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[piratejoe]

Since I was bored I felt like writing this for a future project.

Teverum Air Company Rhydwyn Maddox 3 or TAC R.M.3 "African Swallow"
The Teverum Air Company Rhydwyn Maddox 3, or TAC R.M.3, also nicknamed the "African Swallow" is a new aircraft design proposed by the previously civilian Aircraft company. The design is that of a light and nimble biplane fighter with a aerodynamic fuselage and a fairly powerful 6-cylinder inline engine with a radiator. The upper wing of the aircraft is put close to the fuselage and along the pilots eye level to offer greater visibility and the tail of the aircraft is fairly open giving a clearer view to the pilot allowing them to make decisions quicker and better. The aircraft as one can easily tell is specifically designed for making any enemy aircraft have a bad day, and this is made more apparent when one sees that to top it all off is armed with not one but two machine guns connected to synchronization gear to be able to quickly down any enemy it comes across.

[Cnidaros]

Can we offer Alderic the option of switching to an Emu without forcing him to?

Yes, this is an option.

@eS If I read the rules right, you can reassign Aces freely, without having to move the whole squadron.  They give both a XP and performance boost.

This is also true.

Any votes for piratejoe's plan, or alternative plans?

[piratejoe]

The only vote is my own, and the only plan is my own too. But yeah, we probably should offer our ace and his squadron to fly an emu, in which case we just give their old Rhinos to new pilots as Squire 2 becomes Knight 2 and a new Squire 2 takes its place.

[NAV]

New Equipment:
2x VRAC A.1 Emu Squadrons (Knight 1, Knight 2)

Total cost 10
Maintenance 8
PP used 18

Personnel Assignment:
Give Alderic the option of transferring to Knight 1.


Deployment
Knight 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Aerial Superiority
Knight 2 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Aerial Superiority
Squire 1 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Balloon Busting
Squire 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Aerial Superiority
Squire 3 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Escort Squire 5
Squire 4 - Deployment to the Mizogorod Offensive. Mission, Reconnaissance Patrols
Squire 5 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Bombing Raids
Rook 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting
Rook 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Artillery Spotting
Rook 3 - Deployment to the Basselton Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting

Changed a couple things about Piratejoe's plan.
-Gave Alderic the option of transferring to an Emu squadron.
-Swapped Squire 1 to Balloon Busting. It makes no sense to have our only Rhino squad without ailerons attempting air superiority.
-Swapped Squire 2 to Aerial Superiority. If Alderic decides to stay in his Rhino, his squadron should be doing the most air to air fighting.
-Swapped Squire 3 to Escort Squire 5.

[piratejoe]

Wait, squire 1 doesn't have ailerons? I thought we gave all our rhinos ailerons at this point.

[NAV]

Rhino-NA means No Aileron. I guess we just overlooked it or prioritized other things?

[piratejoe]

Actually, I just realized something...Maybe we should give the bombs Squire 5 has to one of the Emu's so they can do bombing runs. The aircraft does have twice the bomb load after all, though, they don't have any sort of bomb rack yet unlike the Rhino...

Edit: If we want, we can give some machine guns from the Recon Rhino's and give them to the Bomber Rhino's and give the Bomber Rhino's Bombs to one of the Emu's.

[Happerry]

Operation Flight of the Emu (1): Piratejoe
Operation Flight of the Emu V2 (1): Happerry

[piratejoe]

Since nothing is happening, have a few more plans.

New Equipment
2x VRAC A.1 Emu Squadrons (Knight 1, Knight 2)

Total cost 10
Maintenance 8
PP used 18

Equipment Assigned
Offer Squire 2 and Alderic the Emu aircraft. If accepted, make them Knight 2 and create new Squire 2 squadron using old Rhino aircraft.
Give Squire 4's Machine guns to Squire 5
Give Squire 5's bombs to Knight 1

Deployment
Knight 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Bombing Raids.
Knight 2 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 1 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Balloon Busting.
Squire 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Escort Squire 1.
Squire 3 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 4 - Deployment to the Mizogorod Offensive. Mission, Reconnaissance Patrols.
Squire 5 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Balloon Protection.
Rook 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 3 - Deployment to the Basselton Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.

