5th Guards Fighter Air Regiment, Tactics

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Soviet Fighter Tactics

Combat Rules

All official combat will be within 16-player coop missions. Whether that mission is part of an online war, like VEF, or just a meet against some members of an Axis squad, it has to be a coop mission to be counted for your career stats. Any results from flying in 32-player arena play will not be acceptable for your career record. I should also state that there needs to be at least two human players per side in a coop mission for any combat claims to be considered.

There are two types of coop missions that qualify as official combat:
1. Regimental engagements.
2. Free Hunt engagements.

Regimental engagements will have been scheduled by the command staff for all members to participate in, and will usually encompass a number of missions against a specific squad. When we find an online campaign that looks promising enough, such missions will also fall in this category.

Free Hunt engagements are 1-3 coop missions where at least two members have made an agreement with players from another Axis squad to meet. All members should be aware that Free Hunt missions, once played, must be reported to the CO, regardless of the circumstances. There are no options about whether a played Free Hunt mission is valid or not. If you accepted a mission where you were flying in LaGG-3 series 4 against twelve 109G-6AS, well, you should have looked at the missions before accepting.

For members planning Free Hunt engagements, only certain aircraft are allowed to be flown:
1941: LaGG-3 series 4, MiG-3ud
1942: LaGG-3 series 4, MiG-3U
1943: LaGG-3 series 66, LaGG-3IT, La-5FN
1944: La-5FN
1945: La-5FN, Yak-9U

In online play there is no trk or log file to verify air or ground victories, or mission success/failure. Thus, all verification will be placed on the shoulders of those players who make such claims. For air/ground victories, all claims must include either:
a) a screenshot of the game display, such as "enemy aircraft: destroyed."
b) verification from another member who participated in the mission.

Mission success is verified in the same manner. Anyone who is found to have consciously made a false claim will have that claim voided. Anyone who persists in making false claims will be disciplined as the command staff sees fit.

Our unit practices the DiD policy, or 'Dead is Dead'. Thus, in the unfortunate event that you are either captured/killed, your current record will be swept clean, and if it was the best career to date, it will be added to your best career stat. The possibility of capture by the enemy can occur when you bail, or safely crash land your aircraft, and cannot verify via screenshot of nearby Soviet units.

Being captured will be determined by me rolling a 10-sided die and comparing the result to the numbers below:
1941: captured on a 4 or less.
1942: captured on a 3 or less.
1943: captured on a 3 or less.
1944: captured on a 4 or less.
1945: captured on a 4 or less.

Finally, all official combat sorties must be reported to me via email with any attachments as needed for verification. If another member's verification is needed, then this member must also include such verification within their report. Basically, if you fly an official coop mission with other members, then the results of the entire sortie must be reported by each member. It doesn't have to be a script for a movie, or first draft for a book, but it should include the general objectives, the units at hand for both sides, what generally happened, and verification for any air/ground victory claims and mission success. And, while victory claims are optional, mission success/failure verification must be included.