BN 7-13-12 - Operation Flax

[MackStones]

Friday,  July 13, 2012  - 22:00hrs Central US. (11:00pm Eastern US; 4:00am GMT)  
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This week's Friday night mission is called "Operation Flax".   We are back to the MTO this mission.  This isn't a Bomber Night per se, but more of a special mission.  I've been intrigued by this scenario for a couple years, after flying a single-player campaign which had a mission addressing it.  

In April 1943, the Germans and Italian forces tried to evacuate Tunisia, using transports (and bombers) to a large degree.  The planes flew in loops between Sicily and Tunisia, bringing troops back to Sicily.  Unfortunately for them, Allied airforces intercepted many of the transport aircraft.  Here, I have large numbers of AI transports/bombers which are coming from near Tunis past the northeast cape and then to Sicily.  The RAF and USAAF will be waiting.  German and Italian aircraft are escort-only.  

It is basically a MTO-version of the Marianas Turkey Shoot, as I've once heard it described.  It won't be quite so easy here, but may prove interesting.

It's P-40, P-38, and Spit Mk VIII v. AI-only transports and human Bf-109F-4 and MC-205.  

[422nd_RedSkull]

Mack ~S~

Pretty mission. I was with fear that you put the Me 323 in mission, because in real Operation Flax the Luftwaffe used it, but for my happy this monsters wasn´t in air :-)

But I think the mission was with one bug.  In the 03 first waves (all with Ju-52) I shoot down 06 planes and count in stats, but in the nexts waves, with SM.79 and Cant Z.1007, I down more 06, the points count in stats but the AK no and during the battle the % of planes that we need down to win (in this moment 8%) also freeze.

S!

[MackStones]

Thanks RedSkull.  I had to be out til late with work, and didn't get to fly.  I noticed some weird things with the stats.  I haven't used those Italian aircraft as AI targets beforehand; some aircraft don't count in the stats as AI kills for some reason and those might fall into that category.

I was debating whether to include the Me-323, but I wasn't sure it was a major target of the successful attacks.

Thanks for flying.