Here's a long one. I like to tape my sorties as a whole. The DL is about 700KB.
This is from yesterday, I winged with Nash and we had also RW on. Great fun.
www.hut.fi/u/vpitkane/LLv34/camo_w_nash.zip The zip includes a txt with a "walk-through" of the film. I'll paste it here:
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Camo's sortie, winging with Nash. Dec 14th 1999, about 10.30am GMT.
Here's a small walk-through for the film. The sortie basically consisted of 3 phases:
Phase 1: Takeoff and first fight.
We flew as Rooks, I had a 109 with 30mm, 2x20mm cannons and extra tank. Nash took a spit. F1 had been captured from the bishops, so we took off from there. We had RW set up, so you won't see much typing between us. We used RW very much to keep eachother posted on the action.
We took off and headed west, grabbing alt on the way. Soon we saw a high 109 fighting with one of ours, and soon a 205. The enemies passed us on our high left but weren't aggressive, so we didn't do anything. All of a sudden they both blew their alt advantage and dove on one ours. And just like that hadn't been enough, the 109 overspeeded to the ground!!
Not believing our eyes, Nash and I reversed and joined the fight. We arrived there with an E-advantage, and I shot the 205 down. We just couldn't believe what the enemies had just done! They had a clear advantage, and with little ease and E-fighting they could've pinned us down easily!
We continued our climb westward and started looking for more prey.
Phase 2: Nash hits the silk, I blow my pursuit.
As we climb W, I check my map and notice enemies NE of F1. We decide to head there. As we get closer, Nash gets into a fight with a spit, goes into a headon and both loose wings. Nash has to bail first, so RC is awarded the kill.
I continue my flight south past F1 and notice Flamer on my 10 oclock low, being chased by a P51. I drop my tank and dive after the pony. I'm too late, however, and Voss is credited with the kill. Voss does some evasives and I thought he is trying to engage. I pull high and grab more E. Unfortunately I misread the situation and Voss dove away heading W. I had dropped 4k behind him, and had little chance of catching him.
Phase 3: Low alt furball and rtb.
As I was chasing Voss in his P51, a high F4U appeared on my 1oc. I gave up the chase and decided to join Nash who had taken off again.
I made a circle and started to press west again. A nice low alt furball was developing, Nash and Dapimp managed to get behind Voss' pony. The hog dove from above, and pimp had to break his attack. The hog changed his course towards Nash, with me in pursuit. I warned Nash of the hog closing some 4K away, and Nash chose to break his chase of Voss. Nash blew too much E in the break, and didn't manage to get a shot at the F4U. I continued the chase, but noticed he was outrunning me.
Voss reversed and got behind me. I saw Nash too far away, so I decided to go vertical. I think I did it a bit too early, without carefully assessing Voss' E-state, but anyway managed to get away with it. Voss pinged me *a lot*, but "only" wounded the pilot. Pheeww.
Nash got behind Voss and finished him. I decided to rtb, and started my way back to F1. Nash decided to rtb a bit after be, but got engaged on the way back. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I think he went into a headon again and got himself killed.
This was clearly one of the most fun sorties in AH for me, lots of action in several fights. The use of RW is so much fun and really makes surviving easier.
Have fun while watching this, I hope you learn something from it! I hope Nash learned not to do headons!
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Camo
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XO, Lentolaivue 34
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where they might be required to demonstrate their superior skill."
