My friend’s father was a bicycle messenger boy in Coventry during the actual attacks. He would carry messages between fire and civil defense personnel, etc. His favorite airplane from the war was the Hawker Typhoon.
@@grimreapers One variable you neglected to factor was the relatively poor infrared tracking of the sidewinders at the time. I don't think they could lock-on to non-jets back in 1980. Also, the Pheonix is very slow and needs altitude advantage. The Ju-88 had dive bombing capability and was fairly maneuverable, if they had forewarning...
That looked really cool. I haven’t seen too much of the spotlights and flak exploding at night. Thanks for persevering through all the problems you had making this video, the end result was worth it!
This would be really interesting if the squadron slipped in behind the formation slow and just took turns rippling off missiles....It'll also be interesting to see how this would work with F-101, F-102, F-106 and F-4, if/when those modules ever happen.
I used to work in central Coventry and, weather permitting, would often have lunch in the very evocative remains of the old cathedral. Militarily, the big raid was a failure.
This was one video where the nighttime made it more epic, even more so with Damp Sok trying to dry his socks on takeoff. But the missiles looked epic in the night with the trails, much better than daytime where we on TH-cam can't see them much due to compression. Nicely done, I would say it was worth the pain and effort you put in Cap!
I think an F/A-18 (or F-15) loaded with all the AMRAAMs it can carry would be a bit more ideal for this. Still though, nothing beats a Tomcat, those planes are legendary.
When you shoot the shrike, just remember not to look at it. It'll bind you. Watching this in the dark at night I thought there was lightning when those fox 3s went off..
The electronic battle was a constant one with the advantage periodically switching, so you can't really criticise the failure too harshly. There is also the fact that the British knew from communications intercepts that Coventry was the target, but they did not want to risk exposing their ability to decode messages and consequently wanted to give the impression that they were caught by surprise.
Just a observation... you guys have already established that the AIM-54 has a good size blast radius, could the bombers that turned around suffered damage as Cap said to their fuel tanks and they reached bingo fuel before they reached the target? Is/could that be modeled?
That's what I was thinking. If you're flying a mission and your squadron starts dropping like files from some unknown and unseen phantom barrage you're probably not going to hold steady with the attack.
Those pilots would have shat their pants once the different planes around them just started blowing up, all they would have maybe seen coming was a glow from the rocket and not knowing what it was, then to possibly see a plane that you know does not exist come through doing machine gun runs. They all would have broke up and headed home, hitler would have been furious once word got to him on what happened.
Even though you guys are playing a video game I like the fact that you give a little piece of History before you start the game I greatly appreciate that
The name of the mission is a reference to the name a german critic and poet, Ludwig Rellstab, gave to Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 14, 5 years after Beethovens death.
My Aunt was a young Lass living in Coventry during the raids, she wouldn't talk about it except to say that she didn't blame the Germans, she blamed the "politicians" on all sides
@@bulldog71ss33 that depends on your historical view. It could be said that WW2 was a result of the onerous condition imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, and t be honest, that’s a pretty accurate view.
well done GR considering nighttime.A belief I have is Churchill knew they were coming as they had broken the codes but couldnt send fighters etc it would let the Jerries know they could read their orders
The Bletchley Park podcast covers this in a couple of episodes. In particular the November 2015 episode, and there is a mini episode extract of that. In short they were breaking the codes about 1 day in 3 and the codes for 14 November 1940 weren’t broken until the 15th.
In the spirit of this video, I'm not sure if you have done this scenario yet, but how about defending Dresden Germany (four Allied raids between 13 and 15 February 1945)?? 722 Heavy Bombers from the RAF and 527 Heavy Bombers from the USAAF. Sidenote: I met an older woman when I was young, who survived this bombing campaign. She fled with her family after 2 days of intense bombing into the countryside. The family was walking along a dirt road, with civilian vehicles around them, when a pair of P47s mistook the collection of people for German Military personnel..... they got strafed and barely got out alive. She recalled the events clear as day when telling the story. Dresden was absolutely leveled.
