Originally posted by JB82
Some of you guys are realy lost on what this post was about. Someone got all paranoid thinking everything is about them. If you think that this thread is about you then your the one that got called out, therefore your the one who needs to get the thicker skin. Does the truth about your poor sportsmanship hurt that much?
I pay $14.95 a month to play an online sim game. I do NOT pay $14.95 a month to be harassed and belittled by people who get so upset about getting shot down or about the way I fly. There is a reason I don't tune to channel 200 and I would very much appreciate it if you do not PM me. I have every right to play this game with out having to put up with the childish remarks.
I hope in the near future that HTC would make it so that we have the option of being able to squelch all PM, whether it's vox or text. I have to put up with BS like this every day I work. There is no reason I should have to listen to the same BS when I'm trying to relax at home with the very rare chance of being able to play.
I'm kind of caught between amusement and confusion.
Apparently Hartmann here took what was meant to be a genuine question and turned it into some sort of indictment on his "fighting" "style".
So I'll give my version of what happened earlier, you guys can pick it apart all you want.
Flew a couple sorties today, nothing really good going on. See a carrier down around a knight base with 3-4 guys flying off it, and a pretty fair sized red bar in the 3 sectors around the carrier. Roll an F6F. See some B-26s coming in at about 200 feet, they actually don't try to suicide the carrier (wonder of wonders!)... fly between the B26s and the carrier for about 2-3 minutes, waiting for them to turn back in, they never do. Some other friendly was doing a tail-chase on em, the guy was probably sitting in the tail gun waiting on his free kill.
Turn back, see an enemy Spit headed my way. Shoot rockets at enemy spit. Kill enemy spit with rockets. Laugh my bellybutton off, because I've never actually had an A2A kill with rockets before.
Bout 30 seconds after that, a Tiffie comes in past me headed in to suicide the cruiser. Get a couple pings on the Tiffie, he gets the cruiser, I get the kill on him. See a flight of Ju-88s, go after them.. miss em. Come back around for another pass. Get the crap shot out of me with the lil paintball guns on my way past, then fly parallel to him for a while trying to get in front of him as he heads toward what was left of the "fleet" (all 3 destroyers).
See a Ju-87 ahead co-alt, decide to pick up a free kill and then deal with the Ju-88s. Get pings on the Stuka, but don't kill him. A 190 that I hadn't seen zips past me after blowing his pass on me.
He zooms back up, I kill the Stuka. He makes another pass, I bank, he zooms back up.
Make another pass on the Ju-88s, he waits until I'm attacking the bombers to come back down, but changes his mind because I finish my pass on the bombers before he can get down to me.
Leave the bombers alone while I try to sucker this run90 down where I can kill him... that doesn't work. Ju88s fly home. See a P-47 attacking 2 friendly Pt-boats about 5k below me, decide that if the run90 isn't gonna fight, then I'll just kill the P-47. Make my first pass on the P-47, as expected the run90 dives in right behind me. Make an abbreviated pass at the P-47, get some hits but don't kill him. Pull up early to get the run90 to overshoot, get some hits on the run90 but don't kill him either. P-47 tries to go up after me, the run90 keeps running. I come back over the top behind the P-47 and kill it.
Run90 gets out of icon range, then turns around. See some B24s coming in to bomb one of the PT boats. Attack the B24s.. miss the B24s. Run90 is camped out up there, not really doing anything. B24s turn around, I go after the B24s again... and I miss em again. Look around for the run90, he is like 5.5k away.
Run90 is ~co-alt with me, I turn toward run90. We fly straight at eachother, about 1k I open up, he does a little dive, then pulls up at ~600 and opens up himself. I fly straight through him, and die. Dunno if he did or not, I smoked his oil or radiator with like the 1st hit though, so his sortie was over one way or another.
So then I private him -
"Yea, I thought I was prolly "fighting" a JaBore there"
"Anyway, I want to ask you a question"
"Why on earth would you go for a joust when you are plainly terrified to fight?"
"I can tell you why I did it, I was bored stiff, but you could have run me out of fuel eventually, so why did you do it?"
Never got any response.
Ended with "Ah well, guess the JaBores got something other than their balls cut off", said me goodbyes to the squad and logged.
Apparently Hartmann decided it was better to present his "case" on the BBS rather than answer a simple question.
