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Missions Results/Debrief for Week of 2/25/20 thru 3/1/2020
« on: February 25, 2020, 04:06:29 pm »
POST MISSION RESULTS/INTELLIGENCE DEBRIEF HERE (INCUDING your MISSION SCORE AS GIVEN BY THE GAME)
(Be as sappy and or formal as you like...this is PLAY time so enjoy yourself!   ;D ;D)

Mission Results for week of 2/25/20 thru 3/1/2020:

*Please start a new post or rather reply below this post and use the outline below to tell us about your mission!

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« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 04:13:15 pm by Beowolff »

You cannot lie, cheat or steal your way to honor.  Honor lies in friendship, trust and loyalty, in truth  when you spit upon those great and wonderful things, you are doomed to a failure of the soul of the worst sort.  You are truly damned.

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Offline Beowolff

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Member Name/callsign: Beowolff
Actual Mission Name: Rascaeti Supply Convoy Attack
Date single mission actually flown:  2/25/2020
Survival:  Survived
Kills: 3 enemy trucks
Results/description of mission:
Mission Score: 75 (poo-tooie!   ???  I spit on those points!)
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Achk!!!   :o  What?  A mere 75 freakin' points for risking my neck and nearly dying and taking out three trucks in an enemy convoy?

D'oh!

Man, this damned mission was HARD (for me anyway)!  First off for some reason my CR-42 kept trying to kill me...it was horsey as hell, bucking around like a wild bronco and acting ill-tempered.  If I dropped my attention for a second it was peeling off into a sideways power dive and heading for the ground in a scream!  I duno', maybe my stick settings were acting up.  Anyway, so I fought that all the way to the target...got there and could NOT find the Rooskie supply convoy...oh wow.  Wow but the ground (and anything ON the ground) was next but impossible for me to see in that GREEN hellish tundra or whatever it is.  I couldn't see crap through the CR-42's tangle of wires/struts/wings/dashboard, etc... and of course the Russian's camo green paint blending in with the tundra didn't help either.

I followed directions and flew back and forth several times along the route looking for the convoy...no dice...and was about to give up with I got my arse nearly shot off (I was VERY low by then) by a crazy deadly SPEW of those hell-greenish Rooskie tracers!  D'oh!   ??? :o :(

Okay, FINALLY the Russian convoy located (but not the way I intended.)  I hauled my stick around in a super tight turn, almost too tight...and almost plowed into the ground again...got it under control and strafed the hell out of a Soviet truck at pointblank range with my light-as-hell toy machine-guns...ka-blooie up it went in flame and smoke.  One quick kill.

I climbed fast as I could, got some good altitude CAREFULLY trying to keep the convoy in sight as they would blend in and near vanish every time I looked away for a half-second.    Came back around, picked my target again and screamed down in a power dive, dropping my bombs (almost too late) and fragging a couple more trucks.  Two more kills.  Then I swear but EVERY effin' Rooskie in the convoy decided to target me and I was like a bat caught in a dozen flashlights ….holes opened up in my wings, nose, all around me...I was riddled with enemy fire.

Trailing a thick plume of oil/smoke and petrol, I told my lads to cut out and did so myself as fast as my missing engine would get me out of there.

Literally my engine cut out several miles from my base but the CR-42 had enough lift to get me to the end of the field and down.... bumpity, bumpity, bump...roll and I hammered the brakes and stopped.  My plane was shot to hell but I'd survived and nailed THREE enemy trucks when earlier on I'd been convinced I wouldn't get any.

And got a lousy 75 point score for my trouble.   >:( >:( >:(

I should have taken my bottle of brandy and slipped away into the woods and or behind a hanger to empty it, --I would have likely gotten more points for being drunk than for risking my life taking out THREE hard to kill (and find) enemy vehicles!

Salute!


Beo

Hauptmann Beowolff relaxing with fellow pilots and friends during happier times of the war.