There's actually a very simple explanation if you understand the tech why they likely turned off. The combat formations they fly are designed to defend against fighters and not be overly stacked vs AA of the day especially flak - usually 3-5 inch guns, with some 6 and the occasional 8 inch guns. Missiles are essentially rocket flak (detonate close and shrapnel rips it apart if no direct hit) - and if you guys are firing Aim-54's - the explosive warhead on those is close to those of an Iowa class's 16 inch 'HE' shell. Odds are that firing those in to the formation, they were hit with fragmentation, and seemed fine up until they reached those points and realized they were losing fuel, hydraulics, etc. Your basically launching flak rounds 7 times bigger/more powerful than what they are used to from the wrong way. To say nothing of the stupid rounds a minute a tomcat fires so they could have also been hit by stray rounds. Happened plenty in real life a plane was fine till it's not. Happens in Warthunder too where plane takes damage and it's fine and flyable for a time till you run out of water or oil and the engine loses all power, or the controls finally freeze completely.
If an AIM-54 sees an entire formation of Junkers as a single target, wouldn't its guidance aim for the "target's" center of mass and therefore unleash the most fragmentation damage. I'd think firing a single Phoenix per minute would allow each successive missile to target the new center of mass resulting from the hole the previous Phoenix left in the formation.
@@thudthud5423 Well - the question is how accurate does DCS replicate how the AIM-54 works and functions. They may not have been far enough for it to do it's usual flight path to go up to higher altitudes for best range, however - it only relies on the Tomcats Radar to a certain point (which is the one it shows as a singular blob) and at 9 - 2 nautical miles from target activates it's own radar for guidance - which being that much closer and all may better define the individual aircraft and smaller groups with it's active homing radar in the terminal phase. At which point other than than the friendly fire incident - firing off all 6 or several of them makes just as much sense as they will find their targets from there, spreading them out slightly so they each go after a flight. Which does make me wonder how the jets that use the 120 would fare given it's got half the blast but much newer and depending on model of plane perhaps some better radar to discern elements of the group better.
Seen several of your vids of this type of mission run and I have to agree with a comment below about not shooting missiles until after regrouping behind the Coventry bombing force. It seems at least one of your flight always gets taken down by a flyer further behind when they cut loose. Getting behind the Coventry raid, then one by one sending fighters forward to ripple off all their missiles before breaking off clear to allow the next to come up would seem a far more effective strategy, and might even result in the elimination of the entire bomber group or have what few survivors are left peeling off and abandoning the raid.
Not sure why I waste time watching this stuff when I could be changing cat litter but… hilarious! Just imagine the terror of the lufrwaffe pilots as hellfire from nowhere reigns down upon them. Hell of a debrief for the surviving pilots.
My brothers first house deeds say 'bomb damage' on them. My Grandad was ARP and Anti aircraft gunner loader. He was firing from a factory roof and his team claimed a Ju88 damaged. He was also there when a pub cellar took a direct hit nd he had to try and match up body parts thereafter. He had nightmares till he died.
I would love to see the Coventry simulation using the cool twin Turbo prop ground attack plane to shoot them down. Perhaps perhaps daytime instead of night
Squadron size of 24 aircraft? A typical F-14 squadron was 10-12 aircraft. Even WW2 US fighter squadrons were not that large. I enjoy the spectacle of your virtual circus, always good for a chuckle guys. Salute. And nah, I doubt they could succeed without forewarning and minute planning including some preemptive strikes. Just a numbers game divided by time.
The advertiser whose ad showed right after a couple of burning bombers was . . . . . . ZIPPO.. Not the lighter company but it still almost cost me a keyboard with sprayed beverage
Watching this mission got me thinking about another variation. How about a similar mission but with a smaller number of Ju88's Mosquitos rather than Tomcats defending? Doesn't have to historically accurate and that would give you freedom to use anywhere on the Channel map. If the lack of NVG makes it near impossible would a late dusk raid be the go?
1:24 - To be fair on our side in the battle of the beams, it wasn't a question of "failing to disrupt" the X Gerät, as only way of disrupting the *beams* in questions was to bomb at least one of the pair of transmitters. What the British tried to do was disrupt their *effect* , by misleading the German navigators who relied on each beam having Morse code dots on its left side & Morse code dashes on its right side, so that the navigator could tell which side he was on: the method of misleading was to transmit conflicting dots & dashes. On this occasion, that clearly failed, despite the fact that the beams were detected far enough in advance of the raid to allow 8 bombers to be sent to bomb the relevant German bomber airfields, & also to put up continuous CAPs over Coventry itself [according to my source, which clearly conflicts with Cap's]. My dad's maternal family lived in Coventry, & his mother & aunt worked in the Rudge cycle factory there. After this raid, his cobbler grandad moved to Wolverhampton to live with dad's parents, where he felt safer.
