IAHM-COL wrote:The OPRF activity seemed rather invisible, although they claim it took, somehow, place.
In the end the OPRF event took place into the private OPRF server because of the nature of the event we did.
It would have become a real nightmare for ATCs and civilian pilots, especially in the central part of the country.
I have to say it was VERY intense, I spent 14hrs flying and 10hrs sleeping over the weekend, I think this renders more than enough how intense it has been.
There have been pretty consistent dogfights, some of those lasted for about 30 mins non-stop and believe me, half an hour spent evading and firing can be really tiring.
The event (which I planned) was named "Seize the base" and was a so-called capture the base where two teams must capture bases and related in order to score as much points as possible in 7 stages lasting 3hrs distributed in the 48hrs of the Festival. Battle has been tight, stage 1 was won by my team by 11 points, second was a back-to-back pretty much dominated. Third and fourth stage were won by the opposite team, and some issues regarding rules were found (my fault not having specified some parts accordingly). Stage 5 was won by myself alone as nobody else showed up. Stage 6 was very tight with an initial advantage to team 2 due to me being absent in the earlier phases, I regained soon field and took advantage, defended myself till the end were there was a 3vs1 battle which I've lost in the very last minutes by 8 points due to a massive recapture by team 2. Last stage was the big matchpoint with 3 stages won per team. I started it aggressively, then opposite team leader got major laptop issues which led him to be absent for some time. I gained field sending the other team to negative points by downing them and reconquering bases. Still alone, I started loosing when again a 3vs1 organized situation led my team to loose points, leading the other team to a possible victory. In the very last part, situation got more balanced being a 3vs3 where we've been able to reconquer a couple of bases and shooting down enemies. Everything was decided in the last 10 minutes, after a dogfight I've been able to land at a nearby enemy base with the remaining fuel reconquering it and putting us again in the lead, by 4 points. Soon after stage was over and so the event and we won it 115vs111, 4 minutes to the end.
Was exhausting, stressful, challenging, insane and add whatever you think it fits in there, but was loads of fun too and I really enjoyed how it turned out.
This is a summary of what happened, in the hope it rendered a bit the idea of what we actually did.
Another fact, I've set my new personal record for confirmed aerial victories in a single big event: 24, probably one of the highest ever in OPRF.
Cheers, Mav