March 2017 FSO - ANZIO 1944

[Dawger]

The time of day settings were absolutely awful. The ugliest and cheesiest (literally it looked like cheese) sky possible.

Please stop. It looks awful.

[Devil 505]

Agree.

[Nefarious]

I didn't think it looked bad, however it was really difficult on my end to spot contacts over the blackness of the water. If you weren't in icon range, I didn't see you.

[Snork]

Plenty of confusion to go around last night. Axis orders were late and the "A" base to attack was actually a "V" base. Fog of war to keep things interesting!

[TequilaChaser]

Why was your Axis orders late?

I received them on Thursday, same day as always....

I actually thought taking off in the early morning in FSO, was pretty awesome.... I was wondering if others were seeing better views or worse...I think the sun rise is definitely under scale with regards to the moon and what I've experienced in real life

Fun FSO frame

Cheers

TC

[Alpo]

<SNIP>  I was wondering if others were seeing better views or worse...

TC

Obviously, some of us were seeing better than others Mr. Collision 

You guys came in just as I had said "Screw it... I'm going to try landing at this mislabeled v-base", low and slow in a P40 is not a fun place

 

[TequilaChaser]

Was that you I collided with, actually I flew into a bunch of big broken up pieces of your P40 and was hauling tail, that made the closure rate ridiculous for as slow as you were going...wasn't no way to avoid the debris......hahaha

Was another fun fso frame

<§> Alpo!

TC

[Snork]

Why was your Axis orders late?

I received them on Thursday, same day as always....


TC

Dunno, I'm just one of the boys.

Also, FWIW, I notice the logs for "objects destroyed" counts each gun on the ships. It would be a lot different if only score-able objects were counted.

Edited to add: LCA downed 4 hangars, JG11 sank one cruiser. Don't mean to demean the fantastic fighter support we got or the difficulty of sinking ships but this is the score-able count other than landing bonuses. 

[ImADot]

The log parser is automated. The only score that counts is that which the Admin calculates and posts. I suppose we could just stop parsing the logs for display and let you guys wait until the end, when the real scores are tallied.

Some people like to see who blew up what.

[KCDitto]

Difficulty hitting ships  was only half of the problem. We got chased all the way to target by a P-38 and then got bounced by P-40s at the target. Makes it hard to focus on bombing when you are getting pinged.

6 of us got hits on ships according to the logs. All but 2 of us died in the raid.

It was very exciting for a few minutes   

[Snork]

The log parser is automated. The only score that counts is that which the Admin calculates and posts. I suppose we could just stop parsing the logs for display and let you guys wait until the end, when the real scores are tallied.

Some people like to see who blew up what.

I'm not questioning the "system". I just wanted to point out the success my squadron (LCA) enjoyed! 

[branch37]

VF-17 was the P-40s. That 38 vectored us to inbound bombers which happened to be your 190s. After y'all were gone we got bounced by the JU88s coming from the V bases.


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[68Wooley]

Why was your Axis orders late?

The orders were late - I didn't post them until late Thursday - either just before midnight or just after depending on what timezone you are in.

The reason I didn't get them out until then was it was only seven frames since we last had CIC duty i.e. 14 squads had done it since we last had it. There's 25 squads flying FSO so it just never occurred to me that we might be up again and I never checked.

I'm not complaining - I really don't mind doing CIC, it just never occurred to me we might be up again.

[68Wooley]

The thing that really caught me out as CIC was the allied cruiser fleet actually being at least 3 fleets - I didn't allocate anything like enough strike capacity to deal with that.

[Nefarious]

The orders were late - I didn't post them until late Thursday - either just before midnight or just after depending on what timezone you are in.

The reason I didn't get them out until then was it was only seven frames since we last had CIC duty i.e. 14 squads had done it since we last had it. There's 25 squads flying FSO so it just never occurred to me that we might be up again and I never checked.

I'm not complaining - I really don't mind doing CIC, it just never occurred to me we might be up again.

The objectives didn't go out until early Tuesday Morning Eastern Time either.