That was a cool mission. I think if you take out 2/3 of the force that bombed Coventry it would have been a substantially different event. So yeah, mission pass.
Hey Cap can you guys do a reenactment of the March 2003 "Shock and Awe"? The beginning of the 2nd Iraq-USA war? Thank you all for the awesome videos we get to enjoy!
Hey GR, just for the purposes of writing future suggestions, approximately how many warbirds can your biggest servers run? Is that limit any different for modern aircraft?
Hey Cap, Its well known that the Chain Home radar network was instrumental during the Battle of Britian. How would it have played out if the Luftwaffe had access to HARMs?
@@grimreapers its 2x 12 plane Sqn's per carrier (as an example the first deployed F14s where VF1 and VF2 aboard CVN65 Enterprise (Bounty Hunters and Wolfpack)
Interesting that you're having trouble with the Ju88 too! I've been building an almost identical scenario in Mission Editor. I was forced to delete some of the bombers because they're so poorly optimized. Especially for VR. You'll be running 40-50fps, and then you look towards the formation and you drop to 12-15fps. The same doesn't seem to happen with similar sized formations of other aircraft. The issue is, we're not given any other German WW2 bombers to play with! I'm guessing that the LOD models are not optimized well. As far as I can tell, they use one very very low vertex model for cameras beyond 5nm away, then it switches to the full definition model when you're close enough to make out the shape of an airframe... truly hopeless. I hope that ED addresses this soon, or gives us some other AI-only bombers to play with..
Considering the Luftwaffe attacked over several hours in waves and you wouldn't have faced all 500 at once, I'd say this mission was a resounding success. Of course, I am sure there will be many who will wonder if an American Carrier Strike Group in the channel could have defeated Operation Moonlight Sonata.
My only complaint is how ineffective British AA is compared to that of the Germans. The boys did great considering the game limitations. Damp was exceptional, In fact he seems to be upping his skill level consistently. Tanky was a bit of a legend with his "Sparra's" too.
I think that after the first round of "Comets" the Germans saw decimated them, some might have fled in sheer terror just from that. I agree on the shrapnel forcing some that made it to turn off at the IP. However the extent of this victory is in the loss of pilots.. that ratio is devastating.
I would like to see this scenario except instead of countering the blitz with aircraft, play as the Germans vs CRAMs and modern AA and a gauntlet of defence
Just going by the numbers. 25 optimum load F-14's, 6 Phoenix with 2 Sparrows or 4 Phoenix and 4 Sparrows for the radar capacity, no Sidewinders a IR lock would be iffy, You would ONLY get 200 of your 500 raid by missile. Then going guns perhaps another 10 per F-14 if you are lucky giving you another 250. 50 attackers would be missed. Proper single, spaced out gun runs by the F-14 would eliminate friendly fire. No gun runs until after all missiles are fired, and only fire missiles from trailing planes once the lead plane is out of the way. Gunnery from the German planes would be useless for them as the defense is at night and they cannot see a plane moving at 500 knots. The psychological effects of 200 planes just blowing the hell up would have caused the whole attack to be called off.
My friend’s father was a bicycle messenger boy in Coventry during the actual attacks. He would carry messages between fire and civil defense personnel, etc. His favorite airplane from the war was the Hawker Typhoon.
thx
Truly a great example of a proud, altruistic people, pulling together in the face of adversity. Too bad that culture and people have been replaced...
@@grimreapers One variable you neglected to factor was the relatively poor infrared tracking of the sidewinders at the time. I don't think they could lock-on to non-jets back in 1980.
Also, the Pheonix is very slow and needs altitude advantage. The Ju-88 had dive bombing capability and was fairly maneuverable, if they had forewarning...
That looked really cool. I haven’t seen too much of the spotlights and flak exploding at night. Thanks for persevering through all the problems you had making this video, the end result was worth it!
It's always a good day when a new Grim Reapers vid drops.
Pretty much every day...
@@stevenlarratt3638 exactly lol 😂
This would be really interesting if the squadron slipped in behind the formation slow and just took turns rippling off missiles....It'll also be interesting to see how this would work with F-101, F-102, F-106 and F-4, if/when those modules ever happen.
