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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: AKKuya on July 02, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
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Gentlemen and Ladies,
This mission will be a deep penetration raid to shut down a rear airfield. Depending on amount of bomber pilots, expect a small field or possibly a medium field.
Objectives:
1) Shut down all hangars.
2) Destroy all strats (radar, fuel, ammo, and troops) on one pass.
3) Defend from all Luftwaffe aircraft.
4) Return safely to friendly airfield for celebration in O'Club courtesy of Zoney's monthly paycheck.
Those that land kills afterward will receive a case of scotch on top of scheduled festivities.
Launch Time 8PM EST/7PM CST (USA)
Late War Arena
Launch Country : Knights
Target Airfield Country : Rook (will alternate between rook and bishop each week)
Order of Battle:
B-17
B-24
P-38
P-47
P-51
I will have a Mission set-up. Join the Mission to enable Mission Text for specific info during Mission.
This is open to all who want to participate and can follow directions. Blind pilots are exempt from following directions, we will follow them.
Any questions direct them to myself or Zoney for escort questions. Squads desiring a particular escort aircraft model should contact me via PM so I can include your escort variant. Be advised to ensure they will be loaded with the most amount of gas possible for long flight duration. Each aircraft will have 25 slots in their flight. There could be both Pony models and few Jug models available with 25 slots apiece.
We had around 20-25 players last week and we have room for lots more.
Luftwaffe squads are encouraged to organize a LW reception committee with Me-109s, 110's, and FW-190s. It's requested to leave the jets on the ground until 8th AF Mission has suffiecient numbers to defend.
Hope to see you there and good hunting. :salute
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will try to make it but will likely be about 30 minutes late by the time I get home from work. If I cn get online I'll grab an escort and try to catch up.
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Should be there again. Hoping to have some more of the 364th FG guys there in 51s as well. Hopefully we'll get some more 190 and 109 guys up like last time :aok
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IN!!!!!! :aok Bagged me 2 109s and sent 6 home damaged last time. :devil
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Good man! Now lets see if we can turn this 4
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/DGS%20Scenario%20bits/Snap7.jpg)
into a replica of this 8 to keep that strangle hold on the formation contest :)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/DGS%20Scenario%20bits/364Form.jpg)
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woo the mission of the month is back!
good to hear, some historical action instead of the hording :aok :aok
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Woohoo, awesome, this will be a ball again and then we go to the O'Club and.........wha......wait a minute................. :eek:
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woo the mission of the month is back!
good to hear, some historical action instead of the hording :aok :aok
Yup the mission of the month is back every Thursday.....4 times as good////////// :D
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I'll do my best to show up. Save a D-25 slot for me.
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(http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv15/d0nwaters/Luft2.jpg)
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Lol 20-25 for a planned event? I love it when the Bishops will start a retaliatory mission in 5 minutes and have 60 joiners out of the blue. :airplane:
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Lol 20-25 for a planned event? I love it when the Bishops will start a retaliatory mission in 5 minutes and have 60 joiners out of the blue. :airplane:
There is a HUGE difference between what Kuya is doing and the normal Bish Horde mission. Comparing it to a 91st planned mission is much closer to reality. Kuya and those with him are looking for discipline, for those willing to take some time to get to the planned target, and having fun reliving what it was truly like. Notice their target areas are already noted each week and they want people to go against them, also in a disciplined manner. This is the Allies way of preparing for the scenario that starts in Oct, DSGII. The Axis is taking the Allies up on their desire to be shot out of the sky by German Iron (sorry, had to throw a LITTEL bias in here :D) and that is one of the ways we are preparing.
Please, don't compare the two... The normal Bish horde mission is exactly that; a horde mission. This is a coordinated effort with intentions of realistic combat for those wishing to immerse themselves more deeply in the conflict AHII is portraying. Hopefully these will continue well after DSGII has concluded as they are a welcome assemblage of people, one that doesn't elicit whines, but one that projects a positive aura, invoking a sense of accomplishment for ALL involved.
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Thank you Seph. Couldn't say it any better than that. :salute
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Going to go 2/2 in shooting down two cons one pass and compress at 28k into the ocean.
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This marks my 1000th post. Yeah!!!!!
I'm looking forward to a real big turnout. Take a couple hours away from the base taking, furballing, and CV fighting for a sound mission with historical immersion.
Those are some good pics Guppy and hilaroius illustrations there slate and seph. :salute
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This is gonna be a blast :aok
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You might note too... this is not to capture the field. The whole exercise is built to be historical.
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Tonight.
Just sayin.
Put your big boy britches on.
Because it's on biotches !
Just sayin.
Didn't say nuthin' 'bout your mom.
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I'm being presumptuous though I plan to make a go-of-it tonight. Great mission!
