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.
SlipKnoT
XO
G3-MF
