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    Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    Hello - Flushed with a map turning success, the Boomer's have all hired agents and are touring bookshops in August selling various versions of their part in the exploits on the night of 15th July. Mines especially good and includes my personal account of single handedly taking out 3 airfields with just one bomb and a bottle or HP sauce. A bargain at only £4.99 (or 50p if you wait a month)

    Anyhow.....the upshot is that I'm not planning to do anything for August - Real life August is holidays and kids and BBQs for a lot of us.. The next one will be on 16th September.

    The question is what to do? Its scheduled to be a red event. I even had a title .."Blennies From Heaven"...geddit? ...........may even be some new toys by then too, you never know...

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    That weekend is also very close to Battle of Britain Day (15th September) so the question is....

    Do we stick with Red and go try win a map OR go back to blue and look to put on one of those shows where, for a least a few minutes, we have a hundred aircraft in one bit of the map fighting for their lives and the outcome, at least for one raid, is secondary to getting a small feel of what it was like at the height of the battle?

    I know not everyone plays along but usually enough do to give the second option a fighting chance. Even better if in the intervening period Somthing happens to increase bomber resilience. Better still if a few of those hurries and spits could be persuaded to go with historical loadouts and convergences just for the night.

    So, up for discussion and suggestions and democracy wins.

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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    First of all Thanks for planning another event!

    I'm all for a 'realistic as possible' scenario, but I think it would be tough to get one with the 'casual' approach. You would need fixed amounts of blue bombers and fighter escorts and on red a reasonably historical mix of Spits and Hurris.
    If you can think of a way to get this I'm in.

    Well, I'm in anyway
    even if I can hardly keep my eyes open at that time of the day, with predictable results ...

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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    I don't think it could be controlled to that degree but at the same time if enough organised squads took part it could still have enough contrived organisation to stand a chance. I think it would take a certain amount of co-operation from both camps to work though. I'll go with the flow.

    But it would be cool seeing 20 odd 111's in contrails with the same number of 109s above closing in on 20 odd contrailing Hurricanes with 15 Spits above them.......

    We will see where it ends up in a months time.

    And thanks for thanks Derda!
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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    Stuka, Stuka, Stukas.

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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    Quote Originally Posted by DRock View Post
    Stuka, Stuka, Stukas.
    +1
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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    Yes, Stukas!

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    Re: Next BOOmer's event will be the 16th September...but what to do?

    In the absence of any overwhelming demand for the Blenheim it'll be......

    STUKA LOOPY!!

    (you will have to be British and of a certain age to get the bad cultural reference)

    I will attempt to keep some aspect of a notion of realism in terms of how we use them and what we use them against...

    FIGHTERS - this is your call to arms!!
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