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Post by wwgeezer on Feb 7, 2015 17:10:23 GMT -6
Tuesday March 10th 6:30 PST "Morning Attack at Lille" Round 3 Sopwith Pups, Sopwith Triplanes, Nieuport 17's and RE8's Albatros D3, Albatros 2 Late, PfalzD.IIIa, Fokker DR1 and Halberstadt Geezer knew he was in trouble before he ever stepped foot into the Main Office at Headquarters.... "Goddammit Geezer, this is the second time this has happened! First you can't even get your flight in the air. Second time, your suppose to shuttle pilots down to the South Base to pick up your RE8's and you come on the wrong day and the RE8's aren't ready for you yet!! Never had a CO do that before!!! If you can't pull this off this time, your heading back to the "Grooming Division" in charge of the mascot. So get your sorry ass out of my office and get your squad to show up on Tuesday at the South base as instructed..... DISMISSED!!!" Snow has stopped falling, skies are clear After you rally , patrol our side of the front as you head for the South base ( no need to head to the east balloon) RE8's will unlock as soon as the first flyer reaches the Southbase, escort the AI RE8's or replane and form your own flight with live RE8 pilots, take the same or different route The first British plane that reaches the East Factory at Lille will open the forward base. Here is the map...AGAIN!!!
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Post by wwgeezer on Feb 7, 2015 22:18:51 GMT -6
Oops, posted everything but the particulars Tuesday Feb 10th 6:30 PST wwrof server Our coms, usual password, send me a pm if you need it. "Morning Attack at Lille" Sopwith Pups, Sopwith Triplanes, Nieuport 17's and RE8's Albatros D3, Albatros 2 Late, PfalzD.IIIa, Fokker DR1 and Halberstadt Conditions are bad, heavy snow...going to experiment with icons on but no externals, a new option with the patch. Will give you the option to go full real or use icons if you have difficulty navigating This is a modification of a pretty wonderful mission by Fawlty at the Old Fokkers. I've added a few German bases so we can support some flyers on both sides. For the Entente flyers everyone starts as a Scout patrolling the line, replane at the south base and escort RE8's to the bombing site. Bombers are available for those that want to go with the RE8's. Will be looking for at least three our four flyers to fly OP4. We will even up the sides, this is not a squad vs squad event. The key target is the factory that has its chimney's lit Here is the map
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Post by Hawkeye on Feb 8, 2015 10:27:34 GMT -6
Hi Geezer, congratulations on your new position! Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
Is this a Co-op then? Looking forward to your updates.
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Post by wwgeezer on Feb 8, 2015 12:13:25 GMT -6
What I would call them is a co-op hybrid.
The missions Fawlty designs are dogfight missions, but are designed for one squad flying against AI with structured sorties and goals, so it runs like a co-op. What I do is tweak them by adding enemy bases and sharing a bit of the Entente strategy with the Central Flyers. It means the enemy flyers are doing a bit of role playing, following the action and adding heat to the encounter and see if they can stop them from completing their mission.
Works pretty well for numbers in the 10 to 20 range more like a scrimmage than a wide open dogfight mission.
Auf Wiedersehen WWGeezer
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Post by BH_Vfw_Dudley on Feb 8, 2015 14:27:49 GMT -6
I'll be there! I've flown some of Fawlty's scenarios at Old Fokkers and they are well done. Geezer's tweaks to make it multiplayer should make it an interesting set-piece.
I assume there'll still be some AI components to both sides, a bit like the Syndicate server sessions.
"Halberstadt! Well, er... what flavour is it? -- It doesn't have a bleeding flavour!! It's #@*## Halberstadt!!!"
Yes, but is it a D2 or a CL2? Hmm... considering the other kites in the mix, maybe D2s.
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Post by wwgeezer on Feb 9, 2015 21:30:06 GMT -6
Well those German planes all look the same to me.....
cracked open the mission builder, tis the Halby D2
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Post by Hawkeye on Feb 10, 2015 12:23:34 GMT -6
Guys, I think the time (9:30 PM EST start time) is just going to be too late for me, considering work. It does sound interesting though.
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Post by wwgeezer on Feb 22, 2015 9:03:19 GMT -6
Bumping my post...retrying the mission from last time...had mission builder ( me) snafu's that have been resolved See particulars at top of post
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Post by wwgeezer on Mar 7, 2015 8:53:21 GMT -6
updated info, bumped my post
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Post by wwgeezer on Mar 23, 2015 21:34:32 GMT -6
Nothing fancy this week, just doing a server raid ( Tuesday 6:30 pacific 3/24 )
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