{"id":45028,"date":"2017-12-22T02:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=45028"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T00:55:03","slug":"bomber-crew-missions-16-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2017\/12\/22\/bomber-crew-missions-16-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomber Crew: missions 16-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission 16: Ammo Dump at Bruges: <\/strong> I have been told that in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. I suspect this is a small taste of that, since we are going to bomb Bruges again when we just did it not too long ago. Practice must make perfect, though, because it is the smoothest flight we\u2019ve had in days. We even manage to pick up two recon opportunities. That\u2019ll come in handy for our plane upgrades! I suspect the \u201cenemy armor down\u201d and \u201cenemy flak down\u201d that are both in effect for this mission have something to do with this. We also earn an \u201cenemy damage down,\u201d so our next mission will have both enemy armor and damage reduced. It would be great to have these both up for the critical mission, which is Operation Chastise against the Ruhr dams, but I can\u2019t fly that until I fly the test mission to see if the bomb works. Since I have two awesome bonuses in effect, I think we should go for another tough mission. The crew is not of the same opinion, but I\u2019m the boss.<\/p>\n

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I have almost \u20a411,000 to spend on upgrades. I want better fuel tanks, but my engines aren\u2019t up to the task until I upgrade them. So I upgrade both outboard engines to Standard Mk 3, which gives me that engine across the board, and I grab both improved fuel tanks and improved radar. <\/p>\n

Mission 17: Truck Factory near Paris.<\/strong> I\u2019m going to take responsibility for this one right off the bat and say that when I told Miguk to go ahead and get in the ventral turret for extra protection, I didn\u2019t realize he was the only one who could operate the radar. Which is why we were all shocked when we got jumped over France by what seemed like a dozen fighters without any warning. \u201cHey, where did that come from?!\u201d shouted Juan_Raigada, as we all looked around frantically, trying to figure out where the bandits had gone. Miguk dashed back to the radar console, and told us we had at least eight fighters closing on us from all points of the compass. At this point I should have just aborted and told Wing Commander Biggins it was my fault, but I stubbornly pressed ahead and got us to the target with a less-than-intact aircraft. The gunners did a sensational job, because in the midst of it all, we intercepted a distress call from yet another German ace! We must have shot him down in the melee. The mission itself, though, didn\u2019t benefit from this stroke of luck. I didn\u2019t even get Left_Empty into a position to bomb when I decided it wasn\u2019t going to work out and hit the \u201cAbort\u201d button. This informed fishpockets that we needed a plotted route home on the double, which he did admirably. Once again, our airframe came this close<\/em> to failing, but God was on our side once more. How could he not be?<\/p>\n

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\nMission 18: Doodlebug Blitz.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Before we take off on this one, I sit down with Left_Empty. We talk about the usual stuff for a while: girls, football, what class our highest-level D&D character is and where he lives in Greyhawk. Eventually the subject turns to our upcoming mission, and I just flat out tell him: we\u2019re doing the Doodlebug Blitz again. \u201cBut I know you can do it. You\u2019re totally on it, just like you did the oil farm without a hitch. Remember how crazy that was?\u201d He smiles shyly. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be dope,\u201d I tell him. Nobody in 1943 even knows this word. So it\u2019s like our special call sign.<\/p>\n

Things go off pretty much perfectly. We are in such a groove that between the fourth and fifth V1 launch sites, we take a short detour to score an optional recon opportunity. Left_Empty even gets in the nose gun briefly to engage some Me-109s that come at us from dead ahead, before getting back in the bombardier\u2019s position just in time to smash the last rocket launch site. Then we peel off over the English Channel like it was nuthin\u2019. And we come home with 7.6k XP and \u20a416,000. I buy all the crew an extra drink at the officers\u2019 mess.<\/p>\n

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I upgrade our inner engines to Standard Mk 4, and the entire fuselage and wings to Armored Mk 3.<\/p>\n

Next: missions 19 and 20<\/a>
\nPreviously: missions 12-15<\/a>
\nRead Bruce Geryk’s Bomber Crew review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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