HARD Sarge vs Nicko BIG WEEK

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old Cannon boy, finally gave in a offered to give me a dubbing

so we trying Big Week (he wanted BoB)

so while a AAR and PBEM game, it is also a test run, so may be interesting

Big Week, as you may know, was when the USSAAF went out and tried to knock out the LW, in the air on the ground and in the factories, they did a decent job of it (with out know how well of a job the Germans would be able to do, to come back from the blow)

so, my job is to try and knock out as much, air related factories as I can, and try to do more damage to the LW then the LW can do to the USSAAF

the map is a shorten model, and only the VIIIth and XVth airforces are used for the Allies

(a couple of IXth FG are in the game, they were used by the VIIIth for extra fighters when needed in real life)

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okay just some basic info

the target list, which is way behind in recon

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the starting score and numbers

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and how I set up for recon (I use auto recon for most, other then things that I totally want info on, or if it works into my plans)

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with all of the recon raids going out, I won't bother with a screen of the plotting

but, over all, for the first day, I am going to work over France

the Paris area has some good targets around it, two Large BB sites, some EFAC and CFAC

plus it takes me out of his main defence, he wants to fight, he going to have to chase

later on, I will hit the coast, going for a Chem plant and a CFAC

late in the afternoon, will raid a Arm plant, which should allow him to finally get the main part of his forces into action

in the Med, starting out small, a few raids into the Balkins, a raid into the northern IT plains, and one down the middle

hopefully, enough to keep him busy

[invernomuto]

JUST NOTICED the max target range for auto plotting recon mission.
DOH!!!

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okay first day is over, much more weather then I expected

Nik's fighters got in early and bypassed the fighters, doing some decent damage, before my boys started to react

I caught some of his Jabos and trainers

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summery for the end of day one, my guys look tired already

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from the looks of it, I didn't draw up much of the Reich Defence, that will change

losses for the day, not bad

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take out the Jabo and Trainer losses and pretty even day

the results of the raids

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my raids in the south for day two (kind of need some rest, so didn't push down here)

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the main raids for the North

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if I hit, got about 38+ points of EFAC targeted

of course, those are some ruff targets to get

my decoys in the north, main idea is to try and draw in some of the Reich defence forces and get the front line French forces into the air, before the main raids begin, if he don't fall for the bait, I be happy if I hit my targets, so a win win set of decoys

(those are the best kinds of decoys, if they take a pounding and miss there targets, oh well, or if they don't and hit, oh boy)

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of course, to be honest, 3 of those are targets I missed on day one

the raid list before I added in recon (got about 100 recon birds flying today)

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and some of the stuff Harley has been working on from the Allied point of view

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ran into more clouds over the main target, one group went for the 2ndary target and plastered it (good size Chem plant) the other tried to bomb though the clouds, and pretty much missed

overall, looks like the plan worked, Niko, sent up a lot of his twins, and some nightfighters, but my 38s and 51s can go deep too

here is the summery results at the end of day two

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losses after day two (the real LW fighters are doing well, but I am catching the ones that don't want to meet fighters)

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and the results of the raids

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two raids to Dar, and do 40 and 5 for the 2 raids, and this time looks like I take more then I gave !

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the target list after day two

not doing anything major to any one target, but, have started to hurt a number of them, nothing that is going to be really harmful for the next week, but down the road, it will start to cause issues