Tactical Air War

[FTC_Kongoo]

TAW has never ran out of pilots on any map. Just make Chute killing an option, not a motivation with number of pilots killed. It wasn´t like in the war there was a quota of Chutes to shootup...

[FTC_DerSheriff]

Just now, ACG_Vietkong said:

TAW has never ran out of pilots on any map. Just make Chute killing an option, not a motivation with number of pilots killed. It wasn´t like in the war there was a quota of Chutes to shootup...

I remember cases where teams lost all pilots.

[FTC_Kongoo]

Just now, ACG_DerSheriff said:

I remember cases where teams lost all pilots.

Must have been a very long time ago....

[Cpt_Siddy]

Few years ago, draining of pilots was actually quite common way to flip maps. 

[7.GShAP/Silas]

3 hours ago, Cpt_Siddy said:

Few years ago, draining of pilots was actually quite common way to flip maps. 

 

Good times, being Morlocks and dragging Eloi underground.

Edited March 30, 2021 by 7.GShAP/Silas

[Cpt_Siddy]

like lambs to the laughter

 

[Gangloff]

4 hours ago, ACG_DerSheriff said:

I remember cases where teams lost all pilots.

super bloody last stand airfield battles for days until one side ran out of pilots. the good old carnage - good old times ?

[Blakhart]

Brace yourself! TAW is coming! 

 

Mandatory brief for the allied and axis comanders,XO or liaison officers.

17.00 GMT at TAW TS today 01.04.2021.

comunication language - English 

 

 

P.s

Its not 1st april joke, also TAW will not start today.

Before we start campaign we need to set some rules and explain planned registration process.

Also I will reveal some features for next season.

Any squad without representative cant claim requests later during the campaign.

 

Edited April 1, 2021 by =LG=Blakhart

[Preedee]

Squadron name: FETA

Number of active pilots: 3

Side: Allies

Time zone: GMT-5 (US EAST)

also, ? April 1st meeting? a little SUS  

[=AD=Str1ke]

8 часов назад, =LG=Blakhart сказал:

Brace yourself! TAW is coming! 

 

Mandatory brief for the allied and axis comanders,XO or liaison officers.

17.00 at TAW TS today 01.04.2021.

comunication language - English 

 

 

P.s

Its not 1st april joke, also TAW will not start today.

Before we start campaign we need to set some rules and explain planned registration process.

Also I will reveal some features for next season.

Any squad without representative cant claim requests later during the campaign.

 

17:00 of what time zone?

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

1 hour ago, -=RedS=-Str1ke said:

17:00 of what time zone?

1800 GMT+1 (e.g.Germany) , 1700 GMT

[Blakhart]

Fixed in post

 

17.00 GMT brief 

 

[FTC_DerSheriff]

 

Just that we are clear.

9 hours ago, =LG=Blakhart said:

Any squad without representative cant claim requests later during the campaign.

requesting what exactly? Changes? 
I doubt campaign participation.

[=GEMINI=IngegnerTommy]

1 hour ago, SCG_Fenris_Wolf said:

1800 GMT+1 (e.g.Germany) , 1700 GMT

 

That's confusing ? Germany is GMT+2 in summertime, so the meeting is at 19.00 German Time...

 

17.00 GMT should be clear enough, if there's any doubt just google "GMT time" to know what time is it

[JG4_Widukind]

i try to come 

[=[W-H]=dziki]

Squadron name: [-=BP=-]

Number of active pilots: 5

Side: Allies

Time zone: GMT+2 (Warsaw)

Edited April 1, 2021 by [-=BP=-]dziki

[=gRiJ=ToReRo]

Squadron name: =gRiJ=

Number of active pilots: 15 

Side: Allies 

Time zone: EU

[Gangloff]

5 hours ago, =LG=Blakhart said:

Fixed in post

 

17.00 GMT brief 

 

?

