Fortress Europe MA Mission Week 3

[AKKuya]

To all Aces High Players and Squads:

There is a public mission in Melee arena being planned by Fortress Europe players. This is open to all. A simple 8th Air Force vs Luftwaffe high altitude bombing mission with escort fighters. The primary purpose is to give some fun and excitement for those involved. Secondary will be for raising awareness of the Fortress Europe event.

These missions will rotate among the countries to allow for more players to participate and to spread the word. We understand chess piece loyalty. We do ask for those who could take a couple of hours one night to overcome this and have some fun with players you normally shoot down and fly with them against players you normally fly with.

Date : 14 April 2018 (Saturday)
Time : 9PM EST/ 8PM CST

Country selection alphabetically :
Allied - Rook
Axis - Bishop
Axis - Knight

Requested aircraft for mission :

Allied
B-17
B-24
P-51
P-47
P-38

Fighter escorts should carry plenty of fuel especially if another Allied aircraft is selected by a player.

Axis
109
190
TA-152
110
410
Brewster
C.205

262 is not requested for this first mission. Should a jet emerge, we have no problem depriving that player from perk points.

Allied volunteer for this will be APDrone.

2 volunteers from Axis side to coordinate Bishop and Rook Axis teams would be appreciated. if Allied bomber force encounter captured Allied aircraft piloted by Luftwaffe pilots, then we will have to make the sacrifice of sending such valuable aircraft to the ground beneath in small parts.

Proposed Mission route will be at 22,000 feet for bomber crews. Route will enter the conjunction area where Bishop/Knight/Rook meet and fly roughly zig zag between Bishop and Knight areas of operation. Once all ordnance has been released, RTB will be called. We will fight our way into and out of hostile territory.

If you can attend, please come out to the show.

 

[APDrone]

Thanks for the writeup AKKuya!

I will be coordinating the bombing effort of the Allies (rooks) for 3/14

A pickup mission will be built, called  Fortress Europe

There will be a flight for each aircraft:

B17
B24
P38
P47
P51

Skins the bombers will be
B17  381st BG
B24  446th BG

Fighters Use an 8th AF skin of your leader's choice.

I want to launch the mission at 10PM EST, 9PM Central, 0200 UTC

Since we are using specific skins we WILL NOT LET THE MISSION LAUNCH US. However, refer to the mission for details as to airfield, fuel, and ordnance loadouts. Set these up in the hangar.  Be sure to enable formations! 

On my command ( Mission Text Channel ) I will announce to go to the specific runway.

Once you have spawned, kill your engines until instructed to start.
We will wait a few seconds to let everybody get on the runway.

Then I will call for engine start.
Then a short countdown to roll launch.

We will use the wingman formation feature, so become familiar with that. There will also be waypoints on the mission, so know how to display those on your clipboard maps.

Originating airbase, course, and target selection will be made the night of the event.

We are not participating in the 'win the war' aspect of the game, so our targets will be strictly strats. Hopefully, this will encourage other bomber/allied pilots to switch to Rooks to join us on this mission.
We will bomb 1 Knight strat and 1 Bishop strat. Order to be determined as the mission unfolds.

Mission vox will be 117 or 124.. Depending on traffic.

Fighters being what they are, any escorts who want to join up with us after launch are encouraged to do so.

I would appreciate it if all bomber pilots join and roll with the rest of the mission players. Mainly as it allows me to get  a good head count of the participants.

I really hope to see a big crowd for this.  Should be a blast!
 

[AKKuya]

24 hours to go until takeoff!!!!!!

[shotgunneeley]

I did not go out of town like I thought I was going to, looks like I will be on tonight to take up a B-17

[AKKuya]

I did not go out of town like I thought I was going to, looks like I will be on tonight to take up a B-17

Great!!!

[APDrone]

Quick update!
Mission launch A141 Rook at 2100 Eastern time

Vox 174

[mERv]

Its been years since I have tried this but it's a lot of fun trolling missions like these with empty B-29 gunships. Get about 6K above the formation and drop altitude out ahead of the Main group. Anyone can fly in a large formation of bombers and be semi-successful. But can you land while blacked out due to pilot wounds from several minutes of 50 cal and 20's in the face???