Hate to admit this. Your signature non stop NOE gang raids were sorely missed after a year or so. Playing Whack-A-Mole with the vTards filled up a lot of time and gave you something to look forward to if the map was slow.
Today, your missions would be a great source of combat and enjoyment.
I never was a fan of the NOE raid. Something about showing up to an enemy field with minimum speed and altitude makes it hard to do much of anything very well.
But a 30 plane formation of D3A1s coming in at 10K like in this video was definitely my favorite mission to run.
http://youtu.be/9eBpC3JMcGo?list=UUGJG5MO8EzB5HA4u6Q4QXowI was guilty of coming in at 15k with a lot more heavy jugs / ponies than we needed and closing down the fields we attacked (suppressing a lot of potential fun). Back then I was all about base captures. I think we've all matured out of that.
Don't get me wrong, when I'd post a public mission the overwhelming majority of joiners were barely able to divebomb with any degree of accuracy so technically we did need a lot of planes to shut down a base and flag the town.
Unfortunately we hardly got any response sunday night until it was late and people were logging off to go to bed, the last rook base we attacked had a few defenders which was nice, but they managed to rally at least 10 more defenders which wasn't nice since we were down to 4 or 5 attackers including bombers and goon.