June 26 Squad Jeep Race

[akbmzawy]

Iif you flew the course at 5K you might have missed the originating building for the train.

That will be part of the challenge to find the building from the jeep and as stated above start the weaving in and out of the trestles on the east side.

[akbmzawy]

Stealing supplies? If I am on my wheels when I go by an opponent who is upside down I dont think I will be spending time there. I will be booking!  LOL.

[CHAPPY]

where's the first reststop  at?

[AKKuya]

The thing about C-47's being used to drop vehicle supplies for a squaddie in need requires precision in aiming.  A few of us AK's are good at this because we practice this ourselves.  If the participating squads wants to allocate one squad member to goon duty, then I'll make arrangements to have them open for use.

The stipulation would be that the goon drivers would have to fly back to base for rearm and refuel.  If they break any parts on the plane during flight, takeoff, landing, taxiing, and rearming, then they would have to end mission and be assigned an M3 for the rest of the race.  The Bomber Hangar would be only open for the first 10 minutes then it would be shut down.

I would need for the squad representatives to post a yea or nay on the use of goons in the race.  The use of the goon will be a non-requirement for a participating squad with few racers.  It would be an option.

[AKKuya]

where's the first reststop  at?

Any clump of trees will be available throughout the race.   

[AKKuya]

So far, the participating squads are Arabian Knights, 13th MPG, JG2, and 325th VFG.

  AKDogg says he will win a second time in a row.  Everyone will be eating his dust.  This will be your chance to put the dog in the doggiehouse.

[TUK]

Just gonna post my opinion here. The c47s wouldnt really be needed if your toting 2 supplies anyway. Not to mention those crazy 13MPG guys shooting their 50cals at AK goon busses... You wanted a jeep race, lets have one.. Just my 2 cents.... Tuk151

[PFactorDave]

Was reading the thread, just thought I would toss out another possibility...

What if....

You have the C47s with supplies.  Each team is allowed X number of C47s...  Maybe 4 or 5...  Don't allow the Jeeps to carry supplies, so they must depend upon the C47s if they should flip.

Then...  Allow the C47s to ram each other.   

Imagine the chaos!

[Viper61]

My post above about stealing supplies was in reference to Goon drops.  I like the idea of the Goons over M-3s because with a goon drop a "strategy" would be to steal the supplies from a turned over opponent as they drop down.  Remember your right side up and he is not.  A goon drop is more visible than a M-3 drop in the woods.  Thus stealing them to hamper your turned over opponents.  Also precision Goon drops are not easy as stated above.  They use up valuable time if dropped to high and are destroyed if dropped to low.  Drop the M-3 resupply option as the jeeps carry supplies anyway.

I assume we will all be on the same country channel for this thus good old fashion "dissing" of ones favorite jeep drivers.

The 325th VFG would like to use a Goon for the resupply operation.  Also concur with a "1" life for the goon driver with "1" rearming available this would keep goon drivers from just dropping supplies all over the place.  This would become worse if several goon pilots did the same thing.

Disable the M-2s on the Jeeps or chaos will happen    Or enable kill shooter to eliminate that.

Retain the 2 vehicles supplies per jeep.   

Request two scoring tables:

   First guy to complete the route:  Individual winner.

   First 5 guys in from the same squad:  Squad victory.  (With different squads and sizes in this 5 seems like a good number).  Also with using the number "5" a larger squad could develop strategies on racers vs. blockers vs. re suppliers.  This would encourage higher turn outs.

Options for next time:

  Relay races - base to base to base

  Troops into the maproom to capture as stated above - very nice 

  M-8 races

Really appreciate the CM's setting this up.  Should be a lot of fun 

Viper 61

[AKKuya]

In response to Viper61 suggestions, alot of what you said are being incorporated in future races.  Each race is 4 weeks apart as the current FSO setup runs.  We are going through a "trial and error" type of racing.

SheGotYa has already informed me that any race can have killshooter either off or on.  The next scheduled race in July will have the ability to shoot other racers.  It will be a Death Race for the individual squads competing.  Specifics of this will be worked out in time before the race.

So far I have one yea(325th) and one nay(13th MPG) for the use of goons. 

Just gonna post my opinion here. The c47s wouldnt really be needed if your toting 2 supplies anyway. Not to mention those crazy 13MPG guys shooting their 50cals at AK goon busses... You wanted a jeep race, lets have one.. Just my 2 cents.... Tuk151

Tuk, have you seen me fly a goon?  I can make it dance all over the treetops barnstorming all the way.   When the next race incorporates the ability to fire at friendlies, I'll fly low over the 13th while you're racing at break neck speeds.  After I land, we can count how many holes you guys put in me.  If you do manage to shoot me down then the next race I'll let you pick the next type of jeep race.

I'm planning a future race that will be implemented on the Uterus map.  There are three high 8K bases on that map.  This race will be one going downhill off the tops of them.  That would be Part 1 of the race.  Part 2 would consist of something else to mix thing up.  Haven't figured that out yet.  Probably be an August or September race.

Keep the suggestions coming.

[akbmzawy]

A little history.

AKShrddr is the originator for the thought of having jeep races in our squad as something fun to do in April of 2009.

AKKaz, AKDogg, AKJrdogg, AKShrddr and myself were sitting around the pool at the motel we were staying in to attend an Air Show in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

At first I thought the idea was a little whimisical. Pondering this thought for a while I really began to see the fun of his thought. Some of the AKs in our squad like this event and some others didnt. You can't please everyone, lol.

AKKuya is the one who thought to try this with the Off Week FSO. So now this is the progression so far. Its in it's early stages so ideas are most welcome to have more involvement. It would be very enjoyable to see about 100 vehicles tearing thru the countryside.

Some info here, AKKuya and AKShrddr are my sons.

[Viper61]

A-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!  All of the AK's are related!!!  Its just all one BIG Family!!!! 

After this race it would be great to see it listed in the FSO area with squad sign ups and a scenario with rules and such.  No rush I know it will come in time.

In time and with numbers i can see squads working on sides towards a common goal like:  The first 50 troops into a map room.

There is a lot of fun options that can come from this without descending down into a Heavy GV battle.

[AKKuya]

Of course the AK's are one big family.  This is the breakdown.  AKKaz is the second cousin on Dogg's stepsister's mother's side.  Wxman, Auger and Killz are all identical triplets with Tazz as a half brother and Hoopy in there as thier uncle.  JrDogg is actually Dogg's nextdoor neighbor's kid that hangs out with Dogg's family.  Raider and MopTop are father and son and are related to Ziff as third cousins.  Peppr is related to HiTech and we get special engine overhauls and longer distance ammo(that's a secret and don't tell anyone).

I would try to draw a family tree to further illustrate this but I don't have enough markers to keep up with the criss crossing lines.
 

[AKKuya]

Only one squad has voted for goons and one squad voted against.  I'll have to make the decision for no goons this time.  Maybe down the road when there is 10 seperate squads racing and around  70 to 80 racers then one goon per squad might be an option.

Part of the fun is to navigate by land to find your teammate in trouble.  Any questions either post them or PM them to me.

[TUK]

Kuya , can we get a final route and rules written out today for practice...Tuk151