Well Mars, I'm flattered that you remember me killing you! You'd think that one death would be overshadowed by all the others.

Nothing wrong with my comprehension. But from you we have
You dove in from your perch as usual, with the advantage.
I had no idea you were there. I shoot cons where I find them - is all. But then you said
And how does sitting up on your perch, or hitting undefended bases challenge you Beet?
which is incongruous with what you said earlier. If
you were there, how can the base have been "undefended"? Or are you referring to the status quo immediately after your untimely demise?

As for me
always flying from a perch with an advantage, this is a myth which has entered AH folklore! I fly the USN planes, mainly F4U1D. Its climb rate is worse than P51,Spitix,LA7,109, 190, TYPH(?) In short, the F4U climbs worse than most of the planes I'm likely to run into. If I relied on being on a perch, do you think I would fly planes that climb like dogs - F4U, P47?
I often take off alone and find trouble! Looky looky at this pic. In the visual area I am surrounded by FOUR enemy P51 - all higher, better turning, better climbing, faster than my F4U. My right aileron had already been shot off when I was afk. There was also a 190A5. I killed one of these P51 and the 190, and made it back to the CV...
... where I cocked up the landing - LOL
Sorry if I didn't return your
. But you know what they say in real pilot circles - aviate, navigate, communicate. I can only think that there was another con that needed to be killed. 