Originally Posted by Hydrae

I will admit that after waiting for the last couple of days, my blood got pumping a little bit just reading about our run. This is some great fun and will only get better. Huge props to Rainman for all of this! :thumb: :toast:

Originally Posted by Phobia

Do you think we should wait 3 days just to be sure?

Originally Posted by Rain Man

That's what I love about this game. For this type of mission-based stuff, it's better to see things happen slowly on paper than to have it all happen real time like a video game. A lot of times while I was creating the missions, I'd be really stoked, rooting for a beat-up plane to make it back while I was watching it happen.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Note: Any people who died or were sent home can be reincarnated by requesting it. We can use replacement crew members.


We already have kcnut and slayer signed up for reincarnation.

Originally Posted by raiderhader

That would be because he was flying my side of the plane towards the flak. I'm telling you he was conspiring to take me out and make it look like a casualty of war......

Originally Posted by raiderhader

I will haunt your murderous ass Frazee, mark my words.

Originally Posted by raiderhader

Only if Tim is running the underworld........

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Plane #15 – Sack Time

Me scores 2 hits
-kcmizzou hit, serious wound to back of head




Aftereffects

Despite the serious wound, kcmizzou recovers well and can keep flying.

Eligible for next mission

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

Well, at least they didn't hit anything important.

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Plane #15 – Sack Time

Pilot Special Ed
Copilot KcMizzou
Bombardier Bearcat
Navigator alanm
Engineer gh4chiefs
Radio Op. mcan
Tail Gunner seclark
Ball Turret Gunner Luzap
Right Waist Gunner redhed
Left Waist Gunner ChiefGator


Target: the fighter base at Cherbourg
Mid-formation horizontally, high vertically (moderate vulnerability)

Will Bearcat’s mom get a second telegram?

Zone 1 Out: Britain
No enemy

Zone 2 Out: English Channel

4 Me109s attack – 1 is driven away by fighters

Gh4chiefs fires, misses
Alanm fires, misses
Bearcat fires, misses

1 Me misses, breaks off attack

Me scores 2 hits
-kcmizzou hit, serious wound to back of head
-superficial damage to waist

Me scores 2 hits
-radio room hit – Intercom system knocked out
-superficial damage to port wing

2 Mes circle and attack again. Without the intercom system, the gunners can’t communicate, which makes it impossible to coordinate fire and notify each other of incoming fighters. It is a major handicap.

Bearcat fires, misses
Gh4chiefs fires, misses

1 Me misses, breaks off attack

Me scores two hits
-superficial damage to nose
-superficial damage to nose

Me circles and attacks again

Gh4chiefs fires, misses

Me scores 2 hits, once again aiming into the nose of the aircraft
-Bearcat is hit, light wound to right foot
-alanm is hit, light wound to right hand
-superficial damage to port wing

Me breaks off attack and leaves

Special Ed weighs the situation. He can abort the mission with his copilot severely wounded and the intercom out. However, with lots of fighters in the area, dropping out of formation with no intercom could be very dangerous. Without the intercom, he does not know immediately that his navigator and bombardier are also wounded, so he opts to stay in formation and complete the bombing run to maintain the protection afforded by the other B-17s.

Zone 3 Out: France (Entering Target Zone)

1 FW190 attacks

Mcan fires, misses

FW scores one hit
-superficial damage to tail

FW circles and attacks again

Redhed fires, misses

FW misses and breaks off attack


Entering Bomb Zone
Good Weather
No Flak!
Distracted by his bleeding foot, Bearcat misses the bomb mark – 0% score

Zone 3 Back: France (Leaving Target Zone)

5 FW 190s attack – 3 are driven off by fighters

Alanm fires, misses
Gh4chiefs fires, misses

Both FWs miss and break off attack

5 FW 190s attack – 3 are driven off by fighters

Bearcat fires, misses
Seclark fires, misses

Both FWs miss and break off attack

Zone 2: English Channel

No enemy

Zone 1: England

Good weather
Good landing

Aftereffects

Despite the serious wound, kcmizzou recovers well and can keep flying.

Eligible for next mission

Pilot Special Ed
Copilot KcMizzou
Bombardier Bearcat
Navigator alanm
Engineer gh4chiefs
Radio Op. mcan
Tail Gunner seclark
Ball Turret Gunner Luzap
Right Waist Gunner redhed
Left Waist Gunner ChiefGator

All’s well that ends well.

Originally Posted by tk13

Reminds me of the movie "Bad Taste", one of Peter Jackson's earlier B-type movies. What a horribly grossed out movie, but I'll just say there's one character who spends the whole movie with the back of his head about to flip out and he keeps having to hold it together to keep his brains from falling out.... yeah...

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Note: Any people who died or were sent home can be reincarnated by requesting it. We can use replacement crew members.

We already have kcnut and slayer signed up for reincarnation.

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

If alamn hadn't been carressing Bearcats bunions, he wouldn't have been wounded.