[HSqn_Swaty]

Squadron name: 335th_GR

Number of active pilots: 10 

Side: Axis 

Time zone: GMT +2 (Athens)

[SCG_Fenris_Wolf]

7 hours ago, =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy said:

 

That's confusing ? Germany is GMT+2 in summertime, so the meeting is at 19.00 German Time...

 

17.00 GMT should be clear enough, if there's any doubt just google "GMT time" to know what time is it

Oh hell yeah true. Verdammt! I guess I'm one hour early 

[JG1_Vonrd]

Mandatory brief for the allied and axis comanders,XO or liaison officers.

17.00 at TAW TS today 01.04.2021.

 

That's going to be difficult (impossible) for any North / South Americans who have a day job. 

 

Any squad without representative cant claim requests later during the campaign.

 

What does this mean?

Edited April 1, 2021 by JG1_Vonrd

[VF-31_Killer_B]

VF31 Tomcatters

Active Members: StuntPuppy, Killer B, Moose

Allies

TZ Central, Mountain, Perth

[=[W-H]=dziki]

Password to TS TAW pls.

 

[JG4_Raven]

taw1942

 

[VF-31_StuntPuppy]

content deleted, tone of my post was bad and based on assumption and my annoyance at ambiguous wording.

Edited April 1, 2021 by VF31_StuntPuppy

[JG700_Rammjager]

Squadron name: JG700

Number of active pilots: 3

Side: Axis 

Time zone: GMT +2 (Warsaw)

Edited April 1, 2021 by JG700_Rammjager

[=GEMINI=IngegnerTommy]

To LG  team: 

 

Thanks for the intro briefing today, it was nice to receive a bit of background on TAW development.

In general we are curious to see this new pilot “career” idea, which has a lot of potential in terms of immersion/realism.

 

Our only fear is about the way certain line of the planeset are structured (provisionally), in particular considering that making points to reach the more advance plane is always challenging we might see very few bombers around. 

 

We always say TAW is mostly dedicated to squadrons, but this also means people likes to try to make attack formations having a similar plane and making the bombers so difficult to unlock( 88/111 for example on axis side) means most of the time we we’ll have at least few pilots unavailable and so we’ll fall back to use the First planes (Stuka or Henschel) which are also equal or similar to “basic planes”. Do you see the issue I’m describing?

 

Our reccomendation would be to try to consider making bombers available immediately or at least more easily, for example a line with:
1/1 BF110
0/2 JU88

 

This would make the bomber more likely available for most of the squadrons’ pilot AND give as “entry” plane for this career line something different than a “basic” plane.

This is the voice of a single squadrons, but I heard a similar comment today also from one of the FF guys and I believe other 2-3 squadrons had a similar view.

Maybe some will react to this post to show they have the same fear, hopefully this leads to a constructive discussion ?

 

thanks!

=GEMINI= IngegnerTommy

[Blakhart]

12 minutes ago, =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy said:

 

 

Our reccomendation would be to try to consider making bombers available immediately or at least more easily, for example a line with:
1/1 BF110
0/2 JU88

 

Its intentional. Follow battle orders, then you will be rewarded.
No shortcuts.

Put some effort ;]

[=GEMINI=IngegnerTommy]

Sorry @=LG=Blakhart but it’s a bit disappointing to go explain  in detail the issue I see and being cut down like I’m an annoying kid asking to “get things easy”.
 

Big bomber sorties are one the “magic things” that happens only in TAW, Gemini has been of those for many previous edition, and all I’m saying is that with this kind of selections we’ll likely not be able to go in that direction, and so probably many others.

 

Again it’s not a criticism to the idea of the “pilot career”, which is nice, but I’m trying to point out a potential negative side issue. Hope you see my point, it’s a perspective from someone who loves TAW and loves doing big nice sorties on it! 

 

 

 

[Blakhart]

5 minutes ago, =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy said:

Sorry @=LG=Blakhart but it’s a bit disappointing to go explain  in detail the issue I see and being cut down like I’m an annoying kid asking to “get things easy”.
 

