Tuesday Event! Fighters can Form Up Too!
 

So there've been a few bomber formation events to proove that player flown bomber groups are possible. Well, let's do some fighter formations too!

MAY 15th Tonight! 9:00pm EST (Toronto time)

Please join us on the ACG Server (patch + hotfix) and on our Teamspeak server:

No.401 Squadron Comms Channel (with No.501 and No.64 Squadrons)

•Server Type: Teamspeak 3

•IP: 85.236.100.27

•Port:24637

A few notes:

• We will be flying as large a wing of fighters as possible up to twelve aircraft. If we get more than 12 pilots, we'll split into equal halves and coordinate.
• We will be flying RED. Blue pilots are more than welcome to fly as well, but we will be coordinating the RED side only (you'll have to link up with one of the AI raids and fly escort yourself/selves).
• We will be engaging raids of 20+ aircraft! The mission will be a complete sortie from take-off to landing.
• Expect a long flight! We will be taking off from Croydon/Kenley area and flying formation to the combat area and then reforming after the engagement to return home. I recommend you brush up on your fuel leaning technique to save petrol!
• Estimated time of mission from take-off to landing: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
• If you would like to an element in the wing (a three aircraft group) please respond in this thread!
  
  Hope to see you there!

Can you confirm that "tonight" is May 15th? The forum post times can be misleading depending on where the OP is located.

92Sqn (MGL) might drop by, depending on how many of our chaps are awake/ online at that time. It'd be nice to put up an element.

Yes, tonight = Tuesday, May 15th 2012

It'd be great to see some of you guys in! If nothing else, we'll definitely get some data to send to the devs :P

Great news!

sukhoi.ru is scheduling some 12 vs 12 fighters intercept/escort missions for weekend too but with preliminary forum registration and selection of side commanders to make it more organized. All seats are taken :)

I hope more scenarios will follow!

Cool! Good luck to your pilots! After it's run, post a recap of how it went and how the game performed. More data for the devs and helps us work out what scenarios are possible.

3am bit late for me shame im gonna miss it :(

The more of you pesky fighters, the better:!:

Bring it:grin:

See ya in the air!

We need some more pilots! Come on, people!

Cheers Wolverine, had a blast on the server with the guys. They're still going now on ACG if anyone's interested but alas it's 3am and way past my bedtime.

Ta, Bounder

Yeah, it was a good flight! Pity the server reset :/ I don't think it was a crash. Just the server resetting :P Bad 401 luck.

Big thanks to the 92nd Squadron fellas who showed up to fly!

Pity we didn't get more :/ I guess we'll try again another time...

You should advertise that Mr.X won't be there. Then people will come.

A few great missions tonight. Big thanks to the following pilots!

StiC from No.401 Squadron
Bounder! from No.64 Squadron
Strings from 92nd Squadron
Another 92nd pilot who I've misplaced his name
Steppie from RAAF
Salmo
Catseye from 71st AH Squadron
Recap on performance: The server reset during our first sortie but I don't think that was crash related. I think it was just the time it was to reset.

We had one crash, but it was a complete system crash and possibly not related to CloD (just general computer blech). We also had one system freeze. Neither of these events seemed to be 'launcher.exe has stopped working'.

All other pilots seemed to have successful flights on more than one lengthy flight. Personally, I was in the game from 9:00pm to 12:00am with no crash and multiple sorties with large engagements, some of more than 20 aircraft.

Pings of some of the Aussies were high (400s) but not too much warping or lag reported. A little, but it seemed playable for everyone.

I highly encourage more people to come out to these things! I'm sure every pilot who flew in the event tonight would say that it would have been even better with a full wing of 12 aircraft in formation. Nothing about performance of the game suggested that it would cause any issues. So come and join us next time!

We'll do this again next Tuesday!

Cool. You should do that more often. I would love to catch a big wing on the ground and unload a belly full of bombs on their heads. .mrgreen:.

This reminds me of playing aces high, some years back. I caught a 12 plane mission at the end of the runway with a single 500kg bomb from my A8.:grin: good times.

You're more than welcome to try!

I highly recommend participating in the scripted missions, however. They offer a great historically accurate feel which is missing from a lot of the online environment currently.

I've been playing your server off and on for the last week, not sure how I missed giving it a try earlier. Love it, spent about 45 minutes escorting 3 flights of Ju-88s to Isle of Wight, getting the occasional scare as the escort 110s moved out of my sight, and then came in hard at me. Never did see the enemy fighters, although I know the escorts tangled with them. It still gave me the sense of a real escort mission, hearing calls but unable to find, making sure I could track the bombers, then wondering what to do as the flights split up a little as they made their runs. Brought them back with 0 bomber losses (I know that the 110s took some losses though).

Great server, smooth as silk, and finally get to fly something other than the Pas de Calais.

Had reds joining all the time, but once they realized we were flying over the big part of the map, they'd quickly leave.

~S!

S! von Brühl!

If you are in at the right time, escort the mission that heads from Dunkurque to Manston! Plenty of RAF Spitfires get stuck in on that one. It's a big fight.

And good job flying the escort! Part of the game that I enjoy, and many of our pilots too, is that not every flight is a fight. Sometimes you'll go on a patrol and not find targets. It can be frustrating, but it also makes those moments when combat finds you carry much more adrenalin. Boredom punctuated by seconds of insanity.

We'll look for you and try to give you a fight!