Boo
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SWEEET, the 303rd will be represented in this ive been waiting for a fun time like this (the planes are flying over head here in anticipation of the airshow this weekend saw a p51 and 47 flying together coming in this morning pretty sweet.
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So, the 8th AF is flying Knights tonight correct ?
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So, the 8th AF is flying Knights tonight correct ?
Yes, the July 8th AF Missions will be flown on Knights this month.
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I'll be there if the weather is inclimate. Hope some of the gents in the 56th will be there also.
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I'll be there. :aok
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I'll be stuck in an office for at least two more hours.
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I think AKKuya is doing this on purpose on Thursday night so a large portion of the K4 drivers are busy in VF-17 FSO practice. That's OK though, they need the practice so the escorts won't be so easy to swat away once the real thing starts, no point on making it too easy on us :neener:
:salute
BigRat
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We had 42 players in the mission with a few that joined later to around 47 players including 8 sets of bombers. :salute We smashed a medium airfield in one pass.
Next week, we should have some more players to join. When that announcement is made, I'll have some more organizational info for larger size missions.
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Thanks to the 109 and 190 drivers who kept at it. Funny to hear the radio come alive when the first 109 high is seen :)
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AAR for Mission:
8 sets of B-17s with 35 plus escort fighters comprised of 10+ Ponies and 10+ Jugs with a few Lightnings lifted off from a rear base in Knight held country. The 8th Air Force Mission climbed to 22,000 ft for the buffs and higher altitudes for the escorts.
After making several course changes, the Mission was engaged by single LW aircraft that did manage to send a bomber drone or two to the ground in flames and small pieces. Once the buffs grouped up, they made a final course change for a medium airfield in Rookland. More LW aircraft arrived and gave some target practice for the bomber gunners.
The buffs dropped tens of thousands of pounds of bombs onto the enemy field below. Many hangars, strats and radar went down plus some field guns here and there. The buffs were able to drop unharrassed due to the gallant and heroic efforts of the escort fighters. Only a few bomber drones were lost over the bomb drop duration.
The escort fighters did a great job in keeping the LW aircraft busy while the buffs made a quick turn for friendly airfields and safe landing. Somehow, the LW stole some RAF planes and tried to sneak up on us and shoot us down. Our escort fighters discovered that ruse and fought them off as well.
:salute
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Thanks to the 109 and 190 drivers who kept at it. Funny to hear the radio come alive when the first 109 high is seen :)
I gave it a shot but got waxed 3 times with only 1 fighter kill. :(
But it was a blast zooming through the bomber formation. :airplane: Only smoked some B-17 engines though until had to bail as Butcher flamed my 190.
Learned a few things though. :noid and I don't think the Luftwaffe was very organized not hitting the formation in force allowing escorts to shed attackers one by one.
:salute 8th Airforce
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Oh well Thursdays are just not a good day for me to get home earlier.
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What a ball !
Great turnout gents, great fights, thank you very much.
Looking forward to next week.
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That was a lot of fun. With all the whining in the other threads about how some people play the game, this was a good example of how it should be done. :salute
I only regret I won't be able to join any other such missions. I was on vacation this week, otherwise I would not be home in time to join.
In any case, keep up the good work. :aok
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Now you've gone and done it!
I guess I'll have to dust off the map boards,
come out of retirement and get the rooks rolling
with our own MoM's again!
You guys sound like you're due for a spanking anyway. :D
Mission of the Month:
http://david.tenifer.com/aceshigh/LCA.MoM.php
Past MoM Mission Logs:
http://david.tenifer.com/aceshigh/LCA.MoM-Past.php
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I gave it a shot but got waxed 3 times with only 1 fighter kill. :(
But it was a blast zooming through the bomber formation. :airplane: Only smoked some B-17 engines though until had to bail as Butcher flamed my 190.
Learned a few things though. :noid and I don't think the Luftwaffe was very organized not hitting the formation in force allowing escorts to shed attackers one by one.
:salute 8th Airforce
As long as the Luft pilots come in by ones and twos, its hard to do serious damage to the bombers. One pass and you will have 2 or 3 escorts on ya. Its best to get grouped up and come in together with part of your group to engage fighters while the others hit the bombers.
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I flew against that mission in a 110g2. 8 bomber formations with 30 + fighter escorts all at 30k is nada to brag about. Your fighter escort so outnumbered the bombers that I for one will not be participating again. With that said though the one pass I got to do was a lot of fun and I :salute you for what you are trying to do.
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I flew against that mission in a 110g2. 8 bomber formations with 30 + fighter escorts all at 30k is nada to brag about. Your fighter escort so outnumbered the bombers that I for one will not be participating again. With that said though the one pass I got to do was a lot of fun and I :salute you for what you are trying to do.
Understand that your plan didn't work out that well. The reason was you most likely flew solo. Just try again next week but with 4 other players and work together as a team. You will have better success and more fun. :salute
I'm still looking for a player to organize and lead a Luftwaffe armada each week. 40 -50 Axis aircraft working together will make things happen.
