5/1/2023 0 Comments Bomber crew critical missions![]() Our flight out was uneventful, until we got close to the target and started going through the flak. It’s a decision I’m going to have to live with. We could have completed an easy training mission to test out the new “bouncing bomb,” but I felt strongly that we should use the reduced enemy armor to our advantage. I choose a risky mission right off the bat because we have two missions in which enemy armor will be down, thanks to successfully completing Operation Hydra. Mission 14: Dusseldorf Flak Shell Factory. I also buy an ammo feed for the tail gun so that the tail gunner doesn’t have to walk back to the middle of the plane to reload. I buy some extra armor for the front of the aircraft because that’s where I sit. ![]() Oh yes, and we’re on to campaign step 3, and we have two missions in which enemy armour will be down, thanks to the perk from the last mission. Then I hightailed it for high altitude, we were over the Channel by afternoon, and landed to the tune of 6100 XP and another ₤5300 to buy gear and equipment that the War Ministry should have been buying for us. Then we stayed at low altitude and Left_Empty deftly dropped all three big blockbuster bombs on the three oil farms in rapid succession as I scooted and skidded us from target to target like a whirling dervish. We were ready this time, and all the gunners concentrated on it and down it went. Maybe we should have just, I dunno, taken off slightly earlier and hit it before it went airborne? Since we seem to have exquisite timing and everything. ![]() And sure enough, once we got the call, there was that rocket, taking off from the same launch pad as last time. Fortunately, fishpockets plotted us a path to Cuxhaven because we all, well, we all had a hunch. This is exactly what he said last time, but there was no mention of it in the briefing hut this morning. Halfway into this mission, despite the fact that it is called Operation Hydra again and it has the same objectives as last time, he once again breaks radio silence by exclaiming excitedly that a V2 is taking off from Cuxhaven and we have to shoot it down pronto. We all think there is probably something wrong with Wing Commander Biggins. This time, I buy all the lads some thermal boots and mittens. We slink into Biggins’ office and ask sheepishly if we can try Operation Hydra again. The Todt perk has now expired, and the Bruges perk has one mission to go. Sadly, we had both “enemy armour down” thanks to the Bruges perk, and “enemy damage down” due to the Todt perk. We get no money, but do keep our 4500 XP that we got for shooting down a lot of fighters. After confirming on all our fingers that “one” is not the same as “three,” we bolt for high altitude and scoot back over the clouds, with some nice dead reckoning by fishpockets getting us most of the way home. Of course, that’s impossible, so we don’t do it, and then we try to get fancy and bomb the oil farms from medium altitude to stay above all the flak, but get confused by the cloud cover and hit one out of three. Turns out we should have been the ones asking him if he had anything else, because halfway into the mission, he comes on the radio and tells us to intercept a V2 rocket while it is taking off, and shoot it down, before continuing with our mission. ![]() Anything else?” We, of course, had nothing else. The enemy is Germany, in case you were confused by the oblique game references to nationalities. We need you to knock out these oil farms deep in enemy territory. ![]() We figured he might cut us some slack for a little longer since we had, you know, just shot down an ace, but all he said was, “Operation Hydra is a critical mission. We knew something was up when Biggins walked into the briefing hut with a stern look on his face, even though we hadn’t done anything wrong recently. Mission 12: Operation Hydra (the second critical mission) is the second outright failure of the campaign. ![]()
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