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Now this looks like it's going to be a fun ride. All things considered I'm erring towards Klaus and Petersen because Gripens never get enough love and they're the only company willing to sell us a proper AWACS plane. Hm...name...I got it. We shall be Hired Goons. As for planes, I'd like to request that I be given whatever recon/sensor plane we get under the callsign Tourist.
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Roll with the Indians in Tibet. Ethics aside it's the perfect tutorial mission for our fledgling outfit.
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Davin Valkri posted:Yes, yes yes yes yes yes, it is very much appropriate. Come on man, we're a mercenary group. We should have this music instead. Get your games right  Anyway. As one of the people who might end up going on the bridge destruction mission I'd honestly err towards Davin's suggestion of a mix of Gripens. Honestly their versatility would be the best asset on the mission; they would be able to bomb the bridge itself, fend off any potential hostile air support, and be able to still assist in escort duties if they make it back before the transport missions are done.
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Davin Valkri posted:Also for what it's worth, if you want an extra bit if insurance, we can go with two GBU-12 Paveway Gripens for the bridge, two Iris-T Gripens for close escort, and two Meteor Gripens for airborne QRF CAP. More expensive, but more capable. Worth pointing out that we can always say "don't use the expensive missiles unless you absolutely have to you bloody idiots" if we send out more planes.
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Apr 2, 2017 03:08
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Yooper posted:Unless I see a different proposal I will go with this option and let you guys debate quantity of IRIS-T and Meteors. That might be a better idea, yeah. I know that I for one look at that chart and I go "the gently caress is the difference between an IRIS-T and a Meteor? They both blow planes up, right?" Might be easier to just sort them under "poo poo that kills ground targets," "poo poo that kills air targets," and "everything else." Because at the end of the day, does anything else matter?
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chitoryu12 posted:Hey my SK60 didn't suck! I think Bandit and myself scored the most reliable rocket hits of any in the air on that mission. I'd like to point out those MANPADs that don't exist anymore thanks to my rockets ...but seriously I kind of agree with everyone that we need things that are not unguided rockets.
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Apr 8, 2017 15:49
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Yes to getting the planes. Odds are good that we'll get ones that are of decent quality in every field, and let's be real here any of those planes would be far better than the Sk60s we have right now. If there's even a chance of modern Chinese planes showing up we're going to need as much firepower as we can get.
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Okay, so the Entebbe idea sounds so utterly reckless that it just might actually work somehow. ...Though looking at the facts we might actually have a shot if we wanted to try it. It'd be risky as all hell, and we'd have to hurl every single plane we have at Lhasa...but if it worked we'd have our very own Gen 5 stealth fighter, fresh off the line and practically unkillable. It's a stupid idea, and will probably get a lot of people killed, myself included. So in other words, Entebbe, motherfuckers!
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Apr 11, 2017 03:41
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Just a quick question for Yooper: if we do go for the Entebbe option, what exactly are we obligated to tell our employers about? "Hey, so we're going to steal the Dragons for ourselves instead of killing them, kthx" doesn't seem like the greatest pitch. I mean there are worse pitches, but still.
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Apr 11, 2017 06:11
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Crazycryodude posted:So Google Translate says that intercept is a message to the Lhasa "aviation chief" (airbase/wing commander I assume) RE: "supply problem". The gist I'm getting is that the higher ups are saying that they can't send any more planes and Lhasa will have to make do with what they've got. The J-20's can only be used in case of emergency. poo poo. Y'know, I can't help but wonder if the Chinese are going to pull a Belka. For those of you who don't understand my Ace Combat reference basically the idea is "I won't let you win, I'll nuke myself before that happens!" ...On the plus side given the threat of nukes I think we can justify having this on at full blast during the operation. That's...nice?
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Apr 13, 2017 04:15
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Well balls. Hopefully I'll survive, and if not I'll curse my lovely plane as I eject/explode. Yooper posted:What could go wrong? I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes!
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Apr 14, 2017 01:20
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Crazycryodude posted:Oh come on we're talking about GOONS here. Try to keep things realistic, the only question is how FTFY We did think that Entebbe-ing Lhasa to try and score those J-20s was worth trying after all.
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Apr 15, 2017 02:20
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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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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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Yooper posted:
... Gentlemen. Gentlemen. I've think we've found our newest employer.
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NewMars posted:Employer? I think you mean target of opportunity. Come on man. Look at them. They've got nothing aside from mercs-they would pay through the loving nose for any kind of support. Besides our two groups really aren't that different-both us and the Free State have/are pissing off power blocs far more dangerous than ourselves. Not to mention that these guys seem like they're as stupidly (and I'd like to emphasize stupidly) ambitious as we are. I mean, they probably are assholes that deserve a good kick in the nads, but god drat would we have stories to tell if we rolled with them.
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Added Space posted:Alternate proposal, do a lottery and pick three packages to vote on. This back-and-forth revising is probably good but it's too confusing for something like a popular vote. Given how much the plans have shifted I'd err towards a moratorium on voting for about a day or so; that way all the plans can get hashed out instead of constantly being fired off and confusing the rest of us.
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I'm erring towards A la carte in this situation. It will not kill us to spend some money on proper air defenses, and more importantly it means that we won't have to spend as much money on them later when better planes become available.
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Angola - Count All of my joking aside, he seems like the employer least likely to turn against us and it honestly sounds like an interesting challenge to be his de facto air force.
