1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 8, 2021 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 8, 2021 Salute, Save the Date! After much work and excellent contributions from @Perfesser and @Sweper I am pleased to announce that I will be running the first mission in my "Battle Of The Bulge" series on Saturday 24th April. It would be great if we could get as many of the regular "Tankies" on parade as possible. Now, start time?. Usually I would have said that I would have started the mission around 20:15 to 20:30 uk time but as we have just put our clocks forward I appreciate that this may be causing folks who do not live in the centre of the universe (also known as the UK) some issues? Could you please give me some indication below as to what start time would suit you, I will then do my best to find the best solution. Battle Of The Bulge Operation Wacht am Rhein You are part of a section within "Panzer Lehr". This was formed from several elite training and demonstration units. The training and demonstration units were some of the most experienced and highly trained troops in the Panzerwaffe, with almost all having seen combat in the East, North Africa, Scilly or Italy. Panzer Lehr is made up of Panzer IV and Panther tank units. Wacht am Rhein opened on 16 December 1944, and Panzer Lehr moved out from the start positions in the centre of the German line. It's objectives were to push West as far as it could capturing the towns of Viaden, Dasberg, Wiltz and the lynch pin in the operation, the transport hub of Bastogne, thus contributing to the main objective of pushing right through to the bridges over the River Meuse and on to the port of Antwerp, thus severing the Allied supply lines. The attack has been planned with the utmost secrecy, with the details of the advance only released to the units on the front line at the very last minute. Mission 1 Your unit will arrive at the front line under cover of darkness on the night of the 15th December, having been transported via road trailers to what you believe to be a front line reinforcement camp.Mission 2 Takes place during the next day in camp, on the 15th, it is here that you are briefed that you are not here as reinforcements but as a spearhead to take the fight back to the Allied forces. You are to familiarize yourself with the layout of the camp and to locate the starting position in readiness for the advance in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Because of the secrecy about the mission only limited information on routes through the difficult terrain is available and you may find yourself picking a route through dense forest and traversing steep incline and descents. Supplies of ammunition, fuel and food will be important the further West you advance.Mission 3 The Attack begins. In the early hours of Saturday 16th December your unit will assemble waiting for the signal to advance. What events and missions come next, only time will tell... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 8, 2021 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 8, 2021 Muti-Crew for this event. If you are wanting to take part in this event as part of a multi-crew please could you let me know your crew please, or put yourself forward as a willing crew member and we can then make some crews up. There are up to 3 positions available for each tank, driver, gunner and commander. If you want to fight on your own, no problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted April 8, 2021 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 8, 2021 Panther if possible please Col. 3 man crew : Sidly, Parts and myself, ( the three muskrat tears), will rotate positions and the turret as required. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 9, 2021 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 9, 2021 Myself and FT are going to crew and Perf has agreed to start out as out Commander (we will see how long it takes for him to run screaming to the hills saying "never again with those two"!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parts Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 On 4/8/2021 at 5:33 PM, Painless said: Panther if possible please Col. 3 man crew : Sidly, Parts and myself, ( the three muskrat tears), will rotate positions and the turret as required. Muskrats ears 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 15, 2021 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 15, 2021 I have made another post I am going to allocate the tanks based on the roll of a dice. You can change at a spawn point if you are really not happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squawk Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Squawk is back in service and willing to be of service. If there is an open crew spot I will gladly fill or I can go solo as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parts Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 On 4/21/2021 at 3:22 AM, Squawk said: Squawk is back in service and willing to be of service. If there is an open crew spot I will gladly fill or I can go solo as well. Welcome back into service 🤙 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 23, 2021 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 23, 2021 Welcome back Squawk - You have been allocated a Panzer IV and number 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parts Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Count down begins!!!!🕗 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted April 25, 2021 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 25, 2021 Good fun driving through that spectacular scenery especially at the beginning when it was nearly dark. The visuals were brilliant in the warm up mission. Might be interesting to start a mission in the near dark and have the sun come up ? The bad weather makes spotting targets difficult but it is very immersive 🤗 I know we had a long discussion on TS afterwards about solo vs multi crewing and the associated comms issues. As we all know very well, nearly all problems in life are caused by bad comms, so if we get that sorted by the next mission, it will no doubt be chaotic but much better 👍🏻😉 On that point my vote goes for all in the same channel (multi and single crew) but with whispers set up between the 3 members of each multi crew. Multi crews must get into the habit of pushing that whisper button every time they speak to each other ! This will help keep open comms from being so congested. As we confirmed last night, if you are on voice activated for normal comms, when you push your whisper button to transmit it prevents you from transmitting to everyone else in the channel. The only hectic bit will be if someone is chatting in the channel when you whisper to your gunner for instance, you gunner will hear both voices at the same time...... easy to overcome..... when you “whisper”, SHOUT! 😂 Thanks for making this happen Colin, good work ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parts Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Sorry I had to dash owfff I was enjoying the chat about Comms when my bowels had other ideas 😜. My 50cents worth. I thought Comms was more poor than normal last night. I’m not sure what happened that was different from from the last couple of missions where there was a mix of single and multi crew hulls but there wasn’t much in the way of target identification going on between any of us. I loved the mission, the ambiance, the company and the other internal tank banter. Colin, you’ve done another good job Sir. I missed the outcome of last nights TS overtime chat but by the sounds of Painlesses post we are going to reverse the whisper and try a different tact. Just before I dived for the facilities I heard Squawk talk about a commander to ensure we all move as a unit. It’s a working Dogz job herding the likes of us but I for one don’t mind giving or taking orders. Every day is a learning day as FT proved when he educated me in TS whisper protocols last night 😀. Great fun mixed with a lust for tighter team work. Looking forward to the next one 👍🏽🙏🏻 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Friar Posted April 25, 2021 Author 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Parts said: I for one don’t mind giving or taking orders Think we may have found our tank commander! well done sir! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Painless Posted April 26, 2021 1. DDz Quorum Share Posted April 26, 2021 12 hours ago, Friar said: Think we may have found our tank commander! well done sir! You’ve done it now Parts !!! 🤣😂😆😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parts Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 It’s fine P’less. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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