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Title: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 02, 2024, 11:51:52 AM
Don’t miss the last night of a massively successful scenario, by the best events team of the genre. This one made history in AH, the sim we all love. This was a major turn-around.

I have the greatest respect for those who out this together FOR us.

Come join us for the grand finale of this epic event

Show up at 8p eastern time, walk-ons are more than welcome. Walk-ons come as Rooks, and you will be placed.

Saddle up
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 02, 2024, 03:36:50 PM
Speeling error abound when on phone
Out = put
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: DmonSlyr on March 02, 2024, 06:49:38 PM
Let's goooooooo  :airplane: :joystick:

Nothing like seeing that huge hoard coming at you. Can feel the Adrenaline kick in.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: potsNpans on March 02, 2024, 11:05:04 PM
Last frame, what a great scenario. Organizers and Group leads, Thank you,  :aok
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 02, 2024, 11:06:49 PM
Let's goooooooo  :airplane: :joystick:

Nothing like seeing that huge hoard coming at you. Can feel the Adrenaline kick in.

It does, probably on both sides,... it certainly gets down-n-dirty.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 02, 2024, 11:11:06 PM
Last frame, what a great scenario. Organizers and Group leads, Thank you,  :aok

No kidding. Now that's entertainment well worth $15, just for that alone. If I did nothing else, it's worth it.
Glad to be a part of it. Had over 100 again tonight. Events crew should be proud of what they turned out.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: THRASH99 on March 02, 2024, 11:26:26 PM
Glad I got to catch one of them tonight! Was insanely fun, great flying with the 56th! Thanks again  :salute
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: THRASH99 on March 02, 2024, 11:37:56 PM
Holy moly!  :rofl

Top Pilots: Kills
   THRASH99 (56th Fighter Group): 11
   AKKillz (4th FG): 5
   BRET2947 (100th BG): 4
   TalonX (100th BG): 4
   oboe (479th Fighter Group): 3
   AKpizzle (479th Fighter Group): 3
   Rebel59 (56th Fighter Group): 3
Top Squads: Objects Destroyed
   100th BG: 232
Top Squads: Kills
   56th Fighter Group: 35
   100th BG: 24
   479th Fighter Group: 14
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: xanax on March 02, 2024, 11:44:17 PM
Holy moly!  :rofl

Top Pilots: Kills
   THRASH99 (56th Fighter Group): 11
   AKKillz (4th FG): 5
   BRET2947 (100th BG): 4
   

Nice! I was probably one of those. I believe I managed to make a couple 47's spill some coffee before becoming chum. Had a blast though!
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Dadtallica on March 02, 2024, 11:46:48 PM
Holy moly!  :rofl

Top Pilots: Kills
   THRASH99 (56th Fighter Group): 11
   AKKillz (4th FG): 5
   BRET2947 (100th BG): 4
   TalonX (100th BG): 4
   oboe (479th Fighter Group): 3
   AKpizzle (479th Fighter Group): 3
   Rebel59 (56th Fighter Group): 3
Top Squads: Objects Destroyed
   100th BG: 232
Top Squads: Kills
   56th Fighter Group: 35
   100th BG: 24
   479th Fighter Group: 14

WTG Rebel!

Nice work done by all and a big ole  :salute to the showrunners! Can’t wait to talk up what’s next. Keep this momentum rolling if possible. I’m here to help!

Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: guncrasher on March 02, 2024, 11:51:08 PM
was a lot of fun, thrash even let me take the wing off 190  :rofl


semp
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 03, 2024, 12:10:50 AM
Holy moly!  :rofl

Top Pilots: Kills
   THRASH99 (56th Fighter Group): 11
   AKKillz (4th FG): 5
   BRET2947 (100th BG): 4
   TalonX (100th BG): 4
   oboe (479th Fighter Group): 3
   AKpizzle (479th Fighter Group): 3
   Rebel59 (56th Fighter Group): 3
Top Squads: Objects Destroyed
   100th BG: 232
Top Squads: Kills
   56th Fighter Group: 35
   100th BG: 24
   479th Fighter Group: 14

Don't know if anyone I hit died, otherwise I only got one kill. Tonight was the first frame my stick was working right. I got 1 kill in the event, landed 3 frames. I didn't lose any sleep over it,... it was a blast.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: TalonX on March 03, 2024, 09:51:13 AM
Don’t miss the last night of a massively successful scenario, by the best events team of the genre. This one made history in AH, the sim we all love. This was a major turn-around.

