Regarding Vulching

[Slash27]

That new silk is some amazing kevlar/concrete type stuff; found that out the hard way over and over.

I havent shot a chute in over a year Ill bet. Shot at one last night and then flew into it and blew up.  So sad.

[TexMurphy]

Caping != Vulching
Vulching == Caping

??? What does that mean.

You dont have to Vulch to cap a field but Vulching is a form of caping.

The reason one needs to cap is to enable non-fighter planes to do their job in preping the field and for the goons to come in. This does not have to be done by vulching.

Imho vulching isnt necessary the most effective way to do it. This deppends on how the vulch is done though. But the down side of vulching compared to other caping methods is that your caught on the deck when support from adjecent fields comes in.

If you instead let em launch, stay a bit higher and pick em of before they gain any energy you conserve more of your own energy. Doing this you accomplish the exact same thing as a vulch.

Tex

[Gooss]

I love vulching.

Tex, if there were only one base from which to fly, then vulching is unfair.  

Killing someone too stupid or too stubborn to fly in from a nearby base is really just wonderful.

I subscribe to philosophy of Vulture of the Kraits Squadron, all my kills are vulches or as close as I can make them.  There is no "fair" in fighting.

HONK!
Gooss

[Flyboy]

to sum things up vulching is alllowed but you have to stick left pinkie in right nostril for 3 seconds atleast before making any attempt to shoot

[mechanic]

Originally posted by TexMurphy
Caping != Vulching
Vulching == Caping

??? What does that mean.

You dont have to Vulch to cap a field but Vulching is a form of caping.

The reason one needs to cap is to enable non-fighter planes to do their job in preping the field and for the goons to come in. This does not have to be done by vulching.

Imho vulching isnt necessary the most effective way to do it. This deppends on how the vulch is done though. But the down side of vulching compared to other caping methods is that your caught on the deck when support from adjecent fields comes in.

If you instead let em launch, stay a bit higher and pick em of before they gain any energy you conserve more of your own energy. Doing this you accomplish the exact same thing as a vulch.

Tex

your ethics are sound, yet in reality who can honestly say that when there is a few friendlies under 2k at a base vulching, that they would rather let 2 la7s and an IL2 get up than kill them on the ground?

could anyone really resist shooting up bombers on the runway of a de-acked field?
someone else is only going to shoot them if you dont, so it may as well be you. and landing 5 kills in 8 mins has a terrible satisfaction....

....although killing one decent pilot in a good fight, or shooting 3 planes down in under a minute in a Cat. 5 Furball provides far more.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Me vulching =

Someone vulching me =

Is everyone clear on that?

-- Todd/Leviathn

lol exactly. haha

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Stang
No one shoots chutes anymore    

errrr ... ummm ... I DO !!!!

[Jackal1]

Vulching is the ultimate form of art, plain and simple.


  The guy behind the trigger is not at fault when you are vulched. It`s the guy flying your plane that has the prob.

[JB42]

Last night i went to a base under attack by 4 P-38s. They did some vulching but then turned their efforts towards hitting the town. I was bale to sneak out in my 109G6 and gain a little alt and some good speed. About 10 seconds after I upped, some bomers took out the FHs. Now the P-38s were really interested in the town and must not have seen me get out. I then proceeded to shoot down three of them and chase the last one home.

Sometimes the vulchee becomes the vulcher

[RedTop]

Originally posted by TexMurphy
As a tactic vulching IS good.

But a game is more then just tactics. A game is, belive it or not, about having fun. Fun should never be had on the expence of another persons lack of fun.

Both players in an engagement have to have fun or eventually both will stop to have fun.

While its very effective tactics to vulch it is only and only fun for the one doing it, its never fun for the guy dieing to it.

One of the biggest reasons people eventually stop defending a base is because when the huge vulch sets down it aint fun anymore.

This leads up to the gigantic hoard hovering over a empty field with non to fight. Which aint fun either. Meaning your booored hanging there and the pilots who where defending have left because it wasnt fun.

So often does one see pilots leaving a hugly outnumbered base out of booredom and failed to even take it.

I mean what´s the point?

Id much rather see a base that is defended until the last dieing moments then one that is left undefended because it was vulched for 15min.

I as an attacker have more fun and the defender has more fun.

In war there is no fun factor. In war vulching is a great tactic.

Games are built on fun factor. In games any camping tactics are bad tactics.

Tex

I applaud you.  Your Words sound great....But I will submit this small tidbit.

Player A could give 2 farts about player B's fun. It IS the MA way to be Arrogant , cocky , and generally a *******. Making fun OF player B would be more the style of the MA

This makes up 99 percent of the MA these days.

I have Vulched...prolly will Vulch again. VERY VERY RARELY is it in ANY OTHER WAY than to help keep the fighters down while GOON is dropping or in route.

I personally like em to get at least a LIL air under em before I hit em.

[Redd]

Horde vulching is getting pretty sad.... 20 guys flying up and down the runway waiting for 1 guy to up......I'd rather watch grass grow



Roll up at field by yourself or with a couple others and try to stop large numbers from upping ..well that's a little different, that can be fun.

seem to have become softer in old age   hate shooting them when their wheels are still down these days...just seems kinda lame.

everyones diff of course , each to their own

[Redd]

Originally posted by Stang
I have no problem with vulching.  What I do have a problem with is lemming timid score potatos who ONLY vulch, that you only find in those 10 plane packs at relatively undefended fields.  This is one thing that will get me going on ch200.

yup

[Seagoon]

Hey if it weren't for vulching, I wouldn't get any kills at all. But with the vulch, I can get a legitimate, bonafide no ho kill as I collide with planes taking off or simply auger into them.

- SEAGOON:p

[nopoop]

I've noticed a great drop off of chutes floating about the fight. Use to be just about every sortie you had the chance to kill some lamo hangin by ropes.

Ahh..the old days.

[KurtVW]

Ah, Nopoop... Its guys like you that make me happy that in AHII you can go to tower directly from the chute rather than hang there helplessly while a brave brave man like you shoots an unarmed guy dangling by a string.

HiTech.