We tried but the server kept crashing, after 3 hours of testing, this is the ONLY method that didn't crash.
@@grimreapers Ugh. Frustrating.
That scene at the end with the FLAKs was probably the coolest visual display on this channel ever!
Damp dumping fuel with AB on was hilarious!
I used to work in central Coventry and, weather permitting, would often have lunch in the very evocative remains of the old cathedral. Militarily, the big raid was a failure.
I was in the USN and saw my share of F-14s. My grandmother survived the blitz of 1940 so I really liked this vid.
That was actually quite beautiful; a pleasure to watch. Thanks for all your efforts guys.
This was one video where the nighttime made it more epic, even more so with Damp Sok trying to dry his socks on takeoff.
But the missiles looked epic in the night with the trails, much better than daytime where we on TH-cam can't see them much due to compression.
Nicely done, I would say it was worth the pain and effort you put in Cap!
I had no idea that DCS had floodlights for WW2 AA guns at night, So amazing looking!!! :D
IL-2 has some pretty spotlight action too if you like that sort of thing
New video IDEA. Can we test the no escape zone ranges of air-to-air missiles?
thx
The moment when the searchlights is lit.... I'm guessing that would be scary as hell, because you then know that shit is about to hit the fan!!!
Like watching sharks tearing apart a bait ball.
I think an F/A-18 (or F-15) loaded with all the AMRAAMs it can carry would be a bit more ideal for this. Still though, nothing beats a Tomcat, those planes are legendary.
When you shoot the shrike, just remember not to look at it. It'll bind you.
Watching this in the dark at night I thought there was lightning when those fox 3s went off..
Flight of the Intruder
The electronic battle was a constant one with the advantage periodically switching, so you can't really criticise the failure too harshly. There is also the fact that the British knew from communications intercepts that Coventry was the target, but they did not want to risk exposing their ability to decode messages and consequently wanted to give the impression that they were caught by surprise.
Just a observation... you guys have already established that the AIM-54 has a good size blast radius, could the bombers that turned around suffered damage as Cap said to their fuel tanks and they reached bingo fuel before they reached the target? Is/could that be modeled?
A10 vs the trenches in WWI would be interesting. Guns and CBUs against those positions.
GR friendly fires Cap when firing at bandits miles away...
The utter pineconery of GR never fails to impress.
Keep it up boys, love the content.
Great vid as always. Unlucky that it was a mission fail though. Keep up the good work guys.
A F106 with a Genie Nuke AAM will be interesting in this scenario
Great video; thanks guys!
I imagine a lot of ww2 bombers really would turn around if they were subject to a Phoenix barrage like that.
That's what I was thinking. If you're flying a mission and your squadron starts dropping like files from some unknown and unseen phantom barrage you're probably not going to hold steady with the attack.
I dunno,, because they'd have no way to know what was happening,, they'd assume it was lucky flak
Those pilots would have shat their pants once the different planes around them just started blowing up, all they would have maybe seen coming was a glow from the rocket and not knowing what it was, then to possibly see a plane that you know does not exist come through doing machine gun runs.
They all would have broke up and headed home, hitler would have been furious once word got to him on what happened.
Well, that was super cool to watch!
That was fun :) Thanks GR
Even though you guys are playing a video game I like the fact that you give a little piece of History before you start the game I greatly appreciate that
I just subscribed to your TH-cam channel. Am loving your gameplay already ♥️ well done bro and I wish you all the best 👍
I normally don’t like the night missions, but this one was awesome
Lots of co2 emitted in this one...
The name of the mission is a reference to the name a german critic and poet, Ludwig Rellstab, gave to Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 14, 5 years after Beethovens death.
Cap I swear I had that exact same desktop background back when I played flight games in the late 90's... maybe not but it looks so damn familiar!
After watching this channel I'm in love with the Tomcat x
My Aunt was a young Lass living in Coventry during the raids, she wouldn't talk about it except to say that she didn't blame the Germans, she blamed the "politicians" on all sides
It was like 98% ze Germans.
@@bulldog71ss33 if Bojo was PM in those days it would have been 100% him lol
@@bulldog71ss33 that depends on your historical view. It could be said that WW2 was a result of the onerous condition imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, and t be honest, that’s a pretty accurate view.
Also....Seeing all those searchlights suddenly turning on was pretty wild
It was both beautiful and *terrifying* (from the perspective of the bombers).