I have the greatest respect for those who out this together FOR us.

Come join us for the grand finale of this epic event

Show up at 8p eastern time, walk-ons are more than welcome. Walk-ons come as Rooks, and you will be placed.

Saddle up


Absolutely one of the best times I've ever had on Aces High.   Can't express enough gratitude to the organizers!!   Thank you, All.  <S>

One question, and I may be dense, but did the logs close for some reason before we finished our bomb runs?     I was confused.

Thanks again!!!

Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 03, 2024, 10:51:47 AM

Absolutely one of the best times I've ever had on Aces High.   Can't express enough gratitude to the organizers!!   Thank you, All.  <S>

One question, and I may be dense, but did the logs close for some reason before we finished our bomb runs?     I was confused.

Thanks again!!!

Thats a Brooke question. He mentioned something along the lines it was a late arrival to targets. So I’m not sure if the points counted.

Glad to see all of you return players. I’ve only been back a year myself. Kinda has that home feeling seeing old skewl names appear. I’m not sure other sims have 20-30 yr friendships/acquaintances. What a great time to arrive.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Frodo on March 03, 2024, 11:09:36 AM
Lots of fun and thanks to you guys who put this on. Got to fly with some guys that are usually on the other side. Enjoyed that.

Saw some great escort flying several frames. Very hard thing to do and stay focused. Made our job a lot harder and more fun and challenging.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Shrike on March 03, 2024, 01:21:21 PM
This was an awesome event.  Nice job putting this one together!!!

 :rock :rock :rock
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: DmonSlyr on March 03, 2024, 02:15:11 PM
Had such a wonderful time. Awesome event! The allied did pretty darn good guarding those B17s. It was wild out there.

Pretty dang good event for me:
(https://i.ibb.co/f8yrN08/Master-of-Air-event-score.png)

Quick clip here to check out, and a few unedited videos are up from last night. Will have more later edited clips once I have time.
Check out this clip! Taylor_M80 streaming Aces High III!  https://clips.twitch.tv/LovelyNastyParrotKeyboardCat-tcNnbUsnrUIroLfu

Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 03, 2024, 02:36:37 PM
Any video of this event is great advertisement, especially this time of year. Seeing a lot of good stuff.

WTG.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 03, 2024, 03:13:34 PM
I gotta say. A P-51D is great at high alts. Climbing at 29k directly into a horde at speed of 190-200, to all the sudden pulling off maneuvers, can be a little tense. I’m used to going into at 325-525. I had to nose down to get speed up. Surprised I made it to a landing a few times. My usual limit in s P-51D is 26k. Things seem to change there.

Although, I admit, 1st round last night, I didn’t realize at spawn my RPM was set lower for my last landing in the MA. <blank stare> whoops. Glad I fixed that before the high climbing. Ha!

It was fun, but not easy. Hard = adrenaline. Jolt my adrenaline and I want to keep doing it. The scarier the more I like it. Adrenaline junky. :)

I have not heard anything else but praise.

One way I can assume a scenario was done exactly right, is when it actually mimics history in the outcome. This was point on.

I think invoking a movie where everyone can follow history of it is a massive immersion aid. The combo is an outstanding proven formula. It really sucks people in deep. This has the ability to turn things around, and epic events like this will supersede the MA as it should.
“The arena is just for practice for scenarios.”

Congrats to everyone from the creator, the events staff, to the players. It all came together and made it massively successful. We needed this. Everyone was involved. Exactly how the entertainment world happens. Ya did better than the movie.

It can be done again.

Players who haven’t attended events, should. Play the whole game. :)

- The village idiot

Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Brooke on March 06, 2024, 02:27:43 AM
One question, ... did the logs close for some reason before we finished our bomb runs?

