Free flight "ideas"?

[FOZ_1983]

Hi guys, was wondering if any of you had any ideas for free flight, mini missions for example??

We played one last night where we had 6 or 7 of us flying HE111's from france to England to bomb RAF Hawkinge, with one guy flying as 109E escort. Generally we formed up at game start, flew to France then turned round and headed for Hawkinge.

We had one guy (pope) as the lead bomber and we followed his lead and orders. When he dropped bombs we dropped bombs. He was the boss :D we had the 109 free roaming as the escort.

En route from France one of our formation collided with the lead bomber (pope) taking them both out, since i was the third in formation i assumed command and led us to Hawkinge, i got us to the target without any real probs but i dropped the bombs late and missed the airfield thus making everyone else miss to :( i take full responsibility.

The general idea was to see if we could do it. Naturally we'll have RAF fighters to try and shoot us down, but we just wanted to see how it would go without them at first and it seemed to be ok as lnog as we communicate and dont clog up the radio frequency with crap haha.

So the idea basically was - german bombers fly from france and bomb hawkinge and the fighters provide escort while the RAF tries to intercept at least half of the bombers befoe they manage to bomb the chosen target.


Must say guys, seeing the formation of HE111's and the 109 head towards the cliffs of dover looked incredible. Was a really good game.


So does anyone have any other ideas we could try?


Cheers

[InfiniteStates]

P51s and B17s coming in on Berlin, with a 109 scramble?
HEs and 109s approaching Stalingrad (is that a map?) with LA's/IL's defending?

Something else I thought might be fun to try also: a strike game with just I-153s and Po2s lol

[Steyr_amr]

Yeh, take some nice screenshots so those of us who would like to participate, but can't because we're on the other platform, can see :D

Squadron of Me-262s would be impressive.
Or Po-2s/ I-153s at night over Stalingrad, the "Night witches" :)

[markyboyacebassist]

Hi guys, was wondering if any of you had any ideas for free flight, mini missions for example??

We played one last night where we had 6 or 7 of us flying HE111's from france to England to bomb RAF Hawkinge, with one guy flying as 109E escort. Generally we formed up at game start, flew to France then turned round and headed for Hawkinge.

We had one guy (pope) as the lead bomber and we followed his lead and orders. When he dropped bombs we dropped bombs. He was the boss :D we had the 109 free roaming as the escort.

En route from France one of our formation collided with the lead bomber (pope) taking them both out, since i was the third in formation i assumed command and led us to Hawkinge, i got us to the target without any real probs but i dropped the bombs late and missed the airfield thus making everyone else miss to :( i take full responsibility.

The general idea was to see if we could do it. Naturally we'll have RAF fighters to try and shoot us down, but we just wanted to see how it would go without them at first and it seemed to be ok as lnog as we communicate and dont clog up the radio frequency with crap haha.

So the idea basically was - german bombers fly from france and bomb hawkinge and the fighters provide escort while the RAF tries to intercept at least half of the bombers befoe they manage to bomb the chosen target.


Must say guys, seeing the formation of HE111's and the 109 head towards the cliffs of dover looked incredible. Was a really good game.


So does anyone have any other ideas we could try?


Cheers

Hey Foz, myself & a couple of chaps from the 666th would like to join you sometime:grin:!

[FOZ_1983]

Hey Foz, myself & a couple of chaps from the 666th would like to join you sometime:grin:!

I have been playing with a few of the american guys in free flight because im off work sick (bad back) so can catch them late at night (very late). But damn good fun.

A few of us Brits have enjoyed some success in free flights to, most notably robotic pope, myself, jacked, evangeluse, a few others who are not on the forums. It makes for some good games and involves alot of skill and concentration trying to form up on someones wing and stay their for the duration of the flight before trying a formation landing somewhere (usually manston).

We should try and creat our own "missions" and get scores etc done.

[F14 TOMCAT 204]

i've been trying to come up with some war games for free flight and ATC games, i think one of the guys in our squad made one a few days ago

As far as free flight goes i wanna see some He 162's do some water skiing :D

[FOZ_1983]

i've been trying to come up with some war games for free flight and ATC games, i think one of the guys in our squad made one a few days ago

As far as free flight goes i wanna see some He 162's do some water skiing :D

You'll have to let me know how it goes mate. Free flying with you guys is quite fun. Amusing at times haha. ATC makes it so much more in depth, i love it.

