or "they think its all over"

eh? :grin:

I'm starting to wonder about Farber's national loyalties.......:rolleyes:

National lo... What? :confused:

Lets not even have this discussion. ;)

Bad for us too
 

I'd only scape up two of us that evening.

56RAF_phoenix

You'll be fine :-P

401 Sqn SoW Campaign Mission 1
 

Great effort today guys. I could sense a new dynamic among the squadrons just in knowing we had over sixty pilots engaged in one mission. There was certainly a buzz over the Teamspeak Comms seeing so many Spits and Hurricanes warming up and taxiing across the airfield to take off. We will continue to work on our formation flying and tactics within 401 Sqn and hopefully improve inter Sqn coordination as well.

Suggestion next time send the slower Hurricanes our first, Spits can catch up and still provide cover. By the time we got on station our "cover" had already engaged the Ju 87s so when we got there the 109s were waiting. Better show next time.

I also think that those who rack up quick scores early will have a lot more to loose in the coming weeks so the more aggressive among us who seem untouchable now, my not be so quick in the weeks ahead if they stand to loose it all on one bad call. Should be interesting to see this play out.

Many thanks to all of you who have worked very hard to build and maintain the forum, created the missions and manage the server, programming, and database management. Cheers!

We should save any tactics talk for the Red forums on the campaign forum. Loose lips and all that!

ok...for the JG26 it was a really bad start with the campaign, unfortunately.
yesterday there were 5 of us.we all were punctually.then trying to connect, one of us got this server fail authentification message(i remember having this a month or so ago, where you tested your server)
it was JG26_Hessle, he just couldnt connect.he tried plenty of times with no joy.
so only 4 of us were left.
then when finally the mission began, we saw only JG27 airfields, but we took the one i was given in the forum, the far left in C6/7 i think.
we all spawned, and there were already other squads on the airfield taking of like crazy over the taxi ways.i feared, that one of those "lunatics":grin:
would finally crash into us, but in the end, we all lined up with the runway and took off.
but it didnt matter anyway, because after we went out for the channel following our course, suddenly three of us had a launcher crash in the exact same moment.:evil:
it happened approximately 15min after take off.i was really pissed of, as the one left of our squad,JG26_Pitti, had contacts and a good fight with hurris only 2min later.
really frustrating experience yesterday

I enjoyed the flight however was dismayed to find that although we got to the ships in good time we were already too late. The radar had already plotted EA's heading south over Le Harve. We (501 and 56) circled for about 20 mins hoping for some targets (our only way to score) only to be massacred by 109's.

I don't know how the map was built but I was under the impression that bombers would be escorted and would arrive at a time which could be engaged. How long from the start of the mission where the bombers on their way in? And were they airstarted? I assume some timings were checked on the map, so how was this done? If it were a straight scramble then that won't work in game, we need far more time to connect, spawn and sort out our general amateurishness in order to have a chance of engagement.

Glad 401 enjoyed it. :-P

JG26, Sorry to hear you had launcher crashes. My wingman who has been working tirelessly with me on tactics and teamwork also had a CTD. 5 of our group turned up 1 hour late aswell :(
There is a tutorial on the SoWC for inputting the password because it causes "server fail authentification" which either goes away after several minutes or not until the server restarts. We cant restart the server for one person.

Osprey,
You had 46 minutes. The Ju87's airspawned after 10 mins and took 36 minutes to be on top of target.