What my '42 'tried' to do to me today (a friend of mine's unfortunate flight/landing in France early in the war.)

« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 06:01:28 pm by Beowolff »

You cannot lie, cheat or steal your way to honor.  Honor lies in friendship, trust and loyalty, in truth  when you spit upon those great and wonderful things, you are doomed to a failure of the soul of the worst sort.  You are truly damned.

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Member Name/callsign:  OttO
Actual Mission Name:  Rascaeti Supply Convoy Attack
Date single mission actually flown: 2-25-2020
Results/description of mission:2 tanks   &   6 trucks
Mission Score:  230
Misc. Info if desired: We got to the field and did our walk around and check our planes.
All ok so we mounted up and took off. I got us lost for awhile as flying with a hang over is not a good thing.
Once I got my bearings all was good .Weather was not bad and the wind was light.
Once I spotted the convoy I made a pass over them to check for any machine guns .. Well  they had them. They just missed me and not by much.
Got lined up for a bomb run. Had them all lined up and dropped my bombs .. Would have been nice if they hit just one but oh NO.
I have no idea where they went .Darn sure was not at a truck.
My two wingmen dropped thiers in the middle of the near by field.
I guess they were trying to kill Gophers.
We all got turned around and started shooting the trucks and tanks
The wingmen did a great job as we wiped out the convoy not one truck was left.
We all RTB safe and sound... Headed to the pub and some R&R..
Do it all over again tomorrow .....
Returning to Base.

Landed at base safe.

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Offline Beowolff

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Nice!   ;)

You cannot lie, cheat or steal your way to honor.  Honor lies in friendship, trust and loyalty, in truth  when you spit upon those great and wonderful things, you are doomed to a failure of the soul of the worst sort.  You are truly damned.

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Mission Rascaeti supply convoy attack
Date flown 2-26-2020
Results Nil
Score Nil
Debrief
Took off with two wingmen. Flew for about 13 minutes before spotting the convoy in clear weather. Dive bombed the road and missed. Forgot to order wingmen to attack. Swept in behind some trees and shot up the trucks but flew through a tree, misjudged the height and my left wing hit the ground. Spun in and died at zero feet. Should not have flown straight after a catnap!

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Member Name/callsign: E69_Haukka
Actual Mission Name: Rascaeti Supply Convoy Attack
Date single mission actually flown: 2.26.2020
Results/description of mission: Convoy totally removed. Two lost men (my pilots) in fulfillment of duty. RTB
Mission Score: 345
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Debrief Rascaeti Supply Convoy Attack:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QGIh8d-hUpeNWHASMYTNyuI7v_a4coG/view?usp=sharing

Recorded in VP Modpack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NahdKRmi7BoVC-Ta23JqTILu3pgGM02Z/view?usp=sharing




It has been a very entertaining mission, with a high risk of collision when flying low among the trees, but carefully, and containing my nerves and my bad habits, I was able to eliminate the objectives one by one. My mates killed themselves. Now that everything has happened, I am thinking of flying this mission in BAT, with a more complicated climate, and with the new and beautiful Dimon CR42-B. I think it will be a good experience.

Thank you very much for these missions. Now is the time to prepare for twin engines, right?

Regards


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That is very good ....OUTSTANDING.
Larsresult because of the CAT-NAP thingy I think you need a DO-OVER......Go  4 IT bud.... ;)


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Thank you Otto. Is that allowed. It was my own fault as I rushed into the mission.

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Excellent, E69_Haukka!  A wonderous score considering the difficulties I experienced with this mission.   ;D  I had so much trouble even seeing the enemy trucks let alone shooting them up...though I did get two with my bombs.  Those devilish vehicles seemed to blend 'right into the ground' for my old eyes!  G'ah!

@ Lars....

Sorry for your loss, my good friend.   :( :( :(

I understand the catnap situation, my brain (and eyes) are like this most of the time, unfortunately.  D'oh!

