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BluBear and I also managed to eliminate the "AmmonitionDepot" (sic) to the North of Sochi with some thoroughly enjoyable dumb bombing - though, it must be said, making dive bomb attacks with a fast jet into a fairly narrow valley with very steep slopes on either side provides for a few squeaky bum moments!

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Hi Chaps, After Friar, Squawk, Alexandra and I had a session on Monday night, the fuel depot is now neutralised, and I made some efforts to degrade some of the SHORAD around the 'Insurgent Camp' some 10-20 miles East of objective "Charlie". I have annotated a satellite image to show you what I managed to figure out via my TGP: Be warned: there is still at least one SA-19 Grison/Tunguska on the SE side of the village, plus some HMG armed technicals on the Western side. Recommend at least one aircraft with LGB or Maverick dispatches that Tunguska prior to any ongoing ops over that target. Looking ahead, it will be challenging to operate over objective "Charlie" whilst the SA-10 near Sukumi (objective "Delta") is still up. To take that bastard down is going to require a saturation attack with multiple F-16 and/or F/A-18 launching HARMS from multiple attack axes. It's gonna require coordination.

In essence it's a great idea... The trouble is with DCS's one great failing - you cannot occupy an AI slot in multiplayer, only a dedicated client. This restricts the abilty to drop into a well balanced scenario and take the place of an AI - you end up augmenting an AI force and sghifting the scales of the scenario. And with so many people wanting - or only able - to fly a single platform, each mission has to cater for a wide range of capabilities; some mission sets might only be realistically achievable with 4th gen platforms if there's only 2 or 3 of you on. Try the same in a 3rd gen airframe and you might find yourselves repeatedly shot down, unless there's more of you to saturate the defences. It's a bit of a knotty problem that a well designed sandbox mission should get around by providing a range of targets of varying intensity of defence - there's a bit of something for everyone. Plus, if you want to do some coordinated action then usually there's some more heavily defended areas that do require a coordinated effort to attack - it's just that no-one seems to take the bull by the horns and actually suggest it! However, I'd be up for some DangerDogz on tour adventures imnto some other servers to see what they're like...

Hi Colin, My Mondays of late have been shanghai'd by training planning or ad-hoc training sessions with my F-14 squadron. That should abate as we get closer to the summer. Frankly, Mondays have really only ever been you, myself and Fruitbat, with an occasional appearance from others. It is one of the reasons I have pushed for DCS flyers to have a different evening available to attempt to make DCS more accessible to a wider audience within the DangerDogz. I say keep it for now.

I did mean to start something Colim, even have the basis of a couple of missions already made:

That's one big a$$ map!

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@BluBear @fruitbat @Friar @Perfesser @wingflyr @DD_Sheriff @Zukker Don't forget chaps, Event briefing will be in the dedicated "DCS Event: RAMROD 564" Discord channel server, NOT the Dangerdogz discord. If you're not already a member, here's an invite: https://discord.gg/Gysg8qbR

@BluBear @fruitbat @wingflyr @Zukker @DD_Sheriff @Perfesser Provisional Order of Battle For Event 23/02/2025 If you do not see your name listed and wish to participate, please let me know as soon as possible and with what your preferred airframe would be. We have the following slots available: Mosquito bomber - Pilot x6, Navigator x18 Mosquito Photo Recce (unarmed) - Pilot x1, Navigator x1 Mustang MkIV - Pilot x10

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