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Okay, I am loving ecstatic at how Operation Strict Parenting turned out. Partly because I didn't die, but mostly because everyone kicked some serious loving rear end  Also having the privilege(?) of firing the last rounds in the mission was pretty nice.Honestly though, the "fight" between the Indian Air Force and the J-20's was a fantastic opener to the mission; seeing those 30-something planes get swatted out of the sky helped set the mood perfectly. Drinks all around before we get the hell out of dodge!
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Excellent work, guys! We more than earned our pay today. The Indians had their pound of flesh too! Hopefully Jack will show up again soon, too... and hopefully not behind bars. PS: Paint "Dragon Slayers" on the side of our SK60s and/or whatever we replace them with. Clowning J-20s (even on the ground) in lovely light strike aircraft is worth commemorating.
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The SK60s have done surprisingly well, despite their near constant criticism and demands that we sell them off before they even get into a mission. The amount of damage they dealt this time around is pretty good proof to me that (when used in the correct environment against the correct targets) they can be a seriously powerful force. We just can't do something like have them spray rockets at heavy armor in firing pits or try to dogfight.
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Let Jack know that if he ever needs help resolving his legal troubles in Atlanta, I'm the man to immediately advise him to take the first deal the prosecutor offers him
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chitoryu12 posted:The SK60s have done surprisingly well, despite their near constant criticism and demands that we sell them off before they even get into a mission. The amount of damage they dealt this time around is pretty good proof to me that (when used in the correct environment against the correct targets) they can be a seriously powerful force. We just can't do something like have them spray rockets at heavy armor in firing pits or try to dogfight. In nearly every test I did the SK60B's were slaughtered. From my earlier testing we had about a 2 minute gap to hammer the runway before the Chinese J-16's got up. It was really close.
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Guys I'd like to go on record as saying "5th Generation jets are loving nasty." I wasn't expecting Rafales to get devoured like that, Christ 
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 Mission #2 is up on the Steam Workshop http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=906086489
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I propose our next mission involve Venezuelan warlords in some way. Mainly so that we can base ourselves somewhere in the Caribbean.
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I second this, if only to give us a launch pad for taking over a small Caribbean island to make our own.
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Taking over a carribbean outpost might make the US somewhat angry. Monroe doctrine and all. Might I suggest a small, out of the way country with weak government and strong tropical beverages?
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Are the CIA and DEA gonna take nicely to us meddling in their playground? Regardless, if we're gonna take over/cut a deal with some small nation I propose somewhere in the Lesser Antilles. Aruba, maybe? Looks pretty well positioned, has a name people recognize to put on our business cards, and most importantly has a very well developed service industry. E: poo poo, we could branch out into the tourism sector ourselves. Why sell off the SK-60's when you can start your own "fly a fighter jet" business? I'm 100% sure there's a market of rich middle-aged Americans who would pay hefty amounts to backseat a jet and push the button that fires some rockets into a stretch of desert or whatever. Hell, get some ground vehicles and make it a full military experience! There're already companies that let you drive a tank that do pretty well for themselves, I bet one located in a tropical paradise full of tourists already spending lots of money would do even better. Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 15, 2017 |
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Apr 15, 2017 19:46
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We can get back into the CIA s good graces by capturing and returning Dr Pavel.
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Apr 15, 2017 19:55
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We should hire Jack the ghost of Johnny Cochran to defend him.
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Really enjoying the LP so far; I love the effort you've made to make the world feel alive (if, you know, insane). If you're still willing to take on
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And our last one! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=906189557 There's a lot going on script wise here so please let me know if something doesn't work. I had it partially hacked together for our mission but the scripting in place now works much better. Edit : I'll start on our procurement options now. Goons love procurement. I think you guys like buying planes more than you like flying them.
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Soup Inspector posted:PS: Paint "Dragon Slayers" on the side of our SK60s and/or whatever we replace them with. Clowning J-20s (even on the ground) in lovely light strike aircraft is worth commemorating. You mean "Dargon Slaiyurs", right?
