Lolwaffles Ost - Operation Peshka!!!! Ende.

[Oberon]

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/1967/5das.jpg

[Cybermat47]

No...anything but the Peshkas!

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Schultz's reaction upon hearing the word Peshka!
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[Oberon]

1st mission:
Protect Dowly in his StuG.

Squadron was dispersed on take-off after a Russian fighter did an aerobatic display over the runway and then disappeared somewhere. Raptor and Task Force had...something happen, which resulted in an explosion, as usual.
I found an I-16 chasing a 109, and (much to my surprise) managed to shoot it down, then I found the IL-2s attacking the StuGs and managed to shoot down one and severely damage the other, landed off the runway as a bloody AI stole my landing slot, and Lolwaffled onto my nose.

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The I-16 goes for a drink, no chute spotted.

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The first IL-2 hits the deck, two chutes spotted.

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The second IL-2, I ran out of ammo trying to dent the thing, so broke away and wished him luck. I was creditted with the kill so he must have crashed shortly afterwards.

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Hunter in his Austrian wunderwaffe, and my Lolwaffle landing in the background...stoopid AI... :nope:

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Myself and Arclight get an Iron Cross Second Class, Raptor gets shot.


Second Mission:
Protect Hitlers BMW

Took off in a bit more organised fashion this time. Followed Hunter to the Russian frontlines and then met a wall of MiGs and I-16s coming the other way. Got two on my six and was able to finally lose them by diving, building up speed and then using the 109s superior climb rate to get to safety. Spotted Raptor chasing one and then one jumped on his six, I curved in behind it and one curved in behind me, splat, oil everywhere. I broke off and ran for base followed by two or three persistant MiGs. Make it back to base with two MiGs still following, one breaks off and the other smashes into the ground as I try to land, I'm going far too fast to land properly so I pull up to go around, and then my engine catches fire...I pull up to gain altitude before jumping when....BOOM! Thank you Daimler-Benz...
Arclight chases an I-16 and gets his entire squadron on his tail for his pains, receives a nice hole in his wing and a shredded elevator so legs it back to base, discovers that he has no control over his throttle, so turns off the engine to land...and then glides into the ground just short of the runway.

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Task Force, I think, as we head towards our patrol area.

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Leaking oil does not improve forward visibility...

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Raptor tangles with some Russkies as Task Force tangles with his joystick, and then the ground.

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Hitlers BMW motorcade does its best to dissuade the MiGs on my six.

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Arclight taking evasive manoeuvres

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Arclight passing over some Wehrmacht vehicles

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Meanwhile Task Force has redecorated his aircraft, painting the inside of the cockpit a nice red colour

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Arclight goes for the same look but doesn't have any red paint

[HunterICX]

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meanwhile in Moscow:
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''Make Note: Fascist eat Peshkas, new order for the bureau
Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del: Force Comrades to eat Panzers''

HunterICX

[Schroeder]

What version of Il2 are we (you) actually running now? I haven't had a look at it in ages and am completely out of the loop. :hmm2:

[Cybermat47]

Blood? In IL-2? What mod is this?

[HunterICX]

What version of Il2 are we (you) actually running now? I haven't had a look at it in ages and am completely out of the loop. :hmm2:

IL2 4.11.1m
HSFX 6.0

Blood? In IL-2? What mod is this?

It's not a mod, it's a setting you'll have to enable in the config.ini file in the main folder of IL2
open it with notepad, scroll down a bit till you see this section.

[game]
Arcade=0
HighGore=0 <-- Change to 1 to enable the gore in the game
mapPadX=0.5742857
mapPadY=-0.0019047619
viewSet=59
Intro=0
NoSubTitles=0
NoChatter=0
NoHudLog=0
NoLensFlare=0
iconTypes=3
eventlog=eventlog.lst
eventlogkeep=0
3dgunners=1

HunterICX

[Red October1984]

The blood thing doesn't work for me.

[Raptor1]

The blood thing doesn't work for me.

It only works with a few aircraft, as far as I know.

[Red October1984]

It only works with a few aircraft, as far as I know.

