incoming awesome

Cool.

OP posted.

And suddenly, /tg/ got awesome.

Yes!

Odd question after you finish info dump. Are the missions solely flying and planning or do you do other stuff? IE hang out at base? Trying to get an over all feel for the gameplay.

DID YOU AVOID THE MiG 28s?

>>8750954
That's an F5.

>>8751091
Missed the point.

>>8750954

No man those are Mig-28s! No one's ever flown against a Mig-28 before! No one! You're the only one man...

Anyway...awesome that you're back OP. Looking forward to that mission report.

>>8750941
Yeah i've been wondering this too. Obviously you've gotta plan for the mission, get any other intel you can, and buy weapons...but is there anything else? Any other RPing done? Or is the mission pretty much it?

Thread needs more Sweedish Sexi.

>>8751357
God that looks good.

I HERD U GUYS WANTED SOME TRANSPORTE

Still wondering about a timetable for getting Steve's added rules.

Oh I can't wait to hear how this went out, hopefully you considered everything we said.

> Troll /tg/ all day
> Finally see the new P&M thread
> My reaction

Those wacky Swedes!

smexy

>>8751587
Small Fry.

>>8751702

Green missiles? Interesting.

>>8751731
Just to give a sense of scale, here's the cock with the 2nd largest aircraft in the world, and a C-130ski.

If you can, I have an idea for your next mission if you so wish...

An aging battleship and small flotila of ships purchased by Libya is heading into Liberian waters to bombard it into oblivion.

Your mercenary crew will join whatever air fleet Liberia probably doesn't have, and several other mercenary crews into one giant air attack group.

The mission, which is being hap hazardly put together is to intercept the Libyan battle fleet and sink the heavily escorted battleship.

Gentlemen....

Do you accept your pay in diamonds?

>>8751944
And bring me the gun of rambo.

>>8751962

Which movie?

>>8751993

>>8751944
>Battleship
HAHAHAHAHAH! Tell the dumb ragheads I want virgins for my pay. Hamstrings cut.

tum tee tum tum...just waitin for OP to finish his soup.

>>8751759
New Mission. Steal the AN-225.

In the future, just type the whole thing out and post the stories after rather than making a thread first.

>>8751944

What if it's a cargo ship full of black-market tanks, instead of a highly unlikely battleship?

>>8752095

boring boring boring...not worthy of OPs group

>>8752106

The cargo ship can't fight back for shit

>>8752095
Grab a 124 instead. Just as good. Although I'm liking the Cocks posted already (no pun intended)

Time for some random aircraft then...

Rat swarm...

Favorite plane ever

I'd love to see a 30s/40s version of this game.

I'd love to see OPs flight get jumped by a couple of these on a close air support mission.

Favorite prop fighter ever

>>8752458

1. Steal plot from Iron Eagle 3.
2. ?????
3. Profit!

>>8752152
This calls for shirtless fun.

>>8752508
Nah...better to be original.

The op sure likes to take his sweet time typing things up.

>>8752411

DEMAND TOP PRIORITY BE GIVEN TO THAT SWEET SWEET I-16 NAO

Aww Yeah...

>>8752543
ok i got a few more where that came from. Posted this one a thread or two ago.

>>8752458

I'm actually becoming really tempted to run some kind of Crimson Skies game similar to this.

>>8752496

>p40.jpg

>favorite prop fighter ever

We were separated at birth.

Pic related, my desktop.

>>8752580
you'd no doubt be better than the current sibling I have.

>>8752595
>>8752601

saved *extra hard.*

What's wrong with your current sibling? Bad case of the derp?

>>8752623
doesn't appreciate the finer things...that and the derp.

>>8752641

Gotta love those Hawk-81s. I also like the Hawk-75/P-36. Good little ship there.

And this is proof positive that the Warhawk did not, as they say in the vernacular, "afraid of anything."

Here's one for Sukhoi and anyone else who loves soviet tech like me.

and the old adversary

>>8752138

But its [secret organization of your choice]-funded mercenary escort can.

those silly soviets...

>>8752532
You'd like that wouldn't you...

Not happening, although >>8752674 makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

>>8752720

>parasite fighters

yaaaay

>the old advesary

That fucker is nothing compared to the earlier Ki-27. Pic related. For some fucking reason, they're harder to shoot down then Zeros. They seem to absorb more damage, and they're so goddamn slow, and for some reason gunnery against them just feels IMPOSSIBLE.

I need to play less IL-2.

>>8752138

Technically speaking, the battleship can't either.

>>8752738
hehehe...warm fuzzies...

>>8752764
Absorb this KI-27

>>8752794

hmm, PBY gun blister?

heh...ehehehe...HAHAHAHAHA...

ehem...sorry.

>>8752804
yep yep, another favorite aircraft of mine that silly PBY.

OP again
So, we figured it would be a good idea for everyone to load up on anti-ship missiles. We weren't sure about the air threat either. I took two Exocets, Scotch loaded two Sea Eagles, and Sandman went apeshit and spent tons getting two AGM-142s and four Bofors RBS15s. Biscuit loaded two AGM-142s. Hugs figured he'd be doing anti-air, and took nothing but missiles, six Alamos and four Archers. I took two new Sparrows, as did Biscuit and Scotch, in addition to new AIM-9s. We paid for the AWAACs and the tanker, so we wouldn't need buddy refueling, and someone could watch the skies. We also bought Elint, which turned out to be a boon, since we were able to determine that two of the ships were operating together, while the third corvette was separated, conducting boarding operations. We also found that there was a fourth UN ship, a hastily converted cargo ship, being used as a light helicopter carrier. We wanted to use the airliner thing again, but we were off the beaten path in terms of airliner flight paths, so that wasn't an option this time. Shipping wise though, there was a lot of traffic in the operations area. We departed, a bit wary, and flew out over the ocean, topping up our tanks with the Midas (we earned extra experience for that at least) and entered the operation area, with Hugs flying high, Scotch Biscuit and me huddled close, and Sandman loitering, prepping to drop to the deck.

Here's one for Scotch.

anybody wanna link or post the last mission briefing?

>>8752878
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Mercenaries_and_planes#.22Ivy_Serpent.22

>>8752850
thats a LOT of serious firepower you threw into this mission. I hope it didn't have to get used.

>>8752900

>nuking UN

GOOD

>modern warships and SAM systems

BAD

>>8752911
that said the helicopter carrier deserves to be sunk just for historical continuity. No converted freighter carriers can survive in the South Atlantic.

>>8752951

>No converted freighter carriers can survive in the South Atlantic.

Just choked on my fucking coffee.

>>8752911
By my count.

Four AGM-142s (340kg Warhead)
Four RBS 15s (200kg Warhead)
Two Sea Eagles (230kg Warhead)
Two Exocet (175kg Warhead)

Yeah, that's some sexy firepower. Just shy of 7 tons of explosive.

>>8752900

much thanks.

So, name their flight?! Did we all eagerly chip in names yet?

