1st Multisquad Campaign Battle of Britain

[5./JG27.Farber]

take the brief quite leterally and you will find us

I hope they get some sort of raday working soon. I was laying in bed last night thinking of stuff and the AI, calls out enemy positions, so next time round Im thinking of implementing anson and storch (bf108? stand in) aircraft on roaming patrols...

[5./JG27.Farber]

Sorry about the clouds

Everything was fairley smooth untill we got to manston where out of 8 flyers two had CTD. I got tangled with the spits and hurricanes attack the He111's. FPS dropped to nothing then frooze... I alt tabbed out and the game started running again. I tried to go back in but it was all distorted and then my plane crashed...

[JG52Uther]

Krupi couldn't get in. Me and Adonys took off, but found no bombers over the rendevous.Saw 3 ghost dots near the French coast that disappeared when we got closer., so we flew to London, seeing nothing, and then Adonys CTD.I kept going, was about to call in quits as I thought maybe the server had crashed and I was on my own,then saw and jumped, a Hurri, got hit by flak i think as my wing was damaged, and bailed.

[bw_wolverine]

Yeah, as soon as I found the bombers flying over the estuary, the clouds dropped my frames and it was inevitable with the addition of all the flak going off. Crashed out within sight of a group.

Anyway, a good experience overall! Thank you, Farber and everyone else who worked to put this together. It was a lot of fun. If nothing else, the formation flying was great to see and be a part of

[JG5_emil]

Three JG5 bounced a large formation of Spits over the estuary. We made several passes and it was looking like a good fight was going to be had.

Saddly two of us CTD and we spent the rest of the night ranting to each other about the crap state of this game!!

Our constructive critisism so far is that we think the bombers should be higher as 2-3000 seems very low for an attack by HE-111 over London.

[JTDawg]

Great fun ,great campainge! SULUTE!!!!! good job to all involved, keep up the great work, looking foreward to the next one. thats what this game is about thanks

[klem]

Thanks guys for a really good first campaign. Some glitches but it worked through ok in the end.

We are definitely suffering the memory leak but I managed to get down winchester before it crashed.

The Comms worked out well. It seems the Leaders' planning went ok too although I wasn't involved in that. Our boss 56RAF_Witch was feeding us info from other leaders as well as us watching the radar reports and eventually we caught up with the He111s as they closed on London. I think we got a few.

Shame we did not have all units on comms but it worked out ok.

Looking forward to the next one with all the lessons learned

[ATAG_Snapper]

My After Action Report I filed with my Group. Fantastic job, chaps!

Well, I quite enjoyed that!

Thanks to Bliss and Watchman bouncing all about Teamspeak we got ourselves spawned in our Spits at Eastchurch and all on the same TS channel -- no small feat! Kudos to Shrivey for putting on today's Squad Leader Headdress and leading the rest of us shrinking violets out to the airfield. Saw one or two ignominious explosions while taxiing out, but I trust everyone was able to respawn quickly.

Take off was performed smoothly and we all managed to keep Shrivey in sight using our new exclusive-to-ATAG formation which is a carefully laid out pattern of echelon left/line astern/vic/finger four/line abreast effectively designed to jam the enemy's TS Channels with a continuous chorus of "WTF's???". As Shrivey smartly led us out in a fast climb towards the Thames Estuary, he assiduously called out throttle and prop percentages, with several of us assiduously calling out "Uh, what's that in boost and rpm's, please?". Hey, we all got there, didn't we.

Suddenly everyone is calling out "Break, break, break! 109's!!! Two of 'em!". With great precision and consummate skill ol' Snapper slams his Spit into a panicked....er....carefully practised high-speed stall, the absolute absence of any control surface coordination designed to throw off the aim of the most determined experten Luftwaffe ace. It worked!! Not only did I lose any 109's, but I also managed to lose my entire squadron!!!! Adeptly regaining control of my spinning Spit after a brief 10,0000 foot plunge, I set course towards London.

Five minutes later as I realized the Estuary was now the North Sea, I swung about 180 degrees - making a mental note to get my obviously defective compass changed at first op. Bloody erks. Faintly I can hear the excited cries of my squadmates engaging an escorted bomber stream. (Actually, it wasn't faint at all -- it just sounds good.) pouring the coals to my long-suffering Merlin, I hasten to join the fray. Anguished cries of "109 on my 6!!", "I'm taking hits!", "I've just had a f'ing launcher crash!" fill my headphones. Ahead I see the telltale bursts of black AA to mark the location of the ensuing dogfight. Suddenly, I see a small dark shape against the white cloud behind it. I positively identify it as a Junkers/Heinkel/Dornier-thingy and "I'm going for it boys!"

As I close the J/H/T-thingy grows in my sights, and I push the firing button as I flash by. Having delivered a stunning 1/20 second burst on its left wingtip, I swing around for another pass. Recovering from my second high speed stall of the day, I pick up my terrified victim making a desperate attempt to flee my murderous assault. Licking my dry lips in grim anticipation, I curve in behind him -- his wingspan perfectly framed within the range bars of my illuminated reflector sight. "DIE, YOU NAZI SCHWEINHUNDT!!!!" I scream as I push the firing button once again. And.......nothing. Screen freeze. Gentlemen: this SUCKS!!!!!

Oh well. It was fun, nonetheless. Hopefully the next beta will get these launcher.exe failures resolved. Then we'll get 'em!