I tried a bunch of different aircraft. I tried the original Yaks and IL-2's but still nothing.

[Oberon]

3rd mission:
Protect some random heap of rubble

Took off and began patrol, spotted contacts which peeled off when we approached, I followed one which lead me on a merry chase around the sky until I was finally able to hold it in my sights for long enough to take its wing off. Turned out to be a LaGG. Found Arclight chasing a contact, another LaGG I believe, and covered him until he overshot his target whilst confirming his identity and then I lost both him and the target. RTB'd after a quick tangle with a contact which was being mobbed by about ten 109s made me Winchester. Nearly collided with a 109 but only saw a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye, probably just as well I didn't see the full thing or I'd probably have panicked and stalled.

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Russkie pilot bailing from his one winged LaGG

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Gliderman, Gliderman, does whatever a Gliderman does...

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Arclight chasing his bandit


Second mission.
Intercept MiGs

Downgraded to E4s due to parts shortage... :hmmm: Took off and climbed, it wasn't long until we ran into a formation of nine enemy aircraft, peeled in behind them, one broke high and then another even higher. Lost the one I was after and spotted Task Force chasing one so stayed near him to cover, an I-16 then locked onto Task Forces tail so I turned to intercept. Managed to chase him down after a long drawn out manoeuvring battle (those little sods can sure move) and took his wing off as well. At this point his friends had arrived, jumping Task Force and then me in short order, took some hits to the cockpit and engine area, so hit the deck and ran for home. Raptor came to my assistance and managed to drag whatever it was off my tail, then I spotted some IL-2s, so turned to attack, lost them again and then realised that I really should have headed back for base when I had the chance since my engine was sounding more and more broken. Fortunately I was over friendly territory when the thing finally gave up the ghost so did a belly landing in a field. Nothing important fell off so it should be fixable.

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Task Force reeling in his bandit.

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Chute and diving I-16 just visible.

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Raptor curves in to save the day

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He clears my six and then hunts down the offending aircraft.

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Task Force makes a good landing :yep:

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Me and Task Force swap stories of Daimler-Benz deaths and I discover the cockpit opens.

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Raptor breaks my server... :wah:

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The bullet hole in the open canopy... :hmmm::hmmm::hmmm:

[Red October1984]

Good shots...but no Peshkas?

:stare: I ASSUMED THERE WOULD BE PESHKAS!!!


:har:

[Raptor1]

Downgraded to E4s due to parts shortage... :hmmm:

We just have to keep trashing aircraft at this rate and eventually they'll have to give us some decent F-4s!

Good shots...but no Peshkas?

:stare: I ASSUMED THERE WOULD BE PESHKAS!!!


:har:

Perhaps we should all be thankful the Peshkas from Hell are not yet here to prey upon poor innocent bridges.

[Oberon]

We just have to keep trashing aircraft at this rate and eventually they'll have to give us some decent F-4s!

Or even better, they'll upgrade us to Avias! :yep:

[Raptor1]

Or even better, they'll upgrade us to Avias! :yep:

We can only hope...

[HunterICX]

Not a chance...the Fatty will never make such decisions...if he did we would arrive in Moscow by next week!

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Not a chance...the Fatty will never make such decisions...if he did we would arrive in Moscow by next week!

HunterICX

You mean Vladivostok, right?

[HunterICX]

Well...somewhere in Russia

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Well...somewhere in Russia

HunterICX

Why stop at Russia? With the Avia we could be in Washington in a fortnight! :yep:

[Raptor1]

Why stop at Russia? With the Avia we could be in Washington in a fortnight! :yep:

And then back in Berlin just in time for lunch.

[Red October1984]

Why stop at Russia? With the Avia we could be in Washington in a fortnight! :yep:

Whoa whoa whoa pal.... :stare:

Do you know who you're messing with? America won the war last I checked...Don't come flying in here with an Avia or anything else that can attack.

:up:

[Oberon]

Whoa whoa whoa pal.... :stare:

Do you know who you're messing with? America won the war last I checked...Don't come flying in here with an Avia or anything else that can attack.