>>8752998
would that be in a laughing your ass off way or in a horrified beyond belief way?

>>8752951

>No converted freighter carriers can survive in the South Atlantic.

>>8753003

By my count:

12 missiles for the point defenses to engage. Pretty hefty.

>>8752951
ok, what I am missing here?

>>8753010

>would that be in a laughing your ass off way or in a horrified beyond belief way?

pretty much in a "very fucking true, laughing my ass off" way.

>>8752998
I'm missing a reference...

>>8753038
>>8753003

thats assuming they all were targeted at one ship or even at the same time of course. Still...thats enough firepower to give even the US navy pause.

>>8753059
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Conveyor

Read up on it

>>8753082

And to that I'd add that escort carriers (light carriers often converted from freighter hulls) never had a good survival rate in the Atlantic.

They did a bit better in the Pacific, though.

If you've got helicopters or VTOL something like the Atlantic Conveyor is a viable option. Modern day Q-ship which I can respect...but they do offend the eyes and thus must be put out of their misery. Doubly if they're not properly outfitted with Defensive systems.

On a side note...I'd throw this on your F111 if you can OP. Let Sandman find it there some day just before you take off for a mission or something.

>>8753160

>Due to the short timescales, the decision that the ship was not "a high-value unit" and a controversy over whether arming auxiliaries was legal, Atlantic Conveyor was not fitted with either an active, or passive defence system.

>>8753222

or paint Hello Kitty on somebody else's plane.

>>8753232
I know really...

Another side note...This is what Mission #2 would have looked like if typical DnD players would have played it.

>>8753257

I mean, what's even worse is

>marine assault carrier

>not a "high value" unit

Perhaps not expensive, but it's high on the list of "deserves a missile NOW."

OP again
When we arrived we were all cold, except for the AWAACS which loitered back about 150~200 miles. We had nothing on our threat receivers except from sporadic hits from surface based traffic avoidance radar. Within a minute we had a pretty good picture of where ships were, but we didn't know which was which, except for Bout's on their routes. We then got a call from the AWAACs, saying it had detected two targets, probably rotary, over the ocean. One was headed for the second of Bout's ships, and Bird Dog said ETA was about 10 minutes. Hugs turned and began a pursuit, but not cooking too much. The rest of us were in a heated discussion about the surface targets. We didn't want to fly to close to any of them, and we still had the element of surprise, since none of them had lit off their air radar yet, apparently content cruising on a simple anti-smuggling op. It also helped that we were doing this near dawn, so it was dark, and crews would hopefully be at their worst, prone to mistakes. Bird Dog called in, telling Hugs that he'd be in range for a missile shot about 3 minutes before the helicopter made it to Bout's ship, and did he want third party fire control (he'd upgraded the C3 on his flanker) because if not, he'd be too late intercepting the helicopter. On the other hand, fire control radar would wake up even the sleepiest of crews.

>>8753316
delicate situation. Hugs could just gun the chopper down or he could try to disrupt the airflow over the rotors with a close high speed pass. Anything to keep the surprise as total as possible.

>>8753316

The optimal solution would be to do a high-speed flyby pass of the chopper to convince them to bug out. Then let the ships turn on their search radars and find several hostile aircraft in the area, well within AGM range. And then hope they bug out, or at least avoid the smuggling ships.

This is not how it's going to go down. There will be explosions. Calling it now.

>>8753372
oh no doubt about the explosions mate. It wouldn't be a game if there weren't. Its just how far the explosions spread that i'm worried about.

>>8753395

>Its just how far the explosions spread that i'm worried about.

Given the Pointe Noire precedent....

OP again
We waited, tense, for what seemed like a lot of turns, and then the ground situation was updated, and steve placed small lines on the map to show us the track of ships. Surprisingly, this helped, a lot of the traffic was North South, with only a few ships appearing to be going east west. Hugs called us on satlink (another upgrade so we could be even quieter with emissions) and asked us what we wanted, he was approaching Alamo range, but he could close further if we wanted. We decided to keep monitoring the ship positions, and told Hugs that if he could close, that would be better. The Sandman had a great idea, and maneuvered down to sea level, heading towards Bout's first boat, subsonic. The rest of us kept together, flying a slow line, watching events and listening on the radio that the AWAACs was patching to us via Satlink. We actually got a lot of useless transmissions (strips of paper that steve had in a box that he handed to us.) but eventually got one from the helicopter crew, telling their base ship they were overflying a random ship and dropping a flare, since their first transmission had no effect. Hugs was about a minute away.

>>8753467

When in doubt, nape it out?

This is going to be a problem. No matter what you do now, it's going to be obvious you're trying to keep them away from that one ship.

>Hugs was about a minute away.

>>8753534
I actually like that callsign... Not everyone gets to be 'Viper' or 'Maverick'

>>8753527
my thoughts exactly sir.

>>8753624
I wish I could remember where I saw this, but there was a news story a looooong time ago about fighter pilot callsigns. There was some poor sap who had gone up on a training flight with a stomach virus and ended up with the callsign "Puke".

sadly I must retire for the night since i have to awake early for an all day game that i'll be DMing. Start at 8, end at fuck knows when. I look forward to reading further tomorrow.

night all.

>>8753697

>all day game

I should be so lucky. Thread will still be here tomorrow!

OP again.

Hugs saw the flare, highlighting the ship on the horizon, but also revealing the helicopter. Since he didn't particularly trust a heatseeker with massive search flare descending, he switched to guns, and did a long gun pass to try to ensure he nailed the helicopter the first time. He actually slowed when he heard the helicopter transmitting again, telling a Corvette they were boarding the frieghter. Their transmission stopped just in time, because Hugs came in, gun blazing. The heavy pass had the desired effect, apparently a Lynx doesn't deal with anti-aircraft cannon shells from a high cyclic gun very well. The helicopter detonated as it was ripped apart, dropping out of the sky into the sea beside the freighter, just before Hugs ripped over the deck, already turning in case he needed another pass. We heard some radio chatter, some ships were calling out they had heard what seemed like an explosion. The Corvette then began to try to contact their helicopter.

>>8753795

>The Corvette then began to try to contact their helicopter.

>apparently a Lynx doesn't deal with anti-aircraft cannon shells from a high cyclic gun very well

>>8752508

FUCKING THIS

Shit would be awesome

OP again

And then something unexpected happened.

(yes, this is deliberate)

>>8753933
Shit! [/5secondfilms]

>>8753933
lemme guess, one of the corvettes explodes...

OP again
Apparently Bout's people had been briefed that they had friendlies in the area, and let loose a broadcast on an open frequency that a low flying helicopter with no running lights had impacted one of their masts, destroying itself in the process. This got an immediate response, with the Corvette demanding details, and the “Slightly Russian” sounding smuggler replying that an 'incompetent crew flew into my radar mast, attempting an illegal boarding of my vessel.” The things started to get heated, as we noted one of the surface targets changing course drastically and speeding up, headin towards an intercept with the smuggling ship. ETA wasn't for a good 30 minutes though, although it was clear this was not good, especially when a Captain got on the radio from the military ship, as the smuggler kept up his rhetoric that the UN fleet was a bunch of pirates of the open water with no legal justification for their searches. The Captain didn't seem to like this, and ordered the freighter to stop and prepare for boarding.