Yes.

Unfortunately, on that 3rd Mission, I (the allied bomber commander) didn't get the B-17's to target in time to drop before end log.

I was very angry at myself for that, and I apologize.  Here's how it happened.

We launched Mission 3 with about 30 minutes to get to target.  I figured that was enough.

However . . .

On our way to target, I had the bombers do a 90-degree turn to avoid a large enemy concentration.  That was good in that it spread out the enemy attack, making it more manageable.  It was bad in that we were in a rolling fight for a long time while not closing on target.

I was getting more and more concerned about turning back to target.  But it is hard to turn a bomber group while it is under too heavy an attack because folks have trouble manning guns and turning, and it scatters the formation.  I cut it too close and was about 5 minutes too late in turning us back toward target.  We dropped on target 3-5 minutes after end log.

 :(

If we had made it before end log, I estimate we had about 12-13 Successful Drops, the allies would have gotten a few more kills, and the axis would have gotten another 5-6 kills.  I think that the axis would still have won, but the score would have been very close (like 163 to 167 or so).

So, my apologies to my fellow allied pilots.  I didn't get us turned back toward target in time.
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Animl-AW on March 06, 2024, 07:15:44 AM
Yes.

Unfortunately, on that 3rd Mission, I (the allied bomber commander) didn't get the B-17's to target in time to drop before end log.

I was very angry at myself for that, and I apologize.  Here's how it happened.

We launched Mission 3 with about 30 minutes to get to target.  I figured that was enough.

However . . .

On our way to target, I had the bombers do a 90-degree turn to avoid a large enemy concentration.  That was good in that it spread out the enemy attack, making it more manageable.  It was bad in that we were in a rolling fight for a long time while not closing on target.

I was getting more and more concerned about turning back to target.  But it is hard to turn a bomber group while it is under too heavy an attack because folks have trouble manning guns and turning, and it scatters the formation.  I cut it too close and was about 5 minutes too late in turning us back toward target.  We dropped on target 3-5 minutes after end log.

 :(

If we had made it before end log, I estimate we had about 12-13 Successful Drops, the allies would have gotten a few more kills, and the axis would have gotten another 5-6 kills.  I think that the axis would still have won, but the score would have been very close (like 163 to 167 or so).

So, my apologies to my fellow allied pilots.  I didn't get us turned back toward target in time.

Bhaaa! My friend,
Everything happened like in RL, including that tiny thing I never noticed. That happened in RL too. Don’t you dare feel bad about it.

As Steely Dan said; lets “do it again”.

I hope the vid I’m making even comes close to doing it any justice, without being 15 hrs long.

<S>
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: TalonX on March 09, 2024, 08:02:18 PM
Yes.

Unfortunately, on that 3rd Mission, I (the allied bomber commander) didn't get the B-17's to target in time to drop before end log.

I was very angry at myself for that, and I apologize.  Here's how it happened.

We launched Mission 3 with about 30 minutes to get to target.  I figured that was enough.

However . . .

On our way to target, I had the bombers do a 90-degree turn to avoid a large enemy concentration.  That was good in that it spread out the enemy attack, making it more manageable.  It was bad in that we were in a rolling fight for a long time while not closing on target.

I was getting more and more concerned about turning back to target.  But it is hard to turn a bomber group while it is under too heavy an attack because folks have trouble manning guns and turning, and it scatters the formation.  I cut it too close and was about 5 minutes too late in turning us back toward target.  We dropped on target 3-5 minutes after end log.

 :(

If we had made it before end log, I estimate we had about 12-13 Successful Drops, the allies would have gotten a few more kills, and the axis would have gotten another 5-6 kills.  I think that the axis would still have won, but the score would have been very close (like 163 to 167 or so).

So, my apologies to my fellow allied pilots.  I didn't get us turned back toward target in time.

No worries!  It was a great time!  Thank you and <S>
Title: Re: Masters of the Air - Frame 5 tonight
Post by: Brooke on March 10, 2024, 04:11:47 AM
Thanks for flying, TalonX!   It was great flying with you, and I hope that you can join us for the scenario in October.