The artillery fire and constant barrage from the two Hawgs just isn’t enough to break a large enough gap in the Red lines to drive a Blue vehicle through to start the capture, so both Maclean and Wreck try to capture it by landing their Hawg on the roadway and taxiing into the capture zone.
Here @Maclean makes his approach with freshly installed speed-holes – mostly the 23mm variety.
Here he rolls to anti-climatic stop, just outside the capture boundary, but in front of a die-hard group of his fans who seem very excited to seem him.
So much fun trying to root him out… I hated to step away, but I gotta get a bit of work done real quick tonight… Thanks to everyone for coming by and participating (appreciate it 75th VFS guys!)
The CAG was pleased with my ability to bring the airframe back in one piece. He indicated though, in no uncertain terms, that replacing both engines after each trap can only be viewed as unsustainable.
This is what happens when you start chatting away with someone and spuriously decide to drop into the old, closed Kutasai airfield (target range) - you forget to put your gear down!
@BeachAV8R and I just spent a good hour and a half fighting an increasingly personal war against an AI M-28 Havok that was defending the Russian-held Novorossiysk airfield
Although our primary goal to attrit Russian air defenses at Novorossiysk, this Havoc kept popping up and handing Beach and I our lunches.
This is what Beach managed to bring home after one such engagement - it’s a miracle he survived at all, let alone brought the crippled wreck in for a safe landing.
And this my fate is the result of a very quick merge - the Havoc was able to do this to me before I could even bring my guns to bear. And I even had advance notice he was popping up over the ridge!
Finally, Beach and I decided to get smart and try to lure the Havoc over to our air defenses. It worked, almost too well.
I took a missile to the face when I got target fixated but Beach raced in and hosed the devil whirlybird with streams from his smoking gunpods while Wreck’s ground units lit him up from underneath.
That Havoc took a metric #@!$ ton of lead (thanks for the new measurement unit, @near_blind!) and still stayed in the air, but catches fire and suddenly starts losing altitude. The possessed craft ends up slowly sinking to the surface of the sea and is swallowed up by a wave of foam, disappearing into the deep.
Some say the demon chopper still patrols the waters off of Novorossiysk, its ghostly crew searching for any Black Sharks that dare enter its watery dominion.
A nice Tacview of the now famous Battle for Novo…LOL… Much hardware was expended. And now we have a name for our Mi-28 nemesis(es?)… “Pilot #75” and “Pilot #77”. Brother separated at birth…meet in the skies over Novo to purge the Blue Dogs from their homeland. Here’s to you Pilot Brothers.
Feel free to play the Imperial March song simultaneously…