>>8754039
Hilarious.

>>8754039

That wasn't exactly what I expected.

>>8754039


Well, this is going interestingly.

OP again
Sandman decided that the time was right to try out what he had been thinking about doing (and not told us because he's like that) and triggered his radio. In his best slavic accent, he said over the open frequency, “Niels Juel this is Russian Cruiser Ustinov, that cargo ship is under the solemn protection of the Commonwealth of Independant States and Russia. Any further threats against him will be met with force of arms. You will reverse course immediately.” Stunned silence followed.

>>8754152
WELL THIS JUST GOT FUCKIN AWESOME

>>8754152

>>8754152

Ohhhh boy. What happens when the Danes and Dutchmen can't confirm the presence of a cruiser?

OP again
Then our threat warning receivers went crazy, as the Corvette lit off everything it had, as did the other two ships. We figured we were ok, since we were heading away from both groups, and were in tight formation, at altitude. I even popped on my transponder to further simulate an airliner. We were out of missile range since they only had sea sparrows, but still worried. Sandy wasn't though, he was low, and slow, creeping up on the lead ship in Bout's convoy. The Captain of the Niels Juel came back on, sounding slightly shocked, but firm “Ustinov, we are operating in accordance with joint UN/Interpol mandate 8920, which grants us authority to search and seize merchant vessels operating in this area. You will not threaten this vessel, or any other vessel in this task force as we conduct this operation. You can request more information and file a formal complaint with the UN through their mission in Angola” Sandy apparently didn't feel like doing the paperwork though, since he popped up over the freighter and pumped off his two Popeyes as he crossed the deck of the freighter, beginning a hard turn back the way he came, scarcely 100 feet off the ocean surface, while his right seater began flying the rockets toward the corvette.

(I'm not sure if the dialog is right, but it was like that, it sounded awesomer at the time)

>>8754152
"Ustinov", this "White Swan 1".
We see you, begin patrolling. The air is clean.

>>8754286

Welp, so much for not blowing up any ships. This is gonna turn into a clusterfuck.

>>8754253

Russian Stealth Technology!

>>8754253
I think they're about to have some more pressing problems...

>>8754286
killing and a diplomatic incident. Your squad doesn't go for half measures

mashing f5 like the fist of the north star.

>>8754286

Wait so the UN ships are gonna see missiles inbound from Bout's freighter? Couldn't that be a bad thing?

>>8754364
I get the feeling that they don't know what that ship is anymore, and given what a Slava class (I think ustinov is slava) carries, they aren't going to want to get close until they know for sure. I also think the Danish corvette has more pressing problems, what with 1.5 tons of explosive heading its way.

>>8754364

I think he intended them to appear as though the cruiser is hiding behind the freighter and chucking munitions their way.

>>8754364
Maybe, but I'm a bit more worried by the fallout from the UN thinking Russia has opened up on them.

This has got 'serious international incident' written all over it. There's going to be a lot of sleepless night for the diplomats in the near future, and a while lot of finger pointing and angry yelling. If this was the 80s the DEFCON board would have been bumped up at least one notch.

>>8754410
Hahaha, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_class_cruiser

>>8754443
The sad thing is this may be a net positive for the mercenaries. More wars = more available work

>>8754475
Or they could accidentally start WWIII, in which case there's no work as we all die in a horrible nuclear holocaust.

>>8754410

If the corvette tries to shoot down missiles that were fired at it from the direction of the freighter, there is a good chance that it will hit the freighter with stray AA fire, depending on the range.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS#Phalanx_incidents_in_combat

OP again

Steve told us that the Danish captain was still talking about mandates over the radio when all sorts of alarms started in the background, along with calls of 'Vampires!” The radio cut off. The AWAACs called us, telling us that their was massive boost in ECM from the ship, as well as tons of passive 'chaff' that they were pumping into the air. The ship began launching Sea Sparrows in clusters, trying to take out the low flying missiles as they rose above the horizon. One of the sparrows downed one of the popeyes, but even last ditch stingers couldn't hit the other one, and it nailed the ship, Sandy's bombardier driving it right into the forward section. It caught something, probably a magazine, because at altitude, we saw the flash. It all happened quick enough that they hadn't had a chance to get off a return shot on Bout's freighter, which was now in the clear, as was the second. Sandy was heading outbound now, laughing like a madman, as we all discussed what to do next. There was a lot of encrypted signals that the AWAACs bird was trying to process, but, to our relief, the other two ships turned away, apparently not wanting to tangle with a cruiser captained by a lunatic who apparently had no qualms firing on other vessels.

>>8754482
Gentlemen, the good news is that you've all made enough money to retire as multi-millionaires. The bad news is there's nowhere left to retire to.

>>8754514
Oh Jesus.

>>8754514
ww3 in 3...2...

>>8754524
Yeah, blowing up a UN Corvette and making it look like Russia might have done it (no matter how easy it will be to dispel) is the kind of thing that gets you hauled down to the Hague.

...or beaten to death by the spetsnaz in a warehouse somewhere.

>>8754514

Are you getting paid extra for the tonnage you sink?

How does your employer feel about having one of his ships involved in a major diplomatic incident?

please excuse the 40k meme, but CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

>>8754514

For some reason I don't feel too bad about the incidentals in Africa beyond a few initial winces, but the idea of a corvette of UN dudes getting blown to bits in a magazine explosion makes me feel really bad.

How depressingly hypocritical.

>>8754581
Or hired by a Russian Intelligence agency to bomb some Chechens when they need deniability.

Maybe it's just me, but this plan seems to be psychotic, but effective. No frigate is going to close on a Cruiser, Sandman has effectively just created an exclusion zone around the freighter, and confused the fuck out of the UN taskforce.

This idea is seven degrees of crazy, but it's just crazy enough to work.
You guys are really going to get a name for yourselves...

>>8754600
>going to get a name for yourselves...

Yeah, and they'll need someone to act as their middleman. Pic related.

>>8754600

I don't think they'd get long to enjoy that name.

I can only IMAGINE how many intelligence agencies are going to try to sort this shit out and find out who is responsible.

And those responsible, they never existed I bet.


Fuck, how is The Company going to react to this? Maybe not too badly given they accepted the mission in the first place, but goodness.

>I can only IMAGINE how many intelligence agencies are going to try to sort this shit out and find out who is responsible.

And how to find and hire them...
No such thing as bad publicity.

>>8754597
It's a tossup. On one hand the Russians could get some dudes who are good at blowing things up and just don't give a shit about 'collateral damage' or 'war crimes'. On the other hand, they are just a flock of merc pilots and Russia is kinda known for holding grudges.

