Four of us took off fron Tangmere, we regrouped and climbed over the coast. I didn't pay attention and had selected a Hurri DH instead of a Rotol, so I had prblems keeping up with my mates.

After about 20-25 minutes we spotted the convoy and immediately several contacts were seen approaching it from the south. We dived and engaged alone Stuka, three of us shot at it and it went down.

I lost contact with the others after that, SYN_Jedders got one Bf-110 before being himself bounced and killed. SYN_Kollwitz had to RTB due to engine damage and eventually bailed out just short of the English coast. SYN_Repent got one 109 in the vicinity of the convoy.

I patrolled at low alt for a while near the convoy without seeing anyone, despite Jed and Repent calling several contacts, but they were probably way above me.

Being low on fuel I returned home and landed back at Folkestone with 4 gallons of fuel left in the main tanks.

SYN_Ricky

The unshaved guy with the big nose was you? :-P ;) S!

The moment I realized that they are Defiants it was already too late and my engine was already hit rumbling. I just had no Defiants on my list and it was actually the first time ever I fought a Defiant.
Next time I see mishaped Hurricanes I approach them from below...

Some further thoughts....

Ford where there were Spitfire Spawn point problems was actually a Naval air base. Local RAF fields were Tangmere and its satelite West Hampnett just NW of Tangmere which may not have the spawn probs.

IMHO I thought the convoy was a bit too far from the coast, I believe they would hug the coast to be as far from the French coast as possible. That would have made it easier to find it :)

Someone said you were moving the action nearer to Calais next Sunday but it would be nice to keep Tangmere in :) One of their Sqdns were involved in intercepting 18 Ju88s of II/KG54 on the way to hit RAF Odiham and 601 intercepted 23 Bf110s of V/LG 1 on their way to attack Portland.

Let`s hope for an extension of the Britain&France map. It is really an handicap for the historical approach to only have such a small map and restricted area available. Portland is something I am missing especially, same as Lille. Actually we have no Ju88 base available on the map, for the Blenheims the same. The squadrons based in Manston and Thorney Island, were made out of Nightfighters and BC is hardly found on the current England Map. Coastal Command has no planes etc... and we have no ships, besides the one Tanker... :rolleyes: so its all a trade off and I guess the position of the ships were one too.

Same thing happened to me testing the mission... I built it :oops:

Did you know the channel is only 60m's at its deepest? Its quite shallow with lots of peaks and troughs.


Sorry no :(

Next mission will be Adlertag!

Yes but the convoy seemed to be about 30 miles off the English coast which just seemed a bit far out.

Yes, those interceptions were on Adlertag but that's ok. I just have an affininity with Tangmere :)

Looking forward to next Sunday.

I'm already super excited for the next mission. This is really where the fun is with this game - big, coordinated missions run with lots of players where pretty much everyone is on voice comms.

When do you think we'll get a briefing for the aldertag mission?

:(
I wondered why you used Ford


The bases need a general overhaul I think.

Seems 1c paid more attention to the "Pas de Calais" area bases as they seem to be in better working order.


Some one asked for briefings, Ill try and get them out for Wednesday 2nd November. Ill' post here when Im sending them.

I had a problem in my assigned airfield at Crepon K3:

I was spawned twice in the first or second most left small aircraft cover building, and exploded both times.