were too far away for him not to take a death so he managed to get out ok!
The next run we went down to A6 to start a fight/furball but the only enemy that upped were poor pilots and cptdell's tank was treated to an air show spectacular, in which he gave us a running commentary and we delivered him fireworks. Went back to A4 to land. A5 / A219 was still full dar bars and it seemed nits did not want to react so we came east. Twinboom was pretending to be an enemy plane by spraying rounds at me and giving me check 6's when I called your high hurricane in the clouds. He broke off and disappeared leaving me to fight you all alone in my Tempest.
Admittedly you saw me late (SA?) and did a lazy immelmann merge whilst slow. I went up after you and yanked it in behind. It appeared you panicked in my haste and we went around for one turning circle slow enough for me to crank out all my flaps. When you saw I was still very much behind you, you dove away whilst bunting and I broke off to find some easier targets. I can't remember whether I finished you in the ack a few minutes later or twinboom did but your comments were directed at my tempest for vulching?
You could have kept your height and out turned me, I would have been forced to dis -engage once I had lost the upper hand by stepping out of the fight this ultimately led to yours and A5 's demise. With all the other Rooks piling in and an airfield with M3's much closer to A5 it was soon lost to the horde.
This story is just another 2 hours in the life of a toon pilot. This happens every day on every country.
I rarely vulch if the ack is full up at any field.
