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Title: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 05, 2010, 12:44:25 AM: (http://ahevents.org/images/stories/thisDayInWWII_files/dDay/banner2.png)

Join us to commemorate D-Day, which took place on June 6, 1944. We'll be running it Sunday, June 6, at 3 pm Eastern Time in Special Events II Arena. All are welcome -- no prior preparation is needed. Just show up and join the fun.

It was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with 5000 allied ships and 175,000 troops attacking the Atlantic Wall of Hitler's Fortress Europe. They landed on the beaches of Normandy, in sectors codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

It's the day of days -- time to paint on your invasion stripes and go hit those beaches.

Information on the setup is here:

http://ahevents.org/this-day-in-wwii-category/d-day-2.html
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 06, 2010, 04:03:31 AM: We are changing this to run in Special Events I Arena.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: ozrocker on June 06, 2010, 11:25:56 AM: Quote from: Brooke on June 05, 2010, 12:44:25 AM
(http://ahevents.org/images/stories/thisDayInWWII_files/dDay/banner2.png)

Join us to commemorate D-Day, which took place on June 6, 1944. We'll be running it Sunday, June 6, at 3 pm Eastern Time in Special Events II Arena. All are welcome -- no prior preparation is needed. Just show up and join the fun.

It was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with 5000 allied ships and 175,000 troops attacking the Atlantic Wall of Hitler's Fortress Europe. They landed on the beaches of Normandy, in sectors codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

It's the day of days -- time to paint on your invasion stripes and go hit those beaches.

Information on the setup is here:

http://ahevents.org/this-day-in-wwii-category/d-day-2.html

Dead Link Brooke <S> Oz
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: haasehole on June 06, 2010, 12:05:47 PM: like oz said dead link lol c you @ 2 central
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Furzy on June 07, 2010, 03:06:59 PM: I recall sinking heaps of ships.Great fun.
No logs up as yet.. New special events site is awfully laggy.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: TUK on June 07, 2010, 04:02:27 PM: I got a couple of Screens from our opening mission into France.. Be patient , they will Load.. Thanks.. CM team..
D-Day Mission Lead by Fudgums, Lead Bomber - Floatsup....
(http://api.ning.com/files/58r3eablkbh1CQn6MWYZlglOXoK4ZYRWZr5Q2e0-Xhs43hIFP97hKJVJtt9va0zcyGOm1pm3dKp7wMHPbxUDGvWh2pZ7I-4y/DDay2.bmp?width=737&height=320)
(http://api.ning.com/files/0kFH1dp8ZyMVIdjgWXznra7TvGw0pvIj695i0qdg09cr4JdU1DTlMgzty5DLKMTG-8mFzR5*LJrDOlaRP6cnEs3VMhQuSKwC/DDay1.bmp?width=737&height=476)
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 07, 2010, 09:57:56 PM: Very cool. Thanks for posting!

The Typhoons remind me of this historical pic:

(http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/AAF-H-DDay/img/AAF-H-DDay-p15.jpg)
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: TUK on June 07, 2010, 10:28:43 PM: For you Brooke........
(http://api.ning.com/files/r4lNQhdoCWZSKJMhaUsOKuGsYY9n3q*YcCWxuzjufCqEAU7Y7hy75B22IqoaBOxwgZbEMkXGkWaU6vnzx0ML6CmC*AocrIWf/DDay12.bmp?width=737&height=476)
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: DrBone1 on June 08, 2010, 01:00:41 AM: Logs?
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 08, 2010, 08:22:32 AM: Something does not add up in those logs. At least not on the axis side.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: 68Raptor on June 08, 2010, 08:43:27 AM: Logs are up. Sadly I couldn't make it Sunday.

What doesn't add up Kilngan?
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 08, 2010, 08:57:26 AM: Well first of all my own stats.
Only thing showing up in the logs is my first sortie when i hit both CVs good.

After that i did 2 or 3 more sorties and hit 1 cv 1 cruiser 1 DD. And I got killed all my Ju88s shot down on second sortie.

If you look at the axis logs they seems to end at 14.40 ish. Just 40 min in to the frame.

So the 31 kills for the axis to the 100+ death for the allied side makes a little more sense then :)
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: 68Raptor on June 08, 2010, 09:04:14 AM: OK, I see that now. Let me try and reload the logs and see if that helps.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 08, 2010, 01:52:57 PM: Quote from: 68Raptor on June 08, 2010, 09:04:14 AM
OK, I see that now. Let me try and reload the logs and see if that helps.