:up:

America won the war because Germany didn't use Avias over Normandy, that's the only reason. :nope:

[Cybermat47]

Nice to see that you're flying Es. Personally, I think that the E was awesome, while the F was just sort of... crap.

[Red October1984]

Nice to see that you're flying Es. Personally, I think that the E was awesome, while the F was just sort of... crap.

The G and the K are my favorites....I don't even know why they did a Z...where they put two of them together...I think that's a dumb idea.

[Raptor1]

Nice to see that you're flying Es. Personally, I think that the E was awesome, while the F was just sort of... crap.

The F-2 is not the most effective aircraft ever, but the F-4 beats the Emil quite easily.

The G and the K are my favorites....I don't even know why they did a Z...where they put two of them together...I think that's a dumb idea.

They made the Zwilling to create a long-range heavy fighter and fighter-bomber, though IIRC they only made one prototype of it. The Americans not only did the same thing with the Mustang, they even put it into production and regular service, so the idea probably isn't completely bunk.

[Red October1984]

They made the Zwilling to create a long-range heavy fighter and fighter-bomber, though IIRC they only made one prototype of it. The Americans not only did the same thing with the Mustang, they even put it into production and regular service, so the idea probably isn't completely bunk.

Whoa whoa whoa...You guys always bringing the Americans into everything.... :arrgh!:

I don't care if they did it or not...Its a ridiculous idea to even try it. If you want a heavy fighter, the Germans had the Bf-110 and the US had the P-38

I think the P-38 classifies as a heavy fighter....and still NO PESHKAS!!! :/\\!!

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Whoa whoa whoa...You guys always bringing the Americans into everything.... :arrgh!:

I don't care if they did it or not...Its a ridiculous idea to even try it. If you want a heavy fighter, the Germans had the Bf-110 and the US had the P-38

I think the P-38 classifies as a heavy fighter....and still NO PESHKAS!!! :/\\!! And then theres this
http://imageshack.us/a/img7/9239/ac22c.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

The Americans not only did the same thing with the Mustang, they even put it into production and regular service, so the idea probably isn't completely bunk.
The wonderful F-82.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/F-82-Twin-Mustang-7.jpg

And the night-fighter version.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustang_Night_Figther_Wallpaper_jq3i2.jpg

[Red October1984]

That rocket P-51 is better than that stupid F-82. Dang that design just ticks me off. I think it's the most stupid idea ever.

If one P-51 by itself is fine....why put two together?

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

That rocket P-51 is better than that stupid F-82. Dang that design just ticks me off. I think it's the most stupid idea ever.

If one P-51 by itself is fine....why put two together?

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!

Prehaps a bit of reading on the subject of the F-82 might help?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-82_Twin_Mustang

And the P-51 pic that I posted isn't using rockets, those are ramjets. Theres also a Russian plane in IL-2 called the BI-6 or something like that, that also uses ramjets.

[Oberon]

F-82 helped fill a large hole in the USAFs fighter pool at the time.

But the real fun comes when you bolt two Bombers together:

http://www.ba102.fr/LIEUX-HISTOIRE/BA-102/He111_Z__Large_4.JPG

[Red October1984]

But the real fun comes when you bolt two Bombers together:

No matter what plane they pair up, It still looks ridiculous.

And the P-51 pic that I posted isn't using rockets, those are ramjets. Theres also a Russian plane in IL-2 called the BI-6 or something like that, that also uses ramjets.

Okay...Ramjets....I just mistook them for rockets. That I like better than bolting two of the things together.

[CCIP]

It's not about how it looks, though. It filled a role (or a couple of roles) that, during its service time (and during a rather tense times of the early Cold War), no other plane could fulfill. It was the best plane for the job because it was the only plane for the job. And it did that job very, very well.

[Dammit_Carl!]

(Looking at the Heinkels...)

How would they go about simply coordinating between the two craft? I'd assume that they'd have some sort of single control system but knowing management I bet they were like, "No. Both planes will have their crews. It'll work just fine. Trust us."

[Oberon]

(Looking at the Heinkels...)

