Author Topic: Suicide is painless.... (Read 2796 times)

mason22 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 20, 2001, 12:39:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Actually, I took out all acks, ammo, fuel, radar and shot down 3 upping A/C at a small field with a N1K, but...then again, it IS the Uber-N1K.

yup...

SKurj · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2001, 01:12:00 PM »

Give us 5" style mannable guns at fields. The slow traverse wouldn't help it much when the base is under heavy(close) attack. The 5" could also be used as artillery against invading GV's. Replace the graphic of the turret with something more like an 88 (Flak 18?). 2klbs to destroy a CV is ridiculous... make it 12klbs.

SKurj

Zippatuh · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2001, 02:00:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort:
Your first paragraph, Zip, obviously you've trained too much with VMF-323.

Once or twice

Zippatuh

Midnight · « **Reply #18 on:** August 20, 2001, 05:17:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort:

Blitz can de-ack a field in a P51D in two passes.

Rip, you have said this a few times, like whoever Blitz is (I can't recall ever seeing him in the MA) can do this wonder AAA clearing all the time.

If it can be done so easily, please supply at least 3 films of said action taking place on 3 seperate occasions in the MA.

Anyone can get lucky and do it once in a while, but consistantly is the trick.

SKurj · « **Reply #19 on:** August 20, 2001, 07:19:00 PM »

I remember Blitz from a few months ago, check the scoreboards he's a good stick.

Haven't seen him lately
Of course I've only just returned

SKurj

Robert · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2001, 08:42:00 PM »

I'm with midnight on this one. If you get below 4k in a 51 in the game you are going to get radiator hit or major damage in a 51.
I can kill 3 maybe 4 AA but never more.

RWY

popeye · « **Reply #21 on:** August 21, 2001, 10:01:00 AM »

Watched a single suicide Hog sink a carrier last night. He was the only plane around and the whole fleet was shooting at him. Yet he was able to get in and sink the carrier with 2K of bombs. Seems like it should be harder.

Voss · « **Reply #22 on:** August 21, 2001, 11:44:00 AM »

It was my second trip, and I was using rockets, too!

RWY, even with the rad hit you can still fly! I have lost wings, sure, but I have also lived to de-ack the entire field with a single pony.

I filmed Paint do it last night with a Spit! You don't have to hit the gun, especially with cannons. All you have to hit is the sand colored area around the gun and it's dead. That really sucks as a field gunner, I can tell you! Many of these guys (and I've tried this a lot over the past few days) will take a hit, but that first round is close enough to kill the gun, so the field gunner gets NO kill, and even though the de-ackee is dead the field gun is too. And all that when the field gun itself was not even hit!

[ 08-21-2001: Message edited by: Voss ]

Udie · « **Reply #23 on:** August 21, 2001, 12:51:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort:

You can de-ack a field with a single hog easily, see my Training films, first one...conservative approach too. Blitz can de-ack a field in a P51D in two passes. As far as ease, I'll let the rest of you pan that out.

Rip,

What ever happened to that film you made of our close formation flight? I was hoping to watch that someday

Want to make another?

Udie

Ripsnort · « **Reply #24 on:** August 21, 2001, 12:53:00 PM »

I'll ask him to film it, hes in Germany, different time online than you and I, he's on vacation right now, I'll ask him to film it when he returns.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #25 on:** August 21, 2001, 12:56:00 PM »

Probably gone, Udie, I had a HD meltdown, so lost all my films

BTW, if you guys use rockets for AA attack, salvo 2, that way if your slightly off in your projectory, you chances of killing it are better from my experiences...nothing worse than missing a AA emplacement with a single rocket, that sucker will shoot ya dead when ya turn away.