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The following is an excerpt from the diary of Ford 2-2, Inches Today is my first combat flight, finally get to stick it to the PLA! I'm so nervous, but it's an honor to finally get the chance to tell the PRC that the Americas will not roll over! Wish me luck! I don't have the words for what happened today, it was like we flew through some reality distortion. I don't know even how we got back to the ship, if even we had ever left. I should start at the beginning. The sortie started fine, with Ford 1 starting up their airframes to clear the deck for us, but then things got weird. I was late to the hangar, they had already raised my A-4E to the flight deck and towed it to the catapult. I was so nervous, starting up on the cat with the rest of my wing waiting for me to clear the area, I forgot to close my canopy for launch! I'm so embarrassed, and it was so loud for the whole flight! Luckily, my radio in my helmet closed over my ears so I didn't have too much trouble hearing my flight lead's orders. I also didn't waste time on deck setting up my nav computer, but it wouldn't have mattered much since we were orbiting Mother for so long waiting for the rest of the It was truly a thing a beauty, so many beautiful aircraft all flying together. I need to work on my formation flying. Once we got the word to commence the attack, we flew over Mt. Conico, and I swear we fell into some hole in reality. I flew past the rest of my squadron like they were hanging in the air. They were, too! Motionless, I couldn't believe it! Then, about 10km over the water, I blacked out! I must have dreamed the whole thing, nothing made any sense, but it all felt so real! I've been worried about talking to the rest of Ford, I'll just call it nerves. Oh well. We'll show those Chinese bastards what we're made of next time. -Inches
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Glad to hear mission is a go, this time! I just feel a little sorry for them Chinese Botes and shootymen, got a week's reprieve and false hope of not getting shot at for a while. Fly safe, all, I look forward to seeing the BDA and AARs since I can't fly this time. O7
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Vahakyla posted:AND ANOTHER! Miraculously, my potato laptop can actually run this. If there have been no other takers, is there anything I need for C:MO beyond the base game to take up this mantle?
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 The following is an excerpt from the S Tupi Change of Command Ceremony official transcript, 16 February 2010: Capitão de Fragata Maurício Conceição Sá posted:Thank you all, gentlemen, it is both an Honor and a Privilege to be standing here, today. Though I am sure you are sad to see my good friend Rodrigo step down from his command, and believe me I'm pretty nervous to try to fill those shoes. Have you seen those things? Anyway, Rodrigo may be leaving us, but I count myself lucky to be selected to take his place in order to allow his transfer to bigger and better, and certainly sunnier, things. quote:CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//
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Vahakyla posted:SONAR CONTACT! Capitão de Fragata Maurício Conceição Sá posted:CLASSIFICATION: SECRET//  What went well: For my first mission (not counting the tutorials), it was quite good! I actually spent some time paused thinking of the best course (hah!) of action, and it mostly seemed to work out! What went not so well: I was a bit generous with time compression, I didn't catch the HAN detection until the torpedoes were out, and I mistook the classification symbol initially for a helo, and was super confused to see two torpedoes going for it. I also could have picked better courses to open range to contacts I knew about before coming back up to PD to truly mitigate the possibility of detection. I came up inside the theoretical gain ranges of two FFGs and at least one helo at varying times, but came out lucky by not getting successfully prosecuted. I'm not sure if the Brazilian fleet was in the map somewhere, but at no point was I aware of where they would be expected to be at the end, but I got back around where I think I started. This may have been on me not looking hard enough, but as my job was to patrol and fire if I felt I was at advantage, I sacrificed early search for the fleet for making way towards the islands.
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Like nuclear power? It's super easy! Hot rock make hot water make steam, make turbines go roundy roundy, make light turn on so mechanic not hit head! But then mechanic still hit head. Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, basically just bang two hot rocks together with a little help from explosives. Pretty sure that's how they work. I'm no expert on either, of course, but I'm much less certain about the kablooey side of things. Still, a shame that the fight goes not so well overseas, and that likely means more PLA assets freed up to join the fight down here.
