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Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: ViFF on February 04, 2004, 04:20:39 PM

Title: credit given where due
Post by: ViFF on February 04, 2004, 04:20:39 PM

hi,  just wanted to drop a line saying how enjoyable frame 3 of the SSO Phillipines was for me.

It seems like us Euro heads will only take the time to write on this bb when we want to vent our frustrations...

Well, heres one Euro head (well, middle easterner actually) who would like to put in a good word where its well deserved. :)

Allies and Axis at large.
to the command staff of all squads.

I had a very good time commanding the Allies, all squads top notch and accomodating, to all for their stellar performance.

From a CO point of view, this was a very interesting frame, full of surprises like :

"Holy smoke !  all those low Vals have no escort !"
and
"Oh my god !  theres actually three Jap CV's !"

Last but not least,  a very big to thank the CM team, and especially to GhostDancer who has more patience for the lot of us then anyone else I imagine..

Just seeing the amount of correspondance between the squads and the CM would make your head spin.
Ghostdancer thank you for the time & patience you took and invested to make this and future events something that we anxiously await for all week long !

Title: credit given where due
Post by: daddog on February 04, 2004, 06:52:46 PM

:)

A plug much needed I would say. Thanks from one CM who has nothing to do with the Sunday Squad Ops.

Title: credit given where due
Post by: Flossy on February 04, 2004, 07:05:15 PM

I'm glad to hear Frame 3 turned out well after all!  I agree, Ghostdancer has a great deal of patience!  :D

Title: credit given where due
Post by: Squadvid on February 05, 2004, 01:38:55 PM

I agree, a BIG to Ghostdancer, im sure it wasnt easy :aok

Title: credit given where due
Post by: Squire on February 05, 2004, 02:03:25 PM

We had a lot of fun.

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Post by: lucull on February 05, 2004, 06:37:20 PM

I take my hat off to you GD and your patience. ;)

Eventho I died very early, I heard that 315 had some great fights.

Unfortunatly, I haven't recorded the moment when 1olo discovered the IJN fleet and reported it on voice channel. You would like his exciting voice. :D

Title: credit given where due
Post by: Dantoo on February 05, 2004, 10:21:27 PM

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"Holy smoke ! all those low Vals have no escort !"

Thats funny........I distinctly remember hearing something like "Woot here comes a whole bunch of P40's foolishly thinking these Kates are Vals"  :D


It was one hard fought fun frame and just a few observations:

There was pretty much even numbers over the 2 hours,
Most pilots refused to throw away their lives foolishly in the first furball chance,
Action occurred from 30k down to the deck,
Enough people lived through the frame for it to have credibility beyond Main Arena standards,
Both sides felt gratification at achieving their strike goals.

I personally like SO events that require CO's to do just a little more thinking than to place assets at the highest possible level over a known target and then wait for the chance to bounce.  I have always encouraged that realistic goals be set giving a player a good chance to complete their mission and come home alive.  This last frame in particular helped to achieve this and was assisted in no small part by the imaginative use of a second life for bomb carriers.  There is no worse feeling in a scenario than the one that you are being used just to give a kill to someone for "historic accuracy".

Having said all that, when we sign up to a series, we sign up to do it for better or for worse and we do our very best to enjoy them all come what may.  Well done CM's, to all who participated.