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Special Events Forums => Friday Squad Operations => Topic started by: branch37 on November 04, 2016, 11:59:05 PM
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Being a squadron leader I've always avoided being the ace. Tonight the allied side needed one fast and I was picked and agreed. Flew for the first hour and never saw a bad guy. Finally get into the action, get a good angle on a 109, and bam. Disco. Tv, Internet, the whole show completely dead. Haven't had a problem all year. Flew all 12 hours of the scenario without a single hiccup. Figures.....
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Jinx!!! (the ace assignment, not you.)
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We were wondering what happened to you Branch. Figured you must have discoed since no one heard you say anything about getting taken out.
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Sik
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Looked kinda like a bad night all around for the Allies. What happened out there?
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B17s were hit by 3 waves of LW fighters at the target. All had alt, all dove in... Fighters were turning vs clearing it looked like...but 38s are not going to catch a diving 190 or 109 at 25k.
My impression is that our 51 sweep was end run or avoided by the LW and they managed a coherent attack while our bombers were in their bombsights.
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B17s were hit by 3 waves of LW fighters at the target. All had alt, all dove in... Fighters were turning vs clearing it looked like...but 38s are not going to catch a diving 190 or 109 at 25k.
My impression is that our 51 sweep was end run or avoided by the LW and they managed a coherent attack while our bombers were in their bombsights.
Thanks for the report Dobs.
What happened at A185?
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A185 attack:
Best I can tell from my seat is we all rendezvoud and all sweeps went in as designed. We had what looked like a scout of 3 Bf109s go by us (that was being reported by other squads out in front).
I THINK it was 56th that indicated they had that covered so we pressed on.
Within 2 minutes of that we saw 2 C205s sweep by from the same general direction.
It seemed like too many friendlies went after them.
Again, we pressed on (my squad).
By the time we were over target there wasn't an enemy to be seen.
I recall only 1 set of bombers making a drop. As those bombers went feet wet on RTB we picked up another friendly set and escorted them to target.
As we were running dry we RTBd and rearmed.
Biggamer did manage 2 kills as he hung around long enough on egress.
I summarize that 2 things happened on the A185 mission...
#1 - If our bombers got engaged, we never got a call to assist them. Lack of comms partially killed the mission. G3-MF never heard a word of enemy contact with the exception of the group that went after the 3 Bf109s. Which is why we never left our assignment.
#2 - The enemy obviously positioned themselves to avoid the sweep and be able to only engage the bombers. This was great planning and execution on their part.
It seemed like a great allied plan to 185. We had a lot of fighters. The axis simply executed a brilliant plan by placing bomber killing planes out of fighter sweep and escort range. Sometimes the best laid out plans go to hell the moment the first shot is fired. It happens.
Even though slow from my squad's perspective, we did have fun as always. We're starting to get our older players back now that AH3 is out and should grow our numbers to a larger squad moving forward.
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SlipKnoT
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G3-MF
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A185 attack: I summarize that 2 things happened on the A185 mission...
#1 - If our bombers got engaged, we never got a call to assist them. Lack of comms partially killed the mission. G3-MF never heard a word of enemy contact with the exception of the group that went after the 3 Bf109s. Which is why we never left our assignment.
#2 - The enemy obviously positioned themselves to avoid the sweep and be able to only engage the bombers. This was great planning and execution on their part.
It seemed like a great allied plan to 185. We had a lot of fighters. The axis simply executed a brilliant plan by placing bomber killing planes out of fighter sweep and escort range. Sometimes the best laid out plans go to hell the moment the first shot is fired. It happens...
SlipKnoT
XO
G3-MF
Very odd indeed, felt like there was no enemy presence at 185 other than those 3-4 high 109's that swept through the front fighter sweep. Then all of a sudden, the comms are eerily quiet from the bomber group... Seems like the axis were positioned perfectly for attack on drop at an altitude just under fighter cover but over the bomber group... I for one had a hell of time even knowing where our bomber group was, never once had visual after the rendezvous over the water. . . .