How would they go about simply coordinating between the two craft? I'd assume that they'd have some sort of single control system but knowing management I bet they were like, "No. Both planes will have their crews. It'll work just fine. Trust us."

"Rot Eins, break right!"
"Nein, left!"
"Right!"
"Left"
*sound of tearing metal*
"Oops..."

[Red October1984]

"Rot Eins, break right!"
"Nein, left!"
"Right!"
"Left"
*sound of tearing metal*
"Oops..."

Haha! :har:

Crash Dives don't work so well in the air...

[Sailor Steve]

It still looks ridiculous.
Hey, two planes is better than half a plane.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Gbv141.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/germanrecon.jpg

[Cybermat47]

Yeah, Blohm and Voss were better when they stuck to flying boats :haha:

[Red October1984]

Hey, two planes is better than half a plane.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Gbv141.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/germanrecon.jpg

Really? I wouldn't think it possible to have a stupider design...

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

You ain't seen notin' yet until you've seen what they got here!! http://luft46.com/

[Red October1984]

You ain't seen notin' yet until you've seen what they got here!! http://luft46.com/

It's one thing to fly. It's another thing to fly and look stupid.

Some of those designs should have never touched paper... :/\\!!

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

It's one thing to fly. It's another thing to fly and look stupid.

Some of those designs should have never touched paper... :/\\!!

If planes could win wars based off of looks Britian should of beat the Germans in 1939 cause of the looks of the Spitfire:O:.

Besides 99.99999999% of those designs never even made it to the windtunnel testing stage, and even if the planes made it to the prototype stage it wouldn't of been possible for mass production due to Germany's lack of resorces and factories to build them in. Even so I still like the look of the Ta 283.:o Btw this is in IL-2 http://www.luft46.com/heinkel/helerche.html its fun to fly and its stupid fast.

[Sailor Steve]

should of
It's "should have".

Other than that, I agree. Some planes are so ugly they're wonderful. I feel the same way about certain ships. :sunny:

[Red October1984]

It's "should have"

HEIL HERR GRAMMER NAZI

[Cybermat47]

^^

Grammar, dammit!

[HunterICX]

Alright that's it!
All of you nincompoops report to Herr Freisler, Schnell!!! :stare:
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/939/rolandfreislerwwwherodoau4.jpg

Red October1984 accused of making fun of wunderwaffe designs of the glorious superior Third Reich and bad grammar will have a mock trial and executed on the spot.
Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg accused of bad grammar will have a mock trial and send to our summer camp in Poland.

Defense? Well let's have our glorious Führer have a say about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_GhqVgc9M
The Führer has spoken.

Raptor1 if you please.

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

Raptor1 if you please.


Jawohl.

Alright, that's it!
All of you nincompoops report to Herr Freisler, Schnell!!! :stare:
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/939/rolandfreislerwwwherodoau4.jpg

Red October1984 is accused of making fun of Wunderwaffe designs of the glorious and superior Third Reich and bad grammar; will have a mock trial and be executed on the spot.
Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg is accused of bad grammar; he will have a mock trial and be sent to our summer camp in Poland.

Defense? Well let's have our glorious Führer have a say about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_GhqVgc9M
The Führer has spoken.

Raptor1, if you please.

HunterICX

HunterICX is accused of bad grammar, spelling and punctuation; he is hereby sentenced to death by firing squad.

Mr. Task Force, make it so.

[HunterICX]

:rotfl2:.....................:(

HunterICX

[Red October1984]

Red October1984 accused of making fun of wunderwaffe designs of the glorious superior Third Reich and bad grammar will have a mock trial and executed on the spot.
Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg accused of bad grammar will have a mock trial and send to our summer camp in Poland.

Raptor1 if you please.

Do you know how many times Raptor1 has already hung, shot, executed me on Subsim Chat? There was one a while back where him and Magicstix thought I might be Dowly in disguise and they hung me several times and shot me....

I was then rescued by a mermaid civilization that spans the ocean...They plan to invade when the earth is flooded. They are causing Global Warming with the drilling under the ice caps with the nuclear fusion drills...

