Originally posted by quintv Using your friends as bait - perhaps the wording is much for some people, but its pretty standard tactic, keep the guy fixated on one while the other swoops in and knocks it down. Now if hes not calling peoples 6 just for the oppurtunity, then hes salamander, otherwise thats how flying should be done.
Then maybe drag and bait would have been better wording. It didn't come off that way though.
And yes, if drag and bait is what he meant then it's a very good tactic. One I and my squad-mates use regularily.
What do you mean by flying like a weenie? Red all around and dropping flaps to get a shot on a single guy, blowing all your E and leaving yourself as meat on the table for the 5 Spits and N1Ks within 3.0,,,,is this flying with "balls"?
"Whenever you see a con at co-alt run" Not the exact quote but close enough. Sounds like weenie flying to me.
At this point I'll add that in SOME situations or in certain planes his comments are valid, but he generalizes it to make it seem as though it's the only smart thing to do in any circumstance and that all vets use these tactics when in inferior planes.
I like to keep a moderate K/S and K/D up, but only to a degree.
I delight in diving into a me on many (again, depending on what I'm flying but this also includes many "inferior aircraft"). I've come out of more me on threes successfully than I can remember and a few me on fours. I'll dive into a me on 10+ just for the pure adrenaline rush knowing I won't get out but if I stay alive for a while and get a couple of kills along the way then I know that I can likely exit the next me on two or three successfully. It's a great way to develop and maintain your ACM and SA skills and it can be a lot of fun.
I find no greater pleasure or satisfaction in the game than dispatching 2-3 enemys in a one on two or three and when I do exit one of these my heart is usually pounding and I'm shaking like a leaf.
