How long did it take you to learn ACM?

[Grits]

Originally posted by Widewing
My philosophy in a nutshell: Attack, attack, attack. Always look for an opportunity to attack. Always fly to the enemy. Always strive to place your nose on the enemy. Your goal is not survival, but to kill the enemy, which in itself, ensures your survival.

Everyone who wants to be as good as they can read this paragraph. Then read it again, this is the key, its a mindset and it is what REALLY sets the great sticks apart from everyone else and its far more important than mastering this maneuver or that maneuver.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

So far, I've only learned three moves, the cherry pick, a really poor BnZ, and HO and run. But I'm working on it.

[SkyRock]

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Originally posted by Widewing
My philosophy in a nutshell: Attack, attack, attack. Always look for an opportunity to attack. Always fly to the enemy. Always strive to place your nose on the enemy. Your goal is not survival, but to kill the enemy, which in itself, ensures your survival.
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Iagree with Grits, wide said it all!!!!:aok

[mars01]

   Originally posted by Widewing:
    My philosophy in a nutshell: Attack, attack, attack. Always look for an opportunity to attack. Always fly to the enemy. Always strive to place your nose on the enemy. Your goal is not survival, but to kill the enemy, which in itself, ensures your survival.

   Originally posted by Grits:
Everyone who wants to be as good as they can read this paragraph. Then read it again, this is the key, its a mindset and it is what REALLY sets the great sticks apart from everyone else and its far more important than mastering this maneuver or that maneuver.

That's it in a nut shell!!!  Very well put as usual gents!

BTW - The aim bot formerly know as Leviathn and anomaly once refered to as Drex are nothing but AH lore.  Like fairys and dwarfs and cheese.

[Dichotomy]

widewing, kaybay, and badboys, posts should be stickied in the help and training forum.

gents

[Widewing]

Originally posted by mars01

BTW - The aim bot formerly know as Leviathn and anomaly once refered to as Drex are nothing but AH lore.  Like fairys and dwarfs and cheese.

I really miss these guys. They were a great source of pure hysterics. Drex in his F6F and Leviathn in his SpitV, they would wade into a horde and 10 minutes later land a dozen kills each. Ah... the good old days of AH1....

My regards,

Widewing

[Magoo]

For those who don't know, SAS_KID is pretty good stick. Good enough to challenge many held in high regard, and a fast learner to boot.

He's a marked man now;)

Best tip I ever got (from reading on the internet) was to get separation for the merge, facillitating the lead turn. Quantum leap in my success ratio at the time. Since most of the great unwashed in the MA are always trying to put their nose on you, very often for the HO, the classic move is to dive under them on the merge and lead turn them vertically. Nothing like the "Gravity Assist" (AKA free G) to get the edge. With any luck the Spit hits the fan on the 1st turn

Best advice I got for E management was to use pure and lag pursuit and let the other guy burn his E pulling on the stick.

Best SA advice you can give is short and sweet - Check your Six...often. I mean like every other click of the hatswitch if your in a furball. The MA is alot like society in regard to this. You get a few charitable Six Calls from your countrymen and begin to think they owe it to ya, then cry like a baby when you don't get one

[sonic23]

about an hour before i was able to figure out how to get my plnae in the air. does that count as an ACM?

[Makoyouidiot]

well, I've always been of the opinion that most ACM is done purely by instinct, in trying to save yourself and/or get your nose on to the opponent, you pull moves that may or may not have been done by others (A particular favorite mine is the hammerhead)
also, many maneuvers are invented purely on the spot to save your butt
(aka, the Mako spin, which involves all kinds of fancy stick moves to keep someone right behind you from getting a shot, usually called by dweebs stick-stirring)

[Zazen13]

An eternity I guess. I've been playing since 1991 and can still only dive and climb, but I'm not a smart man...


Zazen

[Morpheus]

IMO you're never completely done learning acm. There's always ways to refine and adjust ones fighting style to become more efficient.

[SkyRock]

for a minute I thought someone had dug up an old thread.............is Morpheus back?  We are in desperate need of new victims! hee hee

Mark

[Masherbrum]

I suck, you won't learn a thing from me.

[CarlsBee]

Best advise i can give: good internet connection, good computer, but them agian mine suck, me suck too.

[Stang]

Originally posted by Widewing

My philosophy in a nutshell: Attack, attack, attack. Always look for an opportunity to attack. Always fly to the enemy. Always strive to place your nose on the enemy. Your goal is not survival, but to kill the enemy, which in itself, ensures your survival.

Absolutely spot on.  95% of the people you meet in the MA are just looking to survive, not to kill.  If you always press the attack, even with limited knowledge of acm, you'll come out on top almost every time.  Plus, you might start learning a thing or two.

Hyper-aggressive is the only way to fly.