I entered a dogfight in the DA today, and after a short but fairly good fight it had settled into a horizontal turn on the deck. We had similar aircraft, so it was going to take a while, but I was turning better and making small gains, and with the odd yo-yo thrown in I felt that a few more turns would bring the kill. That’s the nature of the Lufbery, with similar aircraft, once you are in one, it’s generally a fight to the death and the best option is to max perform your aircraft and hope you can do it better than the other guy, out turn him, take the shot and collect the pelt.
However, after a few turns the guy I was fighting came up on vox and said “is that all you can do”, “you can’t do anything but turn” and then he levelled off and tried to extend. To me it seemed like he was caught between a rock and a hard place. He could stay in the turn and eventually give me a close range deflection shot, or he could try to extend and use a standard guns defence. Of course the best option was to out turn me, but he couldn’t do it. So it looked like he opted for the second choice and as he extended I followed at around 500 and after a few short bursts killed him.
That’s when the fun started! He shouted that he had broken off the fight and that I shouldn’t have killed him. That’s when one of his Squad mates vulched me. So I took off again only to get vulched by another member of the same Squad on the runway. After getting airborne and trying to get the vulcher, I was vulched again by yet another member of the same Squad… there were maybe 5 of them all buzzing around the same base.
It took me a minute to figure out what was happening. I was being gangbanged by a Squad. So, I took off from another base and got a little revenge… Revenge is good! These guys didn’t like their own medicine and pretty soon I had all 5 of them chasing me around, plus one of their groupies.
So when they couldn’t kill me that way, they wanted to duel. So after duelling three of these guys, and killing them all, I was hearing every whine in the book. The best part is that in the last duel, exactly the same thing happened that I described in the beginning. I got into a lufbery that went around and around with a few small yo-yo’s and we eventually reached the deck, where I was gaining angles. You can tell how close I was too a shot in the turns because when he broke off I was only 250 behind and he died real quick. Once again, he had expected me to let him live because he had broken off the fight!
What’s wrong with that?
Well, these guys were members of the LTAR Squad and after I shot down the first one of them they reacted like playground bullies. After I killed them all, they behaved like cry babies.
I guess some squads have very low recruitment standards
Gunzo
