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Shame Pook, but understood and thanks for the heads up. We have two more highly likely attendees but they aren't 100% sure yet - if so they can slot in on the vacant slots in Yellow & Green or become a two ship Blue Section. The idea behind this segregation is as follows; it allows me quickly to designate Sections to different tasks if we end up in a multi-type target engagement, so for example if we meet escorted bombers I can task Yellow for bombers whilst I take Red Section in to engage & distract the escort fighters (or at least part of their number) and direct Green to cover Yellow as they attack; once Yellow have broken off, Green can engage the bombers as Yellow cover their attack. My hope is that we could keep up this cycle as long as possible until either the bombers are all downed or the very least minimise our losses if some escorts slip passed Red Section (or whoever was detailed to engage the escorts). Alternatively, if we meet an unescorted bomber formation I can direct Sections quickly to attack particular parts of the formation so we can try to avoid getting in each others way - and mitigate the number of collisions that can occur during such attacks. A further benefit of this is that in enables us to inflict as much damage to as many bombers as possible in the first pass. The formation will break up quicker as more damaged bombers slip out of formation, reducing their effective cross fire. This, combined with a good chance of eliminating a proportion of their rear gunners on the first pass, should make a second further attack a far less hairy endeavour.