I think the squadron's long term well being is going to depend on how much crap the UN throws at Russia in the next few news cycles. If it's pretty clear that Russia doesn't have a cruiser cowboy loose on the high seas, they might be ok. If not and Russia gets some very bad press from this, things are probably going to end very very badly.

>>8754671
Yeah but then the UN looks like dumbasses for getting jumped and tricked by some two bit mercs. More likely they'll work something out so neither side loses too much face.

>>8754655
>No such thing as bad publicity.

...unless you get a reputation as a squad of amoral flying hitmen who don't have any qualms about blowing up a ship full of floating police officers doing the equivalent of a traffic stop.

Say you're private security working in LA, and one of the dudes you are looking after gets pulled over on the freeway, and the cop is going to search the car for weed or something. You're not going to put up with THAT, so you toast the cops with an RPG, after saying that that you're FBI and "don't take no shit from some local boys".

That's kinda what's going on here.

>>8754746

>reputation as a squad of amoral flying hitmen

fuckyeah.jpg

>>8754691

Apologize to the Russians in advance, and let them know what happened so they can mock the UN with it.

Seen this thread a lot. What is it about actually?

>>8754795
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Mercenaries_and_planes

>>8754795
Mercenaries fly planes on missions for assorted governments and private interests. Shit hits the fan and things explode.

>>8754795

Mercenaries in Jets committing warcrimes in Africa.

>>8754691
'2 bit mercs' is more a title I'd use for Somali pirates, or the poor man's version of blackwater. ONE MEMBER of their team put down enough firepower to take out an armed warship fielded by a major international peacekeeping effort. Just going by the missile loads these guys have, they are very much not a small time op.

Even if neither side loses much face, ALL the major intelligence agencies are going to be gunning for them, as no one wants a 'for hire' group running around with this kind of fire power and this much willingness to use it on anyone getting in their way.

>>8754795

OP and his merry band of misfits are in a tabletop/rpg campaign as a squadron of merc fighter pilots working for a PMC that does a lot of work in and around modern day Africa. So far they've done jobs for the French, Liberians, and a really shady international arms dealer.

OP originally asking for advice as to what sort of plane and loadout he should use, and then started posting AARs after each session. His GM is godly.

Past threads are on sup/tg/, and there's tons of writefaggotry on 1d4chan and scattered throughout the threads. A lot of it is quite good.

OP again.

Bird Dog then called us, saying the surface target south of us had just launched a helicopter, which was bad news for them since we now knew where the light carrier was. The helicopter was heading towards the burning wreckage about 60 miles south of it. We decided to leave it alone since it seemed to be on a rescue mission, but the light carrier was a threat, or more specifically, the helicopters it had. We agreed that I'd run the attack, and I broke off, turning to set up a quick exocet run. I wasn't too worried about detection, since the target wasn't radiating, and we were fairly far north now, near the edge of the task force coverage. I still dropped down, and then dumped both my exocets, before turning and climbing out, heading back to the group. Hugs was forming up with us as well. Sandy was loitering around to the east, as we relayed what the task force was doing, which seemed to be running parrallel to the convoy. And then it hit us, we weren't going to succeed, the ruse would be discovered, the UN force was simply shadowing the convoy now, and would doubtless note any course changes. Then the AWACS called saying it was detecting another helicopter, and Steve put down another marker. But this one came off another surface contact, not the one I had shot at. This one was far west, beyond the task force. The helicopter target also seemed to be heading towards the wreckage, but wouldn't arrive for over an hour.

>>8754859

So much for 'not recommending a direct engagement'.

>>8754821

Yeah, OP and his group are pretty fucked after this little incident. Fucking with the UN? Killing a Danish Frigate? FRAMING THE FUCKING RUSSIANS?

Expect an imminent visit from a joint Russian/Danish special forces unit. I wouldn't be too surprised if your company seriously thought about cutting you loose after this.

On second thought, your company is fucking insane for even accepting this contract. They'll totally keep you for as long as possible. You're their amoral kill-everything-squad now.

This shit is going to wind up just like Artemis. I can feel it coming.

>>8754859
Wait... What the fuck did you just launch two ship killers at?

>>8754859

Worst case scenario, U.S. ship. Welcome to DDG hell, flyboy.

>>8754892

Hopefully it's the escort carrier they think belongs to the UN. This could get REALLY hairy if it's a different ship that was launching a helicopter as a rescue party.

>and then we found their helo carrier, so I popped it with a pair of exocet missiles.

>But they probably had found out about our ruse, so there was clearly only one course of action left.

>Sink every bitch on the water

>>8754859

So what are the odds of a random civilian ship like, say, a cruise liner, having its own helicopter and dispatching it to assist with SAR? Did you get a visual confirmation of the ship you fired on?

>>8754859

Oh god, what if it's a carrier.

Worse, what if that helo came off a Russian warship. They'd tell the others right off that the mystery cruiser doesn't exist.

>>8754908

This mission needs more atrocities.

>>8754907

You know what it's time for?

>>8754908

Incidentals:
ME: One cruise liner (MS Eurodam), 3,000 civilians.

MULTI-KILL!

>>8754927
indeed. in fact these threads should be known as "planes ,mercenaries and atrocity's"

>>8754916
Well, if it is carrier and its looking to get up in the squadron's business, I think it's pretty clear that they outta get smoked too.

Hell, maybe they could set it up to make it look like the Russians and the UN did get into a little shooting war, and vanish into the night like jet propelled Keyser Sözes.

>>8754890
> Yeah, OP and his group are pretty fucked after this little incident. Fucking with the UN? Killing a Danish Frigate? FRAMING THE FUCKING RUSSIANS?

I have this mental image of some mid-ranking corporate guy listening in to their radio chatter and suddenly bursting out of his chair to say, "Sandman did WHAT!?"
Meanwhile, the guy next to him is just sort of muttering "Oh shit, oh shit, why did we let them buy that many anti-ship missiles, oh shit, oh shit..."

> Hell, maybe they could set it up to make it look like the Russians and the UN did get into a little shooting war

Jesus, this is turning into a Bond movie.

>>8755000

I sincerely hope one of the many writefags takes this idea and runs with it.

OP again

That's when I got another transmission 'slip' from Steve. It was a helicopter from a luxury cruise ship, investigating the burning wreckage. I got a sinking feeling, I had no recall on the exocets. Fire and forget has downsides, this appeared to be one of them. No defensive fire came out of the ship, and both exocets raced into the stern, blowing massive rents into the Queen Victoria, a 90,000 or so ton cruise ship. Hugs, to his credit, separated from our group, and lit his burners, and began to make a beeline for the real carrier, going nose hot once he was clear from us. Then the bad news started to flow, with distress calls from the crippled cruise liner, stating they had suffered a tremendous explosion, and were on fire. Hugs plane almost melted from the amount of radar juice the task force was throwing at him. He got a firing solution on the enemy helicopter, staying away from the task force. The converted carrier was now turning away, and the task force was turning hard to rejoin with it. Hugs kept playing that game, keeping the helicopter locked with his massive radar, but not firing. He then proceeded south, at speed, as we circled to the east, staying clear of the task force which was rushing west now. The Queen Victoria continued to broadcast, stating the fire was spreading and they were abandoning ship. Several surface targets were turning to lend assistance, except for Bout's ships, which were leaving to the south east, essentially in the free and clear.