Imagine what would have happened if one F-14 didn't get shot down by another.
Cap had already fired all his Phoenix missiles, but it probably would have meant another few kills.
My father was a F14 pilot during that bombing above Coventry and he always told me that he was expecting more fire from this bombers.
Cool story. I always thought The Final Countdown was fiction
Thx Cap and all the fellow airmen for making another beautiful vid. Pls try not to shoot one another 😂
How many time scenarios are gon pop up, this channel starting to become binkov, and i love it
Got over 100 in the pipeline.
well done GR considering nighttime.A belief I have is Churchill knew they were coming as they had broken the codes but couldnt send fighters etc it would let the Jerries know they could read their orders
The Bletchley Park podcast covers this in a couple of episodes. In particular the November 2015 episode, and there is a mini episode extract of that. In short they were breaking the codes about 1 day in 3 and the codes for 14 November 1940 weren’t broken until the 15th.
Could those supersonic night launched missiles be any cooler?
agree
In the spirit of this video, I'm not sure if you have done this scenario yet, but how about defending Dresden Germany (four Allied raids between 13 and 15 February 1945)??
722 Heavy Bombers from the RAF and 527 Heavy Bombers from the USAAF. Sidenote: I met an older woman when I was young, who survived this bombing campaign. She fled with her family after 2 days of intense bombing into the countryside. The family was walking along a dirt road, with civilian vehicles around them, when a pair of P47s mistook the collection of people for German Military personnel..... they got strafed and barely got out alive. She recalled the events clear as day when telling the story. Dresden was absolutely leveled.
There's actually a very simple explanation if you understand the tech why they likely turned off. The combat formations they fly are designed to defend against fighters and not be overly stacked vs AA of the day especially flak - usually 3-5 inch guns, with some 6 and the occasional 8 inch guns. Missiles are essentially rocket flak (detonate close and shrapnel rips it apart if no direct hit) - and if you guys are firing Aim-54's - the explosive warhead on those is close to those of an Iowa class's 16 inch 'HE' shell. Odds are that firing those in to the formation, they were hit with fragmentation, and seemed fine up until they reached those points and realized they were losing fuel, hydraulics, etc. Your basically launching flak rounds 7 times bigger/more powerful than what they are used to from the wrong way. To say nothing of the stupid rounds a minute a tomcat fires so they could have also been hit by stray rounds.
Happened plenty in real life a plane was fine till it's not. Happens in Warthunder too where plane takes damage and it's fine and flyable for a time till you run out of water or oil and the engine loses all power, or the controls finally freeze completely.
If an AIM-54 sees an entire formation of Junkers as a single target, wouldn't its guidance aim for the "target's" center of mass and therefore unleash the most fragmentation damage. I'd think firing a single Phoenix per minute would allow each successive missile to target the new center of mass resulting from the hole the previous Phoenix left in the formation.
@@thudthud5423 Well - the question is how accurate does DCS replicate how the AIM-54 works and functions. They may not have been far enough for it to do it's usual flight path to go up to higher altitudes for best range, however - it only relies on the Tomcats Radar to a certain point (which is the one it shows as a singular blob) and at 9 - 2 nautical miles from target activates it's own radar for guidance - which being that much closer and all may better define the individual aircraft and smaller groups with it's active homing radar in the terminal phase. At which point other than than the friendly fire incident - firing off all 6 or several of them makes just as much sense as they will find their targets from there, spreading them out slightly so they each go after a flight.
Which does make me wonder how the jets that use the 120 would fare given it's got half the blast but much newer and depending on model of plane perhaps some better radar to discern elements of the group better.
I'm from Coventry and I was taught all the history it was flattened
Seen several of your vids of this type of mission run and I have to agree with a comment below about not shooting missiles until after regrouping behind the Coventry bombing force.
It seems at least one of your flight always gets taken down by a flyer further behind when they cut loose. Getting behind the Coventry raid, then one by one sending fighters forward to ripple off all their missiles before breaking off clear to allow the next to come up would seem a far more effective strategy, and might even result in the elimination of the entire bomber group or have what few survivors are left peeling off and abandoning the raid.
Great night time visuals.
Damps afterburner looked like the Concorde going down.....
since Cortana quit playing regularly Sock has stepped up and gotten really good
What is she doing now?
She's recovering from hospital. Back in 2 weeks.
