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402nd FS Combat Report - 13/12 - Air patrol over 's-Hertogenbosch Firstly, apologies for the lateness of this report; you will understand why as you read on. Up to the relatively decent strength of six pilots this time round, the 402nd set off for a patrol over some unpronounceable Dutch city to the North, carrying a pair of 500lb'ers for good luck. Shortly after reaching the patrol area, a gaggle of unidentified aircraft were spotted much lower, but before we had the chance to investigate we received a call for help from the 485th which we dutifully accepted. Steering South West at Angels 14(ish) we soon saw flaming wreckage falling from the sky to our 1 O'clock. Another call to Zenith revealed they had everything under control, so we headed back to where we last spotted the lower unknown gaggle. Sure enough we spotted a formation of four low and uncharacteristically slow Me262s flying in a line heading roughly East, we ditched the bombs and prepared to engage. Despite best efforts to reduce speed from the lofty intercept, it soon became obvious that we were going to overrun them. With the straggling number four aircraft quickly filling my gunsight evasive action was taken but the now unsighted Jerry jet collided with the underside of my aircraft knocking out engine number two and ripping off my horizontal stab in the process. With no chance of recovering the aircraft I hit the silk and watched the rest of the engagement as I drifted to the uninviting snowy frontline below. At this point Capt. Fruitbat who was flying as White One assumed lead and proudly reports that all four Me262s were smacked down, one by himself, one by 2Lt Handley and two by 2Lt Over. Unfortunately, our newest recruit 2Lt Brem Sprow suffered electrical failure and had to return to base early on in the mission and 2Lt Wanderweit suffered a similar fate to myself, also colliding with a 262; though thankfully he was able to recover at Eindhoven and even beat the 410th BG to the mess, much to the chagrin of his hosts for the evening! After getting my bearings I headed South along the hedgerows until I reached the Waal river and a rather conveniently moored rowing boat. Rowing my way to the South shore my luck struck again by attracting the attention of a retreating friendly supply column. After a couple of stops I finally hitched a ride in a Jeep and made it to Eindhoven just in time to see Red Four beat one of those bomber boys to an arm wrestle 7 pints in. So, despite losing one aircraft and damage to two others, with no pilots lost and four of the enemy's new jet fighters destroyed, an arm wrestle won and a mess that wasn't our own completely drunk dry, it was a good day. Well done gents!

Saturday booked. Looking forward to this A LOT

The mission files are attached in a zip file here. DD-Cliffs-Missions.zip As for starting/creating a server, visit the ATAG forums, they have a thread on the subject: How to start & run a Cliffs of Dover Server - Launcher64.exe -server Good luck!

Just created an account to check on the server (2 days offline) to see that it's down indefenitely. It was fun while it lasted ! Thanks for the server guys and thanks for the fun ! PS: If it's ok to ask, could the admin of the DangerDogz CLOD server send me the mission files used on both Channel and Tobruk maps ? My Squadron Leader has a server running DCS/Arma3 and is ok to spare some power to launch a CLOD server. If not, then can someone explain to me (in DM) how to create a misison and host a server and (I did a very simple misison in the Full Mission Builder years ago but forgot everything). I've been playing CLOD since 2012 and I never really created a mission, only played online. Thanks in advance and again thanks for the server !

I'll be on leave the 16th, Sunday. A friend has lined me up with a Swedish gal, Swepina. Can't wait.

For those not on Facebook, they also announced this:

Oops, all three days booked 😁

I think I'm going to book Friday and Saturday, maybe book Sunday at a later date if the tickets are still available. Despite the cost I think this is likely to sell out sharpish *EDIT* Aaaaaand I've booked.