Daqing Oilfields, Sunday Late... "The Great Air War"

[gunjunkie]

After the uglyness of Wake Island, I joined Daqing as Chinese looking for revenge. This is normally one of my favorite Helo maps, but the SL of the Jet squad was sitting alone in the bomber so I joined and spawned on him. I've never played jets @ TG, I don't have a joystick so I play with keyboard, which I think is better for helos, but not very good for jets. The few times I've tried to wizzo in BF2 have involved pilots who think its glorious to use a $55 million dollar jet as a kinetic weapon, along with themselves and their confused crewman.

Well, imagine my surprise at the air war on TG. I have to say thanks to Arf for piloting a great round, and to both our fighter cover for half the round (Dark Viper) and the US pilots (StrikeFear, ??) for providing a really intense, every-split-second-counts, romp through the sky. I didn't even know the game engine could do that...

Of course, you probably do this nightly, but it was a blast being able to leverage the TV missles in a way that actually seemed to have some effect on the overall situation on the ground. We flew a lot of anti armor missions primarily over the Old City, Power Plant and Western Oilfields.

There was one moment we got a hit on a tank and I got a team splash damage warning from an infantryman on the Power Plant flag. Talk about close air support...

This was split up with several really hairy dogfights which ranged the length of the map, these were more intense at the end when we were the only Chinese air flying.

I can't remember the exact score, but it was a close game once time ran out.

[Gunrack]

Final score was 222-206, in favor of the Chinese. Great job by the Chinese side, including CO NorCalRoach, and my squad (Barracuda_Magoo, PockyLover, 20th-Rip, & Marstein). It was fun.

[ScratchMonkey]

Pretty close battle. Started out a bit ugly as the TK'er from the previous map grabbed the Chinese commander slot and proceeded to arty his own UCB. He was quickly kick/banned, a new CO joined a bit later, we stopped the bleed, and finished almost in a dead heat. I love nail-biters like that.

[Arf]

You did a great job with Laser Guided, I usually have trouble with the gunner/pilot coordination but you were nailing targets. That made a huge difference because for most of the map the tickets were only a good bombing run apart.

[gunjunkie]

Once I figured out how you were setting us up to approach, I'd lead the nose of plane slightly with the laser as we angled into the target. On at least some of our runs, this resulted in a lock almost as soon as you leveled out, and thus a quick release.

Fun times...

[JohnnySpahn]

Hey there. I was TheRooster1 in that fight last night. Hey Scratchmonkey! I was your SL. Great job, man. You and DIRT held that refinery like animals. And gunjunkie, I've been fighting w/you a lot lately. good to hear from you.

Great fight in Daqang. What a nail biter, indeed. We (chinese) won by just a few tickets as time ran out. I've never led a better squad. Our shining moment was when we split up and defended both the cisterns and the refinery from the americans. when we re-capped the cisterns with 4 minutes to go, we sealed the war. Great fight. Great fight.

[StrikeFear]

Originally Posted by gunjunkie

...pilots who think its glorious to use a $55 million dollar jet as a kinetic weapon, along with themselves and their confused crewman.

LOL!

gunjunkie, you and I had the priviledge last night of flying with some of the best pilots at TG:
Arf - another member of VMFA-531 - the elite BF2 pilots of TG
DarkViper - arguably the best air-to-air warrior at TG
Duke - who consistently handles himself in the top 5%

The first 1/3 of the map found me in the Hornet. I tried to down Arf as often as possible, while DarkViper (in the J-10) and I mostly avoided each other, since the dogfights that would have ensued between us would have been 10-minuters. At the same time, it wasn't really possible for us to prevent the other from taking out the bomber...
Meanwhile, Duke flew the bomber with Fuzzy gunning.

Then Duke and I switched it out, and Fuzzy kept gunning.
Life expectancy in the bomber is just "a little bit past the runway" when Dark Viper is on the other team. We were glad to get one or two bomb runs before the klaxon turned on. Once it did, it didn't turn off again until it was separated from the rest of the plane.

Arf had some truly excellent Bomber-bomber kills on us. I should have been more careful with another Grey Ghost in the sky!
Especially since, once Dark Viper left, and the Chinese team had no fighter, Arf had to handle both roles, and did so with aplomb.

[TheRooster1]

OK I got a new name here in TG. . .its the same as my fighting name.

Gotta say how great this all is. Combine the fights themselves with these threads about them, and you got something there. Anyway, look forward to being a part of the communtiy and fight fight fight fight.

[gunjunkie]

Totally...

Toward the end of the round, it seemed as though every 2 bombing runs or so, we would wheel out and Arf would either score a guns kill on the cobra, or we would be on the F-15s 6. At least once, I was scanning off to the side with the laser as we were coming around, and as I got it oriented back to the nose, we were following you into the gas station @ about 25 meters. I think he waited until you were committed on the bombing run before starting to fire.

Like I said, very thrilling air to air action.

[Lekdevil.NL]

Originally Posted by StrikeFear

Life expectancy in the bomber is just "a little bit past the runway" when Dark Viper is on the other team.

Oh, man, what a great line that is! Someone please modify the Daqing map and put that on a plaque in the US hangar.

[ScratchMonkey]

I had a bit of fun for the last half of the match grabbing the mobile AA at the Refinery and harrassing choppers leaving the US UCB. I'd make one circuit of the building before a bomber would come in and take me out.

I'd also get up on the smokestacks and nail the choppers with an AT rocket. In one case I played hide and seek with a Cobra, and he tried to sideslip around the stack and ran into one of the others and blew up. Oops.

[TheRooster1]

I remember that, ScratchMonkey. Most of were up at the Cisterns. We were busy and taking fire and every once in a while we could hear you talking about a game of hide and seek and a cobra. Then you came on and started laughing about a crash. Great work.

[PockyLover]

Hehe... what can I say? Gunrack's a good SL... and I'm just too damn good

[Gunrack]

Originally Posted by PockyLover

Hehe... what can I say? Gunrack's a good SL... and I'm just too damn good

Welcome to the TG forums, Pocky. I agree, you did a good job on that map and on the next one, Sharqi, before you either got disconnected or teamswitched. Anyway, hope you stick around. It was fun.