The original Mission date was in conflict with the 3rd frame in FSO.....Mission is pushed back one day.......just like D-Day was
Salute
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The 49th Fighter Group will be hosting another MEGA Mission that will appeal to many more players because we will not be using “Perk Birds” like the B-29’s we used in the last mission. The 49th will do the next mission with Lancaster’s. Knowing the Avro Lancaster defensive guns are lacking, we are adding the B-17 YB40 Gunship to the mission to add some defensive firepower. This will be done using B-17s with a 4K bomb load and an RAF skin.
Details about the mission will be forthcoming; it is still in the planning stages. Those who were on the last mission will tell you a lot of planning went into that mission…….and it will go into this mission as well. Players wishing to be added to the mission and receive the orders plus any updates need to send an email to the49thfg@gmail.com please include your Aces High Game ID in the email.
<S> Salute
49Dundee
49th Fighter Group, XO
From 49MERLIN
Salute,
The B-17s which will be used in the mission are there to act as gunships for the mission. They may carry bombs, they may not. I would like them to be in the Lancaster RAF looking skin so that it may be harder to tell Lanc from Fortress. I know this sounds dumb considering the red icon and all, but it has seemed to be a somewhat effective approach in the past.
As far as accurate weights for guns and armor in a YB-40 are concerned, I'm not concerned at all. I'm about as concerned with that as I am that the Bish & Knits will launch only German aircraft against us. As realistic as possibly means just that. There are only a few things that players can control in the MA and making sure everyone is being realistic, not shading, and not greifing are not some of them!
I can ONLY ask that if you wish to participate you bring what the mission calls for, or if you wish to intercept that you do it in such a way as to bring an appropriate aircraft and give us a chance to get to 10K. Everyone reading this knows that there is at least one troll salamander who will intentionally do the opposite of what is asked; so there ya go.
The B-17s are there to act as gunship protection for the under gunned Lancs. They may also drop some bombs. "Why would they drop bombs and act like a B-17?" you ask, same reason they are not armored and heavily gunned, because they are not YB-40s. Because they may need to drop some ords. Because I cannot guarantee that they will be intercepted by three times the actual war production outputs of the Me-262 & Me-163.
I hope this will squash the YB-40 questions in this thread. If you would like the mission to be more realistic, please join me in lobbying HTC to add the YB-40 to the game.
JOIN the mission if you can,
49MERLIN
49thFG/CO
