5 July 2012 Thursday 8th Air Force Mission

[AKKuya]

Gentlemen and Ladies,

This mission will be a deep penetration raid to shut down a rear airfield.  Depending on amount of bomber pilots, expect a small field or possibly a medium field.

Objectives:
1) Shut down all hangars.
2) Destroy all strats (radar, fuel, ammo, and troops) on one pass. 
3) Defend from all Luftwaffe aircraft.
4) Return safely to friendly airfield for celebration in O'Club courtesy of Zoney's monthly paycheck.

Those that land kills afterward will receive a case of scotch on top of scheduled festivities.

Launch Time 8PM EST/7PM CST (USA)
Late War Arena
Launch Country : Knights
Target Airfield Country : Rook (will alternate between rook and bishop each week)

Order of Battle:
B-17
B-24
P-38
P-47
P-51

I will have a Mission set-up.  Join the Mission to enable Mission Text for specific info during Mission.

This is open to all who want to participate and can follow directions.  Blind pilots are exempt from following directions, we will follow them.

Any questions direct them to myself or Zoney for escort questions.  Squads desiring a particular escort aircraft model should contact me via PM so I can include your escort variant.  Be advised to ensure they will be loaded with the most amount of gas possible for long flight duration.  Each aircraft will have 25 slots in their flight.  There could be both Pony models and few Jug models available with 25 slots apiece.

We had around 20-25 players last week and we have room for lots more.

Luftwaffe squads are encouraged to organize a LW reception committee with Me-109s, 110's, and FW-190s.  It's requested to leave the jets on the ground until 8th AF Mission has suffiecient numbers to defend.

Hope to see you there and good hunting. 

[Soulyss]

 will try to make it but will likely be about 30 minutes late by the time I get home from work.  If I cn get online I'll grab an escort and try to catch up.

[Guppy35]

Should be there again.  Hoping to have some more of the 364th FG guys there in 51s as well.  Hopefully we'll get some more 190 and 109 guys up like last time

[DrBone1]

IN!!!!!!  Bagged me 2 109s and  sent 6 home damaged last time. 

[Guppy35]

Good man!  Now lets see if we can turn this 4



into a replica of this 8 to keep that strangle hold on the formation contest

[Debrody]

woo the mission of the month is back!
good to hear, some historical action instead of the hording      

[Zoney]

Woohoo, awesome, this will be a ball again and then we go to the O'Club and.........wha......wait a minute.................

[Zoney]

woo the mission of the month is back!
good to hear, some historical action instead of the hording      

Yup the mission of the month is back every Thursday.....4 times as good//////////

[LilMak]

I'll do my best to show up. Save a D-25 slot for me.

[Slate]

[SEseph]

       

[Raptor05121]

Lol 20-25 for a planned event? I love it when the Bishops will start a retaliatory mission in 5 minutes and have 60 joiners out of the blue.   

[SEseph]

Lol 20-25 for a planned event? I love it when the Bishops will start a retaliatory mission in 5 minutes and have 60 joiners out of the blue.   

There is a HUGE difference between what Kuya is doing and the normal Bish Horde mission. Comparing it to a 91st planned mission is much closer to reality. Kuya and those with him are looking for discipline, for those willing to take some time to get to the planned target, and having fun reliving what it was truly like. Notice their target areas are already noted each week and they want people to go against them, also in a disciplined manner. This is the Allies way of preparing for the scenario that starts in Oct, DSGII. The Axis is taking the Allies up on their desire to be shot out of the sky by German Iron (sorry, had to throw a LITTEL bias in here ) and that is one of the ways we are preparing.

Please, don't compare the two... The normal Bish horde mission is exactly that; a horde mission. This is a coordinated effort with intentions of realistic combat for those wishing to immerse themselves more deeply in the conflict AHII is portraying.  Hopefully these will continue well after DSGII has concluded as they are a welcome assemblage of people, one that doesn't elicit whines, but one that projects a positive aura, invoking a sense of accomplishment for ALL involved.

[AKKuya]

Thank you Seph.  Couldn't say it any better than that.

[Butcher]

Going to go 2/2 in shooting down two cons one pass and compress at 28k into the ocean.