My promise to HT

[dedalos]

Dear HT, if you could find a way to solve the maned 5" gun insta kill issue when 3K or more away from the CV and on the tail of a bad guy, I promise to remove all INTELinside and WIN98 stikers from our 15K boxes.   What do you say.  Please?????  Atlist make it so it could kill the frindly or enable kill shooter for it.

[sullie363]

Or you could just not fly within 3K of a CV unless you're planning on attacking it.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by sullie363
Or you could just not fly within 3K of a CV unless you're planning on attacking it.

Or better, I can fly at 30k and look for cherry picks intead of fighting.  Who asked you?  I am not a threat to CV and I am not a thread the dweeb I just killed.  He is dead and looking for revenge by pointing and clicking.

However, when that happens, I will sink the CV at all cost.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by dedalos
Dear HT, if you could find a way to solve the maned 5" gun insta kill issue when 3K or more away from the CV and on the tail of a bad guy, I promise to remove all INTELinside and WIN98 stikers from our 15K boxes.   What do you say.  Please?????  Atlist make it so it could kill the frindly or enable kill shooter for it.

If you got hit by a 5 inch from a CV you WERE the bad guy. Want just a nice pilot wound instead? A bad one, it is a 5 inch shell after all.....

[Wolf14]

I didnt know the point and click method worked for the 5" guns. I knew it worked for ground targets if I want to shoot at a base but I didnt know you could do that for Air targets.

[Ohio43]

Originally posted by Wolf14
I didnt know the point and click method worked for the 5" guns. I knew it worked for ground targets if I want to shoot at a base but I didnt know you could do that for Air targets.

  You can't just point and click.  Unfortunately he's upset because people have become proficient in its use and therefore because of the shell size and realism, it becomes VERY deadly.  I think he's actually refering to being, say 8k out, and go poof.  It amazes me too when I see that cause Im no slouch at the 5" gun.  Im really good at ranges of 4 k and under..anything past that is just luck.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by Wolf14
I didnt know the point and click method worked for the 5" guns. I knew it worked for ground targets if I want to shoot at a base but I didnt know you could do that for Air targets.

Give it a try.  I landed 8 kills the firt time I tried it.

In anycase, this was supposed to be partly a funny post.  I did not realize that the people that get most of their kills in 5" gun would get upset (not you wolf).

[dedalos]

Originally posted by Ohio43
You can't just point and click.  Unfortunately he's upset because people have become proficient in its use and therefore because of the shell size and realism, it becomes VERY deadly.  I think he's actually refering to being, say 8k out, and go poof.  It amazes me too when I see that cause Im no slouch at the 5" gun.  Im really good at ranges of 4 k and under..anything past that is just luck.

you are kidding right?  Proficient in what?  I don;t care if I get killed.  But since youre talking about realism, don;t you think kill shooter should be on or run the risk of killing the friendly?  That would be realism.  

I have plenty of films where I am working my arse of in 4 on 1 (and yes the result would be death).  No one is further out than 200 from each other when a single shot takes my engine out or sending me to the tower.  That is not realism.  Its dweebism.  The fight was ruined for the guys that were chasing me also, not just me.

I guess if fighting in airplanes is not what we are looking for here then I will join the club.  HO everything, run into the ack, and shoot 5" at the dweebs that fly airplanes.  Once in a while I will join the hord and take the risk of going vulchin.

[StarOfAfrica2]

Originally posted by dedalos

I guess if fighting in airplanes is not what we are looking for here then I will join the club.  HO everything, run into the ack, and shoot 5" at the dweebs that fly airplanes.  Once in a while I will join the hord and take the risk of going vulchin.

Ummm.......

So are you saying real WWII pilots didnt do these things?  If you want to talk "realism".  I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment behind your posts, because some of the same things annoy me under certain circumstances.  But comon.  Realistically, pilots in WWII did every one of those things you just listed on a regular basis.  HO?  Yep.  And I'm not just talking about a few FW's HOing B-17's either, it happened all through the ETO all along the timeline.  Dive into ack?  Heck yeah, hitting ground targets was big business.  Certain versions of the Hurricane were known as the "Hurri-bomber", the Typhoon was a deadly ground attack plane, the P-51 and P-47 were both used to great effect.  The Germans were so impressed with the ability of the FW to take on the ground attack role they built the FW 190F series specially for that purpose.  What, you think there was no ack protecting ground targets and airfields?  I will grant you that more than likely a pilot never manned a 5" gun on a ship.  But we have alot of guys that switch back and forth between GVs and planes, and that didnt happen either.  As for vulching...........well, surely everyone who plays this game has seen enough of those strafing videos from gun cams to know it not only happened but it was encouraged if they were attacking an airfield.  

Its all part of the game man.  Its not going away.  Live with it and learn to play around it.  You'll appreciate it when you get a fight on your terms all the more, because you will stop playing the other guy's game.  Again, I'm not disagreeing with you, but some things you just have to accept.  

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by dedalos
you are kidding right?  Proficient in what?  I don;t care if I get killed.  But since youre talking about realism, don;t you think kill shooter should be on or run the risk of killing the friendly?  That would be realism.  


 

And if the ability to kill friendly aircraft is enabled, which of course includes your field defenses, you would think nothing about being taken out by one of your own 37mm or quad 50? Being the precision weapons that they are. Unless you only take off from "safe" bases so there are no base defenders there to hit you.  Which in turn means front line bases would only be defended by Ack and GVs as the pilots would not want to risk getting vulched by their own base defenders.