Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: swareiam on April 25, 2016, 09:50:22 PM
Title: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: swareiam on April 25, 2016, 09:50:22 PM
Gentlemen,
Get ready for some high powered LW action in the ETO in "Air Battle Before Bodenplatte". This event focuses on the early winter of 1944 before "Operation Bodenplatte" was executed by the Luftwaffe.
Please review the write up here (http://www.ahevents.org/fso-setups/85-western-european-theatre/1187-air-battles-before-bodenplatte-1944.html).
Please enjoy this video that will introduce some of the aircraft of the period.
Please look to set side selections and preference this week.
Regards,
:salute
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: Devil 505 on April 25, 2016, 10:27:57 PM
Top notch ace selection.
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: KCDitto on April 26, 2016, 12:00:32 AM
:cry
Bad day for JG 11
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: Kanth on April 26, 2016, 07:05:25 AM
nice planeset! :aok looks like fun!
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: BFOOT1 on April 26, 2016, 10:41:40 AM
Get ready for some high powered LW action in the ETO in "Air Battle Before Bodenplatte". This event focuses on the early winter of 1944 before "Operation Bodenplatte" was executed by the Luftwaffe.
Please review the write up here (http://www.ahevents.org/fso-setups/85-western-european-theatre/1187-air-battles-before-bodenplatte-1944.html).
Please enjoy this video that will introduce some of the aircraft of the period.
Please look to set side selections and preference this week.
Regards,
:salute
:salute 1) its going to be interesting how your going to put this all together.
2) after watching the video, the last air battle with the 109 I was curious who the german pilot was. :salute :cheers:
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: nooby52 on April 30, 2016, 07:19:19 AM
Bortas, so am I. :aok
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: swareiam on April 30, 2016, 07:42:44 AM
The sneak attack itself is VERY hard to design and execute. This should be much more fun and balanced. :aok
I'd even say it's impossible. The Y-29 snapshot is a perfect example of this because it's not at all a surprise to the players. It just has bogus rules that hamper both sides from fighting effectively and nobody has fun.
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: weiser on April 30, 2016, 03:37:54 PM
got updated finally, wanted allies but think I'm to late was locked in as Axis, oh well. Will be a fun one either wa <S. weiser
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: swareiam on April 30, 2016, 05:14:21 PM
I'd even say it's impossible. The Y-29 snapshot is a perfect example of this because it's not at all a surprise to the players. It just has bogus rules that hamper both sides from fighting effectively and nobody has fun.
Good point. Great example.
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: waystin2 on April 30, 2016, 06:11:16 PM
I will say the Pearl Harbor surprise (forget name of scenario) pulled off a couple of years ago made it more realistic. We did not know how the Japanese planes got to the island so quickly and in such dominant positions. Well thought out simulation of the surprise that the US experienced. We were scrambling from the very first minutes. It can be done, but only for a frame, then it loses it's mystery. Snapshot is better for an event like Y-29, but as Devil says you know it's coming and making the surprise up with rules kills the fun.
Title: Re: May FSO - "Air Battles Before Bodenplatte"
Post by: bortas1 on May 24, 2016, 11:05:26 AM