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  1. PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

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    23 minutes ago, Reggie said:

    Morning guys, apologies, saw your post that I would be alive, and really wanted to make it - but ended up working on a customer's system failure anyway so couldn't jump on. Found out this morning, that the outage was caused by a 3rd Party making a change to script we didnt have control over - so that makes all the time investigating more frustrating 🤣

    Sad to hear it didnt take though. Have we decided to start from scratch again? 

    Yes Reg, that is exactly what Tom is going to do. He has a record of everyone’s accumulative scores but will be starting afresh with all scores at zero. 

  7. Introduction

    in Recruitment

    Posted

    Welcome Mainz, very much hope you like it here sir……

    We have experts in various disciplines, some of which are both legal and flight simm related. Our top pilot is Fenrir and we are very fond and proud of him but he is sensitive so please don’t shoot at him for a while 😳

  14. PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    12 hours ago, BluBear said:

    402nd FS Mission report (yes, really!) - 27th December 1944

    Woke up from a nightmare this morning that it was perpetually the morning of the 27th December, how strange!

    Perhaps it was something to do with the 5.30am mission start, we were all a little groggy and irritable having to start so early in this god-forsaken freezing country.
    That said; Ophoven looked deceptively peaceful this time of day, they even managed to put the fire out that was blanketing the runway in dense smoke.

    Our mission for the day was to intercept enemy aircraft in the area of Zwolle, giving cover to the 193rd Typhoon boys who were slamming bridges and such.
    We took off as a reduced force of four aircraft (many pilots on leave / awaiting replacements / didn't read the mission brief yada yada) and headed roughly due North with a pair of precautionary 500s in case Jerry didn't come out to play in the skies. 

    There must have been some miscommunication between the yanks and the limeys because they'd already hit their target by the time we got to the front line.
    However, at this point somewhere near Nijmegen, Jabo flying as Red 3 duly spotted four bandits co-alt to our 2 o'clock. Four 190A8s - They hadn't seen us. We crept up behind in a sneak attack and let them have it. Both FT (Red 2) and I knocked one down each in the first pass, Red 2 subsequently destroying a second in the short melee that followed. I maintained top cover as Red 3 and Wingflyer flying as Red 4 chased after the remaining Focke, with Red 3 landing a number of crucial blows.
    With the limeys calling for help with a possible formation of bombers sighted further North, we let it go as a probable and regrouped on a climbing heading for Apeldoorn. Shortly thereafter we spotted what appeared to be a pair of enemy aircraft in the circuit to land at the airfield near Arnhem. After some confusion it turned out to be the 193rd on their way back attacking the heavily defended airfield. I spotted a third contact trailing them high - another 190 it became apparent - with the hots for Crash. Firewalling it, Red 2 and I closed on the bastard as it was lining up for the attack. A lucky highly skilful deflection shot on the first pass from yours truly sent him to the forest in a fireball, momentarily yet satisfyingly spreading light on the dark fields below.

    Meanwhile, Red 3 and 4 had made a run on the airfield, damaging a landed aircraft but upon discovering the level of resistance, thought better of any further attacks.
    On the recommendation of the Typhoon boys we headed North East to look for ground targets around the IJssel river; a significant number of initially silent AAA were encountered and our bombs finally found their targets of opportunity. A successful period of strafing ensued but not without some damage to us. Red 3 had his rudder controls knocked out from the waking AAA and with a pair of hot engines headed South for a precautionary early landing at Volkel. The remaining three of us briefly encountered another collection of angry AAA near Doesburg on our egress, word must have got around of our presence, so we dodged and made for friendly lines without further ado.

    Flight home was unremarkable except for the slowly rising sun, casting it's crisp bright wintry rays upon the brilliant white canvas of Western Europe below us.
    A brief moment of apricity in the cockpit. Peaceful again, for now.

    Well done chaps, great team work and a decent haul all things considered. Hopefully, it's the 28th when we wake tomorrow...
     

     

    Possibly the most romantic debrief I have ever read…. Good show 402nd !

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  20. Dogz new member

    in Recruitment

    Posted

    19 hours ago, BluBear said:

    Welcome to the pound Beagle / Roy, make yourself at home. Look forward to sharing the virtual skies with you sir! :salute:

    @Painless Didn't you say it was somewhere in Fife where you sourced those armoured underpants with the decorative frills, high tensile elastic and waterproof zipper flaps? Something about the favourable legal implications of purchasing said items north of the border wasn't it? I'm sure your secret is safe with Roy.

     

    Chris, I thought we had agreed to discuss that type of equipment in PM only ! ?

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  22. Dogz new member

    in Recruitment

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    Hey Beagle, welcome to the Dogz old bean. Looking forward to flying and or tanking with you soon. We have managed to muddle along for around 16 years now mainly because our philosophy is “real life comes first” which means that there is no pressure to turn up for every session or to demonstrate any appreciable skill level. Mistakes are encouraged because it gives everyone else a good laugh.

    Hope that sounds good to you 👍🏻😉

  24. PWCG P-38 Lightning Strikes Co-op Campaign

    in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series

    Posted

    12 hours ago, DD_Fenrir said:

    I need to test whether the PWCG build is at fault or it's set-up on the dserver is somehow corrupt. We shall retry a P-38 mission hosted from my machine tomorrow, like before, but this time my head won't be in my ass so it should work*.

     

    *Translation, the reason y'all couldn't connect last time is cos I had the wrong port open for mission transfer... d'oh!

    I just don’t understand that Tom….. it’s not like you are busy or under pressure because of other demands on your time !? 😳😉

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