New Equipment
2x VRAC A.1 Emu Squadrons (Knight 1, Knight 2)

Total cost 10
Maintenance 8
PP used 18

Equipment Assigned
Offer Squire 2 and Alderic the Emu aircraft. If accepted, make them Knight 2 and create new Squire 2 squadron using old Rhino aircraft.
Give Squire 4's Machine guns to Squire 5
Give Squire 5's bombs to Knight 1

Deployment
Knight 1 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Bombing Raids.
Knight 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 1 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Balloon Busting.
Squire 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Escort Squire 1.
Squire 3 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 4 - Deployment to the Mizogorod Offensive. Mission, Reconnaissance Patrols.
Squire 5 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Balloon Protection.
Rook 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 3 - Deployment to the Basselton Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.

New Equipment
2x VRAC A.1 Emu Squadrons (Knight 1, Knight 2)

Total cost 10
Maintenance 8
PP used 18

Equipment Assigned
Offer Squire 2 and Alderic the Emu aircraft. If accepted, make them Knight 2 and create new Squire 2 squadron using old Rhino aircraft.
Give Squire 4's Machine guns to Squire 5
Give Squire 5's bombs to Knight 1

Deployment
Knight 1 - Deployment to the Mizogorod Offensive. Mission, Bombing Raids.
Knight 2 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 1 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Balloon Busting.
Squire 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Escort Squire 1.
Squire 3 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Aerial Superiority.
Squire 4 - Deployment to the Mizogorod Offensive. Mission, Reconnaissance Patrols.
Squire 5 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Balloon Protection.
Rook 1 - Deployment to the Demisonne Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 2 - Deployment to the Estwice Offensive. Mission, Artillery Spotting.
Rook 3 - Deployment to the Basselton Defense. Mission, Artillery Spotting.

Edit, Ninjaed. Well, may as well put the plans up

Operation Flight of the Emu (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu V2 (1): Happerry
Operation Flight of the Emu, Bomber Edition (1): Piratejoe
Operation Flight of the Emu, Lets just take Estwice before they take Demisonne Edition (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu, Navy senpai notice us Bomber Edition (0):

[evictedSaint]

I dunno which of those six virtually identical plans to pick.

I really hate this phase.

[piratejoe]

Its actually five but, eh. I'm personally fine with this phase but I can see how it can get annoying.

[NAV]

Instead of posting a bunch of different plans and forcing us to play spot the difference, you can write a couple sentences highlighting the differences and advantages of each plan.

[piratejoe]

The main difference between the three plans compared to the other two is that squire 1 is set to balloon busting with squire 2 escorting them and squire 4 giving its machine guns to squire 5 which is put on balloon protection and has its bombs sent to Knight 1. The difference between the three proposals are if squire 5 is in the center or the north, and if Knight 1 is north, center, or south respectively.

[ConscriptFive]

I'm assuming NAV is voting for his own plan...  For future reference, I'd prefer if there was a quick summary of the plan upfront rather than have to go through the entire worksheet with a fine-toothed comb to figure out the pro's and con's.

Here's what I would have written as an intro summary for V2:
The emphasis of this plan is to keep our momentum with a hard push down mid (4 planes, 1 balloon), one of them being bombers.  We're going to stabilize the north flank with two new Emu squadrons (2 planes, 1 balloon).  We're going to do the minimum to meet the photorecon request in the islands (1 plane, 1 balloon).  Also worth mentioning, our Ace Alderic is going to be offered a position in a green Emu squadron so he can bring them up to speed.

One sentence per front and one appendix sentence seems like sane way to summarize this madness.  It's only going to get worse as we get more squadrons.

Operation Flight of the Emu (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu V2 (1): Happerry, NAV, ConscriptFive
Operation Flight of the Emu, Bomber Edition (1): Piratejoe
Operation Flight of the Emu, Lets just take Estwice before they take Demisonne Edition (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu, Navy senpai notice us Bomber Edition (0):

[piratejoe]

Just to speed this up as I doubt anyone else will vote.

Operation Flight of the Emu (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu V2 (4): Happerry, NAV, ConscriptFive, Piratejoe
Operation Flight of the Emu, Bomber Edition (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu, Lets just take Estwice before they take Demisonne Edition (0):
Operation Flight of the Emu, Navy senpai notice us Bomber Edition (0):