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Zaodai posted:We should hire Jack the ghost of Johnny Cochran to defend him. Jack is merely moving through different stages of his Evil Lobbyist lifecycle. His upcoming prison time is a natural part of this cycle, and we should not interfere.
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Yooper posted:Edit : I'll start on our procurement options now. Goons love procurement. I think you guys like buying planes more than you like flying them. Of course we do. If your options were schmoozing with Turkish military officials and arms suppliers in the most exclusive and expensive gentlemen's clubs in Istanbul or strapping yourself into a 50 year old Soviet ground attacker to take on
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WORKED OUT FOR ME Didn't get to ride a Phantom II, which worked out fine sinceI got to ride the armored deathcoffin. Next up: supporting Venesuelan rebels with an uparmored Hoplite.
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Not flying planes, not buying planes, we love arguing about planes.
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If we ever get an A-10 I want to transfer to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e4T6qCNTUc (I vaguely remember my callsign being the same as the protagonist of this game but I forgot where I heard it as they seem to do the HAWX thing of using the protagonist 's real name instead  )
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Pfff... Hahahahaha! That's amazing! All of those plane losses, except for three J-20s, are ground kills! I don't think we dropped any LGBs or Mavericks on the tarmac, which means they were killed by either the Su-25s doing their gun runs ( ) or by the SK 60Bs' rockets!I don't want to sell these SK 60s! They're beautiful! We can paint them black and put "Dragon Slayers" on them! But, no, really. The SK 60s may only be useful against soft and unarmored targets (like planes out in the open!  ), but if the opportunity for light CAS opens up again, it lets us save the better airframes for other uses. We can also still use them for their original purpose -- training pilots -- or we can stick an investor in the copilot seat and give them a demonstration flight."By utilizing operational environment shaping strategies and modern battlefield synergies, we have the capability to enable lightweight and efficient air warriors like the SK 60B to punch well above its weight class and find an effective role in modern combat environments even against fifth generation aircraft. This very plane you're sitting in has two confirmed kills against the J-20 Mighty Dragon, China's most modern advanced stealth superfighter." If we sell them all we'll only get enough money for a single Meteor, which is basically a rounding error in the huge payday we just got. Unless our airbases start getting too crowded, or if it turns out hiring enough groundcrew to service them starts getting really expensive, we lose nothing by holding onto them.
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Psawhn posted:Pfff... Hahahahaha! That's amazing! I kinda have to agree with this. I don't think we'll ever be in a situation where we're strapped for parking spaces, so it isn't like we lose anything by keeping the SK 60Bs in the back pocket. Also I like the investor quote 
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Yeah I've come around to not bothering selling the SK60s since we're not preemptively buying ammo now (this is much better!). They may not be the best choice but they're great for "let's throw in the kitchen sink" and sometimes they'll even kill things. And I see my ravings about SAMs have been vindicated 
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Remember that the SK-60s have one shot total. Virtually any other plane with a strike load out will be able to throw shots at multiple targets, and have more versatility. While they are certainly cheap, remember we ultimately are relying on good planning to carry things, and the more mostly worthless planes in a plan the more likely something screws up along the way.
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Admittedly I'm speaking out of at least partial self-interest here, but it also doesn't feel particularly fair for some of us to be basically flying around in the line of fire being wholly reliant on things going off without a hitch whilst almost everyone else gets to have more than a hope and a prayer of surviving if we actually get shot at.
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The SK-60s can be used for light-weight COIN and new pilot duties until they're used up. Looks like the B models can use two types of rockets and gun pods, the latter would at least give multiple passes but would only be useful against infantry, soft skinned vehicles and, apparently, stealth aircraft on tarmac.  Speaking of new pilots, put down Coffee to join the reserve list.
