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Salute, Well, what a night. A great turnout, so a big thank you to everyone that made the effort to attend and/or made changes to their schedule or call in favors with their partners to take part. It was much appreciated and I hope you all found it worth the effort! My objective for the final mission was to take Cambrai. I knew we were going to have issues with the bridges to get into the town and was hoping for a good turnout of pilots to give us a chance. Well you chaps certainly played your part in making it possible for us (well me, actually) to get over the bridge once it had repaired, Wingflyer was with me but they took it out again before he could cross. I don't think they knew I had made it and so was able to take the flag in Cambrai unopposed. That was the launch pad for us then to start rolling up their other towns. The tankers then played their part fighting and winning key engagements to both enable the advance and protecting the ground we had made. In the air above our pilots were certainly keeping the enemy on their toes scoring multiple victories. By the end of the evening we had not only taken Cambrai but also Iwuy, Noyelles and Esnes. If the campaign was to go on we were well on the way to rolling into the home HQ's. We ended up with 22 of the available 33 locations. I can not single anyone out last night for praise as everyone played their part, in the tanks, Mossie, Sid, Crash, Wingflyer, FT, Zukker and Ben, in the air, Fenrir, Beagle, Painless, Blubear, Delta7 (ably assisted by Soapy flying his first mission with the Dogz as a rear gunner), Funflack and Perfesser. I hope everyone that played in every mission or was just able to take part in the odd one found this concept of having the planes and tanks work together and pitting our skills against another squad (a task which I think we rose to admirably) challenging and exciting in equal measures, I know I certainly had a few "squeaky bum" moments! Mission building wise, I have learned a lot from this campaign, design features I will look to take on to other campaigns and improve. "North Africa" (using Off_Winters Kuban mod) is well on the way and I will be releasing a map for testing soon. Again, I thank all of you that took part and for making the many, many hours I have put into it all worth while.

Thanks for all your hard work Colin, great to see such a large dogz pound turnout.

Now that's a big bulge