>>8755002
Oh god. You know that guy that hired this flight for this job specifically? I'll bet this is exactly the kind of thing he's going for.

This motherfucker is JUST AS PLANNING some serious WWIII shit here.

>>8754890
Actually, now that I think about it, these guys would probably find a way to profit off of starting WW3.

>>8755002
Now all they need is a female henchman with a bizarre name and a overly complicated plan to accomplish something

>>8755015
Steve confirmed for god-tier DM/troll.

>>8755015

*slow clap*

Great job, hero.

>>8755015
well crap. The bad news is your squadron just made front page news, and if anyone connects it back to your previous ops as well(all of which except the first had some atrocities) there's a lot of people who are going to be interested in hunting y'all down

>>8755015
... there are no words.
Seriously, one volley and you probably just quadrupled the death-toll of last mission, and last mission involved napalming a populated area. Just... wow.

>>8755015

Pictured is the Queen Victoria on the Morning of the 24th of March...

Damn op, as far as screw ups go, this one takes the cake.

>>8755015

This is the kind of shit that starts wars. You just sank a British cruise liner after blowing up a Danish warship and posing as a Russian cruiser.

Nice knowing you, OP.

RUSSIANS SINK CRUISE LINER
Hundreds Confirmed Dead, Dozens Missing

Editorial: WW3 On The Way

Yeah, as fun as this campaign has been to read about, and as enjoyable as I'm sure playing it has been the sensible thing for your characters to do now is retire and hide before any of what you've done catches up to you. Because in very short order I don't think there's going to be anywhere safe left for your operations

>>8755002
>Bond movie

To really live up to that, the squadron's going to need to be involved in stealing a stockpile of AIM-26 Falcons, possibly for use by some Mobutu Sese Seko wannabe looking to carve out an empire in central Africa.

Actually, anything with AIM-26s would fit the bill quite nicely.

>>8755054
Depends on how it all plays out. The cruise liner reported an explosion, didn't track the missiles, and based on the situation (I draw this stuff out as best I can when op mentions positions) I doubt the task force saw the launch either.

Hugs also added to the Russian thing, since his Flanker's radar would be identified, so now the Danes have a confirmation that a Soviet built jet was in the area.

A WRECKED DANISH FRIGATE?
A WRECKED OCEAN LINER ?
YOUR A LOOSE CANON OP!

>>8754908
>>8755015

Damn I am good at guessing horrific plot twists.

Make sure the UN boats get a good visual on Hug's Flanker, just to reinforce the whole "Russians did it" story.

>>8755015

I have no words. Your squadron is dead, your bodies just don't know it yet.

Someone in Corporate is getting fired over this, probably shot. Holy Mother of God.

MS Queen Victoria is a cruise liner commissioned by the Cunard Line in 2007. It displaces 90,000 tons and carries 2,014 passengers and 900 officers and crew.

Congrats OP, you may have just killed three THOUSAND innocent civilians on this mission, depending on how many make it to the life boats.

That's almost three times the death toll of the Titanic, making it quite possibly the worst maritime disaster to ever befall a civilian ship.

>>8755077

They're gonna do at least some analysis of what caused the explosion. Hell, they only need to put two and two together from the supposedly trigger-happy Russian cruiser, and they'd have a decent idea.

OP again

The radio transmissions were flooded with calls, but as we loitered, the task force turned again, heading back towards the cruise liner, to assist most likely, as their helicopter changed course for the cruise ship as well. We remained on station for another hour, cycling out to the Midas to sip a bit before returning, but Bout's ships were safe and beginning another turn to throw off any hopes of the task force catching them. We left the area, and returned to Kitona. When we landed, I told Steve that my cut of the mission pay was going to whatever charity was going to be set up for the cruise ship victims. Scotch did the same, as did Hugs.

>>8755119

It's a nice gesture... but I think you're going to have to keep that money. You know, to not die. Or to run.

>>8755097
The problem is, aside from the moral(Hah!) dilemmas of involving the Russians further, major combatants like the Ustinov are fairly closely tracked, and therefore it will be pretty easy to prove that it wasn't in the area

>>8755109

Problem is, the Exocet is a French missile, and cruisers can't launch Su-27s.

Three guesses as to who the only group in the region with a flanker and the balls to use it is.

The intel folks are going to rape-train the shit out of OPs group.

>>8755119

>When we landed, I told Steve that my cut of the mission pay was going to whatever charity was going to be set up for the cruise ship victims. Scotch did the same, as did Hugs.

lol bitches

>>8755129
Agreed. If your characters are smart at all, run now. Maybe the GM will let you roll up some new pilots working for the same company, but don't try to push your luck with the current ones any longer

Did you guys ever name your flight? Last thread I suggested "Collateral Flight". It's sounding better and better all the time after this.

So where is the real Ustinov supposed to be in the game world, somewhere with reliable witnesses who can attest that it wasn't involved in this incident, or patrolling with the Northern fleet thousands of miles away from any non-russian eyes?

Waiting for the mission debrief status.

Delicious largest maritime tragedy in history, I want to taste it.

>>8755119

I'm sure the SAS will keep your charity in mind when they summarily execute your ass or haul you in front of an international trial for crimes against humanity.

Corporate is probably going to try and get your group out of the area for a while, maybe move you deeper into the heart of Africa.

You might want to keep the money to get a new plane and a new identity so can fake your own death. That's probably the only thing that can save you now.

>>8755145

Goddamn this, you just sank a cruise liner, potentially created an international incident, and are the most amoral bastards out there. Retire already.

>>8755170
Even if it is , there will be plenty of sat photos and transmission intercepts showing where it is. Maybe if it has been a submarine you could fake it , but there's no way to pretend a cruiser is somewhere else anymore.

>>8755119
Faggots. A real merc would take the money.

Scalpel Flight. Because, aside from that kidnapping mission, it's what you're not.

>>8755193
>there will be plenty of sat photos and transmission intercepts showing where it is.

Find and destroy them.

With cruise missiles.