Not sure why I waste time watching this stuff when I could be changing cat litter but… hilarious! Just imagine the terror of the lufrwaffe pilots as hellfire from nowhere reigns down upon them. Hell of a debrief for the surviving pilots.
My brothers first house deeds say 'bomb damage' on them. My Grandad was ARP and Anti aircraft gunner loader. He was firing from a factory roof and his team claimed a Ju88 damaged. He was also there when a pub cellar took a direct hit nd he had to try and match up body parts thereafter. He had nightmares till he died.
Wow!
Take-off looked like a Viper from BattleStar Galactica. Turbo-thrust! Cool as h...
wondering if the AA10 thermals would work well ?
5:34: Ah...the Mach 2+ illumination flare...
I would love to see the Coventry simulation using the cool twin Turbo prop ground attack plane to shoot them down. Perhaps perhaps daytime instead of night
What protection is F-14 for heavy maschine gun at bomber ?
Damp looks like a SpaceX Launch in the beginning.
Squadron size of 24 aircraft? A typical F-14 squadron was 10-12 aircraft. Even WW2 US fighter squadrons were not that large. I enjoy the spectacle of your virtual circus, always good for a chuckle guys. Salute.
And nah, I doubt they could succeed without forewarning and minute planning including some preemptive strikes. Just a numbers game divided by time.
Viewer Suggestion: Mod the AIM-54 to have nuclear warheads... then... do stuff
agree
The advertiser whose ad showed right after a couple of burning bombers was . . . . . . ZIPPO.. Not the lighter company but it still almost cost me a keyboard with sprayed beverage
Thanks guys for the entertainment it’s always a good time.
This looked cool af.
Watching this mission got me thinking about another variation. How about a similar mission but with a smaller number of Ju88's Mosquitos rather than Tomcats defending? Doesn't have to historically accurate and that would give you freedom to use anywhere on the Channel map. If the lack of NVG makes it near impossible would a late dusk raid be the go?
You're being very supportive of the boys today Cap! Mellowing with age?
Sadly I really think I am... :(
1:24 - To be fair on our side in the battle of the beams, it wasn't a question of "failing to disrupt" the X Gerät, as only way of disrupting the *beams* in questions was to bomb at least one of the pair of transmitters. What the British tried to do was disrupt their *effect* , by misleading the German navigators who relied on each beam having Morse code dots on its left side & Morse code dashes on its right side, so that the navigator could tell which side he was on: the method of misleading was to transmit conflicting dots & dashes. On this occasion, that clearly failed, despite the fact that the beams were detected far enough in advance of the raid to allow 8 bombers to be sent to bomb the relevant German bomber airfields, & also to put up continuous CAPs over Coventry itself [according to my source, which clearly conflicts with Cap's].
My dad's maternal family lived in Coventry, & his mother & aunt worked in the Rudge cycle factory there. After this raid, his cobbler grandad moved to Wolverhampton to live with dad's parents, where he felt safer.
Remember that winwing technology is your ultimate hardware solution :) 27
agreed
@@grimreapers Cap, wanna sponsor me for some of that winwing goodness?
Perhaps if you like GA or F/A-18s and have the cash. But 'ultimate' is too strong of an adjective. 'A' is more appropriate.
Imagine the conversation with Churchill: ya we know about the ultra secret blah blah, but here’s a few things you might be interested in…
lol
DCS has some bad ass graphics.
Good example of tracers working both ways
Sweet thank you.
I wonder if its the same for prop planes
That was a cool mission. I think if you take out 2/3 of the force that bombed Coventry it would have been a substantially different event.
So yeah, mission pass.
Damp never fails to entertain!!!!
You should do this with a simulated f15ex missile truck
agree
Or multiple like a squadron of F15 EX
i know this was a night time mission but it may have been better for the vlog to do it during daytime or dusk so we could see the action :-)
Hey Cap can you guys do a reenactment of the March 2003 "Shock and Awe"? The beginning of the 2nd Iraq-USA war? Thank you all for the awesome videos we get to enjoy!
Will try
searchlights look ace!
Hey GR, just for the purposes of writing future suggestions, approximately how many warbirds can your biggest servers run? Is that limit any different for modern aircraft?
hmmm 60 maybe? 70?
If you had a larger server system then maybe you could have had 40x F14 Tom Cats.