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power crystals posted:By the way, can we get an update on who's assigned to operate what with all the new hardware? I want it on record that I want to be reassigned to one of the shinier planes. I did my time in an Sk60 and killed a Dragon dammit! I deserve something. Edit: Actually I do kind of like the idea that the rookies get stuck in the Sk60s if we want to make that a thing. It makes sense that we'd haze the newbies by stuffing them into one of those things. "Oh yeah man, this thing totally killed a Mighty Dragon once, you're going to love it."
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Night10194 posted:Man this isn't even a choice. Wing Commander Rohan! Seconded. I would be all sorts of okay with this happening.
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Apr 19, 2017 22:40
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Okay, broad strokes plan that someone will eventually do better than me: MLRS Issues: Sk60s + maybe a Tornado or 2 in case they have AAA moving with them + Gripen air cover. Maybe if we have a few rockets left over we can drop by a nearby radar to say "hi." Convoy: Did someone say Gripens? Cause that's what's going to be happening there. Tanks: I'd err towards the Tornadoes on this one too, maybe bring in the Frogfoots depending on the intel we get.
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Apr 21, 2017 01:59
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Yooper posted:Need to setup opfor missions and write the Rohan Goes Crazy Script. Please tell me that's what you're actually going to call it.
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Davin Valkri posted:Mobile Offshore Bases do exist in CMANO. And frankly "our own floating hypercarrier" sounds much better than the return of the militarist imperialist puppeteers. Honestly I'd much rather have our own floating hypercarrier period. That's infinitely cooler than any other base we could "acquire." Though I agree with my fellow posters that it needs omni-terrain capabilites.
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Not going to lie, we definitely picked the right side, if only to see these amazing tweets and Reddit threads while maintaining a smug sense of moral superiority.
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Bacarruda posted:Gentlemen, Operation First Impressions is a go! Barracuda, I'm going to level with you: you've got a great voice for briefings. This feels like something out of a good war movie.
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Renaissance Spam posted:Wait wait when did I get assigned to a Gripen?! Of course not. You're not in one of the Sk60s, you'll be fine.
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Well looking at the mission I have to ask: Jesus loving Christ how many of the Dictator's planes did we shoot down!? That was practically an entire air wing shot down before they could even get past the border in the west! Also, RIP our two Tornadoes. Your sacrifices were mostly in vain, but we won't tell the investors that.
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Oh, just thought of something that miiiight be important for future missions: Yooper, can we change the location of our planes depending on where the next mission takes place? Because that right flank is getting pretty drat close to an enemy airport and they might need more round-the-clock CAS.
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Renaissance Spam posted:FREE STATE REP: I kept saying they should be flying YF-21s but they kept saying those aren't real. Which is just proof of the conspiracy to hide protoculture technology from the masses, I've detailed it in my 12 part YouTube series- I was far more amused by this bit than I think I should have been.
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Could we at least send out our Reaper w/ Gorgon pods to look at the convoy/surrounding area before we decide what to do about the diamond strike? I certainly understand how risky it is, but we got that UAV for situations like this one. Hell, given how effective the pods are it might be able to do that and recon the Bulgarian division at the same time.
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I feel like all this talk of higher causes and whatnot is a tad counterproductive right now. If nothing else, I really don't give enough of a poo poo about what effects this will have elsewhere given that blowing up that diamond convoy will increase our profits and help the Count. If some rear end in a top hat in Britain has to pay an extra 500 pounds for their diamonds because of what we do here, I really don't care. So: quit whining about it and let's try and figure out how to blow up a truck behind enemy lines.
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...Wow. In light of this new information I would like to profusely apologize for even suggesting in jest that we work for those guys, or that any comparisons could be drawn between us and them. It is now painfully clear to me that my statements caused significant damage to company morale and could have been extremely detrimental to the future of the company as a whole. I realize that my past actions were, to put it bluntly, unbelievably dumb as all hell, and would like to make it clear that I do not stand by them in the slightest.
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The Sandman posted:Name the SK-60s "St. George", "Sigurd", "Susanoo", "Nezha", "Zeus" and "Marduk". Look man, as much as I'd appreciate the theme naming these are still Sk60s. Those are far too dignified names for them, as much as I wish otherwise.
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Yooper posted:Does anyone have an interest in seeing the mission live, on Twitch or YouTube? Not saying I will, but curious. I kind of like the flexibility to do it whenever. I mean if you're okay with it, I'd love to get in on a stream so I can watch myself explode in real time
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Cathode Raymond posted:I shot down like 15 flankers, you should have seen it. I was all, "Not today, Free State scum!" And then I flung a paveway at them and it smashed right into the cockpit of the lead bird and blew up the whole wing. What my friend fails to mention is the other wing of J-20's that I shot down with my rockets. All of them. Without missing. That is exactly how it went down.
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Yooper posted:
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Yooper posted:Next Mission will be to take out the SA-10 and Bulgarians. The penalty is we're doing it for nothing. Success is not having it in theater. Ah, so that's how that's panning out. A pain, but not an unbearable one. Given how many planes we shot down *again* during this mission and the fact that the Sultan's Fist has pulled out I doubt it'll be too bad though.
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Bacarruda posted:Agreed. Honestly though I'm not sure we could have spared the Gripens without some serious problems. There were a lot of enemy planes in the air again and if we didn't have them firing Meteors at anything that was flying pretty much all the time things would have been much worse than getting one mine bombed. Again, hopefully we'll get a drat breather on that front thanks to the events of this mission and be able to focus on pounding that S-300 into oblivion. Maybe the second replacement air admiral will realize that flinging planes at our Meteor-equipped Gripens with AWACS support is a Bad Idea and lay off. They've taken obscene air casualties twice over now, so... Dr. Snark fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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