Big bomber sorties are one the “magic things” that happens only in TAW, Gemini has been of those for many previous edition, and all I’m saying is that with this kind of selections we’ll likely not be able to go in that direction, and so probably many others.

 

Again it’s not a criticism to the idea of the “pilot career”, which is nice, but I’m trying to point out a potential negative side issue. Hope you see my point, it’s a perspective from someone who loves TAW and loves doing big nice sorties on it! 

 

Thats why its better to talk on TS than on forum. No bad intention at all. I know its different and harder than it was before but this is how it will be done.
 

[=GEMINI=IngegnerTommy]

21 minutes ago, =LG=Blakhart said:

 

Thats why its better to talk on TS than on forum. No bad intention at all. I know its different and harder than it was before but this is how it will be done.
 

Ok then I misunderstood, sorry.

 

I was under the impression you wanted to use today’s meeting to introduce this idea and collect feedbacks (same comment as mine WAS raised also on TS), but I see instead decision has already been taken.

 

At this point I can only say I trust your judgment and hope this works well, unfortunately I know that myself (and likely the whole squadron) will be forced to give up bombers and look at the other categories. A pity for sure, but I acknowledge your decision. 
 

Thanks for taking the time to answer, in any case. ??
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 1, 2021 by =GEMINI=IngegnerTommy

[Johnno]

totally agree with tommy here

[FTC_Knipser]

Thanks @=LG=Blakhart for the TS Meeting. Had to leave after one hour, hope i didn't miss anything important. I really like the new plane-system a lot, nice work! I'm really looking forward to the next campaign.

[FTC_DerSheriff]

Wanna tell us what the topic of your semi sikrit meeting was? or is that also not meant to be released to the mere peasants which did not attend this meeting?

 

[Cpt_Siddy]

it was glorified QnA. 

 

New career lines 

This is prolly the most important thing you must know about the new TAW.

 

You must select one (1) role from the list and STICK TO IT THE WHOLE TAW. So if you want to bomb, you better select the line with bombers with it. The basic planes will be available to all, but there is no basic bombers so think twice before selecting. 

Edited April 1, 2021 by Cpt_Siddy

[Blakhart]

Rgr, no problemo m8
This was brief to inform, not to collect feedback. 

I know its something new but it will work ;]

p.s.

Free 110 means free il2 for red side, then red side have huge advantage with killing ground targets, then they will will mostly win maps.
Belive me, I know what I`m talking about.
Think wide about every detail m8 ;]

 

Cheers!

[RedKestrel]

1 hour ago, Cpt_Siddy said:

it was glorified QnA. 

 

New career lines 

This is prolly the most important thing you must know about the new TAW.

 

You must select one (1) role from the list and STICK TO IT THE WHOLE TAW. So if you want to bomb, you better select the line with bombers with it. The basic planes will be available to all, but there is no basic bombers so think twice before selecting. 

So if you choose a bomber 'career', you have to fly successful CMs before you can actually fly a bomber? What are the basic planes available, just fighters?

[=OPFR=C_DAT]

Thanks for the briefing today.  Operation Frantic looks forward to donating at registration to keep your server going, and look forward to trying out your changes to TAW.

 

I briefed my squadron after the meeting but some didn't get a chance to see the plane set.  Can you make it available here for everyone to see?

 

Thanks,

 

C_DAT

 

P.S.  We have plenty of the squadron picking the bomber line... 

Edited April 1, 2021 by =OPFR=C_DAT

[Blakhart]

I belive for some of you without bigger experience from il21946 those changes sound strange. 
Yes. Its different. Its harder.

 

But dont forget one thing.

This is online war based on few campaigns.

 

The goal is to win the war by using different tactics.

Its a matter of choice, discipline and organisation inside the squads.

And didnt I mentioned rank promotion for the best bomber and fighter squads ?
And all the plane and exp bonuses?

 

Just wait

Over and out.
 

[-=PHX=-SuperEtendard]

Won't being limited to just a plane type hurt the players that like to do both jobs?

Edited April 1, 2021 by -=PHX=-SuperEtendard