Author Topic: Sooo what happened Friday night? (Read 1351 times)

daddog · « **on:** July 12, 2003, 07:56:08 AM »

No AAR's this morning? Could not make it, but would like to know how things went. I see my squad bagged about 14 Zekes, but no Kates or Val's. Did the Imperial Japanese Army sweep with their fighters first? How is the fuel Depo? Any CM post the logs yet?
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BlkKnit · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2003, 08:57:42 AM »

OH, it went just aweful (for the allies)

they leveled the fuel depot, by first hitting with Zekes (which we avoided to look for Kates and Vals) seems everyone thought the zekes would be without ord. When the Kates and Vals finally did arrive we pasted 'em pretty good, and enough IJN pilots died in the first hour that the second hour was pretty much called.

Squads that tangled with the zekes shot 'em up pretty good, but it was too late to stop the depot from going down.

Dux · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2003, 09:53:29 AM »

For the record, the frame objectives/orders I received didn't say we couldn't use Zekes for bombing, so I apologize if I broke an unwritten rule there. It seemed like it would be a decent strategy... hoping the allies would let them pass through while looking for the "real" bomber force... and it sounds like it paid off.

How much were you Allies fooled by the "decoys" I sent through to get various base icons flashing?

In the end, the Axis did an absolutely great job with what they had to work with. Mine was a very bold plan, but a plan born out of of futility and desperation. I don't see how we could have gotten bombs on target any other way... not when going up against equal and/or superior planes who are on the defensive.

~~to all who played. Sorry it didn't go better.~~

skernsk · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2003, 09:56:01 AM »

The plan was to ignore the zekes "assuming" they could carry no ord. When they dove on the fuel dump we attacked. The zekes tore the area up pretty good, but quite a few of them are smeared all over the Burmese junlge.

I live long enough to take one with me............

jordi · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2003, 10:03:02 AM »

Yep - I told my guys CAPPING A4 to avoid the Zekes and hunt bombers.

When they finally DID show up we wiped them out - but not before realizing the zekes were on a Bombing Mission and had already hit the fuel depot.

A lot of chatter on the Allied side about where are the bombers and why are the zekes bombing ?

Jordi
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BlkKnit · « **Reply #5 on:** July 12, 2003, 11:00:15 AM »

Heh, i dont about any unwritten rule Dux......we just assumed (and you know where that leads)

I think we all had fun though.

Swager · « **Reply #6 on:** July 12, 2003, 12:35:59 PM »

It was fun!!!! I had a great mixing it up with Zekes down low.

Salute to all the Zeke pilots!! Nice bombing!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2003, 01:43:41 PM »

Could someone point me to the logs please?

BlkKnit · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2003, 01:54:31 PM »

they are apparently not yet posted, Rip.

LtMagee · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2003, 03:59:32 PM »

This was my first special event with the Checkertails

and with the Friday Night crowd. I enjoyed it.

I do have one question though, during WWII a kill was credited to the one that last hit the con causing it to crash, explode, etc (I think). Last night I couldnt really kill anything so I would just make a a single pass at a con then move on to the next one, reataining my speed in case the Zeros showed up, which they never did. With all of us guys chasing bombers, I did have two explode in front of me/us and I saw the wing fall off a third. I recall hitting many many bombers. Instead of actually trying to get a "kill", my focus was to just cause as much damage with my first pass and let someone else finish'em off. I also wanted to save my energy and ammo for the zeros.

So as for DUX'S heavy zeke order...nice call bud it effected my flying.

oops, back to my question, how are credits awarded in here? Most damage or last shooter?

daddog · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2003, 05:40:55 PM »

Most damage gets the kill. Glad you enjoyed yourself LtMagee.

Friday's are a solid good time in AH IMHO. Screen shots anyone?

Dux excellent plan. I don't remember reading anything in the orders about the Zekes not to carry bombs. Well done! Would have turned out the same had I been able to make it because I would have told all the fighters to hunt the Kates and Val's. Glad to hear you paid for it. Maybe for frame 2 the IJN should get 50% less fighters.

Yes, the logs should have been posted by now. Unless there is a problem someone is slacking.

LtMagee · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2003, 07:41:32 PM »

*edited* thanks for the update

ghostdancer · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2003, 08:40:59 PM »

Logs are now posted:

http://www.webtreatz.com/tod/lognew.html

Looks like Japanese smacked the allied refinery but at a very, very high cost in planes. They lost 83 out of 88 planes and only shot down 16 allied planes.

BlkKnit · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2003, 08:53:05 PM »

Holy Cow!!

Allies:
83 kills
20 deaths

Axis:
16 kills
71 deaths

but they nailed our refinery good!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #14 on:** July 12, 2003, 09:30:48 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by ghostdancer
Logs are now posted:

http://www.webtreatz.com/tod/lognew.html

Looks like Japanese smacked the allied refinery but at a very, very high cost in planes. They lost 83 out of 88 planes and only shot down 16 allied planes.

I'm sure they enjoyed the traditional cup of Saki before the flight, and had their bandana's tied tightly around the forehead.