New ideas for "Historic missions" in Sim?

[JOED70]

Yes Gilly again 100% correct.
Funny though when I have met some of these don't understand english or no headset individuals as my alter ego . They seem to have no problem understanding english as they messeged me asking questions. They have come for one reason only to cause trouble . If only thier mothers had changed thier diapers more often or breastfed them longer they would not now suffer from the mental defects that seem to plauge thier cobweb filled skulls.

[JOED70]

Originally Posted by McQ59

No problem in seeing what you mean Gilly. If we get a good pre-interesst for doing the "Op Husky" on saturday, the mission will be launched from the text-chat. The number of players in the chat will be the # of players in the lobby. It will be pointed out that no B-17's or Arados or IL's will be given permission to take off.

Let's see if we can do it. It has been done before.

Huskey !!!!!
Oh I can not miss that one for sure count me in

[Gilly]

Rest assured that the good intention is there it just boils my piss when you get one muppet doing their level best to mess it up.

[McQ59]

I've set up a thread in the social group. Let's take it from there guys.

If more pilots check in for duty there, I will make a thread on main forum to start serious recruiting for saturday 26'th.

The mission will start from textchat up front, with the excact # of slots.

[FOZ_1983]

Us 360 players need to get together and organise something like this. Granted i've given combat a miss in recent months, but free flying/historic missions are worth flying for.

Anyone on the 360 fancy sorting something like this out?

We've done it before so no reason why we cant do it again. Anyone remember the HE111 staffel flying across the channel with 109 escort?

All going well until about 2 miles off the Dover cliffs, jackedwardmorri decided to cause one huge mid air collision amongst the bombers...

Good times haha.

[vdomini]

Originally Posted by McQ59

I'm working on an idea to launch "Operation Husky" - the invasion of Sicily.

The mission on Canterbury last saturday l think learned us that to get the bombers to be at bit more central in the battle, I want to engage ships as targets and do it in strike-mode. This way the fighters are given an incitament to down them before they get to do theire bombruns.

The general idea is to set it to 1943 and have the german side to scramble He-111 and Stukas at the airfield at Catania. The top-cover will be G2's and F4's, and maybe a cpl of 202's from the Italian airforce.

The allied forces will defend the ships with the aid of P51's and Spits. The thought strategy will be for the mustangs to engage enemy fighters, and the spits to engage enemy bombers.

What do you guys think? Anyone interested in doing a mission like that? If it is, I'll put up a thread with the name "Operation Husky" and follow MACs idea of how to brief it from there...

MC202 pilot reporting ! Ready to take off! An italian plane at last ehehe

[bobbysocks]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Us 360 players need to get together and organise something like this. Granted i've given combat a miss in recent months, but free flying/historic missions are worth flying for.

Anyone on the 360 fancy sorting something like this out?

We've done it before so no reason why we cant do it again. Anyone remember the HE111 staffel flying across the channel with 109 escort?

All going well until about 2 miles off the Dover cliffs, jackedwardmorri decided to cause one huge mid air collision amongst the bombers...

Good times haha.

sure let me know when? i will juggle things around if i can to be there. or we could do a bombing raid on berlin.

[McQ59]

Originally Posted by vdomini

MC202 pilot reporting ! Ready to take off! An italian plane at last ehehe

Absolute great mate!

(Can please anyone who knows how invite this pilote to the social group).

[MACADEMIC]

Hello all,

Our friend Ruffmonk has developed some very interesting ideas for historical battles for his friends in Arcade mode and has kindly shared them with me.

They are all themed after the Battle of Britain, he has studied actual war diaries. It would be great if we could adapt his missions for our purposes.

Here it goes:

Battle 1:
The first scenario covered the opening of The Channel Battles Wednesday, July 10th. Historically, at 1350 British radar picked up a German formation consisting of 24 Do-17s, 30+ Bf-110s and 20+ Bf109s crossing the Channel. So for the game I set the Luftwaffe to 2 He-111s, 3 Bf-110s and 2 Bf-109s. 3 Hurricane and 2 Spitfire squadrons scrambled to intercept, so the RAF players were set with 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires. The day was rainy according to weather report, so the weather for the game was set to rain in a Strike mission with the RAF on team A.

In the lobby, I was the only player bold enough to select a Bf-110 as all of my other Germans claimed to not have the plane, so we played with 2 extra 109s to my disappointment, but I wasn't going to argue the point if people didn't want to fly the 110. As expected, we got shot to hell, but we did have some success getting to Strike targets to drop our bombs.

Battle 2:
The second battle was a continuation of The Channel Battles that covered Sunday July 14th. Historically at 1150, 80 Ju-87s and an unknown number of Bf-109s attacked a convoy in the English Channel and so this was the battle we recreated. The RAF scrambled 2 Hurricane and a single Spitfire squadron to intercept. So for the game, I set the Luftwaffe with 4 Ju-87s and 3 Bf-109s. The RAF again had 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spits to maintain an accurate proportion of real life counterparts. Again we did a Strike mission, though I switched the RAF to Team B, so we (Germans) would be attacking the ships in the scenario. The weather that day called for a fair bit of cloud, so the weather was set to Hazy.

We had much more success in this mission as the RAF guys, as they did in the first mission, sat over top of the targets allowing the much more maneuverable Stukas to generally get our bombs off on a majority of our bomb runs. That tactic worked better for them in the first game with the slower 111s. I had told them prior to the first match that even though we will be doing Strike missions, not to worry with bombing as it was simply a way for us to have targets to bomb. I guess they took it literally and just hung over the targets. I told a few of them that night that they should move out further so they have more time to jump on us as a way to clarify things.

Battle 3:
Again continuing with The Channel Battles we covered a battle that took place on Saturday, July 20th. It was another Stuka attack, but I decided to change things up a bit. It's mentioned that Bf-109s buy this time in history were trying to lure the RAF out over the open waters and so I decided to do a fighter vs. fighter scenario for the 3rd mission. So we had 7 Bf-109s vs. 4 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires in another Strike mission instead of the standard Team Battle as I didn't want planes to just be popping up when they respawned. I had set the weather to poor as it was mentioned in the site that weather over the course of several days was either rainy, foggy or storming.

Thanks a lot Ruffmonk, and keep them coming!

MAC

[McQ59]

Brilliant. The ideas are popping up
The Battle of Brittain is a sure hit.