Enforcer's brief re:sunday w/the dogz over the East

[Enforcer57]

Well I was gonna make a hellhounds sat brief, but i kept forgetting to record the

damn fights till we were half way done. If anyone has a Ntrak of that night misn

Zeus came up with, Id love to have it. Id kinda like to have that misn to.

Anyway, the following is a good illustration of agressive tactics and superb gunnery.

We started out with VVS Il-2s attacking German bridgeheads and escorted by Yaks and

Laggs. The Krauts attack with the usual, and the fight is on at medium altitude. It

naturally winds up on the deck, as it alwys did in the east, and some of us gave good

illustrations on how to dig holes.

If I mis ID anyone, sing out, as Im having to gather who is who from id icons and

kill messages.

We engaged in several head on passes, and Psycho drew blood early, though I dunno

if his victim was ai or human. He came up right behind, closed to clse range, and blasted his

wing off.

Then He gets agressive and attacks Redeye, whose running a bit rich (dont forget to map

the mixture control....you need it). P starts out in a verticle attack from below, but R rolls

and dives to evade.

Of course I spy this situation with my falcon like eyes and attack Psycho, who is gyrating

wildly keeping up with a gyrating Redeye. We wind up going verticle as ALWAYS.

The daisy chain reverses, and we wind up heading for the deck (say it together)......

AS ALWAYS......and more planes get tied up in it.

I shoot and miss, promptly winding up in front of his guns and trying to get the hell outta the

way of all that Krupp lead. Another argument for waiting till the target fills the windscreen, but

he wouldnt cooperate with me. Sunflower makes a failed pass at him, and Im still up shit creek.

I eat some 20mm and contemplate being on the tree of woe. Von Tonar is balls to the wall

trying to save my ass, but he's got a ways to come yet. As ALWAYS, I wind up losing major control

cables.

I'm squirming all over the sky, totally defensive as I like to scream, and he's making some really

good snap shots, loading me up worse than a two dollar crack-ho on a friday night after welfare checks are issued. VT is in range now and making long range snap shots; P's luck holds though.

VT scores a good hit on P, but it's not good enough, and I promptly dig a hole despite my best

efforts. I make a mental note to do more target practice. Von Tonar is wearing a very nice

"dont give a damn about immersion" paint scheme. Hell, at least he's easy to find, unlike my AI

wingmen.

After breaking off from gunning me in my rather sore ass (no vaseline), he makes a great deflection

shot on B16Enk, damaging his AC, and Vexing VT even further.

After tormenting Capt B16Enk, he's finally beat off of him by the rather persistant Von Tonar, but

promptly bushwaks the squdrn CO, whose gunner must be blind, since he's firing at the sound

rather than P's 109.

[Enforcer57]

After knocking a few chunks off BG's Sturmo, VT drives the evil Psycho off of his tail.

VT's already won hero of the soviet union twice in this fight. BG asks his gunner "Where'd he go?"

The gunner replies "where WHO go?" ..........good help is hard to find.

As is common in a turn and burn job on the deck, P comes back around yet again to

bring his guns to bear on BG. However, the CO of the Dogz does the classic manuver of

turing sharply into his attacker. This throws P a bit, but only delays him. VT meanwhile

is stuck on P like an Terminator.

AFter being run off yet again from BG's tail by the determined Von Tonar (whose down to his

12.7mm mg), the aptly named Psycho attacks yet again, prompting BG to be somewhat

critical of his gunner.

The cascade of Candadian robber baron insults and threats must've had an effect, as the gunner

puts a well placed 12.7mm rd in P's Daimler Benz, causing some rather serious transportation

problems for the unstable, but lethal, Luftwaffe pilot. VT is closing in, and not even the Dogz

resident mental defect is stupid enough to hang around.

P is somewhat miffed the sight of the guady, somewhat whoreish looking Von Tonar, so he makes

good his escape. Somehow he manages to evad VT even with a bum engine. This shot is an

interesting view of the gunners hit on his engine.

While all this is going on, the IL-2s are attacking the German bridgehead, albeit with considerable

interference from the luftwaffe, resulting in several rousing scissors fights. Here, Mobius is in a high

g fight with several IL-2s and an unidentified Lagg. Pooka was shot down in his IL-2 as a result of this fight.

