Another glorious victory for the Lolwaffles!! :hmm:
The first mission gave us a limited supply of Gustavs, and therefore while Hunter, Kratos, Fin and Taskforce took Gustavs, Oberon took a Freddie and Raptor took a STUKA!
About twenty minutes into the mission and the first dogfight, Hunter was hit by the Lag cannon and destroyed. The mission was aborted and restarted.
By this time, Kratos had called it a night and was replaced by Tarjak, Fin defected to the Yaks and Oberon transferred to the Gustavs.
Things did not go so well on take-off...
Tarjak was struck by the Lag cannon, veered off course to port and smashed himself up. Later it was discovered that Soviet field agents AVG and Skype had conspired to give the Lag cannon the co-ordinates of Tarjaks aircraft.
In the air, the remaining Gustav Lolwaffles prepared themselves for the Yak fight, Hunter was confident that the 'Stalingrad Yak MURDERER' would triumph, however the man behind the legend was not so confident...an AI aircraft is one thing...but a human one...
Naturally, while Hunter and Taskforce pounced on the AI, Oberon got the human. Taking the fight down to the ground he lasted a good ten to fifteen minutes before clipping the ground with his tail section whilst doing an Split-S.
He survived the conflaguration and is sharing a Gulag with Taskforce who got the wrong end of a Yak. Hunter and Fin duelled afterwards, before Hunter ran out of cannon ammo and RTB'd.
Meanwhile Freislers little adjunct, Raptor, had completed his mission and returned to base, his Stuka compatriots flying around the airfield aimlessly and colliding with each other.
However, during the debriefing, Mini-Freisler got a little shock...
Turns out, the target Raptor had been sent to destroy happened to be a group of Guderians tanks. Raptor blamed Schultz for this mishap, but some of the Lolwaffles suspected that perhaps Von Manstein had had a hand in this, jealous perhaps of Guderians successes. It would certainly explain the sudden appearance of the armour in yesterdays sortees.
Next mission, well...it was a doozy. Transfer missions all round and not a ruddy Gustav to be seen, Freddies, Heinkels, and some strange Romanian thing called an IAR.
Taskforce was assasinated by Goring at this point, for reasons unknown.
Oberon took an He-111, Raptor took an IAR and Tarjak and Hunter took Freddies.
Then the chaos began.
Raptor, at the lead of the IARs, took off successfully, however his wingman for some reason managed to crash midway, so then the IAR behind him collided with his wreckage and blew up...and then the IAR behind that collided...
Oberon took one look at the carnage and pulled off the runway onto the taxi-way.
Naturally, the He-111s behind him, took off blindly into the wreckage.
Eventually, enough He-111s made it into the sky to make it worth taking off, so Oberon used the taxi-way and made a break for it. Partway there another He-111 decided to play chicken, but broke away first, passing within meters of Oberons cockpit. Fin, once again, was playing traitor in his Yak-7, but the Soviet airforce was miles away from the Lolwaffles and neither met. Although there were rumours of suspiciously Romanian piloting in the Yaks. Speaking of the IARs, Raptor took his smoke-trail and nav light equipped IAR and stalled it straight into the ground. Leaving Tarjak, Hunter and Oberon left to return to base.
Nearing the airfield, Oberon told the remaining 111s to hold position.
Then he went in for a landing, the suicidal wingman again making his appearance, trying to smash himself into the airfield. Oberon made a decidedly dodgy landing, at a 45 degree angle to the runway, and then spun around in circles trying to get off the runway.
Not exactly the best two missions of the Lolwaffles history...