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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« on: March 05, 2005, 05:35:58 PM »
Anyone else experience this? I gotta think the odds against FIVE pilot wounds in five flights are a little short of astronomical.
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Re: FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2005, 05:41:08 PM »
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Anyone else experience this? I gotta think the odds against FIVE pilot wounds in five flights are a little short of astronomical.


Hey, look on the bright side, you're an ace at it :p
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Re: FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2005, 05:57:05 PM »
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Anyone else experience this? I gotta think the odds against FIVE pilot wounds in five flights are a little short of astronomical.

I've had that happen in the Mossie.  You pay some pretty big penalties for not having that engine block in front of you in AH.
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2005, 06:03:13 PM »
Well, if they were all HO I'd have to agree with you. But they weren't. Besides, five in a row is a little much regardless of the plane layout. The odds just ain't reasonable.
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Re: Re: FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2005, 07:09:40 PM »
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Hey, look on the bright side, you're an ace at it :p



YUP CAp, thing is ya didnt duck way down in cockpit, like I do LOL
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Offline rabbidrabbit

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« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2005, 07:42:09 PM »
you might want to stop leaning out when thumbing your nose.
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Offline Kweassa

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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2005, 07:58:59 PM »
I don't see anything strange about it.

 Its quite common to get shot down five times in a row. So, for each of those five instances, you survived a hit to the cockpit which in other/worse circumstances would easily have been a pilot death, and thus counted as a shotdown.

 You should actually consider yourself lucky.
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2005, 08:34:22 PM »
Nevermind.:rolleyes:
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FIVE pilot wounds in a ROW?
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2005, 11:17:09 PM »
I never get pilot wounds from other players.  All of my pilot wounds lately have been the result of AI field gunners or puffy ack.



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« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2005, 11:49:08 PM »
i agree, 5 in a row is strange luck.

i found in AH1, if a pnsr shot me with pintle gun, instant pilot wound, always.

maybe a P38 bug somewhere?
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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2005, 01:56:55 AM »
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Well, if they were all HO I'd have to agree with you. But they weren't. Besides, five in a row is a little much regardless of the plane layout. The odds just ain't reasonable.

Mine are usually from tail guns or GV pintle guns.

I don't think I can ever recall being shot at by a Panzer IV H's pintle gun and not getting a pilot wound immediately.
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2005, 02:04:58 AM »
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i agree, 5 in a row is strange luck.

i found in AH1, if a pnsr shot me with pintle gun, instant pilot wound, always.

maybe a P38 bug somewhere?


I'm not going to slinging charges about a bug, odd as it was. But the five were all low percentage snap shots from bad angles, I only died from one, the other four I landed. I do hear P-38 fliers speak of pilot wounds at a far higher rate than others, and I've never heard anyone from HTC say there was a valid reason (say, maybe pilot position or something).
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« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2005, 02:30:12 AM »
You're right Virgil. I've had more pilot hits during the past couple months than I had during my entire career in AH1.

It might have something to do with improved damage modeling, or be just a bug. HT knows.
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« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2005, 05:25:52 AM »
whenever I fly the 38 a good bit I tend to see more pilot wounds.I can put half the plane between me and the source of incoming fire and still get hit.I think the 38 is prone to pilot wounds.This is assuming you were flyin the 38.if not forget this babble

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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2005, 07:00:51 AM »
i seem to be rtb'n all the time due to pilot wounds in a 38.

other night, my first two flights ended to puffy ack.  talk about upset!  then i read about how some people have never died to puffy ack in 3 years,  how nice for them  :rolleyes:
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