[Oberon]

Btw this is in IL-2 http://www.luft46.com/heinkel/helerche.html its fun to fly and its stupid fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHzmWLBUItM :yep:

[Oberon]

Oh, and :har::har::har::har::har: Nicely done Rapro-er-Raptor. :yep:

[Cybermat47]

grammar

YES! YEEEES! At last, a grammatically correct spelling of the word grammar!

I'd better be promoted to Junior Grammar Nazi now!

[Dammit_Carl!]

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/939/rolandfreislerwwwherodoau4.jpg



Oddly attired Nazi frowns at your shenanigans

[Oberon]

Bump.

Thoughts on continuing this? Takeda is willing to buy IL2 (on sale at GoG at the moment) and join us, Schroeder can join in too. I think that it's the only game that we all have that we can all play like we have done with ARMA2.
It's more stable than CloD and has more missions than RoF and doesn't have a learning curve like DCS, and we all have it or can get it for a low price.

I vote aye.

[Red October1984]

Bump.

Thoughts on continuing this? Takeda is willing to buy IL2 (on sale at GoG at the moment) and join us, Schroeder can join in too. I think that it's the only game that we all have that we can all play like we have done with ARMA2.
It's more stable than CloD and has more missions than RoF and doesn't have a learning curve like DCS, and we all have it or can get it for a low price.

I vote aye.

I like the humor in the Lolwaffles stuff.

I vote aye. :har:

[Crécy]

I'm in the process of trying to get IL-2 and HSFX properly installed (somehow I fail to get perfect textures and bigger resolution to work) so given that I'm around when you play, or rather given that you are willing to suffer my incompetence, I'd be glad to join.

[Schroeder]

I'm a bit divided about this. I think we would pretty much immediately run into the same problem as before: DCG.

If we were to find a proper campaign somewhere however I would be willing to give it another go.

[Raptor1]

I am in favour of playing IL-2 in general, of course, so I vote Aff. As for missions, from what I recall the last time we tried DCG (in this very thread) it worked out pretty well until we got sidetracked by some other game, so we can give that another shot. Alternatively (my preferred option), we can do what we did with that old P-38 campaign and find some hand-made campaign we can use and then modify it to suit our needs (with personal aircraft and the like). This gives us something that isn't DCG but doesn't require us to make our own missions, which we often get bogged down with.

One thing I think we should avoid though in both DCG or a hand-made campaign is having it set too early in the war. While we had some rather fun campaigns in Spain, Poland, France and so forth, we usually find ourselves trying to progress through the whole war and then being stuck in Russia or something and dropping the whole thing. This time we should try starting in 1942 or 1943 at least, which will also give us a much greater variety of aircraft and theater choices.

[Oberon]

I did suggest that Raptor grab a campaign and modify it, and run both a DCG and a mod campaign together so that we don't get grinded down by DCG and it will make the limited amount of online co-op campaigns last longer. There is also the option of occasional dogfights and single co-op missions to throw into the mix.
DCG does get on my nerves sometimes too, but when you take a look at the online campaign list on M4T it's rather sparse and we've played most of them.
In regards to the early war machine question, I do see where you're coming form Raptor, but historically there's only a limited time frame in between early German air superiority over Russia and then Germany getting its backside handed to it from the left and right.

[Oberon]

Right then...

Now...can I remember how to do this...

http://imageshack.us/a/img20/4564/k6pq.jpg
Ah yes, it's all coming back to me now...

http://imageshack.us/a/img405/8715/ra5t.jpg
Takeda makes his first landing. :up:

http://imageshack.us/a/img62/8236/5f76.jpg
Flak gunners can hit things, who'd have thought it?

http://imageshack.us/a/img221/4704/jf0q.jpg
Raptor attempts to take care of the flak problem, but uses the most lackluster nuke in the USAAFs arsenal.

http://imageshack.us/a/img856/5618/tx4k.jpg
Raptor: "What?! Hey! Where are you going!!"

http://imageshack.us/a/img843/9178/awpn.jpg
I curve in with 'the plane that won the war' against Raptors Heinkel Sciencemobile, open fire with my 50 cals and then end up smashing into the side of Raptor and losing my port wing. Great Success!