7/5/2011

After Action Report (AAR)

CO Joker

 

(webmaster note (Luft) The *Specialists* benefited from Milt's misfortune (our new CO's PC crashed and he couldn't make the swearing in ceremoney aka COTG (Changing of the Guard).

Joker lead us on another excellent mission!

another webmaster note: Joker has perfected the cartography skills introduced by Fuzeman,

The screenshot below says it all because this is were it was at!

(debrief below)

 

AAR Mission 7-5-2011

 

Unfortunately Milt notified me a little before mission time that when he tried to fire up his computer tonight things did not go so well, and

he was unable to lead the squad tonight. We decided to wait a week on the COTG ceremony and just run a regular mission instead.

 

When we logged on we found the biggest battle raging on an island in eastern part of the map where Knights had gained a foothold on a Bish

island and were attempting to push further north. ( Fig. 7-5-11a ) The BIsh had taken out ords at A150, so we backed up to A153 and rolled

as a group in heavy fighters with the intention of leveling the hangars at A53. As we overflew A150 and proceeded north we encountered

an occasional P51, but we held our ords and were able to get past them as they looked for easier prey.

Then just south of A53 a large enemy contingent of mainly 262's with an alt advantage of 2-3000 feet on us came down from the north.

At that point we were forced to go light and jump into the furball.

 

The Knights eventually pushed the fight right up to A53, and we went to work on the town along with dispatching the uppers from the field.

With the large group of Knights present it was only a matter of about 25 minutes before the field was finally captured.

The Specs made a good showing with a number of kills, including a 3 kill run I saw Swoose land <S>.

 

Meanwhile, a Knight Task Group had approached A149 over on the west coast, and had bombarded and then captured that base.

Our Knight horde then turned our attention to A52 to the NW of A53. The Specs were among the first on the scene and dropped the radar and

I believe a FH and the VH. We were followed in by a large mission group and together we trashed the town and the capture was quickly made.

 

Finally we rolled heavy fighters again from A53 north to the last Bish base on the island, A54. ( Fig 7-5-11b )

The Bish sent over only a small group of fighters to oppose us, but the Specs did manage to get several kills. The base was subdued after a

relatively brief battle and the capture was made, bringing the island completely under Knight ownership! ( Fig. 7-5-11c )    :))

 

Thanks to all the pilots who flew the mission, and as usual I was pleased to see the contribution our squad made to the overall Knight advance.

See you all next week for the COTG and our first official mission under the command of Milt and Swoose! <S>

 

Since this will most likely be my last AAR I wanted to make sure you all saw that I have learned to make really nice drawings on my screenshots

( although nowhere near as good as Master Fuze can do ) even though I can't get them in the correct order in the email.

 

Joker <S>