26.1.2002
Red Flight:
GA
Easykill
Spinsq (guest)
Serge1 (guest)
Blue Flight:
Bozon
Iceydee
Rompa
Clouds (guest)
Green Flight:
Selector
Duvel
maneTMP
FW-190A8
Mission 1:
Take-off from A17, drop ordenance, and patroll over the english channel.
Mission 2:
Rearm and jabo A40.
We started the mission with a brillient series of fiascoes.
As we were sitting on the runway, and the order to roll was given,
some joker fired a rocket while we were still a tight pack on the runway - killing
the entire viking squad...
Rolling with laughter, we respawn and manage to get off the ground, the again
everybody start to drop their bombs and fire rockets in all directions... I
carelessly release my bomb not noticing Icey that is flying right below me...
So my formation stayed a bit behind to pick him up as he re-upped.
Vikings taking off after the unfortunate incidence...
At last all vikings are airborne and intact and we head for our
patroll area.
One minute after "feet wet" red formation spots high dots over the
channel to the NW. those can't be ours... Indeed they turn out to be spits and
red and green formations are forced to defend 4 spits that BnZ them. Still a
bit behind due to my "droppings" over Icey's head, I order my formation
to flank the furball from S and climb over the spits. As we do that I yell over
RW to the others, that if in trouble dive south so the drag the spits below
us - but I don't think I was heard over the comotion.
Trying to out flank the spits
Situation is getting critical in the furball and I turn blue flight in. We face the spits co-alt and manage to suprise them. I position myself behind one of the spits that tries to dive out of the battle. A chase beginns where I find the A8 is not that much faster than the spit. I manage to land a ping on him from d800 but he pulls away till d1.2 before I start to catch up again. I follow him to the deck leaving the fight behind. ManeTMP also tries to chase the spit but I blow by him, doing over 500mph, riding the edge of compression.
Anyone hear a super-sonic boom?
Meantime, on the main furball thing are getting worse. Serge1 is hit and diving out of the fight smoking, and another pair of high spits arrive. Clouds who came over the fight with my formation pulls up to meet the new spits on a vertical HO. No results for either side, the spit pair pull high and to the right, and Clouds is doing the right thing - lower nose and tries to make them follow for a high speed fight. They dive in and this enables Easykill to join 2vs2.
Clouds and Easykill 2vs2 with spits
This turns out to be quite a nice fight where finaly Clouds manage to pull his nose in front of a spit as it is diving down and blow off the tip of its wing. The spit continues the long dive down, can't pull out and finally bail at low alt.
Nice deflection shot Clouds
Then Clouds spots 2 lower spits engaged in a fight with lower vikings. Diving down he manages to manuver into a firing position and hit one of the spits, that starts smoking white. Unfortunatly, two higher spits managed to sneak behind for a sandwich and blow half of his wing right after he hits their pal. For a short while it seems like he could make it back home, but the spits spot him and finish the job.
Clouds smokes a second spit but gets into a sandwich
While this is taking place, I continue my fight with the spit. I close the distance and we get into a scissoring fight.
From the Spits point-of-view... looks bad
I keep speed up and pull high every time he almost gets the overshoot. Icey my trusty wingman arrives and makes a pass but misses. Finally the spits makes the mistake and pull a little too high. I roll fast and gets a perfect snapshot, spit moving straight through my gun sight - those 4*20mm do not fail and he goes down minus a wing.
Right through the gunsight
I regroup my formation (Icey and Rompa) and we climb over the coast to re-enter the fight. Duvel has lost all of his formation and joins us. Meanwhile we hear on the radio that the other Vikings are down and we are the only ones left.
The furball is over but we manage to spot a pair of low tiffies. They imidiatly turn tail and run back to England. We try to chase but they are too fast even with our alt advantage, however they run into a formation of the 56th squadron comming back from the north and shot down. More high dots appear from the N so we turn back to our teritory and land at A20 for refuel-rearm.
Vikings rearmed coordinating next mission
Here GA does a wonderfull job as axis CO and connects us with two surviving members of the 56th (rerming at a near base) to go jabo A40. 4 of the AK's land at 20 as well and GA assians the as our escort. Duvel had some trouble with his peddals and we lost him in takeoff
Duvel drifts and hits BH
I group with them all and lead us to A40 bypassing the english port.
AK's at top cover
We arrive at A40 unspotted and trash the place, loosing one of the 56th to acks in the proccess. Did not have enough ord to kill the BH there though.
Lets trash the place!!! fun fun fun
Just as we finish our vandalist acts, the AK's report multiple contacts and we regroup and flee south.
Crossing back the french coast, GA reports A17 being attacked. We are low on fuel but decide to fight till the last drop and hopfully land there. As we arrive at the scene, we find a bunch of 7 tiffies having a party. Yelling (typing) a battlecry we (me rompa and solas from the 56th) dive in to crash it.
The tiffie party we enjoyed crashing
Once they spotted us circling above the tiffies form and run. I dive in with rompa and solas close behind. Closing on the 1st tiffie he breaks hard to the right and low. I leave him to solas and continue to stop some of the others. It worked and 4 of them are now in a fight with us 3.
Solas hits the 1st tiffie I passed and left behind but it is still flying. Pulling out of an unsuccessful shot at one of the bandits I find a spit d700 on my 6 and tracers from Solas' smoking tiffie passing over my head... Lucky I was fast enough. I break into the smoking one and both him and the spit overshoot me. Looking back at my 6 I see the spit back in place but out of gun range and Rompa and one of the typhoons blast each other HO.
Rompa and typhoon cancel each other out
I pull high, roll in the vertical and flip over. The spit is pulling up to meet me, but I notice, he will not make the HO. I put my trust in my 4*20mm and a few angles advantage and pull for a snapshot. Lots of flashes over the spits body and he shoots up by me like a fire-cracker about for about 2k higher, then explodes.
Spit hit and going like a fire-cracker
The other typhoons shot down Solas and fled, so I return to A17 alone with fuel critical. GA reports 2 more low spits over A17 and I spot them. I try to take them but one drops low and the other tries to build seperation to get me. I miss the shot on the low one, blasts through the higher and extends. They give a short chase and break away, probably low on fuel as well.
So many spits, so little fuel...
I land at the burning A17 last viking survivour.
<S> vikings, sorry it was a short frame for most of us.
Bozon