End of a streak...

[Urchin]

Well, I ended up going for a kill streak this tour, kind of unintentionally.  

I got to 109 kills in a spit 14 before my streak (and life) were suddenly ended by a 20mm shell from none other than an AR-234.  

How's THAT for a classy ending?

The Spit 14 is a fantastic plane, I think it is priced at 20 perks now, and I think that is a fair price for it.

[Stang]

Agree with me now that it's way better than the XVI?

Nice streak, and yeah a classy ending hehe.

[mars01]

Nice!  At least it wasnt 20 mile ack shot

[Urchin]

Originally posted by Stang
Agree with me now that it's way better than the XVI?

Nice streak, and yeah a classy ending hehe.

I don't know to be honest.  

I'd have to fly the Spit 16 in the same way that I flew the 14 in order to make a fair comparison.  I flew the 14 fairly carefully.. I was careful not to fly into situations where'd I'd get gangraped, and for the most part I was successful in avoiding them.  I think I only remember 2 or 3 really close calls (getting chased back home by 4 or 5 cons, with no gas and no cannon).  

For the most part I only flew it in situations where I could be sure I'd be fighting at most 2 guys at the same time.  

When I flew the Spit 16 last month I just upped and plunged into the nearest furball, knowing I was going to die and just trying to kill as many as possible before that happened.  

The Spit 14 is a great little plane though, I'll give it that.

[Brenjen]

The 234's defensive armament ia a 30MM isn't it, it's the only plane I've ever killed a 262 in. nice job on the streak B.T.W.

[SlapShot]

Originally posted by Urchin
Well, I ended up going for a kill streak this tour, kind of unintentionally.  

I got to 109 kills in a spit 14 before my streak (and life) were suddenly ended by a 20mm shell from none other than an AR-234.  

How's THAT for a classy ending?

The Spit 14 is a fantastic plane, I think it is priced at 20 perks now, and I think that is a fair price for it.

SpitDWEEB !!!!  

I like the "new" relaxed Urchin ... hope it lasts ... your a lot of fun to have in this game.

[B@tfinkV]

the 'old' urchin was just as relaxed as far as i can see, but then i never tried to wind him up.

109 is a great streak, all in one plane adds a certain imaginative story to the tour i would imagine. did you become increasingly cautious as the kill count climbed? fun to pretend your AH life is valuable, best new tour streak i got was about 12 kills in a spit5 in ah1

[68DevilM]

batfink didnt you shoot my 262 down last week with feild ack

[mars01]

Yeah I would think comparing the 14 to the 16 would be apples and oranges due to the different fighting styles.  

Man I don't know how you have the patience to fly like that, I know after about an hour or two picking the right fights I would need to get some down and dirty out of my system.

[FiLtH]

To me the spit1, spit5, and spit8 all seem related, and the spit9, 14, and 16 seem related. To me they arent all just spits. More like two variations.

[Urchin]

Batfink, I don't think I got more cautious as the streak went on.  I actually didn't realize there was a "streak" until I got to 60 kills, but that was all in one night, I just kept upping and flying around.  

Mars, I don't fly the Spit 14 any more cautiously than I do any other plane,  just try to avoid situations where I'm sure I'll be killed.  I'll still engage any one plane I come across, or any number of planes if I've got E on them.  It isn't like I'm running from fights, more like just avoiding the huge furballs that (almost invariably) involve all of one side dying.

[Kazaa]

What a nice streak mate.

21 and a bit aces I make that.

[Hap]

Originally posted by Urchin
I got to 109 kills in a spit 14 before my streak (and life) were suddenly ended by a 20mm shell from none other than an AR-234.

Wow.  Excellent.  Well-done.

 hap

[BGBMAW]

thats the same way Stang lost his right?..100 + kilsl to lose to an Arado!!...lolololo

running all that time in his pee51


and...Arados have 20 mils..NOT 30 mils Brenjen

[Karnak]

Nice streak Urchin and yes, that was a classic end to it.


My record new Tour streak was 31 kills in a Mossie VI, but I ended on a completely non-classic collision with a Spitfire Mk IX that I was going for.  My fault too, I should have gone verticle and got him on the second pass.


The thing I remember most about that streak was doing an attack on an enemy field when I was at about 25 kills.  As I swept away after dumping the ordnance on the base the quartet or quintet of Ostis opened up on me.  I was looking back and around and I remember seeing a line of tracer pass just over my starboard wing slightly inboard of the #2 engine and then a moment later a tracer went right under the wing.  Escaping that attack run got the adreniline going.