OP again
Steve did the debrief as usual, but mentioned some things about what happened after. There was an investigation, but the Russians denied any involvement, since the Ustinov was tied up in port. Because of the ranges, there were no radar tracks of Russian surface search radar, nor of russian missiles. Several airborne targets were tracked, but none corresponded with the missile launch. Subsequent satellite overflights found nothing but merchantment in the area. The SU-27 radar however was logged, and posed a large question, what was a Flanker doing out over the ocean, and where did it come from? Again, fingers were pointed at the Russian's who denied it, donating hefty sums to victims of the cruise ship tragedy, and offering to supply ships to supplement the UN taskforce. The Queen Victoria caught fire, and eventually sank. Analysis of the wreckage will be difficult, due to the depth of the sea floor. The British are reviewing not only the radar tapes, but the safety and security procedures of the Cunard Cruise line. A charity was set up, which received international support, for the victims that died. Oh, and Viktor Bout's cargo got through, which apparently is good, since one whole ship was full of stuff for our merc outfit. The other stuff got dumped into hellholes, supplying third world bush wars and genocides. Steve really hammered home the point that though we succeeded, this wasn't really a 'win' in any sense of the word.

...and in other news the search continues today for survives of the deadly missile attack responsible for the sinking of the Cunard Line fleet cruise ship MS Queen Victoria The Queen Victoria was carrying over two thousand passengers at the time of yesterday's attack, and a massive international search and rescue effort is currently underway to recover any who might have made if off the ship before it sank. No actuate figures have been declared for the number of civilians killed in the attack, but the death toll is expected to be in the hundreds.

Although no group has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack, this deadly incident is likely related to the sinking of a UN corvette on patrol in the region just minutes before. The Queen Victoria was in the process of deploying its search and rescue helicopter to recover survivors of the first attack when they themselves came under fire. Given the nature and scale of the attack, intelligence agency spokesmen are unwilling to label this a terrorist attack, but say they are excluding no possibility in the hunt for those responsible for this terrible catastrophe...

>>8755183

Nothing potential about it.

This is the largest PMC clusterfuck ever, and a former superpower is now in serious danger of being dragged into a war.

OP and his buddies are F.U.C.K.E.D. Fucked.

This will end in tears, and then they'll roll up new characters with a new PMC or try for a reset.

>>8755180

>Corporate is probably going to try and get your group out of the area for a while, maybe move you deeper into the heart of Africa.

Fat chance, realistically they'd be killed so the disaster doesnt trace back to the big boys.

Probably have a merc SF squad already on the way who'll do them over while they're sitting around discussing what to do.

The Makarov’s grip was coated liberally in sweat from Jason’s hand. Both of the men walked by his car, giving no sign that they were at all interested in him, and he watched as they continued down the narrow street and turned a corner. A false alarm? He turned the key and his car whirred to life.

The Mercedes did not pull out when he did. Jason knew a thing or two about following and being followed, and so it was with some confidence- albeit an alert, guarded confidence- that he guided his XM across Sofia. Even if indirectly, he had a lot of enemies, most of whom he had probably never met, victims and slighted parties scattered liberally across the ‘stans, Africa and South America, and selectively even in developed and peaceful countries. The Americans didn’t mind a few F5 Tigers on the loose, but they had their limits. Jason hadn’t been back to his home country in ten years, and doubted if he ever could.

He drove 50 kilometres northwest to the border with Serbia. He kept his stereo turned off and his ears tuned to the road, half-expecting a gunshot and keeping a careful eye on his rear-view mirrors. They remained clear of suspicious traffic. As he approached the border crossing, he pulled a pay-as-you-go cell phone from his breast pocket and dialed his contact at the crossing.

“Dejan,” he said in Bulgarian, “I’m arriving at the border as planned. Look for a blue Citroen XM.”

“I will,” said Dejan. “See you soon, my friend.”

>>8755226
The mission to destroy the evidence will probably end with a major metropolitan center getting nuked.

>>8755267

This is arguably not a problem for Collateral Flight.

>>8755267
I wonder if there are any AIR-2 genies on the market...

>>8755232

You definitely haven't heard the last of this, but right now the only evidence they have is the flanker's FCR signature. That may actually save you if any shitty little dictatorship in the area actually flies them.

Still, keep an eye out for intel skullduggery.

Do you guys do any out-of-plane rollplaying, or is everything in-cockpit?

This could tie in to some crazy ground shenanigans.

>>8755267
..aaand we're back to Bond. The villain's plot, cover up his war crimes with EVEN BIGGER war crimes.

That actually sounds not that far off of genera for bond.

OP again

Air Kills
Hugs: 1 Lynx (Maritime)

Air Incidentals
None (the civil heli landed on the task force carrier deck.)

Surface Kills
Sandman: 1 Corvette Niels Juel

Ground Incidentals
Me: Queen Victoria Cruise Liner (482 dead, 1076 injured)

Damage Taken
None

We asked Steve about repercussions, and said that a lot of intel groups will be looking into it, but our PMC does a lot of work with friends in high places. We operated deceptively, and after the confusion, the investigation will continue, but most likely lead nowhere, with most theories being dismissed as 'conspiracy at best'.

>>8755247

Ah, you're right. That probably would be the case, if the company wasn't insane enough to accept contracts against the goddamn UN.

>>8755232

>this wasn't really a 'win' in any sense of the word

Fuck that. Get money, get paid. You were already supporting an arms merchant who packed enough weaponry to contribute to a shitton of innocent deaths, you're honestly worried about a couple thousand more?

>>8755290
>crazy ground shenanigans

The SAS is coming to kill you. Yep. Crazy.

He did not wait long. A border guard walking between the lanes of waiting cars waved Jason aside and directed him to a paved area along the side of the border crossing area. Dejan was waiting for him there, his thumbs tucked into his uniform’s belt. He opened Jason’s door for him as he parked the car and invited him into the guard house for a drink.

This was not unusual. Jason often brought bottles of scotch to his friends on the borders. Though he never personally smuggled weapons—or at least, he hadn’t since he was a drug-addled kid hiking across Latin America during the early eighties—it never hurts to ingratiate oneself to bored and underpaid customs officials. Dejan sat down, produced a bottle of Gold Symphony, and poured two glasses of it, neat, into cloudy-looking old fashioned glasses.

They drank in silence, or near it, with the exception of a few appreciative murmurs about having a later-afternoon vodka. Jason didn’t know Dejan very well, except that he bribed the man generously. The office door opened behind Jason, and he turned to see who was joining them. The first thing he noticed was a submachinegun held at the man’s hip and pointed directly at him. A second man entered, and passed a burlap sack to Jason.

No sense in saying anything dramatic. Jason traded a cold look with Dejan, then pulled the sack over his own head.

Oh god, this is a train wreck, I REAAAAAAALLY don't want to see the incidentals list.

>>8755327

Cool. Fuck it man. Keep the money. 8755331 has it right.

>>8755327

>a lot of intel groups will be looking into it

Your safe then, if they couldnt find WMD's then they'll never find you.

>>8755327

The Queen Victoria was an inside job! MI6 planned the whole thing just so we'd have an excuse to go to war with the Russians!

>>8755290

>crazy ground shenanigans

So Black Sheep Squadron then.

With jets.

>>8755360
I hate the world because this sounds like something someone would say.

Op, yeah, that kill list... Your pilot seems to have a knack for racking up the war crimes.