As to do-overs....

guys unless we have a computer glitch that is beyond our control and messes up our mission/run... I can't see us doing do-overs.  To be honest it's been personally hard for myself to 'not' do a few do-overs---if you get my drift on this.  But I resist because starting do-overs is an unstoppable human emotional crutch.  If I do one... and do not like the results, I'll more than likely do yet another, and another, and even another until I finally get the result (s) that I was hoping for initially.  --Which these games being on Scout's Honor' with us having to trust each other to be fair... such an event wouldn't be fair to the rest of us that aren't doing such.  So... as tempting as it has been, I've resisted and will continue to resist.  After all, we come back to life the NEXT mission anyway which gives us all a chance to live again and correct any mistakes we've made with the new mission and gain back any lost scores by trying harder to do better.



 ;) ;D ;D

This puts us more on an equal footing (via the honor system) where we all live, or we all die, the same way.  Then if we are killed we resurrect the NEXT mission to life and fight again.  (though in my case that doesn't mean I'll actually do better...lol)  As hard as it is for me to put down my death and zero score for all to see, I cannot lay any blame on anyone for it other than myself.  So I take my licking and continue on determined to 'try' and do better (if that is possible for a near blind and often silly pilot like myself.  Ha!)

I hope I'm making sense with this, and that if so, it is agreeable to you all.

S!  :D

Beo

You cannot lie, cheat or steal your way to honor.  Honor lies in friendship, trust and loyalty, in truth  when you spit upon those great and wonderful things, you are doomed to a failure of the soul of the worst sort.  You are truly damned.

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Thanks, friends, for the concepts. This mission was very good for me, but it is not the result of chance, but of preparation. Excuse me if I sound pretentious, it is not my intention. In the past I have studied together with friends the best way to do this type of "work", and over time and practice a method is developed, which sometimes works and sometimes does not, but always gives us a sense of order.

Nor is it the first time I do this, I have done it before, at the first attempt, of course.



Unfortunately I am at a serious disadvantage with the language, so some of your expressions get lost when they pass through the translator filter. But I am very good at reading between the lines, I have developed intuition, like all of you, and I think I begin to understand.

I don't know what "do-overs" are, the translator says they are "pending tasks", but I think you are talking about repetitions. Repetitions of missions when they do not go well.


Friends, like everyone here, I am committed to You by an oath of honor. I've done it with myself too. And it is not an effort for me, it is natural. I am aware that the result I have presented from this last mission may invite you to think that I have done it several times until I have done it well. I'm sorry, I don't have time for that. The mission has lasted an hour. Then, I have seen the track (record) to take the times of each event and I have taken the photographs, I have written the brief, I have translated it into your language, I have reviewed it to see that everything is correct (within my possibilities), I have ordered the information and I have published it, all this, in a relaxed holiday afternoon, has taken me three more hours. After publishing the result it was time for dinner. I have no time, nor the desire to gain an advantage over anyone, by abnormal means. I fly my missions with maximum difficulty. I take note of waipoints, flight directions and places in a paper notebook. Not much more to say. Sometimes I do things well, sometimes very badly. I'm lousy leaving an entire plane on the deck of a carrier, I almost always break it. But I have a lot of experience with biplanes, and to CR42 I have flown it many times in the past, that is my advantage.

In the mission report I have attached the track (record). I have learned a lot from watching the records of others, I invite you to see my record, not with the pretense of teaching you, but to see at what point you can improve what you are already doing.

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Mr. Lars, I have hit trees thousands of times. To be very honest, I think I also have the record of crashes against trees this week, last weekend I was flying a Vonofterdingen mission with Trojan in Vietnam, a very good mission, well set, and the plane is beautiful, but I am extremely clumsy with that plane:: I flew the mission (I tried) thirty times exact, ten in BAT and twenty in VP Modpack, and thirty times I hit the trees, not once have I returned home! I doubt any of you can beat me on this! Still I have 30 well done takeoffs ...

