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Gums
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:05 pm |
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Joined: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:00 pm Posts: 672 Location: Florida
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Salute!
Thank you, Wilz.
At the time we are re-enacting the battle, the main LW goal was defending the homeland and maybe attacking the advancing gound units.
That being said, ya gotta give the LW buff squad a carrot, so Knights can get "points" have fun, but not really keep Patton, et al, from advancing to Berlin. Of course, by taking out some of our forward bases, they limit our capability, so I'll give them credit for that. Love those guys.
One thing seems sure. We gotta defend our bases.
Second things is to find their JU drones, but their routes are way back because we destroyed so many of their bases in first three frames.
Gums opines....
"God in your guts, good men at your back, wings that stay on - and Tally Ho!"
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Darryl
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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:52 pm |
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Joined: Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:04 am Posts: 417
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I gotta tell ya, I have never flown in an S3 where folks didn't talk about how to be victorious over the other side. Even the series rules talk about "victory." See below rules:
17. Victory Points - victory points are awarded for confirmed kills of e/a, airfields closed, bridge spans destroyed, port cranes destroyed, AI ships sunk and AI a/c destroyed. A full list is provided in the map PDF and summary.
18. Victory Conditions - The side with the most VPs at the end of the series wins.
There was a time when JABO created a red box and told the bombers to hit only the targets inside the box. That was probably the only time that I can remember that forced the fight into a small area. WE HATED IT! And, probably suggest that we never do that again.
In this series, the targets that were given to the bomber group have been all over the place. None of them, however close they may have been, were easy to get to. The first two frames, the bombers were under some pretty heavy attack. The third frame was a bit lighter. The fourth frame even lighter. It's easy to figure out why. Several of you have already mentioned it. They were behind with no hope of victory, so they changed their strategy. In frame three, the planners surmised that they would become desperate and focus on hitting behind our front line. They did. But, we were prepared for them and had many fighters scattered all around to engage them. They tried, but still fell short and our lead was expanded to 134 points.
WILZ was correct. They can't win by killing bombers. So, just like during the real war, the German leadership was getting desperate to stop the advancing forces. The only way they can "stop" us (a.k.a. beat us) is to surpass us in points. I think this is VERY realistic. It may not be playing out just like it did so long ago, but it is having the same effect on them that it did back then.
Whether we like it or not, they are going to do the same thing in frame 5 hoping to pick up another 152 points for victory. So, what are we going to do about it? Here are three suggestions:
1. Defend our assets with every fighter we have at our disposal (23rd, 4th, and 352nd). That bunch of fighters will prevent them from getting through. By the time that they are finished, they won't have two handfuls of fighters left to fly. 2. Get our bombers up and rolling into Germany from the North with limited air support (2-steps of 352nd). They will throw the Jg77 at us again. If I can muster enough pilots, we'll fill out our step of fighters to assist. The goal will be to destroy as many remaining fields as possible. This will be determined by how many bombers/bombs we can pull together. (Possible: L74, L89, L91, L93, and L92) 3. Roll the Night Stalkers to hit shipping (3 points each) in the North Sea. They can quickly take down 8-10 of them then prepare to help clean up anything standing at any fields the bombers may not close. This squad has been responsible for huge victory points and they'll do it again. The Ju52s are not going to be easy to get to and their points are lower.
I'm sure that we'll finish out the series on top because that was what really happened. Allies win!
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