We should do this mission again yes.

Too many had problems and we're here for the fun. We will do our best to get things sorted out before next mission.

working password seems to be a problem as well . :oops:


Short summary as a BF110 pilot this misison:

Successfully escorted my flight leader who had bombs to over Dover where I ran into a cloud of bandits. Convinced that this would be my end, with no 109s in sight I plunged into the cloud and shot at multiple aircraft, then I made a run for it. A long flight of evasive manoeuvres didn't pull off as I flew into another cloud of bandits, I closed my radiators and dived down to gain speed. After a long run I managed to escape.

As a result of my shooting I downed 1 Hurricane, and another one while I returned to Dover for a second run.

Krupi, Karaya and Adonys got launcher .exe crash within a few minutes, I lasted an hour or so, and was just about to land when I got the .exe as well :(
Mission looked good though guys, just a shame we have these problems.

Forming up was much better this time for our guys :) And squadron CO's plan led us to a couple of flights of stukas.

I got stuck in to a flight and flamed one, gave another an oil leak before heading back to hawkinge to regroup. By this time a lot of our squadron had suffered from launcher.exe crashes :/

Managed to regroup with a few of the remaining guys and get stuck in to a dog fight over Dover. Put some bullets into a 109 and took a partial claim before heading back to Hawkinge.

Assisted a Spitfire in forcing a 109 strafing our field to crash and then did some top cover for the landing planes before landing myself.

launcher.exe crash JUST as I switched off the engine :P

Again thanks to the guys hosting the campaign. I look forward again to next week!

I really enjoyed that and my first time in a co-op mission flying with group of great guys. I don't think our flight lost a single Spit and managed to bag a few hun.... :grin: Not sure about the overall result but great fun!

big let down for me. :sad: couldn't get off the ground. spit would spin around like crazy (wind???), even with full rudder i could not keep from turning to the left, spit just wouldn't get enough speed to get airborne, huge bumps even at the lowest speed that wrecked the plane, wtf... first time i hit engine start the plane stutters so much it went nose to the ground. never have i seen anything like this :confused:

what's worst, i have been of all ppl one of the most blessed with those bugs that seem to be random or case dependent; AA worked for me from the beginning, launcher very rarely crashes, don't suffer memory leaks...

seems everyone else got airborne, so that's something with my system, but wtf, stick was properly calibrated and working perfect minutes before, don't know what to say. hope it turns better next week :???:

last note - seems many others had problems of their own, if you guys want to try this one again i vote yes :mrgreen:

JG13_Admax and I took Bf 109E-3's out of Coquelles and escorted the gaggle of stukas over towards Dover. We were unable to communicate with the rest of Axis due to being kicked from teamspeak every 2 minutes, and this really hampered our ability to contribute to the team, I think :(

As it was, we encountered two Hurricanes up high between Dover and Manston, getting a confirmed kill on the first and a probable on the second about 10 minutes later.

We engaged offensively on two spitfires at about 5000 metres but were interrupted by RAF single-engines coming in above us and were forced to extend away. I took some hits to my coolant line in the process, but eventually we gained the altitude advantage and the spitfires dove low for home. It was at this point the bombers we were supposed to be escorting were beyond visual range, but without Teamspeak there was no way to know where it was they had gone. :evil::evil::evil::evil::evil::evil::evil::evil:

We then spent the next 20-30 minutes stalking what eventually turned out to be 2 ghosts midway between Dover and Calais :???::rolleyes:

At that point my engine blew a gasket and the governor, forcing me to glide back to Coquelles, engine-out. Admax followed and we called it a day.

Thanks 5./JG27 for hosting! We had fun despite the setbacks, looking forward to next week for sure.

i was, 20h GMT; several guys on my channel were logging in at the same time; logged in a few times myself until it got stable, but something went wrong with my connection. you were supposed not to switch planes, but the first time i start the engine the plane went nose to ground, so had to respwan... maybe from there on all went wrong...

56 Sqdn AAR
 

56 were assigned to fly as 604 Sqdn (Rotol Hurricanes) out of Manston. During the leaders' planning 56 elected to take the He111's (pre)-reported to be heading towards Dover at 13000 ft. The planning went fairly well once we got the leaders together and thanks to Osprey for handling most of that.

We took off very soon after scenario start and climbed to 15000+ inland of Dover with the intention of being above the bombers before turning and meeting them mid-channel, avoiding 109s if we could. Two of our sections (5 pilots) were closer to the coast than mine (2 pilots) and ran into more Hurricanes and one or two lower 109s. We left them as we sighted the bomber formations coming across mid-channel towards Dover (He111s at 13000ft and Do17s at 8000 (allocated to another Hurricane Unit). About now some 109s were sighted. I called it all on leader channel and requested Spitfire assistance. My pair were closer to the bombers and went in first. The other five came in behind us but some ran into the 109s. The rest of us were able to engage the He111s. We knocked down two or three, damaging more but had to rtb when ammo was gone. More He111s fell later. One of our guys had some ammo left and went to help a squadmate still tangling with 109s but he eventually had to bail out from a flat spin. Another of our guys deadsticked at Canterbury due to engine damage from He111 return fire. Another of our guys had to crash land near the bombers target due to engine failure. I landed Manston wounded as did one other. The rest landed safe.

Total 56 score 4.91 which, the way the scores are allocated by share, probably indicates 5 and perhaps 6 shot down with others taking part-shares of the kills. We lost no pilots although at least two were wounded and we lost one Hurricane plus one badly damaged and three lightly damaged.

We had no PC/game crashes. We did restart our games every time he server was restarted to clear memory (in case the memory leak stories are true). Several of us had skin download turned off.

We will be back for Adler Angriff next week :)

S!

Lentolaivue 34 after action report:
Taxiing on the the ground, hmm, fps' at bit of the low end. And when started to build up speed on take off -> fps hits rock bottom, more like spf(seconds per frame) :) Normally I have something like 20-40 fps while playing online.

I barely get airborne. Squad mates reporting the same fps drop while getting airborne. The slide show continues while higher up. And then the game froze, launcher crash. After a minute or so, another squad mate has the same, and then the last one also. Mission end for us :)

Could the coop style start where there are lots of objects on the field simultaneously in a close proximity do this?

We failed to get the mission brief so we missed out on the mission. Was not sure if it was been flown. Can the admin please PM me a brief for 69 GIAP for the next mission. We would like to take part :)
It really sounds like fun