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quote:A radio conversation between guards of the 4th Brigade southern guard post and Guard Central Control: Journal of CPL Santiago Cruz Gonzalez, 4th Brigade posted:The strangest thing happened while I was on duty at South 4. We got word that there was a RADAR contact to the south, and given bearings to search for possible target, but given bad cross-bearings. I didn't press it, but the guy at 5 did. We got the mystery station, the one we never gently caress with. I had to flip through our codebook for the first time this rotation, and it checked out to confirm the order to search for a single target in non-crossing bearings, but I have no idea why we would have reason to give such an order. Let alone, why we need a Confidential codeword to protect it. Idiota forgot to unqueue his radio, though, while his post-mate mouthed off about something. I didn't really understand it, probably some nerd gaming poo poo. I hope they don't get stuck with extra duty for questioning orders. I know we're here to watch for anything. Vahakyla posted:The Twilight TTRPG game that Kaal posted about above is great, go follow it or partake, even if you're a lurker or not familiar with the game. Everyone welcome. You don't have to fly in this campaign to do that. Check it out over here if you're interested! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4051568
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quote:0940Z, FARP Sophie Overall, for my first flight with Enfield, this went pretty well. As a one-ship, and as I was supporting Ford's mission anyway, I just fell in with Ford with a TPOD trying to find and mark targets. What went well: Successful takeoff, good fuel management mostly, and good coordination with Ford. Not so well: Bit of a rough landing. Nothing non-fixable, but still a bit hard for the gear. I didn't verify my waypoints, but I just swapped over to Fords point Lanus for my WP2. Unfortunately, my WP2 was the target area, so I vectored on to the wrong area when I shifted to WP3. I had tons of time before Ford even got up, so I had time to check it. And, if I had set my waypoints beforehand correctly I could have saved a bit of fuel, as I landed with about 800lbs. My smoke bombs didn't do anything useful, and my White Phosphorous didn't do much either except against some of the soft targets, especially once I overflew the first target area, so once Ford found the vehicles and towers I was about useless. In future, if I could have learned the Maverick or brought some laser guided bombs I could have done more reliable damage.
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 Briefing tent, FARP Sophie A mousey looking RAF officer peeks in, then breathes a sigh of relief to find pilots and members of the brass present. He straightens his papers, pushes his glasses up onto the bridge of his nose, and walks in. Immediately, one of the pilots stands up and blocks his path. "Pardon, you made the plan for last flight, yeah?" The pilot doesn't wait for his response, snatching his papers and looking at the map. "Right, you sit down, I've got this." "But-" "No, lad." The pilot walks to the lectern as the briefing officer takes a seat, and he gasps as the pilot lets his papers and maps fall to the floor. "Right, Good mornin' lads, I'm Lieutenant Reginald Richards, and I'm here to brief my flight. Pull up the slide, please."  "Right, we'll be taking off, forming up, and taking a bit of a northerly route to point Lanus while we wait for Ford flight to form up and SEAD to do some work. Once we hear Ole called, we'll fly in to point V1 here, where a member of Ford flight the other day noticed the PLA was setting up in their mountains. We'll be up high, keeping an eye on the sky with our RWR and look for targets to smash and watch out for any MANPADs. We'll be carrying some guided bombs and rockets to smash anything they miss, and once we're done we're headed back North. If we've got anything left, we'll hit V2, some ground forces massing up near FARP Dinibor and smash them with any rockets and bombs we have left along with the Yanks in Devil and Dodge. If not, we'll fly over Dinibor on our way home. Any questions? Ah, we'll be carrying some safety blankets for Ford, in the form of Sidearms in case SEAD fell asleep on one of those PLA emitters, and maybe a Sidewinder or two in case we find ourselves in a London alley up in the air and need to knife-fight. Right, that's the brief. See ya out there."
