Originally posted by SlapShot
Please ... I was there ... you ran into Mars01 ... not a good guy to run into after wringing your hands and freting all day over the icon system.
You just ran into the wrong guy at the wrong time ... it had nothing to do with the icon system. He doesnt care what variant you were flying ... he attacks all with the same fervor.
You were carrying on how you were 28 and 1 ... well ... like I said above ... you ran into the wrong guy at the wrong time. Had you run into Mars01 last week ... your streak would have ended sooner and no icon system to blame.
Have fun in the Dora ... and when you run into Mars01 again ... be prepared ... chances are great that you just might lose again ... regardless of what variant you chose to fly.
Well, the last time I seem to have been shot down by Mars01 I was in a PT boat in tour 52, I killed his PT boat. He killed my PT boat with a NIKI. If you want to check, like who cares, I flew as AKff before August of last year.
I didn't go past tour 45.
So I quess you are right, anytime we have fought in planes he has won. Quite frankly I had never heard of Mars01 one way or the other. First flight in the new patch and a dora flies up my butt. If I would have been in a Dora, a simple splits S and dive for the nearest pack of green. In the A8 you can't even hope to run for any short distance, so I chopped throttle (probably should have turned off engine but as you said, this guy is good), I kicked rudder, got as dirty a confiugation as I could and tried to force an over shoot. The guy was too slow to start with, and too good, I only lasted maybe 20 seconds with him sticking to my six like hair on a dog, no hits, but he was going to stay there until he got some, and a Dora outturns a A8. So I tried to dive a bit, and rolling, again trying to force an overshoot, no good, he finally hit me and hit me good. Hellava nice flying job in his part IMHO.
I retrospection, I dove into a losing situation, too many reds, a bunch with alt and almost no greens. I was going to back off, but I had been harassed by a pony who made me drop my fuel tank about 1/4 way out and then ,I tried to keep a F6F from porking our barracks, he augered, no one else at base, I blew all my e and no kill. I was PO'd at being harassed by the reds, I was low on fuel by then, and wanting to get a quick kill and rtb. Dumb move in a area full of Dora's and LA7's. But in a Dora, I might still have made it, hard to tell without knowing.
There are probably a 1000 pilots in the arena who can take me out 1 on 1. But the MA isn't about 1 on 1's.
Like I said, in the new arena, you are going to need faster planes.
I died twice last night in the Dora, once I blacked out and augered, and once I got a fatal pilot wound, I died on the RTB. Only got 3 kills, it handles so different than the A8.
I just have to learn to harness that much power and speed, my firing passes are way to fast. So the first month or so I'll have to pay my dues. Then the icon kee-rap means nothing. Let them know my 190 is indeed a Dora.
Adapt, improvise, and overcome.
But then isn't life about faster cars, faster women and faster planes?
