SoWC:BoB Multisquad Campaign Starting

[Osprey]

I said I wouldn't post but since it is campaign I will. I just wanted to make the point that although I helped with the radar, and Farber quotes correctly, I did protest about having it destroyed because that is just complete balls. It actually makes me reluctant to even use it because I know how easy it is to destroy, and to make matters worse I learn today that the mission sends 3 AI to each site to do the job - it's just not possible to stop it's destruction at all. To put it in perspective, ACG run the events of August 12th on our server which is all about the radar attacks, we scale it down to just 20% of the actual aircraft in the raids but there are still 9 Ju88's coming across to hit Ventnor alone. Germany brought it down for about 2 hours at great cost, and that was because a single bomb had hit one of the electrical supply thingies. 2 hours was because GB had mobile RDF trucks which could be moved to plug gaps. After the Ventnor attack Georing sent a Stuka raid into the Thames Estuary following reports from Erpo210 that they were successful, and that was massacred by No.501 from Gravesend. It is then that Georing started to rethink about tackling RDF. Since the radar was hit then on Sunday then 501 had no idea that Do-17's were inbound to Gravesend, which is a great shame because we were covering that area until vectored to the Stuka attack, and we arrived too late, only to meet 109's milling about, dominating of course, you'd have to be a bad flyer not to with these FM's.

Regarding the number of E4's and Spitfires. Do you have the actual figures Farber? Only I saw about 90% E4's - it's not as if they even need then given the advantage the 109 has atm.
I don't buy the 'availability' argument I'm afraid, squadrons should have a percentage or you tell squadrons what to take. It's poor form to just take it and say that so and so isn't here so I will take his better plane. The RAF work this out as a group and aim for a 2/3rds Hurricane split, we can't be entirely accurate because we aren't mixing types in a single flight though.

Also, you mentioned altitude, well Stuka's dive from 3km+ and that's not very high, they are our targets, and then they get low. I would recommend 4km+ level bombers coming in at a target in waves, we're all more likely to get a shot then, and we should be at a better operating alt (probably not though with this junk FM!).

Positively I enjoyed our flight out as a group and we learned some lessons from it as a group, it was interesting training. Haven't seen a single bomber yet though.