Relieved of the herpes like Psycho (he always comes back at the worse possible time), BG

attacks what he THINKS are German vehicles. As he unleashes the 37mm guns on them, his

gunner sees the insignia on the AA vehicle they thought was shooting at them apparently.

He starts to say something, but his quickly told to keep quiet like the low life brigand he is.

BG's gunner accurately asseses that this fratricide incident will cost them some points. It also got them a tour sweeping mines wiht their boots outside Lenningrad. Three SU-76s cost alot of rubles.

Meanwhile, back at the Yalta institute for the humanly challenged, Psycho has evaded doctor

death yet again, but is dead stick, having evaded VT. He decides to use his gear and recover his

machine, compresssing the oleo struts to their max (look closely-is this cool or what?).

Last and probably least, Psycho noses over and cracks up his machine, but not before learning that

the damage he inflicted on B16Enk's sturmo added to his score. It's quite obvious that P is an

accomplished, though somewhat masochistic, fighter pilot.....now if somebody could just find

a way to jam his teamspeak transmitter.

And BG, knock off your goldbrickin, stop counting your gold stash, and get back to your

squadron......those barbarians need your leadership and inspiration-be that as it may.

[B16Enk]

Hey Shadow M8, your de-briefs would make great articles on the web pages, mind if I have a go at putting this one and the last one up?

I can document the procedure and make that available too .

[B16Enk]

Bugger.

Just wrote your brief up as an article, all images titled and alt texted.

Hit the 'Submit Article' and the bloody thing asked me to log-in again.

Even more annoying was I had taken the precaution of ctrl+a incase anything went wrong, and then goofed by copying the screen for the user guide.

Lost an hour or so's work

I've changed the timeout, it may not work though.

Do a ctrl+a and ctrl+c on long articles, it will save some hair...

[B16Enk]

Ok, I put it here:

On the Home Page

Hope you don't mind m8, it's such a bloody good read.

You have a real talent for this, and in that format it can be emailed and/or printed

It can of course be taken off line if you wish.

[Shadow]

Hey Shadow M8, your de-briefs would make great articles on the web pages, mind if I have a go at putting this one and the last one up?

I can document the procedure and make that available too .

As much as I'd love to take credit for that, only Enforcer can put together such unique perspectives on squad nights.

So, you may want to credit him as the author, not me :wink:

[B16Enk]

I'm having an early senior moment.

Or sporadic dyslexia.

Or both...considering it says quite clearly 'Enforcer57' and I managed to write it as 'Enforcers Brief 9/13 2006'....

Sorry Enforcer!

[Tonar]

Definte story teller material. good work Enforcer

I sent the link to my father it was so good.

[Enforcer57]

roger that, you can post it anywhere. I have already taken the screenies off the earlier ones from photobucket, but i can put them back up, if that would get them back. I have never been able to save any page off here, unlike the ubi page. I hope someone was able to save them.

I dont know how much room i have left in photobucket, but i think its a good bit, cause i deleted alot of stuff to make room for this. I have no idea if returning those screenies to photobucket would work or not.

Im flattered youse guys like that. This one was about 6 hrs of work, as its alot longer than usual, and i had to edit it alot to keep it whre i could finish at 0330 hrs. I wanted to include sunflower and BBloke's collision, as i got some great ones from there.

I wanted to do one on the night misn last weekend, but didnt record much of it. I guess i got my plate fulll as it is just doing a fragment of a misn....so much crap going on in these things.

Im planning to record the big fight tomorow, but it presents editing problems.....like which fight do i concentrate on etc. I will manage though.

Im currently trying to put my late Dad's flying adventures into writing, as ive got 8 yrs of daily contributions he made to the ludlow porch radio show. I hope Im able to finnish that, as im pretty sure i could get some help getting it published. I just like doing this kinda stuff. Heh heh.

[Enforcer57]

Well this is odd. I thought i deleted all of the screenies from the sat night briefing last week, but apparently not, they are stll there.

the one before it with just five shots are all gone, but at least the last one is there.

If i can ever get tthe time, i have some pretty decent photos ive reduced in size also from assorted airshows yrs ago.

[B16Enk]

Use the photobucket account Mentioned here

It's a fully paid up one with 5Gb storage available and 50Gb bandwidth pm

Or use our image gallery, I can create a section for you if you wish.

[Enforcer57]

Ok, cool. i wont have to worry about that from now on. thanx.