SoWC:BoB Multisquad Campaign Starting

[FFCW_Urizen]

come on david, be a good hun

[David198502]

urizen, you will get your chance anyway,sooner or later,...well hopefully later than sooner

[5./JG27.Farber]

Wow! What a mission that number 5 turned out to be!

[phoenix1963]

We had a highly successful and enjoyable mission tonight, with great realism and immersion.
We spawned at Biggin Hill, formed and climbed South. Once at angels 10, we turned North and reached operating altitude of angels 15 aiming to team up with 401sqn near Biggin Hill.
Hearing reports of bombers heading for Eastchurch, we flew to Maidstone with 401sqn climbing behind us to angels 18.
Radar reported low contacts behind us near Kenley, so we dived West, leaving 401 to continue its patrol over Maidstone, and saw bombers above us once we reached angels 6 near Kenley, also observing bombed hangars.
We chased the 5 Ju88s SSE and had trouble catching them. While following we saw a large formation of aircraft crossing from our 7 to 5 o'clock heading West. Eventually we did catch up and we believe we downed them all.
Doing this we got a little split-up and decided to form at Beachy Head.
Unfortunately, I was engaged by a 109 before others could find me and shot down.
Rumba and Feckit returned and landed at Eastchurch, though Feckit lost his life by crashing into a building.
Springer was now totally separated, but landed with the lately arrived Dutch at Biggin Hill.

Well done chaps, a good show. Apologies for the TS mixup, I suspect one of us forgot to ask for it to be setup. Despite that, I think we coordinated quite well.

56RAF_phoenix

[EDIT] For those not involved, we were flying 100 octane Hurricane 1s.

[FFCW_Urizen]

64 spawned in at Kenley, where we formed up before heading north to london to meet 501.
After acquiring visual and confirmation of 501 we headed east towards the Manston area, where we got ourselves a nice little fight with 2 109s, who decided to make a run for it ( yeah run ya bloody hun, ruuuuuun ).
We then headed towards Rye, where 401 was reportedly under attack. Encountered at least another 2 109s, who again ran away ( beware the might of 64! ). We then landed at Littlestone as we were bingo on fuel.

[Osprey]

Would be a good time to mention the action from 501. We met 64 over central London at angels 12 and headed east still climbing. 2 109's came fast past our formation but for some reason didn't seem to engage, 501 split in 2 at the pass. 64 Picked them up and started fighting then, we said we'd get out since 109's and Hurricanes don't mix well. We reformed and headed south hoping for action, everyone else seemed to have it but us, so we descended to angels 12 in a shallow dive to Hastings. There we spotted a group of Dorniers running home off the coast, they were light from dropping their bombs already but in a single pass 501 sent them all into the drink. As their group broke apart so did we, 1 launcher crash then some 109's turned up, I was S/D just off Hastings but B/O fine (I'll be in a new crate for next weekend!), Hollywood and Valec both got home fine with light damage but gave what they got by claiming a 109 damaged on the chat bar. Drake was S/D over Hastings but B/O ok.

A very good mission, more of the same please.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by Osprey

A very good mission, more of the same please.

Yay I made Osprey happy finally

[bw_wolverine]

No.401 had a lively climb up to 20,000 ft, a zip down to 8,000 ft, and then a right thrashing from a 109. Three of us got our aircraft down, one died when he bailed too low to the ground.

Otherwise uneventful.

I preferred mission #4.

[notafinger!]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

No.401 had a lively climb up to 20,000 ft, a zip down to 8,000 ft, and then a right thrashing from a 109. Three of us got our aircraft down, one died when he bailed too low to the ground.

Otherwise uneventful.

I preferred mission #4.

I think that was me. I ran into 4 Hurricanes over Hastings and shot the aileron off of one, put a 20mm hole in the wing roundel of another, shot up another near Rye (maybe that one was Wolverine), and flamed a 4th west of Littlestone (StiC). Got dinged up by a Spitfire who made a nice shot in a head-on pass and called it a day. I was able to get some decent HD footage.

http://youtu.be/DxSdUI9TYmU?hd=1

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by notafinger!

I think that was me. I ran into 4 Hurricanes over Hastings and shot the aileron off of one, put a 20mm hole in the wing roundel of another, shot up another near Rye (maybe that one was Wolverine), and flamed a 4th west of Littlestone (StiC). Got dinged up by a Spitfire who made a nice shot in a head-on pass and called it a day. I was able to get some decent HD footage.

http://youtu.be/DxSdUI9TYmU?hd=1

Yep, that sounds like it.

I tell ya, what I wouldn't give to get the drop on you fellas for a change. This time we went to 20,000 ft only to find that the bombers were all going in low.

By the time we got back down and in the area of contact, the raid was over and the 109s were above us. We were fish in a barrel at that point.

I hope that a good radar solution will eventually be found.

I wish that 1C Maddox had though of having contacts be 'reported' on the map. Little indicators that shifted about with each radar sighting. I don't care if a pilot didn't have that. Pilots DID have intelligent controllers talking to them non stop to help them get to contacts at the right altitude and location. And they didn't have to worry about doing that while flying their own aircraft in combat.