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Hell with it, I want to contribute something to this thread, so here's a little something that came to mind: Hired Goons Records: Tourist - Operation Dalai Lai'm A Gonna Kick Your rear end Testimonies Is this thing on? Testing, testing, gently caress Sk60s. Okay we're good. So apparently the brass want someone to provide "testimonials" from "people at the ground level" for "marketing purposes" or whatever the gently caress they're on about. Long and the short of it is that they want me to say poo poo about the Hired Goons. They never did say whether it had to be positive poo poo though. Okay, so I get wind of this new outfit starting up and I decide "gently caress it, might as well join up for decent pay." So I apply for a recon plane, bureaucracy happened, and I was hired on as a pilot. I'll never forget the day I walked in, enthusiastic, smiling, and confident before I saw the piece of poo poo that is the Sk60. I took it out for a test flight, then I came back to the engineers and asked them where the gently caress my radar was. The fuckers told me that God gave me eyeballs for a reason. I asked them where the gently caress the recon planes were and they just laughed at me, the bastards. Anyway, as a result of being assigned to this piece of poo poo I didn't end up going on the first official sortie; apparently the Gripens shot down a few lovely Chinese planes that were attacking humanitarian transports. That's about it. Real exciting I know. gently caress it, ending this now and going to bed. --------- Me again. Turns out the brass want this to be a recurring thing. Fuuuuck... Okay, so this time around I got to see some action at least. The deal was is that the Chinese had had enough of our and India's poo poo and decided to try and step up their presence in the region by bringing in reinforcements through Myanmar. At the same time, the Indians wanted us to bomb the poo poo out of a mixture of Chinese and TLA forces that would flatten their "volunteer army" in the area given the chance. Since we got intel that the Chinese didn't want a repeat of last time and didn't want to send up any planes of their own in Tibet, the brass decided that half of the Gripens alongside all of the Sk60s would run CAS, while the rest of the Gripens dealt with the incoming shipments. On my end it went great, I rocketed the poo poo out of some MANPADs and definitely earned my keep, and in general the Chinese and TLA forces were pretty badly hut. On the ship front...well...the hotshits down there got carried away and also sunk a loving Chinese frigate in the area. Then after that happened one of our Gripens got shot down by a loving Fishbed, though the rest kept their poo poo together...aaaaaand then the Burmese shot down a 747. Because why not. So poo poo's escalated even more in the area...so much so that we've gotten intel indicating that the Chinese are even more sick of our poo poo and are bringing in motherfucking J-20s. Fun times. Gah, just going to end it now... ---------- Hey. Probably gonna die soon so might as well make this count. We confirmed that the Chinese are in fact whipping out the J-20s. In response, the Indians have come up with a plan to sacrifice an air wing to the Dragons, giving us a distraction to bomb the hell out of Lhasa. Odds of me surviving are...well...slim. Funny, we actually debated trying to just capture the J-20s outright, but logistical concerns kept us from doing it. So that's a thing. Oh yeah, we also funded some mercs on the ground that might be able to knock out the Lhasa radar before we show up. I'm not exactly confident, especially given that the loving idiots hired on some Kurt Russel impersonator as their CO. Well...if I die, hopefully I can say it took a Dragon to kill me. ----------- Weren't expecting to hear from me again, eh fuckers? Honestly neither was I but it's a mad world we live in. Those crazy bastards on the ground actually managed to knock out the Lhasa radar, meaning that the Chinese only realized we were coming when there were bombs and missiles screaming towards their positions. No joke, we rained down hell on that airbase; the guys in the Frogfoots managed to knock out the runways and kept any Chinese planes from taking off, letting the rest of us shoot poo poo up at our leisure. I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when they saw their top-of-the-line J-20s eat several rockets from our lovely Sk60s. Hell, the rest of the boys are already calling us and the Frogfoot pilots "The Dragon Slayers." Bad news is that the Chinese are pissed for some reason, so we're heading out to some other front once the brass figures out where the most money is. So...stay tuned. Hopefully they'll get me a halfway decent plane, even if I've started to like the piece of poo poo that is the Sk60. Tourist, out.
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NewMars posted:Can we get ourselves a news clip? Or will that be after procurement? It's incoming, waiting on some dude on Fiverr. Dr. Snark posted:Tourist, out. You're promoted to the Hired Goons Journal Keeper. In 50 years historians will study this...
