Blame Me and the RJO

[Grimm]

Thursday night might not have been a good night to be a Bishop..  

It wasnt a good night to be Knight...

BUT IT WAS AWSOME TO BE ROOK!

Tonight The CAF lead the RJO and I was CiC,   I and my squad have been planning this for sometime now.  

Our plan was to completely take down the Strat of one entire country and see what effects it caused

Well, Bishops where the stronger of our enemies, so they drew the Strat card.    RJO Squads totaly wrecked all strat targets, reducing all strats.  we porked forward bases as well.

Then in the interest of spreading the hate,  We switch and started pushing the knights.   our flank was pretty secure because the Bishops where messed up.  

RJO Squads pretty much steamed over the knights.

I wonder what our opponets thought...

The Total Strat Destruction really seemed to put the hurt on the Bishops.  

Advance Planning and pumping up the troops gave us a huge numeric advantage.   We held steady numbers thru the entire evening.

WELL DONE RJO SQUADS!!!!!

[AVRO1]

The best part was when I checked Strat and found out that both Bish and Knits were radar less.

[gofaster]

Nice job, Grimm!

I was late getting the word out to the fellow Shills about the RJO (completely my fault) and was also late logging on (by about an hour) but I understand that we did get a couple of guys (Monster0 and CLShill, to be precise) to escort the Skyknights' bombers on the initial HQ runs.  By the time I logged on, both Bish and Knight HQs were smoking craters and the SKs were making their B17 attacks on Knight factories and airfields.  I tried my hand at gunning for 2Slow of the Skynights but the enemy fighters pretty much stayed away or were intercepted by Rook fighters before they could get to the bomber stream. M0 and CL were in fighters to assist in airfield attacks and base defense.

By this time, all 3 of us Shills were in fighters and plugging holes where best we could, trying to find enemy resistance and suppressing it.  Monster0 was operating up north, I was working to the southeast, and CLShill was alternating fronts.  At the time we won the reset, I was strafing buildings and Knight gvs in my FW190A8 and CL was airlifting troops into the town.  M0 was west looking for Knight air resistance.

Hopefully I'll be more on the ball next time and will get the word out to the rest of the Shills and be able to put up more pilots.  M0 and CL seemed to have a lot of fun doing it despite my lack of leadership and I'm sure I can talk a few more guys into participating in the next one.  I'll pay closer attention to the radio frequencies and mission objectives and hopefully we'll have more of an impact in the operations next go-round.

[Gloves]

Rooks.  The best part of being a Knight was the 50% discount of perk planes in a target rich environment.    

Great organization & planning.  My hat's off to you.

Glove

[lazs2]

just curious... how were the numbers in the arena during this awesome strat exercise?   Lotta people come online as knits or bish diring this fun fest?  wonder how many new players logged on and said.. "wow look at this awesome, chesslike, complex strat... sign me up!"
lazs

[Alpo]

We had the task of dropping the HQ of the target country.  Our mission launch was set for 8:45est, as I started gathering the squad, 2slow reports being almost to Bish HQ in 17s.  The next thing I know, he reports HQ down!

Grimm comes on channel and announces that Bish HQ will be our first target... "Uh, Grimm... we just killed that. "  We launched on time, figuring that Bish HQ would be up again and sure enough it was (but not for long ).  The Shills and Flying Tigers AVG were running escort duty for us and I personally didn't see any enemy planes get to within 3k of our bombers.

With Bish strat being in total ruin, Grimm orders the squads to the Knits and sure enough we get tasked with hitting Knit HQ.  Again the Tigers AVG and Shills kept us free to work, resulting in the third HQ kill of the night for us.

The rest of the evening was spent killing this hanger and that, carpet bombing Tigers that just wouldn't die, etc.  A great RJO and a to our escort.

[JSO]

 We had a great turnout and the best time ever flying in B-17s , its been a long time and thanks to Grimm the Hawks were back in all Buffs. What a night I ALL who were there and IMOP it was fun.

 To bad some players have to cry about the numbers, but if they took a long look at past weeks the ROOKs are usually out numbered and I have not noticed any complaints .


     JSO  Opperation Officer
      NightHawks VA- 185

[Grimm]

Originally posted by lazs2
just curious... how were the numbers in the arena during this awesome strat exercise?   Lotta people come online as knits or bish diring this fun fest?  wonder how many new players logged on and said.. "wow look at this awesome, chesslike, complex strat... sign me up!"
lazs

Lazs,
The MA numbers were about normal for primetime before we started.  At the time the RJO started,  Rook numbers swelled to about 300.   The Bishops and Knights numbers held steady most of the night.  A Credit to them for fighting the hard fight.  

Im not sure what a new player would have thought last night.  But this was far from a normal night.   Normaly you dont toast all the strat in a country,  then turn and steamroller/Gang the other country into oblivion.  

Did you get a chance to fly at all last night???   It would have probably been Lazs hell.  (thou a target rich enviroment)  

After the Reset about Midnight, everything was back to MA statis Quo.

[Pbear52]

It is truely possible to have a EVENT in the main arena

ROOK JOINT OPS

I salute Grimm and all ROOK squads for a great RJO effort and a good time had by all!!! Squads stuck to their assignments best I have ever seen!!

Great trip! Great RJO!

[Nifty]

zerg, baby, zerg!

[Saurdaukar]

Grimm, CAF, and CJO.  Even on the receiving end of dozens of hizzokas and Soviet 20mms, it was fun.  

This is how the game should be - Im really surprised you guys came together enough as a country to actually work as a country.

My hats off to you.

[ghostdancer]

Laz I kept watch on the numbers for the night. For most of the night the Rooks had basically the same amount of pilots as the Knights and Bishops combined (their combine total a few times had like 10 more pilots).

The rook side had about 280 on average with a peak of around 300 at one point. Knights and Bishop numbers stayed around the 140 range each for the night.

Even after we reduced the strat facilities of the Bishops and pushed them back into just 10 bases their numbers stayed in that range. So we didn't see them doing a mass log off. The Knights kept their numbers pretty constant too up until the last base was siezed.

But I don't think I saw either side drop massively in numbers anywhere from 8:30 - 12:30 that the RJO was going.

[recon7]

Boy, what a steamroller the Rooks put on last night!   to you guys for the planning!  

It was surprising that, when you set your sites on the Knights, the reset didn't happen more quickly.  The Knights were not even fighting the Rooks full-time, as we were still defending from the Bishops South of HQ, and attempting to take a couple of Bishop bases on the South-East coast.  On the few times I ventured toward the Rook front, I only saw a few Knights defending those bases.  It wouldn't have mattered anyway with the 3 to 1 ratio.

On the plus side, it was a target-rich environment, and though I didn't successfully land any kills last night, the perkies were high on my kills.  Those that like to ride perk planes were getting them cheap, too!

All in all, GJ Rooks, but I'm glad it will be back to normal now!;)

[ghostdancer]

Yep .. 3 - 4 weeks roughly until its abnormal again.

Knights put up a good fight.

[scJazz]

to Grimm and the CAF command for the planning.
to all the other Rook squadrons in the core of the RJO.
to all non-core Rook squadrons who jumped on board.

Special to the Bishops and Knights for being worthy opponents.

On behalf of the Skeleton Crew...
scJazz