1st Multisquad Campaign Battle of Britain

[Marz]

Originally Posted by Sven

I'll pass it on Marz

Thank you sven!

[Sven]

I very much enjoyed it, loads of action only to end with a CTD on my computer, a real shame

The Stukas I was escorting where overwhelmed by the RAF, good job, I saw great coordination going on there!

You should have seen my face when my left windscreen filled up with RAF fighters , got 3 of them though!

[JG52Uther]

Yes I enjoyed that, even though we lost comms with each other (JG52) then I attacked 4 Spits mid channel (not too clever lol) messed up my prop pitch and ended up on the end of a parachute!

[JG52Krupi]

Tonight's sortie.

Was on comms with Uther and shortly after spotting a condor lost comms 2 mins later came across a flight of 4 spits... decided to engage and ended up loosing a part of my wing in a collision...

Nosed down to deck and ran for home, however I came across a 109 and spit fighting it out and decided to get involved...

Got one or two hits and the 109 that I had joined shot him down... (Got 0.15 of the kill)

Started again to head for home and then ran out of fuel... here are some pics


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[ATAG_Bliss]

Had a great time tonight guys. Now where's all those blues?

Hopefully we can get a briefing a bit earlier to do some mission planning (I know it's 1/2 our fault as we signed up late)

Good fun. Thanks

[klem]

Thanks guys, pretty successful for a first time!

Also thanks to the other Reds, we managed to get our plan and comms sorted out pretty quick (which I thought would be a problem but it wasn't).

56 managed to find and hit some Stukas, I think we got 3 of them. Hope to do better next time.

We lost 1 KIA, 1 ditch from engine failure (stuka return fire?) and 3 landed ok, some on fumes.

Really need to be able to refuel if there's to be a second strike but thats also a bit hard to manage as we don't have enough numbers to rotate and cover during refuelling. I thought it went well anyway even without a second strike.

We had no crashes or freezes. We did exit and restart the game when the server was restarted and we did do the Alt+Tab to desktop and back which might only be a folklore fix for the stutters but we had no problems.

Thanks again.

[5./JG27.Farber]

After Action Report:

5./JG27 & 9./ZG26

5 Hurricanes, 1 Sunderland, 1 Tanker and no losses to enemy action.

5 CTD's! out of 7!


Sorry for the errors and hiccups although for those that got to play (I hope everyone at least got to combat) it was a unique experience unlike pubbing and allot more exciting.

Same again next week, red spawns will be allot more stable as we will be using a different part of the map on more tried and tested spawn areas.

S!

[ATAG_Septic]

Thanks for the fun chaps.

ATAG unofficial action report; None

Despite the lack of actual action I feel we played a full and rewarding part in the overall plan managing to keep sight of some other planes and ships sometimes.

We then headed home for tea and medals. I cannot for operational reasons give specific numbers for our sortie but I can say "I counted them all out and I counted them all land again".


ATAG_Septic (Temporary Self-appointed Assistant to the Chief Tyre Pressure Checker Officer ATAG).

[Osprey]

Excellent first campaign.

Ford aerodrome had some bumps but we did find out where they were and most of us lot up in the end. I led our chaps out and unfortunately we weren't as well grouped as we thought. I never saw the ships and I didn't see the Hurricanes once they turned on 090. At 16k ft 3 of us were attacked by 2 109's, (which turned out to be Krupi + 1) and a fight ensued. Within a few moments I found myself alone with these 109's after scoring hits on 1 and causing leaks from wingroots. The fight descended to the deck, I received some hits and lost 2 guns before getting more hits on the leaking 109 and seeing oil stream from the engine. Then I saw a 109 chasing something on the deck so I decided to dive for it and in doing so was wary of the other 109, sure enough he had also dived and must have seen me at the last second before I could fire. I managed to get a handful more hits before being bounced again by Krupi. I survived for a bit longer but 2 was too much in the end and I spun in during a hard break.

@Krupi, I know you hung around to help but I was actually looking to get out of that fight by diving away but didn't get the chance to because we all dived in the same direction!

From a FM and DM perspective its a frustration because I caused a lot of damage to 1 of the 109's and he carried on flying, and the other seemed to have little trouble with 2 feet of wing missing

[bw_wolverine]

Great fun tonight! It was a pleasure to see all those spitfires circling the airfield and forming up!

One thing I think should be done:

Test each airfield prior to the game day. I would suggest that maybe the mission should be 'test' flown (at least until people are in the air) to make sure that the spawn points work. We had a hell of a time a Ford airfield getting people in the air as it seemed we spawned in a field that had been destroyed by a combination of land mines, moles, gophers, badgers, and archaeological digs.

Other than that, I look forward to next Sunday!