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As I thought Beo. Agreed. One attempt, live or die. As you state it could become endless otherwise.
Appreciate the sympathy Otto.
Hi Haukka. Experience on one type of aircraft counts for a lot. I always found the view from the CR42 awkward. Although it is very good at manoeuvres. Dive bombing to almost zero feet is more achievable in the CR42 than other aircraft, even if I still miss.

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Nice video and music Haukka. Interesting you strafe straight down the road rather than at an angle as recommended.  BTW Which map were you using?

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Nice video and music Haukka. Interesting you strafe straight down the road rather than at an angle as recommended.  BTW Which map were you using?


Thanks Larsresult! In that case it was very practical to go along the road, burning trucks like who sews buttons. But I don't always do the same. I think the most important thing is to focus on eliminating flak rather than dealing with anything else. When there is no flak, trucks are more digestible food.

I had to work a little to find the name of the map, because I didn't remember it. This is a mission of the Aces over Europe server, with version HSFX 7.0.3, luckily the video has the date of the flight, which allowed me to find the mission.

The mission is "AoE Double Star 45", dated December 9, 2017, and the map is Alps East







Cheers!

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Hi Haukka. Not heard of that server. Interesting results chart. I take it that was flown in Il2 1946 HSFX.
Sorry Beo. Going off topic.

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Very interesting comments, gentlemen!   ;D   

@ E69_Haukka, you are correct about translations...a do-over is a repeat of something a person has already done.  We had not really discussed this prior (it slipped my mind to bring it up) and OttO and Lars was speaking of it over his last game where he played it while still groggy from sleep/nap... as I too have done many times also  :( ...and it sort of came up as a possible option (the dfo-overs) whereas I replied (as you noted) that i didn't think we should have do-overs UNLESS there was a machine malfunction (such as a computer lockup or a power interupption).

Nobody thought YOU --or anybody else for that matter...has done any do-overs to increase points!   :o   So do not be concerned over that as I assure you that we all consider you (and all our other friends flying) as having done our missions admirably and with fairness and honor.

I am not a great combat pilot... yes, I have TONS of flying time in many different IL2 planes and mods but all of this time was spent with me TESTING mods/building mods/etc... not actual combat time.  So though I am (I think) an excellent pilot, it is only excellent when testing/or doing normal flight/takeoff and landings (though not so good on carriers either...ha!)  But in combat I lack actual experience.  For a while when I played on line (YEARS ago) I had gotten pretty good, but after even more years of mere test flying for mods, my War skills have atrophied...lol.  This is especially true in combat situations where my vision (which used to be very good but now is pretty bad) is required...as in this last mission.  Though I survived it, it was as much luck as anything because I really could not see the trucks until right upon them.  It was quite maddening to fly all around and not see them until they shot at me...and I felt very lucky to have gotten two with bombs and one with my guns, and STILL make it back home to land safely (even though badly shot up.)   ??? ;)

So, even though I am NOT doing so well in our little competition I am not one bit upset and or jealous of you guys that are...  Rather I am proud to fly with such men, ---both the good combat pilots ---and others like myself that maybe aren't so good.  Together we make-up a nice team that for a few minutes each week become warriors in our missions against the game's AI and fly together with common goals hoping to have fun and do our best in our game that we enjoy so much.  To me...attempting to be as realistic as I can be (even if it is only through our imagination) and fly with you fine fellows gives me loads of fun and happiness.  Thank you ALL for participating!  Everytime I fly a mission...I pretend in my imagination that YOU chaps are ALL right there with me...flying along in formation with big grins upon your faces yet grimly, inwardly, determined to complete our assignment for the flag and country we are flying for!  I'm having a LOT of fun!

 ;D
S!

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« Last Edit: February 28, 2020, 07:38:43 am by Beowolff »

You cannot lie, cheat or steal your way to honor.  Honor lies in friendship, trust and loyalty, in truth  when you spit upon those great and wonderful things, you are doomed to a failure of the soul of the worst sort.  You are truly damned.

 

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