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Posted: **Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:35 am**

OK . I'm ready to host this tonight ( or rather a taster for it ) 8:00pm UK

in light of TacticalS! possible re-schedule for HE could we have some votes on what night would suit most people.

** "The convoy had been sighted between Dover and Dungeness. Our briefing took only a few minutes and within half an hour of being airborne we had sighted the coast of Kent. The Channel was bathed in brilliant sunshine...A light haze hung over the English coast, and there far below us, was the convoy, like so many toy ships with wispy white wakes fanning out behind. As soon as we were observed, the ships of the convoy dispersed, the merchantmen maneuvering violently and the escorting warships moving out at full speed. Anti-aircraft shell peppered the sky. Our fighters now appeared. We made our first bomb run, and fountains leapt up around the ships....By now the fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force had joined in, and the sky was a twisting, turning melee of fighters....My wing was in the air for three hours in all. We reported one heavy cruiser and four merchant ships sunk, one merchant ship damaged, and eleven British fighters shot down or damaged. We had lost two bombers, two twin engined fighters and three single engined fighters during the course of this engagement."
Werner Kreipe III KG 2 Luftwaffe. **

Posted: **Fri Jul 21, 2006 7:48 pm**

The Convoy "Bread" making its way through the Channel

Was pounded by guns from the French coast

And attacked

by

the largest formations

of enemy bombers ever seen. . .

escorted by large numbers of fighters

Things did not go well for the Convoy with many ships lost

This was seen as the first engagement of the Battle of Britain

The transmission that the Dornier made at 1030hrs must have been received loud and clear, because at 1350hrs(1.50pm): British radar picks up a strong signal that indicated that a German formation had been detected coming across the French coast just west of Calais and heading in the general direction of Folkestone. It seemed obvious what they were after, this was the largest number of bombers ever seen coming across the Channel. The main force was 24 Dornier 17s spread in three groups, 30 escorting Bf110s and 20+ Bf109s. The 'scramble' order went out to Manston, Biggin Hill, Croydon, Hornchurch and Kenley. Manston dispatched the Hurricanes of 56 Squadron (North Weald) who had been operating there, Biggin Hill dispatched 32 Squadron (Hurricanes), Croydon dispatched 111 squadron (Hurricanes), Hornchurch dispatched the Spitfires of 74 Squadron while Kenley sent out six Spitfires of 64 Squadron towards the closing stages of the battle

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:25 am**

I am down for it but not tonight. Maybe tomorrow would work for me.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:01 am**

Someone seems to think once a year is enough for this

Perhaps they were in the session last night.
Thanks to all who joined.
While the mission tested OK offline; some reduction in the number of planes is needed for me to host it.

The ratio of Luftwaffe AC to RAF was true to the events of the day. I shall have to scale the missions down for the next set though.

de-brief:-
Although losses were higher the FI did a more successful job of defending the convoy (also better than the AI outcome during test)
DFC's and pints all round I think.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:18 pm**

Is the problem the internet connection or your machine? Maybe I can try to host it for you if I can get my router issues resolved.

Also, why not do this on Sunday?

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:41 pm**

Shouldn't think it's connection (@16meg) but machine + summer heat. I guess a graphics card upgrade would go a long way to sorting things out.

Think theres pretty much a full schedule for Sunday with the Pacific campaign Vin and rab have set up. Think I'll wait to see when the verdicts out on the poll.

Meanwhile I'm working on some trimmed down versions + coops for the other phases of BoB.

If youre able to host the full versions on a more powerful server that'd be great.

Should I send you the first 2 full versions to test?
(both of which run fine as a single player coop on my rig)

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:43 pm**

Sure you can send them over and I will set them up. When I tried to host last time for some reason I could not. I have set up my router correctly but have not tested since last Sunday. I guess we could check it out tomorrow and see if it is working now.

I also have an interesting Pearl Harbor mission I would love to host.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:59 pm**

Check NightCat for a link he gave out last night for Heloe's hosting.

should I use your server ftp you gave me to send files ?

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:12 pm**

:FI:Sneaky_Russian wrote:Check NightCat for a link he gave out last night for Heloe's hosting.

should I use your server ftp you gave me to send files ?

Yessir. That would work out nicely.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 4:23 pm**

Done ~S~ have to do the briefings, as couldnt get them to show using cut and paste method I used before, so need to print out my notes and do it longhand in FMB.

Posted: **Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:48 pm**

I'm looking to flying some more of these BoB missions....should be available quite a lot of the next few weeks with it being the holidays so let me know the time and the place and i'll be there

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