LOL Yup, I was there, 61-62 was a great fight indeed. But then again the numbers never got overwhelming and it seemed only a few serious efforts were made on the rooks part to make any headway. A Move that kinda surprised me.
I was there in Several Panzers, an Osti a couple Tigers, Several times in 190's Tiffies and even a few FM2's.
Had the most fun in the air in the FM2's. (I was the one that kept comming in and nailing your barracks and dar)
but that wasnt what was most fun about it.
The Fun part was outmanuvering all those planes that gave chase often if not killing them outright. causing them to auger.
At one point in one flightI had 4 legit kills 1 vulch and caused 4 others to auger trying to keep up with me( a tactic I practice in the FM2) before one of the remaining planes finally got me was truely a blast.
Had 4 or five more similar flights including one I landed that got me 16.5 perks. But that one I was eventually shot down in was easily the most fun.
Another time I actually managed to fight my way in and get my tank onto the feild at 62 and had it along side of a hangar when a feild ack came up and took out my turret. Killed that feild ack with the hull gun. Right after that another feild ack came up and I ran out of ammo before I could kill it. Musta been an auto ack cause it must have been hitting me at a hardpoint cause all it managed to do was take out my left track.
Right after that a plane came in and killed my engine and then my right track. Inasmuch as the feild ack showed no signs of being able to kill me I figured I'd sit there a while and let it shoot at me rather then any friendly planes that may be comming in.
Musta sat there a full 15 minutes with what seemed like 10 planes trying to strafe me down and having zero success in doing so. Collected 9 proxie kills from people augering trying ot get me on top of the 3 panzers and 2 planes I killed with my main gun before it got knocked out I was LMAO as plane after plane after plane dove in on me. What was amusing is My tank was useless yet everyone was treating me like I was the gravest threat on the planet I just sat there cause I figured as long as all these planes were pointlessly diving on me there were that many less to be diving on or shooting at my countrymen.
Eventually VH musta came back up cause something popped me with a single ping that sounded like a tank round and I was back in the tower.
Was the most amusement I've had just sitting there and doing nothing in a long time. Plane comes in tatatatatat BOOM he augers
Originally posted by Widewing
Well, it may not even out the numbers, but the benefit of cheap access to perk vehicles and aircraft does tend to offset numbers.
Last evening, during the RJO, my squad was assigned to hold the line against the Knights. So we flew for most of the evening at A62, defending. Numbers were generally equal, but the never ending parade of Knit 262s was amusing. Only a handfull were interested in actually fighting. Most were content to fly around above the fight in the hope that they could cherry pick some guy distracted with other fighters (a common 262 practice regardless of country).
I seem to recall that I saw you there too in a Panzer.
I spent time in F4U-1D, Spitfire V and even flew a sortie in a N1K2. I even ran a couple of resupply goons in. There was a small group of jokers who were flying out of A60. Their whole purpose was to grab a 190 or an La-7 and head to A62 in pairs or alone. Whereupon they would dive on the field and try for a vulch or two before getting whacked. When one of them nailed my SpitV on the rearm pad, I took up a Corsair and went on a dweeb hunt. These guys were trying to sneak in below the radar. While we had a couple of us on station south of our field, most didn't make it.
Another funny sight was the number of former fuel porkers who still insisted on strafing fuel tanks, despite it not being possible to reduce the fuel below 75%. Old habits die hard I guess.
All in all, the fight between the Knits and Rooks was a good old-fashioned even-up brawl. If you enjoy furballs and GV battles, A61 and A62 were the places to be last night. When I finally logged off, no fields had exchanged hands and the fight was still going strong.
Those squads assigned to defense against the Knights almost certainly had more fun than those involved in the Rookskrieg against the Bishops. There was no lack of targets and willing enemy for either side.
My regards,
Widewing
