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by LW/JG10_Luny » Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:27 pm
I joined the campaign last year, I believe, and was a great experience. I just flew a few missions but I remember specially the one flown with _5 in a Blenheim at night. He was saying we were going to find and destroy a couple of enemy patrol boats and we should be close. Exactly in the moment he was sayng this, the enemy boats opened fire right under our path. Later in the same mission, the patience of _5 teaching me how to follow the radio transmission from Malta, led me to an almost invisible airfield.
The naval commanding was a challenge, the search of the enemy fleet and the desperate run away from the deadly Luftwaffe bombers doing a great work attacking the carriers and the escorts with the final and spectacular sinking of the HMS Contestant when trying to run back to Malta, kept me busy many times planning. Great work, bombers.
The AI bombers seems to do a way better work now, hitting moving ships with torpedoes.
The at sea refuelling is also a challenge and perfectly real. It takes several hours to a ship to be refueled, an the risk it includes. Plotting carefully ships path sometimes cause unexpected results, like the sinking of a freighter and a patrol boat when docking or the, luckily colission of the italian Trento class cruiser and a transport during the previous mission. This probably was the reason both destroyers run the northern Malta shore in the last one.
I've also learned a lot in this campaign. Carrier base air ops, behaviour of sea task forces, submarine ops (and the deep one wich is absolutely great, tks 4S), recon flights, etc. And also how to forget the flights rules that always _5 used to fix before the mission and patiently tell me what and why she did the correction after.
Thanks all, lads. Looking forward for the next one like this.