Wiglaf is still on convalescent leave in Amiens... but the MO will pass him fit for service soon, and he'll be back on front line duty this Saturday by the latest.

Congratulations to those who have made it to Ace already! Well done! This shows a level of skill and mastery of aerial combat that one simply would have expected not from the simple and rustic Britischers! But watch out - I will soon be on your tails!

All the best!

- Argy

P.S. Here is the conversation that Mr. Hitler has in store for your Churchill when he demands his unconditional surrender! I expect to hear this broadcast on the wireless very soon!


Sorry, but I just couldn't resist

Just a note that my 85-Squadron 'Moggy' Cattermole posts will be in black, and my Silk (or Silko as he's nicknamed) 19 squadron ones will be in blue

Sounds doable for me.

BTW, I like the format of your letters, very good reading - but if you can do me a favor: Fill out the standard combat report too, and then write the letter below it.

When I'm doing the evening summary for each side, the things I'm looking for most are the kills/losses count for each squadron and the location/type of enemy formation. With the standard report form, I can quickly glance this information over for each squadron, but it takes a lot more time to filter that out of your letter format. So maybe if you can just fill out half the combat report with the main things (kills, losses, location, type of enemy AC), it would save me some time.

BTW, the summaries for Day3 are already written, but Itkovian will have to insert them since we haven't managed yet to sort out how to edit each other's postings.

I'll edit my AAR to remove the BBC mention. And the summaries have been added.

That said, if we mention squadrons and actions out of turn, chalk that up to the fog of war. Our pilots were simply mistaken (which, let's face it, they very frequently were).

Itkovian

True enough. The BBC just struck me as a particularly bad examples since all pilots would have heard the same news

The best thing really is to enjoy reading the other people's report before posting your own (at least that's how I do it), half the fun is in the reading anyway. And you'll quickly recognize how to adapt your post to the already exsisting day account.

OK, I will edit my posts sometime today with that as well

A small summary will do. Just so I don't have to manually keep tally of your exploits between all the paragraphs.

And congrats on turning Ace today

I think there's something wrong with the Stuka Defensive Gunners. Or maybe they ought to be flying in a more layered formation. Easy pickings right now, but that will change if we face 50+ Heinkels or Ju-88.

I have been thinking that as well. When I attacked in my spit, I was flying at basically no throttle and was only getting slight resistance. It was quite easy. But when the formations of escorts increases as well, we'll have a tough fight too...

I don't know, the Stukas I faced were quite menacing quite frankly. Then again, maybe it's more difficult because I put the LW skill modifier to High. I just need to learn not to get on their 6 to shoot them down.

That said, Stukas SHOULD be easy pickings. They were in RL, after all.

Itkovian

That's a thought; I haven't changed that skill modifier. Still, I find I get into some great scraps with the 109's so I may leave it as it is.

I never realised how great a target the Stuka's are though. Normally when playing this phase, I have run into the escort before the bombers, but running into the Stuka's first I have found I can get in real close and down one with a quick squirt, leaving a lot more ammo to go after some more.
I should try and get print-screens of my AAR. At the moment it certainly doesn't look historical, but I've played it as closely as I can to real life and I haven't cheated.
I am also making sure I land at home all the time as well, whereas I used to play the campaign and just alt-x out. Trying to make it home can be fun as well