B-17 Grog Wagon: Mission Logs (AAR)

[JasonPratt]

Depends on where the bombs hit I guess.

YAY I GOT TO FEATHER THE PROP! {revving chainsaw}

Speaking of cornstalks in the bomb doors, back in the days of Lucasarts' Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, my brother's favorite B-17 strategy was to land near the target, strafe the hell out of it with his machine guns, then fly back to base landing at various targets of opportunity along the way to empty the barrels. This avoided all the enemy planes, too. To complete the utter gaminess of this strategy, he'd roll up over one of the larger flat 'targets' (which couldn't be effectively shot to pieces with the guns) and drop his bombs!  ;D The programmers hadn't anticipated that, so no damage was assigned to the aircraft!

Once I learned how he was racking up completely unreal scores that way, I stopped trying to fly the bombers and concentrated on the German jets and the crazy gliding rocket plane (that shot rockets up from its wings when passing under a bomber.) Hope we don't run into those!

(My uncle flew 35 missions, and was on tour when the ME 262 jets went operational, though he never saw the experimental rocket planes. He said the jets scared them more than anything because they were effectively invulnerable. All you could do was hope they miss, or were new pilots bluffed off by the guns.)

[BanzaiCat]

^ I loved flying the Flying Wing from SWOTL.

Also, B-17 only has Me-109s, Me-110s, and Fw-190s. At least, the copy I had from so long ago only has those. It would make sense if there was an update in there somewhere, or optional rules for German jets.

[W8taminute]

...back in the days of Lucasarts' Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, my brother's favorite B-17 strategy was to land near the target, strafe the hell out of it with his machine guns, then fly back to base landing at various targets of opportunity along the way to empty the barrels. This avoided all the enemy planes, too. To complete the utter gaminess of this strategy, he'd roll up over one of the larger flat 'targets' (which couldn't be effectively shot to pieces with the guns) and drop his bombs!  ;D The programmers hadn't anticipated that, so no damage was assigned to the aircraft!

I hate to admit it but that is almost exactly what I did.  I'd only fly over the channel to France and strafe a V1 site to death while the ai controlled raids against the aircraft industry or airfields would do max damage based on my performance against the V1 sites.  I decimated the Luftwaffe in just a few missions then proceeded to bomb normal targets in the B-17 the conventional way without having to worry about enemy fighters. 

[Con]

Heh its funny how ideas go in waves.  I have been playing B17 on Vassel (I wish that someone would port this onto the ipad what a great game to play on that format). 

My Plane is Dwarven Cargo and all the positions are filled with Dwarves (harder to hit) using the Dwarven random name generator to name them. 

Here are my stats with 11 flights
Original plane is still flying
7 KIA and 7 WIA cannot fly again - Only original crew left are Co Pilot, Ball Turret, Port Waist and Tail Gunner.
17 Enemy fighters shot down (Tail Gunner has 8 of these)
Most dangerous position is Bombardier and Navigator I am on my 4th replacement for each position
Bomb runs average = 11% with 2 aborts on my last two missions (bomb bays doors jammed on first abort and nav and bombardier both KIA = 2nd abort).  Including the two aborted missions my bomb damage percentage drops to 9%

All in all I am not feeling too optimistic about my chances.  My crew are bullet magnets that cant hit the ground with their bombs.

Con

[BanzaiCat]

Speaking of replacements...yeah, anyone who was late to this little party should probably stick around; it's almost certain there will be a need for a replacement crewmember. This game gets vicious!

[Windigo]

felt my nads crawl a little closer to my spleen when I saw the stats about navigators....

[PanzersEast]

MISSION 2
City: Abbeville/Drucat, France
Target: Airfield


With the no 1 Engine repaired and our bullet holes patched, we received word during the mission briefing that today's target will be at the Abbeville/Drucat Airfield in France.  Our group is to form up with the 301st and the 419th.  There is a possibility of light fog over the target area, however it could clear by the time we arrive. 

Some of the crew has managed to convince Sgt. bob48, after his luck in the last mission, to lend his lucky rabbits foot around..... for an nominal fee of course. 


More to Come.........

[bob48]

Oh no worries. I got loads of rabbit feet. How many you want? They're cheaper by the dozen.

[BanzaiCat]

Abbeville, eh? No clouds, eh? Damn clouds, that's what made me drop those bombs off target before. Although those civvy structures were asking for a remodeling. Probably collaborators, anyway!

[Windigo]

makes my job easier... hell I have a petrol station road map that shows me where it is

[Mad Russian]

Damn clouds, that's what made me drop those bombs off target before. Although those civvy structures were asking for a remodeling. Probably collaborators, anyway!

They all voted for Hitler to be Chancellor! I wouldn't be too worried about it.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Con]

Starting to see some info popping up for Mighty Eighth the new Spielberg produced war mini series coming out this year

Here is a teaser trailer to give you some flavor for your next mission

Con

[BanzaiCat]

^ That looks pretty cool.

There's also this to look forward to:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-developing-third-wwii-miniseries-413632

[Con]

Just thought I would update on my B17 game (Edit this is not from the OP Post I was just coincidentally running a B17 Vassal game)

Dwarven Cargo went down with an inboard fuel tank fire.  We dropped the bombs on a milk run at Abbeville only 1 fighter attack no flak everything looking good then 1 Me 110 slips through and flames us.

All but three made the jump safely to earth.  The tail gunner, ball gunner and radio operator didnt make it out.  That means of the original crew only the co pilot was left alive after 12 missions. 

Con

[PanzersEast]

I have a couple missions to post, however I have gotten a little side tracked.....



PE