So....

[Nash]

Just how bad did the Allies get beat? I'm trying to assume the proper level of humiliation, but it would be much easier if I knew just how bad the carnage was.    

Post yer AARs here. I'll start.

SBM rolled from CV18 tasked with  prepping A1 for capture. All but one or two of us slipped into the drink on launch. The survivor/s was promptly met by a horde of Ki's and got his arse handed to him hehe. By the sounds of it, our experience wasn't unique.

Your turn.

[ 09-28-2001: Message edited by: Nash ]

[daddog]

Was ugly. 332nd Flying Mongrels rolled from the southern CV. All of us experienced pilots having taken off from the CV many times with full load out. We even have a squadron award for taking off 3 times in a row in an F4U D 100% fuel, and 2-1000lb and several of us have it.  On take off 4 of us hit the conning tower! Found out later there was a 20 mph crosswind.   I did not feel right about having our squad reup and they were all in agreement so for those 4 the TOD was over.  

Those of us who made it headed for A5 to take out the ack for the RCAF 416th squadron, but we only made it ½ way. Some Ki-61's came in hi our 6 and we had to drop all our ordnance and fight it out. Was not long before there was only nifty and I left. After a long fight nifty was shot down and I ran home to the CV.   Tried to land but the damage was too much and careened right into "vultures row".

Launched 8 fighters
Lost all fighters

<S> To all and to the IJN who kicked our butt!  

[LePaul]

416th got maced as well.  3 of us joined with usarmy and his wingie and tried to make a go to 5 with 5 C-47s.  Got 5 minutes from base and were bounced by N1Ks.  Shortest TOD yet  

[Sancho]

Your C47s were butchered by the 63rd Sentai's Frenchy and Nomde.  

[Vulcan]

Just curious ... did the Axis forces have the same fuel issue as the Allies did?

[GA]

Sems that i have to leav in my wings for this one  

Sorry Allieds for the Slaughter you guys had to put up with out there.

It was my first time for planing a event like this one, and it sems it wil be my last after the phones i gott form the high command today .

I planed this real goog i thought but sems not afterall in this case.

<S> Allieds for you brave fighting.

[Wotan]

as in going to zero on runway yes.....

we had cross winds as well i belive a bunch of AKs porked thier rtb.

My squad lost 1 (ditch) due to gear colapse when rtbn.

We only saw 3 f4s.

1 augered
Virage killed 1
Urchin/Erlkonig/Leitwolf (not sure which) got 1

The c47s were spotted when sancho sent 2 guys north from a5 to a1. Imagine spotting 5 goon and your in a niki.......

We expected a good sized attack. With the speed the first f4 got there we assumed the cv was nw a1.  It was. We were rearming to jabo the cv but lost 2 while rtbn. (erlkonig porked his eng on reup). So with out enough ord to ensure sinking the cv we attacked alt target.

[ 09-30-2001: Message edited by: Wotan ]

[Swoop]

First of all, one question:  What avacado decided to turn the CV side on to a 20mph wind?

AAR:

I arrived 10 minutes late due to having overslept (5am my time), launched immediately after instruction by CO (Ripsnort).  On climbout from CV (was at approx 6k) loadsa cons appear so dumped ord.  Picked off one Ki61 while he wasnt looking, was manouvering with 2 more when 5 (count em, FIVE) more Ki61s come outta nowhere and slot onto my 6 at D2.0

Ran for CV.

Fighting around CV I lost oil line, someone else from MAG33 cleared me (dunno who, too busy worrying).  Just as I was chopping throttle and lowering the hook yet another Ki61 goes overhead but hadnt seen me.....WEP gets me within 300 yards of him and those .50s knocked his wing off.  Scratch 2.


Cut throttle again and made for the CV......YET ANOTHER DAMN KI61 has a pop at me, where the bloody hell did all these nutters launch from to hit us after 10 minutes flight time?!?!

