Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Brooke on June 05, 2011, 04:26:44 PM
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Join us to commemorate D-Day, which took place on June 6, 1944.
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.
Runs at 4 pm and 10 pm in Special Events II.
Another in the series of events called "This Day in WWII".
(http://ahevents.org/images/stories/thisDayInWWII_files/dDay/banner2.png)
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More details if you want them:
http://ahevents.org/events/this-day-in-wwii/602.html?task=view
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will i have to sit in a lvt for 2 hours?
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yeah what time zone ya in? Lol
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Says 3 PM Eastern, 8 PM UK time.
I'm glad you are running this twice. Gives me two chances to make one...or both. Thanks for doing this Brooke!
:salute
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Loose Deuce
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Sorry -- page was mismatched with calendar.
Runs at 4 pm Eastern and 10 pm eastern.
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Was an event riddled with not much communication. I logged in about 10:40pm. There was no outward coordination on the Allied side, met with largely no responses and two rude responses. Ultimately 2 players were squelched. Their attitude doesn't help advertise this event (D-Day) nor Aces High.
After sitting in tower for about 20 minutes or so, a mission by someone was finally posted and a push south to attempt at a base capture met with resistance, as the noe mission was faced with an all seeing dar bar down to 0 feet and the enemy waiting. Had it been known about the all altitude dar bar (0 altitude included) ahead of time, I'm sure the mission planners would have attempted an altitude raid with fighter escorts. In fact, it would have been more historic to plan an altitude raid.
After this raid fizzled out, I coordinated a 'small' bomber raid at altitude but only to abort the mission before crossing the English channel due to 15 minutes remaining (11:45). Just when we all aborted this flight and had landed, the arena coordinator announced had to leave and left the arena open for at least until 12:30am. Had it been known ahead of time the arena would not close at 12:00, my altitude bomber raid would have occurred.
In the end of it, each side just mainly thwarted small enemy attempts each side (with some fun fighter engagements), with apparently some allied pilots taking a late late night push on a beach head again not advertised to the rest of the Allied players (a secret allied attempt to capture a V-base)... They were 1 minute too short from actually capturing a base as the arena coordinator came back and closed the field logs.... Again, had these plans been properly communicated, I would have been able to help.
The quirks of player participation makes it hard to advertise to those deeply involved in the high-energy main arenas.
Hope next year brings more coordination <S>, this D-Day event is a historically important one. Hopefully I'll be able to bring more next year.
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glnbb, did the allied side have someone volunteer to be CO? That helps a lot, when someone will take that role.
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glnbb, did the allied side have someone volunteer to be CO? That helps a lot, when someone will take that role.
I asked what was going on when I first arrived, and was told (in private) that a few guys took over the CVs and did not say what it going on. The person who told me in private, said they attempted at coordination but the rest of the folks did not follow.
Since I was the 'new guy' on the scene, it would have been inappropriate for me to do my usual to step up to post a mission (if that were to be construed as volunteering to be a CO).
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The axis had a guy step up early on to CO, and things went pretty smoothly. He did a good job of coordinating things.
If a side doesn't do that, though, that's its own problem. People shouldn't be shy about it. If you're a person who'd be willing to be CO, if you show up, ask "who's the CO?" a few times and get no answer, you should just announce that you are stepping up as CO and go for it. If no one answers the question "who is the CO?", then very likely there isn't one. And if you say "OK, I'm stepping up to be CO" and start working to coordinate people and *then* someone announces that so-and-so is CO, you can say, "Good -- so-and-so, where do you need me?"
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The axis had a guy step up early on to CO, and things went pretty smoothly. He did a good job of coordinating things.
If a side doesn't do that, though, that's its own problem. People shouldn't be shy about it. If you're a person who'd be willing to be CO, if you show up, ask "who's the CO?" a few times and get no answer, you should just announce that you are stepping up as CO and go for it. If no one answers the question "who is the CO?", then very likely there isn't one. And if you say "OK, I'm stepping up to be CO" and start working to coordinate people and *then* someone announces that so-and-so is CO, you can say, "Good -- so-and-so, where do you need me?"
Good idea. Better than just asking 'what's going on'. And will just inject a mission afterward if no one steps up to the plate.