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Enfield 1 AAR Tacview's on the fritz and I can't load the track file, so no pretty pictures from me today. BLUF: Overall mission was a rousing success for Enfield. Jons did great on his first flight with a Harrier, we got some good eyes on target, kept a bit of situational awareness for Ford, and blew plenty of stuff up which always feels great, and our Bingo was set perfectly. At first. More on that later. Had some weird stuff with the navigation, but we worked through it. Blow by blow: We started up, verified our loadouts and changed some stuff, messed with some keybindings and checked our waypoints, and everything looked good except W 3 to the secondary mission area was set to the south side of the sound, so I moved it to the northern shore. Double checked Laser codes, good to go there. Once we were ready, we asked Condor for a callout when SEAD was just about to pass us, and we waited, nothing crazy. We had a discussion on fuel, and set our Bingo at 1200 lbs, which was perfect. Once we got the callout, I topped off fuel and we "taxi"ed to the "runway" and got up with no issue. Once up in the air, we formed up and started on our way to W1, erring a bit further West to avoid flying over any pointy sticks in the water, where we noticed our W1 had changed between startup and take-off, something like 20mi south of the FARP and entirely useless for us, but after futzing with the computer a bit we realized it didn't change our other waypoints, just added W1 in front of them all. Navigation sorted, we were adequately en route to LANUS, and as we were passing it we were given the go-ahead to procede to V1, now W3 vice W2. As we approached, we set our TPODs up and got to searching the target area for targets, and passed to Ford that there were some ships in the bay area around the Target, and I got a good laser lined up on a cargo ship and got my Maverick on target while my wingman got a bomb on another ship about the time ABM called for everyone to hold as SEAD was still working. Whoops. Once we had actual permission to engage, we exhausted our bombs doing some damage to ships and ground targets with only one instance of forgetting to fire the laser for guidance, whoops. After Ford egressed, we still had some ordnance left so we proceded by a northerly route to our secondary target, W4 or V2. About 30mi from Coffee Island, my wingman reported that he hadn't found me, so we spent some time trying to figure out how to find each other, when we should have just asked Condor to vector to the other. In fact, I distinctly turned down assistance, as I believed we were about to form up. Eventually, we did form back up and made way down track. We passed the West edge of the sound and flew East along that northern coast, scanning for targets. At this time, I also relaxed Bingo to 1000 lbs. Eventually we found some infantry and vehicles and set to work. I missed with two or three rockets because I didn't notice my laser had turned itself off, but we got a couple vehicles while we were being pinged by an HQ-7, probably fired at. I sent a Sidearm to shut it up to great effect, except they had a second emitter which I later killed with my last laser guided rocket on our way out, a pass or two after we hit our new Bingo. We flew high to try to be as efficient as we could, making it withing visual range of the FARP with about 500 lbs of fuel between the two of us, so I sent Jons to do his landing first while I stayed higher and repositioned a bit. Shortly before touchdown, Jons' engine cutout, and he landed as best he could with no power. I then came in, believing I had enough fuel for a vertical landing. If I had come in heading West, I may have been right, whoops. As it is, my engines died while I was at about ~50kts and about ~50-70 feet altitude. DCS registered it as a landing, though I did crunch the left wing gear a bit. All told, an excellent success I believe, for my second Harrier flight and Jons' first. I'll be much more mindful of Bingo in the future, for sure, and in the event of two target areas, I'll ensure we form up before proceding to waypoint, especially if I've changed my waypoint and my wingman hasn't. My loadout was also terribly asymmetrical, which I would advise against in the future. I took one Maverick, one APKWS, one Sidewinder, one Sidearm, two bombs and the TPOD, and I was fighting to keep a reasonable trim almost the entire flight. Sidewinder didn't do us any good, I'd have rather taken another Sidearm for the HQ-7, though I'm not sure if I'd have rather a second APKWS pod or another Maverick. Overall, good flight, and I'm happy with it. There's room for improvement, but it won't be hard to implement.