Me draux and pope were flying the comet the other night. Landing it on sim etc and flying it in formation. Was tricky. Cant say we managed to get it on the sea though without crashing lol

[Robotic Pope]

You'll have to let me know how it goes mate. Free flying with you guys is quite fun. Amusing at times haha. ATC makes it so much more in depth, i love it.

Me draux and pope were flying the comet the other night. Landing it on sim etc and flying it in formation. Was tricky. Cant say we managed to get it on the sea though without crashing lol

Ohhh he ment the Me163 Komet not the He162 Salamander, lol I get the waterski joke now. I still havent managed to take off in that thing on sim mode by the way:(

[SEE]

I enjoyed the free flight formations too! Quite like the one you started the thread with and may be an idea for a recreation of the BOB. Do any of the strike maps have airfields or landable areas? I suppose it could be possible to organise a small Team of Spits and Hurris on the gound and a team of Heinkells with Bf's in support crossing from the edge of the map.......Spits and Hurris scramble as enemy formation crosses coastline. Axis must outnumber allies and battle ensues....Hurris after bombers, spits engage BF's and Bombers go for their strike targets. No scores just the experience......limited ammo, if a player runs out of ammo, gets killed or crashes they return to a set location on the map and freeflight untill the battle is won or lost by the ever decreasing number of participants over the combat zone.............just a thought!

EvangelusE (gamertag)

[Soviet Ace]

Well with Soviet planes, you could have some I-16s and I-153s scrambling in Italy, acting as if you're going up in Southern Spain, guarding a Republican city from incoming Nationalist 109Es and Stuka's? (They'd have to be the B-2 Stukas to stick with some authenticity.)

In Stalingrad, you could act out the first couple months of the battle flying Yak-1B's over the city, guarding it from He-111s and 109F4s?

[Flagrum_3]

Hi guys, was wondering if any of you had any ideas for free flight, mini missions for example??

We played one last night where we had 6 or 7 of us flying HE111's from france to England to bomb RAF Hawkinge, with one guy flying as 109E escort. Generally we formed up at game start, flew to France then turned round and headed for Hawkinge.

We had one guy (pope) as the lead bomber and we followed his lead and orders. When he dropped bombs we dropped bombs. He was the boss :D we had the 109 free roaming as the escort.

En route from France one of our formation collided with the lead bomber (pope) taking them both out, since i was the third in formation i assumed command and led us to Hawkinge, i got us to the target without any real probs but i dropped the bombs late and missed the airfield thus making everyone else miss to :( i take full responsibility.

The general idea was to see if we could do it. Naturally we'll have RAF fighters to try and shoot us down, but we just wanted to see how it would go without them at first and it seemed to be ok as lnog as we communicate and dont clog up the radio frequency with crap haha.

So the idea basically was - german bombers fly from france and bomb hawkinge and the fighters provide escort while the RAF tries to intercept at least half of the bombers befoe they manage to bomb the chosen target.


Must say guys, seeing the formation of HE111's and the 109 head towards the cliffs of dover looked incredible. Was a really good game.


So does anyone have any other ideas we could try?


Cheers

Man that sounds like a shiteload of fun! I gostto get more time on this game and join up with you guys.

Just wondering; how many people can get on free flight at one time?

By the way I really like the BoB scenario!!...Can't think of anyother scenario I'd want to do anymore then that....Possibly Stalingrad defense?!



F_3

[FOZ_1983]

Some great ideas guys! im liking them. We will have to try some of them out sometime and maybe keep track of results etc and get our own little score board or somthing going?

Flagrum_3 the maximum number of players you can have in a free flight is 16 :D and in the ideal BoB scenario that would be -

nine HE111's
three 109's
four Spitfire/Hurricane

Or any other way people wish to work it :)

[SEE]

Those numbers are what I had in mind FOZ.......pretty sure 16 players could be found and one good connection server host. As Soviet Ace points out there are a lot of theatres that could be used.

EvangelusE (gamertag)