Anyway, dunno what happend to this guy, he shot my left elevator off and then disappeared......so I landed and .efluffied quick before getting straffed on the deck.


Was 10 minutes late, flew for 20 mins total, killed 2, rtb'd safe.


 

[Urchin]

Hehe. It was a pretty unmemorable day for JV44.  We had 6 guys (Wotan was out due to a broken stick).  I took our guys up to 20k, and we were orbiting above some broken clouds when word came that 3 F4U's had slipped in underneath us and were attacking A1.  We dove through the clouds, didn't see nary a plane, then two F4U's actually popped out of the clouds above and behind me.  

As Wotan said, Virage got one.  Me, Erlkonig, and Leitwolf chased the other one over to 43 and we finally got him (not sure who got the 'killing burst'- he looked like he was going in so I broke off.  We headed back to A1 and I told Leitwolf he'd come rearm with me while the others maintained the CAP over the base.  Leit managed to land just dandy, I came real close to smacking into the tower and broke my gear on landing.  How embarrasing   .  So I sat in the tower for a while, GhostH said he fixed the wind.  The rest of the guys came in to rearm, rearmed successfully.  I'm sitting in the tower watching them take off again and Erlkonig spins out and comes to a dead stop in the middle of the runway.  All he says is "Oops".  I busted out laughing- he had hit his prop on the ground on takeoff- I felt a little better about my landing mishap after that  .

When I left our only two casualties were from landing/take-off errors, we didn't lose any to enemy action as far as I know.

[Buzzbe]

Trying not to be really Negative...

Getting vulched less than 5 minutes from base by two unattached Nik's in C-47's should not be the spirit of ToD's.

I would really like to see the orders for the Axis side, if everybody just decides to fly around looking for vulching chances as opposed to a coordinated effort, then ToD's are doomed.

I must ask the Nik's, was that your mission?  Who told you where we were rolling from in the 47's? In my opinion without cheating, finding us in 5 minutes is impossible. Shame on you.

Total time from start to finish for us was 11 minutes, only 5 minutes in the air.

I have flown online for over 5 years and never have I been bounced 5 minutes after rolling, you must have been over our base at the start or damn close to it.

Something smell's...

[AN]

Urchin:
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When I left our only two casualties were from landing/take-off errors, we didn't lose any to enemy action as far as I know.
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After we got re-armed, Virage led LeitWolf and I to our alt target.  We arrived with no incident, and dived down to bomb--the ack concentrated on Virage while it completely ignored me.  First time I'd ever dive bombed in AH, and I got two building destroyed messages    We lost LeitWolf over the target, and Virage was unable to nurse his wounded bird home, so I had to fly back all alone. By the time I landed, there was almost no one left in the arena.

anRky

[rosco-]

I had problems from the start. Disco at roll time, relog in and I had no keyboard controlls so I couldnt bring up the radio or start my engines so I rebooted and managed to roll about 10 mins late. In my hurry to catch up I managed to accidently drop my ext tank which forced me to refuel early. My wingie Mark and I never encountered any enemy. We both RTB'd safely.

[Ghosth]

Blame is mine gentlemen.

Despite our best efforts sometimes mistakes do happen. Fuel multiplier I set to 1.5. When I heard about the problems I went back in & looked and it was set to 15000000.0

As to the crosswind, well I loaded a new terrain (which reboots the arena) created new tables, made the field & plane settings I needed. Somehow the wind managed to set itself to a 20 mph crosswind.

Fixed it soon as I heard Ki's were killing landing gear on landing. Also had squadmate reviewing film of CV takeoff mentioned that it looked like a crosswind.

I have NO idea how it set itself.

Lets just say the Gods of War were playing with us last night.  

[rogwar]

This is the first scenario I've flown in where there were some major problems. Lets just hang in there and enjoy the fun. I'm sure we will be learning from the mistakes. Don't get discouraged because this really is a lot of fun.  

[Virage]

Originally posted by Ghosth:

Lets just say the Gods of War were playing with us last night.  

Divine Wind