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ENFIELD 1 ORDERS BLUF: We're going to take off and destroy as much PLA Battalion equipment as we can. THE PLAN:  On start up, we will verify our navigation and adjust our loadout if necessary. For the first run, we'll be going in heavy with Maverick E2s and GBU-54s and a TPOD, with Sidearms for self defence. We will await a callout from the ABM when Dodge is approximately 30 minutes out. At that time, we'll take off from FARP Bella Vista and form up at WP1 PLATE. Once formed up and given the green light, we'll continue to WP2 and begin designating targets and disassembling Chinese trucks, radars, and whatever else we can get a good bead on. In the even things get spicy in the air, bias egress to the North West and avoid flying south over the water if it can be avoided. If we need to, once we're dry on weapons we can lase for other flights, and as we have the ability to change our lasers on the fly (heh) we can shift our codes around, but by 1-1 should default to 1671, 1-2 should default to 1672, and so on, to deconflict between each other and other flights. If we're not needed on station, we'll form up and return to WP0 FARP Bella Vista. If conditions warrant, we will refuel and rearm, Pilot's Delight, though as the battle rages and more hard targets are removed, I would recommend biasing towards HE APKWS for the soft targets with some LGB for clean up. Below is a quick reference for waypoints and fuel warnings, though I do not expect fuel will be an issue. As the crow flies, the FARP lies less than 50nmi from the target area, and I intend to fly over, pick targets, and run out of ordnance as quickly as I'm able to get a higher likelihood of a second strike out. quote:Waypoints:
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ENFIELD 1 ORDERS BLUF: Destruction of piers, ships, and associated support equipment/infrastructure IVO Punta Arenas. THE PLAN:  Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure I relay the news that we are taking the fight to enemy held territory. Once we load up in our jets, we'll verify our loadout and our steer points. quote:Loadout: Once we get set up, we will await a callout from Condor on 262.000 MHz when SEAD is about 15-20 minutes from Punta Arenas, get some last minute sips from the FARP fuel depot, line up as close to West as we can and get up in the air. Once we form up, we'll loiter IVO WP ALMAGRO until OLE is called, and if we can get our TPODs to look close enough we can start picking targets. Upon OLE, we'll commence towards T1 where we'll pick out any PLA ships that may be leaving, target them, and then focus on the pier and dockside equipment.  If we have enough ordnance after we're satisfied that the PLA won't be able to load so much as a rucksack on a rowboat, we can continue on to T2 and sing our second verse, same as the first. If at any point we run out of bombs, we will call Winchester to ABM and announce our intent to RTB to rearm and refuel; I recommend standard Maverick E's for the bigger warhead, tuned to your wingman's laser code, as well as more GBUs. 32s or 38s will be fine either way, we'll go with whatever seems to make sense based on the state of the ports. At any point, if we get called off station or feel evasion is necessary, We'll focus on altitude and avoid going West through North for Egress, to preclude flying over enemy AAA that hasn't been shut down by our friends. When in doubt, head back to ALMAGRO and check with ABM for vectoring in the event of enemy air defence. BINGO is set conservatively at 2000 lbs. I can guarantee that with that much fuel, you can make it home with all due speed, even if you don't feel like jettisoning all that expensive ordnance, all the way from Punta Arenas. LT Dicks, out.
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Sometime after midnight, a ragged and soaked LT Dicks arrives at the FARP with Snapshot in tow. Enfield 1-1 AAR BLUF: Some ordnance on target, but a late turnaround call led to the loss of two airframes. No pilots lost. The Flight: 1-1 LT Reginald "Dicks" Richards 1-2 "Snapshot" 1-3 "Jerik" Upon loading up in our aircraft, we made our preliminary checks and swapped some equipment around. I went with two 1000 lb JDAMs and six 500 lb JDAMs, the rest of my flight took a mix of 500 pounders and Mavericks. I had some trouble with my nav, turns out you can't change waypoints while your nav is aligning. After I put it in it's proper mode, all waypoints read correctly. Good job Jerik helping Snapshot with his waypoints while I mucked around. On MATADOR, Enfield topped off and took off, NSTR. ~5nmi out from WP1 Almagro, Buzzard called OLE and called for all flights to head in to engage. Enfield flew over Almagro and banked right, coming in line with Punta Arenas and picked our targets. We were spoiled for choice, and we parceled some ships out between us when Snapshot called missile launches from the water. He was hit, lost engines and hydraulics, but safely ejected with his small handheld radio which he used to help point us in the right direction as he 'chuted down. Stiff upper lip, and all that, we continued towards target area when Jerik and I were locked up by various systems, and we broke off our attack to return to Almagro. Shortly thereafter, a Naval SA-10 hit my plane and, as with Snapshot, I lost engines and hydraulics. I grabbed my handheld and ejected, radioing Jerik to call