Mr. Toad! I’m glad I keep you amused. I really am.
Your latest missive contains a few errors – let us discuss these.
Look, you started this thread as a whine about small maps.
No, it was not a whine about the small maps. It was a whine about the somewhat distorted map
rotation that I’m seeing these days. I won’t whine about the small maps, because there are maps that I do like – Pizza and Trinity are my favourites.
What don’t I like about the small maps? – the interlopers, the viability of upping from the base next door when you come under attack, the ease and effect that the fuel porkage tactic can be deployed, and the furball gameplay that they engender – that, as you well know, is not to my taste – and the way that gameplay becomes focussed between two particular points, the end result of which is Furball-Furball-Furball.
What do I like about the big maps? You said
I suggest that what you find desirable is the ability to fly an unopposed sortie or perhaps a sortie where you never find yourself at a disadvantage.
No, it’s not that. I like the fact that the front line is spread out. It means that play will not be concentrated at a certain focal point. On the small maps, there will be a great deal of furballing and gangbanging at that point. Just because the map is big does not mean that I will never be at a disadvantage. Look at that second sortie – my friendlies had augered, and I had no aerial support. I was carrying 2x1000, and there was a co alt Spit and a higher MOSS waiting for me.
This is germane to the discussion. You whine about the small maps because you supposedly can't do the type of sortie you like to do. And what type is that? The sortie where you have the advantage at all times.
Not exactly. The small maps can be sort of OK, when there are not too many people online. As to the type of sortie I like to do – I did those F4U sorties 21k and 2 idiot deaths – but I got bored with it. It was like seal clubbing. I can send you those F4U films – there was a three way battle going on – I only realised that when viewing the film afterwards – LOL! (Getting varifocals next week
) About the small maps, you said
On small maps, you have to fight. All the time. To and from the targets.
Well, those F4U battles were on a small map…
As for the F4U in use – yes, the 1C! And with good reason. I had been flying an F6F but was killed while intercepting low buffs. So I switched to the 1C – it’s an excellent defence against buffs – check my k/h in attack mode for tour 49. Having said that, the buffs didn’t show, and I could have got all the kills I got in a 1D which, in my opinion, seems to be lighter/more nimble and flies better than the 1C. I flew the 1D much more than the 1C in tour 49.
So, I feel the reasoning behind your dislike of small maps is not really what you portray it to be. It's quite on topic to discuss that, IMO.
I’ve moved on from where you are in the script. I’m past map whining, because I know that map utopia – the situation whereby all players like all maps – is a hypothetical scenario which can never be achieved. Instead, all I ask for is balanced and fair map rotation.
Allow me to point out YOU brought up my D30 stats. You just keep stepping into it don't you?
Yes I did, because you seemed to be castigating me for flying the P47D25 as a B&Z plane, which you perceive as flying from an advantage. You seemed to be saying that I should be flying it as a 2K weed wacker. I could tell you didn’t have much of a clue about how to fly those heavy P47s, and this was borne out by your P47 stats. Your stats in Innominate’s database were bad enough, but when you pointed out those earlier tours – 17k/19d – LOL! –pretty pitiful actually. Now if that had been me, I would have worked at getting better in that plane. It would have been a challenge. But you seem to have given up on it because you couldn’t make it succeed as a 2K weed wacker.
Pretty clear that I've been / there done that in the D30
BS. You’ve done fig-all in the P47, and know fig all about how it should be flown. No wonder you sucked.
You embarassed yourself yet again.
No I didn’t. The correct spelling is embar
rassed, by the way.
Given my mode of heading straight for the fight, I'm not unhappy with those stats.
LOL! 17 kills and 19 deaths? No further comment required.
And on to Slapshot!
OK, so that F6F was clear of the field and with his wheels up. That would have sounded like 2 questions to Lazs. So, the one kill in question was not a vulch after all. As previously stated there was one prox kill, as it turns out. The kill I thought I’d got there was in fact an assist. (Spit)
I don’t know Cod, but I knew a Codd – Edgar Codd who worked for IBM. I read his 1969 book about database design methodology. If only everyone had developed systems as suggested by Codd, there wouldn’t be nearly the number of mess-ups!
Other than that – we seem to agree! 
