I think it quite funny that I get cussed out 90% of the time I kill a chute. Were talking being called very nasty things better left unmentioned! It’s even gone as far as being threatened, preached to, apparently pissing the victim of my bullet spewing pass off to the point they alter their gameplay just to go after me for the rest of the night! This game is simply wonderful for as*holes like me that find this type behavior amusing. Makes the dogfighting much more intense, and adds a little spice to the game. This coupled with one fantastic FM, a good core talent base of older WWII flightsim players, and flawless internet connections is the ingredients for many hours of sim bliss. Cheers to the HighTech staff. I really think you have a winner here. Back to the chute killing and my take on it.
Anyways,if you want to be a Gallant Knight (no ref to Knit’s) who fly’s a beautiful P-51 gracefully around at 20K admiring your bright smile in the refection of your just polished canopy and your clever open channel AOL chat posts that clog the message server, go ahead. But when you swoop down past the streets of blasted and disemboweled children that are now being cremated by the second wave of bombers dropping incendiary bombs to light up the cities ruptured gas lines getting a free E pass on my low n slow 109, don’t preach to me how to fight a WAR if I’m fortunate enough to shoot you down! Oh, that’s not in the game yet, but that’s what your doing in a sense! Of course that’s reference to real war, but aint we supposed to be thinking along the lines of modeling it?
At the end of WWII anyone flying a ME262 was in danger of being killed in a chute because the Allies knew that not only were those jets killing 10 guys a pop in a B-17, they were the best of Germany’s pilots. Speaking of pilot skill, the P-51 killed lotsa little German boys with very little flight time at the end of the war, making me suspicious of all the hype of how good a P-51 really is. Anyway, in defense of all you guys that whine at me, the Germans in fact WOULD’NT under any circumstances shoot chutes. To each his own, but tearing you out of that canvas with .20mm’s is my choice, and a blast to boot! If ya don’t like it, watch from the Tower or just not get shot down. The Allies and the Axis had 10’s of thousands of planes at the end of the war, which aint worth dik if noone can fly them. I’d help my side by killing every citizen bombing murderer in the bombing task force. And if you shoot at me for real today, your getting a Taurus 357mag shot in you…the whole clip! And if your flying in a war burning down my house, killing my kids, and punching .50’s into my 205 or 109, you better believe I’m going to kill you there to. Either by .20mm in through the canopy, or forcing you to bail and finishing the job there. You are not going home, and I’m not giving you a hot meal and a bed to sleep in for the remainder of the war!
Moral of the story? It’s still a game, so relax a little. And when you squeak, remember I’m howling with laughter. Be the White Knight in your shiny P-51 armor if ya want. Just beware of the stinkin drunk, brown toothed, cussing HUN in a yellow nose 109 with lotsa extra machine guns for yer chute pissed of because you just bombed my baracks and broke my last bottle of scotch. Hell,isn’t that why HiTech put the low cal machine guns in there in their anyway? They sure don’t work on aircraft! :0)
Have a nice day.
Peace,
Creamo
BTW, I just read “The First and the Last” by Adolf Galland. Galland was Commander of the Fighter Arm, and had over 70+ victories. An excellent book if you want the EAW from a German perspective. Anyway, this related story is a take on chute killing.(sort of)
One of the most successful British pilots of the war was R.A.F. Wing commander Douglas Bader. Bader was a great pilot even handicapped with 2 wooden legs from a 1930’s airplane accident. He was shot down by Galland’s flight on the German side of the channel in 1941. In an act of chivalry, Galland had him personally chauffeured to his airfield, sit in a ME109 pouring over all the details. They talked about the Spit and the 109, how the German camaflaged the airfields etc..Then Bader asked “Can you do me a great favor?” “With great pleasure, if it is in my power, responded Galland. “At least once in my life I would like to fly a Messerschmit. Let me do just one circle around the field.” (How did he get balls that big into a flight suit?!) Reluctantly, Galland refused due to the risk involved. Galland however offered him a new pipe and tobacco, and radioed England to request a new pair of wooden legs be sent over as Bader’s limbs were badly damaged in the crash, a new uniform, and specially inform Bader’s family he was alright. Then ya know what? Sometime later that night Bader vanished, a English air raid hit Galland’s base and several surrounding targets heavily. He had let himself down from a top window with sheets tied together. After the bombs and smoke cleared, there was a red cross box with Bader’s artificial limbs in it and a note telling them to give them to him. Sheesh! Not a very friendly reply to Galland’s chivalry I’d say! See, kill em all!