Naval SAMs to Buzzard. I've since been debriefed that Jerik got a good hit on a FFL, and damaged a pier contributing to the overall mission success. Once I find some dry socks, I owe him a drink. The Good: We had some good callouts within Enfield, and no losses of our pilots. Minus what I'll chock up to a bad LMav, must've been American made, good weapons employment by Jerik and a good landing back at camp. The Lessons: It's always a hard pill to swallow, losing two good airframes. While we approached our hold point, we should have scanned the path to the target, and we would have seen those FFGs waiting in the water. If we'd have done that, we could have employed Snapshot and Jerik's LMavs against them earlier, perhaps taking them out of the fight. Knowing they were there, we could have flown further West and tried to keep out of their range for our attack runs. And, on the first missile launch, I should have called to return to hold to regroup rather than wait to get locked up further into the hornet's nest. It sounds like SEAD had a devil of a time, so I don't hold it against Buzzard for calling OLE early. I should have been quicker to take his advice to regroup at hold point after I called in the loss of Snapshot's jet. But, these lessons are the hard ones we learn. LT Dicks, Out SS-Kumei fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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ENFIELD 1 ORDERS BLUF: Our job, in a few words, is to light some signal fires for the chaps in Ford to let them know where the enemy is. The Plan: Right, lads, Brass's given me a chance at redemption after the kerfuffle two weeks ago. The ego remains bruised, but there's no salve for such a wound quite like payback. We'll wait for MATADOR to get up, after checking all systems green and making sure the crew's loaded the right ordnance. We're looking at four self-lasing Maverick E's and two Sidearms for self-defence, along with one targeting pod of course for aforementioned lasing. quote:Loadout: In the event of enemy air, or ADA coming back up, our egress will be INTO the wind, WEST, back to our HOLD. Additionally, once we're out of missiles, we'll cross back over to Punta Arenas and fly HOME to rearm, if we have time.  Any questions on the op? Right, so I've heard grumblings that "we don't like the rumbling of our painted dirt airfield". For now, tough. We've sent a forward team to Punto Arenas and to Rio Gallegos to assist in any repairs or aid they can give, of course, but their jobs are to provide training as to the proper brewing of a cuppa. If we're lucky, they'll've done a good enough job to make the Punta Arenas airport lounge habitable, though I somehow doubt they'll have scones or crumpets. As such, landing on their absolutely luxurious and spacious runway segment is to be on an EMERGENCY BASIS ONLY. They've suffered enough under the occupation and the shelling, we can give them a bit of time to recover first. In summary, Take-off, proceed to HOLD, attack HOLE, return HOME except under significant mismanagement of your own fuel. LT Dicks, Out.
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Very good questions! Our flights are PVE, players always fly for the "good guys" so to speak while mountains of work are done by our mission makers to reflect the state of the world at the beginning of each op. In addition to the mission maker, a few goons have an extra role as a Commander. One goon plays as the CSAD Supreme Commander, and primarily makes the broad sweeping decisions and goals. Then the Air Force Commander, Ground Forces Commander, and Fleet Commander make their decisions on how to achieve the Supreme Commander's objectives. Playing the role of "The Bad Guy", Vähä is the GM and resolves troop engagements and sets the enemy responses to our actions. For the Mobility Flights, all of the flights are designed to benefit CSAD, so except by not being done the MSFS flights never help the bad guys. The first post has a MIRO board which lays out most of what's happened and gives the who's who, as well, which I'll link below. Hope this helped! https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNXXmEwU=/?share_link_id=790939748752
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Enfield AAR Flight: Enfield 1-1 Reginald "Dicks" Richards Right, we'll keep this nice and short. We lost one pilot to an ill-advised attempt at sampling some "biscuits" from the Punta Arenas flight lounge and he was down for the count, and one other pilot was called away for a very important meeting, hush hush and all that. No losses of airframe, no losses of pilots, four expended AGM-65E2's and one overall excellent mission for Enfield. I took off on MATADOR, got locked up by one of the OHP Frigates on the way to the HOLD point, and turned to engage on OLE. Missed one Maverick, must've been another American one, got one good hit on a SA-11 launcher, one good hit on a gun truck. Must've got nicked a bit on a pass, the last Maverick wouldn't fire. Which is a shame, I was lasing a MI-24 and was a bit excited to have an A/A kill with an AGM, but oh well. Nothing significant to report on landing, textbook vertical landing. Gentlemen, it's been a genuine honor. In time, I may return, but in the mean time I have some things to do back across the pond. Hush hush things, of course. Godspeed, and God Save the Queen. LT Dicks, Out.
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