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Tango is right. Even more fun if there is an organized counter-mission: some fine many vs many instead of ganging the single defenders. Its only possible when the bomber mission's target is preset - otherwise no chance to catch up. Maybe the strat city can be a good target.
I hope the next one will be even better :salute
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Understand that your plan didn't work out that well. The reason was you most likely flew solo. Just try again next week but with 4 other players and work together as a team. You will have better success and more fun. :salute
I'm still looking for a player to organize and lead a Luftwaffe armada each week. 40 -50 Axis aircraft working together will make things happen.
Just hit knights...and start 30 mins later...and I'll bring the Luftwaffe, Kuya.
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If we took off as a group with a organized resistance, I and any Squaddies that are on would be happy to fly against you guys. As far as a leader goes might I suggest Molesman. He upped at the same time I did with 4 other ac and made a impact, we all hit ya at the same time but still the fighter cap was not realistic. Is there any way you could maximise the number of escorts? Honestly with that set up you had even if 20 ac would have attacked at the same time they all would have had to make one pass and dive for the deck to survive.
I'm asking you this because I adhered to the spirit of the mission and upped a 110g2 instead of a 262 like you asked for. Again I love the concept, nothing more fun than attacking a bomber formation with fighter escort. :salute sir and good luck with future missions I for one think its a big improvement to MA game play.
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If we took off as a group with a organized resistance, I and any Squaddies that are on would be happy to fly against you guys. As far as a leader goes might I suggest Molesman. He upped at the same time I did with 4 other ac and made a impact, we all hit ya at the same time but still the fighter cap was not realistic. Is there any way you could maximise the number of escorts? Honestly with that set up you had even if 20 ac would have attacked at the same time they all would have had to make one pass and dive for the deck to survive.
I'm asking you this because I adhered to the spirit of the mission and upped a 110g2 instead of a 262 like you asked for. Again I love the concept, nothing more fun than attacking a bomber formation with fighter escort. :salute sir and good luck with future missions I for one think its a big improvement to MA game play.
Actually for late 44-45 it was not bad for realism. Imagine what it was like for a young German pilot going up those odds for real. You just happened to get a cartoon taste of it.
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How does this work
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How does this work
Can you be more specific?
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How does this work
The Mission takes off from a certain country - you either switch to that country to join the mission - or you can find its location on 200 and attack it, preferably in german aircraft.
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How does this work
The 8th AF announces on 200 that it is coming, and which country will be struck. You up to defend or up to escort. Escorts are P47's P51's and P38's. You could also take off with AKKuya in a buff if that is your preference. This is not a sneak attack. It is announced. You know the time the buffs take off. There is a big unmistakeable dar bar. Heck PM me if flight and I will tell ya where we are going, friend or foe. This week we need more organized resistance. We need squads working as squads to attack because we, as escorts are ready for ya. There were plenty of attackers last week but there was no coordination. Surfinn knows what he is doing but if you are alone you can only do or expect so much.
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The 8th AF announces on 200 that it is coming, and which country will be struck. You up to defend or up to escort. Escorts are P47's P51's and P38's. You could also take off with AKKuya in a buff if that is your preference. This is not a sneak attack. It is announced. You know the time the buffs take off. There is a big unmistakeable dar bar. Heck PM me if flight and I will tell ya where we are going, friend or foe. This week we need more organized resistance. We need squads working as squads to attack because we, as escorts are ready for ya. There were plenty of attackers last week but there was no coordination. Surfinn knows what he is doing but if you are alone you can only do or expect so much.
what day this week
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what day this week
thursday the 12th
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thursday the 12th
cant I would but I will be able to finally get on Friday (Hopefully) I can unlock my acount but can you guys postpone it Please
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cant I would but I will be able to finally get on Friday (Hopefully) I can unlock my acount but can you guys postpone it Please
Well, I wish we could but sadly no, we are going to run it this Thursday.
But wait there is good news, next Thursday you can join in. And the Thursday after that too!
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I will speak with 49Grave and 49Merlin about trying to get a rook resistance when we are hit again since will will be rook a while longer. and hopefully if activity comes back (with it being summer alot of play are less active) we will start posting our sunday night mission again. Same style of missions as the 8th AF missions.
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I will speak with 49Grave and 49Merlin about trying to get a rook resistance when we are hit again since will will be rook a while longer. and hopefully if activity comes back (with it being summer alot of play are less active) we will start posting our sunday night mission again. Same style of missions as the 8th AF missions.
Sounds good.
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what A/C do you guys accept for the mission
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what A/C do you guys accept for the mission
B-17
B-24
P-38
P-47
P-51
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it would be fun to fly against these types of missions usually we host this type of mission so i look forward to a LW resistance