Let's Play proposal.

[Lord Relvenous]

Speaking of reserves, are you going to be utilizing cloning tanks, or is dead and done?

[weemadando]

We'll see how many suckers Brave Men of the Union we can get to sign up.

[PeZook]

That manual is pretty cool, but man...

The true armor is a belt of air about 200 yards wide, The fixed guns on the
Nazi and Jap fighters won't be able to deal out much irritation until they get inside 400 yards. Your flexible .50 calibre gun-and it's the best damn gun in the air-can knock the spots off anything that flies at 600 yards.

It must've been one surprised gunner when he first saw an FW-190 open up with its quadruple 20mm cannons

RAR BEST GUN IN THE AIR!

[Losonti Tokash]

I reserve the right to make a single terrible one liner immediately before my character's inevitable death. And if we're gonna go with real names instead of our stupid usernames, I'll use my first and middle: Brandon Lee.

[Force Lord]

Reserves please. As for real names, Rafael Negron is mine's.

I might fill up the bombardier position. Bombs away!

[OmegaChief]

Alright, into the reserves I go!

Name-wise, well I'll go with "Biggles" it's WW2 after all.

[Scottish Ninja]

I'll take a spot as a reservist trained as a navigator, if that's possible. Put my name down as Jack Turnbull.

[Ritterin Sophia]

I'll be a reservist bombardier as well, just put me down as Thomas Redman since we're using our real names.

[Joviwan]

Sign me up for the reserves! Consider me a ablative meat, I'll fill any meat-gap that crops up in the crew.

[Ritterin Sophia]

The plane name needs to be Caribou Barbie.

[PeZook]

I say we name it "Meat Roaster"

[Joviwan]

I vote "Contrition."

[The Yosemite Bear]

nose art

pin-up in not quite imperial scout trooper armour...

[Ritterin Sophia]

nose art

pin-up in not quite imperial scout trooper armour...

If this is our pinup art I say we call it 'The Proper Lady of Imperial Sophistication'.

[Master_Baerne]

I'll be James Baerne, since that's what I use for all of these things. Erm, I'll be an unnaturally cheerful kind of guy - You know, the one who wakes up too damn early and is too damn chipper at breakfast, and stays that way all day.

EDIT: Nice nose art, by-the-by.

[The Yosemite Bear]

yes, I had seen it before, now all we need is for someone to gimp it to the right size, and in the process turn it into a transparent file....

[born in shadow]

What size do you need it? I can take a shot at it, but no promises.

[weemadando]

Bombs Away - the B-17 forums, with a step by step nose art conversion tutorial.

[born in shadow]

Ok, brushing up on what little Gimp skills I have has led me to make this. It's rough, but I wanna know if I'm heading in the right direction.



Yea, nay, comments?

[Questor]

Yea, and sign me up for the reserves in my grandfather's position. Tailgunner.

[weemadando]

That art looks speccy. A little more tidying up of hte white and that'll be a goer.

OK, I hope to get this started tomorrow night. The "rules" that I'll be using are as follows.

1) I will only manage the crew, I won't man stations unless it is my character having to cover them for someone else. That way we get to laugh at our massively incompetent navigator, blind bombardier and gunners who would prefer to play a game of tickles. Believe me when I say that it's not unusual for the best pilot in the crew to be the waist gunner, the best navigator to be the tailgunner and the best gunner to be the radioman when you check out their stats.

2) The game will go on as long as there are live crew. If we all end up getting too seriously wounded and retired, then we'll call it game over.

3) We'll assume that there are no catastrophic occurrences as if we lose the bomber we can't continue the campaign. Getting shot to shit and having the tailgunner land a plane full of corpses is fine. Getting blown away over the Rhine isn't. I will note what happens though so people can get an idea of how many retries there were.

Bombadier - James Master Baerne
Navigator - Aaron "born in shadow" Johnson
Pilot - Brandon "Losonti Tokash" Lee
Co-Pilot - Franklin Keosekkernbach "Pezook" Pezoszczezki
Top Turret - atg
Radio Operator - Anders Russell - nabbing this as it's the "jack of all trades" role, you never know when you're going to have to fill in for someone.
Ball Turret - Colin "Yosemite" Witz
Left Waist Gunner - Shaun "Lord Relvenous" Sharp
Right Waist Gunner - Jason "Norade" Dyson
Tail Gunner - Vendetta


Reserves
Rafael "Force Lord" Negron - Bombardier
Jack "Scottish Ninja" Turnbull - Navigator
Thomas "General Schatten" Redman - Bombardier
Jason L. Miles - Tailgunner
OmegaChief
Joviwan

[born in shadow]

That art looks speccy. A little more tidying up of hte white and that'll be a goer.

Swank. I should get it finished up tonight and have it sent along to you.

massively incompetent navigator

Awesome

[The_Saint]

Put my hand in for spare crewman...

[Scottish Ninja]

massively incompetent navigator

Awesome

Just watch. You'll get killed and then I'll get us so lost that we have to crash-land on the Russian Front and become partisans

[Master_Baerne]

And we can help the partisans with all the bombs I won't have dropped, because I was too drunk to notice we were over the target. Every cloud has a sivler lining or three...