Sledgehammer Flight. Not very subtle, and when you hit somebody they KNOW they've been hit.

Also, drop the whole charity nonsense. You've napalmed populated areas, toasted a hospital, stoked wars, and made yourselves rich doing so. Roleplay the amoral bastard angle to the hilt!

>>8755327
>We asked Steve about repercussions, and said that a lot of intel groups will be looking into it, but our PMC does a lot of work with friends in high places. We operated deceptively, and after the confusion, the investigation will continue, but most likely lead nowhere, with most theories being dismissed as 'conspiracy at best'.

Given that this came from the man who set you up to sink a cruise liner I wouldn't trust this estimate

>>8755381
I think all of those were accidents. Except for the napalm. That was deliberate. But those warehouses were asking for it.

>>8755381
Agreed, if you don't retire at this point it is because you are all amoral psychopathic killers, and you may as well act like it

So how much are you getting paid in game? What are your profits per dead civilian?

>What are your profits per dead civilian?

Ouch. Rub it in a little more

>>8755407
Well, OP kills more and more each mission, so the rate of pay/kill is going down.

I am going to guess something on the order of 8 digits per mission. 3 digits of dead civilians make for 5 digits per civilian. Which is the sort of the value of life insurance on international flights. So it's awwwight.

>>8755426
... but if OP wants to explode nukes, he will have to add a few zeros to his paycheck first, otherwise he won't be able to keep it up.

>>8755426
Hey, maybe they can take out some policies on the passengers for an international flight, and then shoot the flight down. MMm profitable mass murder.

>>8755417

Ok.

Are there different rates for UN Sailors, British Tourists, French Doctors, or Toasted Congolese? Do you offer bulk discounts?

>>8755456

Shoot it down over a major city for best results.

>>8750941
We have downtime, mission planning, stuff like that. But we're pilots first. We roleplay all of it though, each character has their own particular feel. Hugs' character is really bothered by all this, since he believes in the dogfight, the one on one test of skills, the last pure form of chivalry, knights of the air. Sandman is a jaded veteran who has a short fuse. Biscuit is a drunk. Baron was drummed out for slugging a superior officer, and Scotch was a civil aerobatic instructor who was told he didn't have the right stuff to fly in the military.

Sorry OP, we don't mean to be too mean here, but your habit of ever-increasing civilian death tolls is hilarious.

Maybe you should change your callsign to Butcher. Or, Murphy, as shit keeps going wrong for you.

>>8755516
OP again, yeah, I know. It's a game, but like I said, I got an actual sinking feeling in my stomach when Steve dropped that other helicopter on the board, coming off another boat. I was thinking that I should have investigated more, instead of seeing what I wanted to see.

>>8755516

I can't wait to see the numbers for the next mission, if the trend continues he'll need to take out between 600 and 800 innocent bystanders. What do you think, maybe a middling skyscraper?

>>8755540
>got an actual sinking feeling in my stomach
>sinking feeling

You know what else got a sinking feeling? 482 passengers.

Yeah, this is some great material for writing. Sorry Op, but your mistake is getting a first hand account.

>>8755540

See if you can get a really good FLIR pod or some kind of long range IR system in this or the next fighter, that way you can visually ID your targets from a safe distance in the future.

>>8755563

BA-DUMP CHA!

See those missiles? Don't put them into cruise ships.

OP, did corporate have anything to say about sinking a passenger liner other than not to worry about it?

Oh shit, I suspected this mission would go bad...

Op, I've loved these threads since you started posting them, and I hope you continue to do so, but from now on, I'm afraid I'm rooting for your enemies. Someone has to stop you from turning more innocents into victims

In b4 OP's character and others spend their nights with terror-filled dreams of hundreds of dead Men, Women and Children dragging them into the icy depths of the sea.

>>8755600
OP again
They were pretty pissed about it, but we didn't violate the ROE. I'm starting to suspect that when the ROE is weapons free, we should probably be even more careful. At the time, I was worried about closing with any hostile ship. When the ship started putting aircraft up, I fired early from a safe distance.

>>8755621

Maybe you should just rename to, "Literal Flight" because that seems to be your understanding of the ROE. If it says, "You can shoot anything that moves" you guys certainly seem to.

>>8755635
Actually, given the way Steve seems to keep these guys in the dark during a mission (contacts, not confirmed tracks) I think op's weapon launch was justified based on the information he had at the time.

20/20 hindsight and all that.

>>8755621

Gotcha. Once again, I'm reiterating the need for some kind of long range optics, preferably IR, on your aircraft.

A button was pressed at the wrong time, and hundreds died.

Are you going to say that you never did that in some game, anon?

Op, may I recommend a visit to South Africa for your next mission? The high population density and urban infrastructure of Johannesburg will provide you with plenty of opportunities to meet or exceed your collateral damage quota!

>>8755621

I'd have thought that getting visual identification of targets would be the first thing you did in a busy area, especially if you are using FaF weapons.

But then again, I am sat behind a computer reading a report of the game, with no idea of the rules. Your GM is godly.

>>8755693

Indeed, and you wont feel so bad because they're black.

>>8755652
Given how rare helipads on ships are, Steve wins a 'cureball throwing magnificent bastard' award for that particular scenario. He gave op exactly what he wanted to see, and op bit, hook line and sinker.

Like any trap, in any other roleplaying game. Steve is some sort of twisted genius.

I can't help but wonder if this is how Mr. Bout wanted/expected things to go.

>>8755652

That one I'll give, even though the fuckup was huge, but I think napalming the goddamn docks in the last one was pretty unforgivable for that reason.

>>8755706

Confirmed. Steve is a genius. This is exactly the kind of risk you take firing antiship missiles in an area with a lot of civilian traffic. Visual Identification is a must, but it's super-risky when you're dealing with warships and SAMs.

This was a bad call and really bad luck.

>>8755698
One of the dangers of modern combat, is that you don't get a second chance. If you are closing for a visual, and the ship launches a flurry of SAMs, well, you don't have many options, you're going to be turning, dumping your ordnance, and gunning it while dumping Chaff.

He who shoots first, wins. And I'll tell you right now, a cruiser/frigate won't let a fast mover approach within 30 miles without getting VERY hostile towards it.

>>8755737

They thought it was deserted, and Steve never mentioned seeing civilians in with the soldiers, but it was pretty hardcore.

It's exactly the sort of response angry pilots might make when friendly troops are in danger of being overrun and one of their own has just been shot down, however.

>We asked Steve about repercussions, and said that a lot of intel groups will be looking into it, but our PMC does a lot of work with friends in high places. We operated deceptively, and after the confusion, the investigation will continue, but most likely lead nowhere, with most theories being dismissed as 'conspiracy at best'.

>>8755748

I know, I know.

This is why I consider their GM to be godly. He doesn't seem to have missed *anything* in planning these missions, even with the players doing some very "interesting" things.

>>8755773
Yep. Why risk another precision strike when you have no clue what else might be waiting down there. The napalm strike was rough, but effective. From a tactical standpoint, it was a smart move.