Count the ones that turned off as "Couldn't hit their targets because we shot down a flare recon plane" and it kinda evens out.
Great mission!
Hey Cap,
Its well known that the Chain Home radar network was instrumental during the Battle of Britian. How would it have played out if the Luftwaffe had access to HARMs?
Depends how realistic we want to be? HARM will not have tracked that freq band...
Also, a modern USS Enterprise vs Japan
Beautiful visuals w/ the spotlights & AA guns. Too bad Cap got whacked, he could have easily taken out 6-10 more. Sock was 🔥
A squadron would be 11 maybe 12, but Navy fighter squadrons usually pair with "sister" squadrons, so I'll allow it 😂
Strange I was always told UK = 10-12 USA 24+?
@@grimreapers its 2x 12 plane Sqn's per carrier (as an example the first deployed F14s where VF1 and VF2 aboard CVN65 Enterprise (Bounty Hunters and Wolfpack)
@@grimreapers USAF=18-24, USN/USMC=10-12
Interesting that you're having trouble with the Ju88 too! I've been building an almost identical scenario in Mission Editor. I was forced to delete some of the bombers because they're so poorly optimized. Especially for VR. You'll be running 40-50fps, and then you look towards the formation and you drop to 12-15fps. The same doesn't seem to happen with similar sized formations of other aircraft. The issue is, we're not given any other German WW2 bombers to play with! I'm guessing that the LOD models are not optimized well. As far as I can tell, they use one very very low vertex model for cameras beyond 5nm away, then it switches to the full definition model when you're close enough to make out the shape of an airframe... truly hopeless. I hope that ED addresses this soon, or gives us some other AI-only bombers to play with..
Hopefully Nick watches this vid.
those numbers in WW2 are insane.
Considering the Luftwaffe attacked over several hours in waves and you wouldn't have faced all 500 at once, I'd say this mission was a resounding success. Of course, I am sure there will be many who will wonder if an American Carrier Strike Group in the channel could have defeated Operation Moonlight Sonata.
Cool concept but the video is like watching a knife fight in a dark closet….. but you shot down cap so not a total loss
lol
My only complaint is how ineffective British AA is compared to that of the Germans.
The boys did great considering the game limitations. Damp was exceptional, In fact he seems to be upping his skill level consistently. Tanky was a bit of a legend with his "Sparra's" too.
"WITNESS ME, BLOODBAGS" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
that is epic!
Cap, can you do this again with tornados please? Thanks.
We don't have them in game yet.
Harriers then maybe?
Who's the guy that sounds like the Kurgen out of highlander 😳
Love night missions!!
Have you heard anything about the Ka-52 mod?
neg
@@grimreapers the one who is looking will always find😉
Will there be any special missions to celebrate the release of the Phantom?
Vietnam campaign
@@grimreapers I shall look out for it. Thanks!
Question. Can a American ww2 fast carrier task force take on a modern Japanese fleet?
I think that after the first round of "Comets" the Germans saw decimated them, some might have fled in sheer terror just from that. I agree on the shrapnel forcing some that made it to turn off at the IP. However the extent of this victory is in the loss of pilots.. that ratio is devastating.
I would like to see this scenario except instead of countering the blitz with aircraft, play as the Germans vs CRAMs and modern AA and a gauntlet of defence
How would a properly operated squadron of AC-130 gunships do against WW-II bombers?
AC-130s in an air-air mission? Hmm. I'm not sure that would work to well. They'd have to fly perpendicular to target moving enemy planes.
Just going by the numbers. 25 optimum load F-14's, 6 Phoenix with 2 Sparrows or 4 Phoenix and 4 Sparrows for the radar capacity, no Sidewinders a IR lock would be iffy, You would ONLY get 200 of your 500 raid by missile. Then going guns perhaps another 10 per F-14 if you are lucky giving you another 250. 50 attackers would be missed.
Proper single, spaced out gun runs by the F-14 would eliminate friendly fire. No gun runs until after all missiles are fired, and only fire missiles from trailing planes once the lead plane is out of the way.
Gunnery from the German planes would be useless for them as the defense is at night and they cannot see a plane moving at 500 knots.
The psychological effects of 200 planes just blowing the hell up would have caused the whole attack to be called off.
You can't load any AIM-7s if you have 6 AIM 54s loaded, You can only carry 2 Sparrows if loaded with 4 Buffalos...