And when might this happen? :bolt:
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: 68Raptor on June 08, 2010, 03:13:07 PM: At some point. :pray
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 08, 2010, 03:23:35 PM: Quote from: 68Raptor on June 08, 2010, 03:13:07 PM
At some point. :pray
:rock
:D
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 08, 2010, 05:13:05 PM: I tried to upload the logs a few times starting right after the event, but with the switchover to the new sight, I was running into some technical difficulties. Thanks, Raptor, for uploading them.

I know that the logs will run to the end, because I for sure did endlog at the 2 hour mark. If they didn't go all the way to the end in the logs posted to the sight, perhaps there was some script bug or an early end to the conversion process. We'll get it sorted out, though, I'm sure.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 09, 2010, 02:16:19 AM: Yes now it works :aok
Just make sure to look for the logs under "test".
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: 68Raptor on June 09, 2010, 07:42:40 AM: Reloaded / relabeled them with D-Day.

Just testing it myself to see if I could get the upload to work. Success!
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: DrBone1 on June 09, 2010, 08:34:05 AM: Great Logs :aok
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 09, 2010, 08:50:41 AM: Quote from: 68Raptor on June 09, 2010, 07:42:40 AM
Reloaded / relabeled them with D-Day.

Just testing it myself to see if I could get the upload to work. Success!

TY :cheers:
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 09, 2010, 02:44:01 PM: Yep, logs are up. The score is . . .

Allies
--------
144 kills = 144 points
87 objects destroyed = 9 points
1 base captured = 25 points
total = 178

Axis
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139 kills = 139 points
213 objects destroyed = 21 points
5 ships destroyed = 5x25 = 125 points
total = 285

Axis victory.

Thanks for playing all. I had a blast and hope all of you did, too.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: TUK on June 09, 2010, 02:47:13 PM: Well done axis.. That pond was just too far to hop. We should have taken an airbase i guess.. :salute
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 09, 2010, 03:06:25 PM: The allies did a great job capturing v99 via airborne landings (go Screaming Eagles! :) ). That was impressive, I think.

Suggestions after the fact are always like arm-chair quarterbacking (sitting in the chair, all out of shape with a beer in one hand, saying "If I were in there, I would have outrun Mike 'The Animal' Spudkowski and then, despite the triple coverage on him, done the 110-yard, thread-the-needle pass to Squirrelly Joe Smithers for the big win.")

So, as I sit in here in an arm-chair, all out of shape, with a beer in one hand . . . maybe go after the closest base with the ships or in absense of that get the ships as soon as possible to one base to assault (using the benefit of fleets that stay up for quite a while after the CV is gone), and rack up some points with B-17's or B-24's here or there bombing towns. Although, spreading out task gruops to 3 different bases would keep them guessing, and you could launch an assault from any one of the three. Hmm . . .

Also, I think the setup wasn't balanced enough (too hard on the allied side of the setup). For next year's run, I think it would be good to up the TaskGroupRespawn time to 45 minutes and make the points 13 per ship (i.e., half what a base is worth). That ought to get things more in the ballpark.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 10, 2010, 02:18:17 AM: Yea but the Allies were 67ppl vs 49ppl :neener:
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 10, 2010, 03:17:49 AM: Quote from: klingan on June 10, 2010, 02:18:17 AM
Yea but the Allies were 67ppl vs 49ppl :neener:

True, but the thing that makes it hard for the allies is having to fly 2 sectors back to the action, instead of 1 or less. I think my above suggestions for tweaks will help the balance.

Oh, and the axis did a good job, too -- I don't want to imply that they didn't.
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: klingan on June 10, 2010, 03:51:58 AM: Well 13p per ship would not have changed the outcome this time but i agree with the idea.
And I don't think we sunk the second CV until like 1h30 into the frame. But I could be wrong, that is not very uncommon :D
Title: Re: This Day in WWII: D-Day. Sunday -- help us commemorate D-Day
Post by: Brooke on June 10, 2010, 01:37:14 PM: Quote from: klingan on June 10, 2010, 03:51:58 AM
Well 13p per ship would not have changed the outcome this time but i agree with the idea.
And I don't think we sunk the second CV until like 1h30 into the frame. But I could be wrong, that is not very uncommon :D

Yep, the last CV lasted until nearly the end. I was launching LVT's from that group until the end. :)