>>8755782

Launching the anti-ship missiles from right over the ship, at super low altitude, to make it look like it was a surface launch, was genius.

>>8755773

It was a flash decision made in the heat of the moment, and they got burned by it.

>>8755807

Seriously. Even if he created an international incident with that one, he certainly helped get the UN off your backs.

>>8755815

>they got burned by it.

Only the civilians.

The Mercs? The Mercs got PAID.

>>8755807
Added to the Ustinov bluff. Sandman is a true tactical asshole.

>>8755815
> burned

just like the civilians this time around got a sinking feeling, yep

I think we need a pilot trollface.

>>8755798

Yep. I had no problem with it tactically. It was just the dockworkers' shitty luck that a bunch of fucking retarded Liberians blackmailed an angry PMC into providing close air support that day, and that someone actually shot one of them down and pissed the rest off.

Even shittier that the bird they shot down had all the AGMS. Otherwise they probably would have used a precision strike.

This is your GM right now.

>>8755870

>fucking retarded Liberians blackmailed

Blackmail? What now?

So I checked 1d4chan, and...

>Normally we'd decline due to the circumstances, however they have threatened to reveal our original contract to the Moroccans. We will make them pay for this blackmail, but at present they have our nuts in a vice.

>Holed up in a warehouse

Why the FUCK didn't OP' flight put four Mk-84s on that warehouse and call it a fucking day?

>>8755883

"Provide close air support to us or we'll reveal you were part of the kidnapping of the crown prince of Morocco."

>>8755883
ops group wasn't too hot about working for the Liberians again, so the liberians ensured cooperation by threatening to tell Morocco and others exactly who shot the crap out of their air force and kidnapped the prince.

Intel for the mission sucked, so op was kind of screwed going into it.

>>8755883

The Liberians basically forced the merc team to give them air cover or they would reveal the location of their airbase to Morocco, which considering the mercs had just helped kidnap the Crown Prince...wouldn't have gone over well.

>>8755912

Because that wouldn't stop someone in the Liberian government, or another part of whatever terrorist group, from revealing the PMC.

It would also kill the hostage, who I believe they want to recover, just to square things with Morocco.

>>8755918
>>8755920

So they're not getting paid for the OP either way... I would have dropped the roof on them and called it a day.

>>8755931

>Because that wouldn't stop someone in the Liberian government, or another part of whatever terrorist group, from revealing the PMC.


Well shit. It went all the way to the top, not just some dissident group?

Oh yeah, OP's flight is going to visit those motherfuckers some dark night. I cannot WAIT.

My god, Steve is an awesome GM. Holy shit.

>>8755880
I don't doubt it. Steve has shown through what op describes, to be one hell of a GM, tactician, and generally awesome guy. He throws a mean curveball, but nothing 'unfair'. He rewards smart play and cooperation, not to mention really putting his players into some truly difficult situations.

>>8755972

This, I really can't wait until some of their poorer choices come back later to bite them in the arse.

>>8755953

They don't know how far it went, that's why corporate intel is looking into it before they act.

>>8754746
That is such a good description, I don't know where to start to praise it.
Bravo annon, bravo.

>>8755984
I'm actually having a tough time, re-reading the missions, finding 'bad decisions'. A lot of the fire/don't fire situations are time critical, sometimes it's the wrong airplane at the wrong time in the wrong place, and doing the best they can with that. Other times it's a 'me or them' attitude, which is very human.

One thing is for sure, there is a movie here, or at least a book.

I'm out for the night, this thread had me up way later than I should have been.

The way the civilian death toll roughly doubles with each sortie, does anybody want to take a guess as to how they'll manage to kill 800 people on the next mission?

Well, I guess they don't have to be civilians. If they can kill 800 LIBERIANS, I think that'd be just fine by everybody.

>>8755990
Well.. it is more like a truck, instead of a car. And it is fully loaded with bricks of heroin, instead of a few joints on the glove compartment.

And more like dropping an airstrike on the road blockade than shooting the cop that stopped you. And dropping some napalm on the witnesses too for good measure.

>>8756017

Indeed. The only really bad decisions here all sit at the doorstep of corporate.

1.) Hey guys, let's take a job with almost no intel for a group of shady characters! We don't know what the target is, we aren't even sure who's really hiring us! Sounds legit, amirite?

1a.) Oh gosh darn it! Our shady employers are blackmailing us and have dropped the whole PMC in a world of shit! Who'd have thunk it?

2.) Hey, let's accept a contract from some piece of shit arms dealer to go up against a UNITED NATIONS TASK FORCE. No way there'll be repercussions from this op!

>>8752427
>>8752386
>>8752374
What on earth are these?

>>8756063
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bout

Eh... piece of shit only morality-wise. He seems to be a pretty big dealer.

>>8756082

Still, arms dealer who sells weapons to African warlords...or a group of UN warships from an advanced, first world navy supported by a coalition of allied intelligence services.

My oh my. I totally see why they'd work for the arms dealer.

No idea, Mig 21 and English Electric Lightning.

I think.

>>8756099

Apparently Bout supplies The Company with some of their hardware, might've influenced the decision.

Anyways, bedtime for me.

>>8756120
Was to
>>8756074

You need to take off the heat a little bit.

Go back to Low Risk missions.

OP? Bravo. Seriously, this is quality gaming. And I love how Steve isn't letting you off the hook for the fuckup.

>>8756120
Nah, mig-21 has lower set wings than that. But you're probably right in guessing it's a mig. I'll try searching for that.

Damn, get my internet fixed and by the time I show up the party is long over.

Let's see, seems I'll have to re-write my CIA story to have the Operations managers trying to figure out where the avenger came from along with everything else.

Also WHAT THE FUCK OP!?
First Mission: 6 Bicycles.
This Mission: A GOD DAMN CRUISE SHIP.

Good news is that you can look forward to some lucrative contracts from the Russians nape-ing Chechen orphanages, and then maybe you'll get a call from Satan asking if y'all would be willing to drop a GBU-28 on the Pearly Gates.

Ripe for writefaggotry but jesus shit. You guys are getting beyond human scale for flight name inspiration, perhaps Ebola, AIDS or Plague Flight. Airmen of the Holocaust?

Wow, awesome...

Say OP, do you have a pricelist for planes, weapons, fuels, maintenance and the like?

And what kind of system do you guys use for the pilots when they're on the ground?

Well this was certainly interesting to wake up to. I go to sleep before anything interesting happens and wake to this. A warship and a FUCKING CRUISELINER sunk.

HOLY FUCK OP!

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I'm just glad the Dutch vessel is still in working order :P

I like Steve's style. Succeed or fail, it's never fun and games. It's war, or in this case, murder for money, and there are repercussions, which he refuses to pussy-foot around. The game will eventually end with none of the pilots surviving, one way or another. You don't get to quit this game, someone's going to remember and make sure they pay.