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 Now that Tibet is behind us it's time to get into the procurement phase. Per popular request I'm going to allow you guys to put in proposals. Once we've got those in hand I'll draw up a fancy post and we'll vote. Seeing as our suppliers like loyalty, and dislike the competition, they'll give better deals if you do one-stop shopping. For example if you buy SU-25's from the Ivanovs and then MQ-9 Drones from BFLM, the price goes up by 20% on the minority supplier. If you added some additional item from K&P it'd go up by 40%. You get the idea. You can still shop around, but it'll cost us. So lets get to procurement! (If the proposal phase goes to poo poo I'll go back to A,B, or C) Speaking of cost, the Investors took a cut. 10% of current cash holdings. Current budget is : $534,012,376.00 Format is : Item - Cost - Qty Available - Baloogan Link  pre:F16C $70,000,000.00 10 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3832 RF-4C $12,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1489 C130E $7,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1723 Super Tucano $14,000,000.00 8 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2254 KC-135 $39,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=808 P-3C $64,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2813 AH-64A $30,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1604 M163VADS $3,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=648 MIM-23 Hawk $20,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=669 RF-4E $12,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2863 EA-6B $52,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2274 MQ-9 Reaper $27,500,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=4498  pre:SU27M2 Flanker G $70,000,000.00 8 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=847 Mig 29K $21,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1049 Mig 27 Flogger $20,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2584 Mig 21s $2,500,000.00 8 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3040 SU 24 Fencer B $24,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=600 IL78 $24,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2686 IL76 $18,000,000.00 1 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2684 SU-30 $72,500,000.00 6 http://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3820 MI-24 HIND D $17,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2373 SU-25SM FrogFoot $17,000,000 6 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2371 ZSU-23-4 $4,000,000.00 6 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=1001374 SA-22 $18,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=1934 MIG-25R $30,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2434 ANKA-A $8,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=4380  pre:JAS 39C Gripen $70,000,000.00 8 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3697 Super Etendard M $11,000,000.00 12 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2850 Tornado's $30,000,000.00 16 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2699 Mirage F1C $35,000,000.00 6 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=1285 F-4E Greek $15,000,000 6 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2122 Mirage 2000H (India) $35,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=23 Tornado ECR - Italy $100,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3806 ATR 42 $40,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=2597 SIDAM $5,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=304 ASRAD $10,000,000.00 4 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataFacility?ID=1199 MQ-9 Reaper $32,000,000.00 2 https://wiki.baloogancampaign.com/index.php/DataAircraft?ID=3203  We have a new supplier too! Recently out of prison is Wacky Willie. Willie made an honest living selling mattresses and "goods" that fell out of the back of the truck. Now he's in the, erm, acquisitions business. Do we need a 1958 F-105 Thunderchief? Wacky Willie will find it. Speaking of finding things, we have two possible deployment zones. Both are long term, these aren't high profile ops like Tibet. It's likely we're going to linger in either area until we've milked it dry. Or occupied the place, whatever.  You all know what to expect out of the Bering Sea op, but it's gotten hotter and tighter. That Carrier Group moved out now that the Alaskan Pipeline V2.0 is up and running. Angola is a whole world of hurt. Three players. A new source of deep mine lithium, and the usual compassion that goes with Africa. More to come later.
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Yooper, it's been said a bunch of times already, but I also want to say how much I'm enjoying this LP. I can't wait for our next contract! edit: Angola! Let's get as far away from China as we can. Dong Quixote fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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Dong Quixote posted:Yooper, it's been said a bunch of times already, but I also want to say how much I'm enjoying this LP. I can't wait for our next contract! Glad to hear it Dong! It's been a ton of fun to roll with all this poo poo. I don't know where it's going to go, but we'll have a blast getting there. I'm basically one paragraph ahead of you guys in a Choose Your Own adventure book.
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Voting for Bearing Sea, let's make this season of Deadliest Catch even more exciting for those crab fishers.
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We've pissed off a major world player. Let's get into the middle of nowhere while the heat dies down. Angola
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If anyone wants to see how exactly the Lhasa Radar station went down, look no further! You all can thank me later, as Commander Yooper no doubt told you how important that radar actually was. Send a box of cigars by mail. Mission 1: Operation Circuit Breaker Part 1
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