Scoring as Attk

[whiteman]

heres a question, i used an IL2 the other day and after an hour noticed it was on bomber and not all the kills counted toward score. How does that work thanks.

[Krusty]

When in "Bomber" I don't think it counts kills, only explosives dropped on targets. I think it counts strats, objects, etc, but not player controlled vehicles. I'm hazy on this.

[whiteman]

makes enough sense to me, thanks.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
the other "technique" i have only seen out of one rook "elite squad" is flying multiple 262s/tempests into furballs where they have the higher darbars picking off occupied turners at the back edge of the fight....honestly who brings a 262 to an offensive situation except someone who is trying to pad k/d???


 

Well, when your adversary and his 50 wingmen spam horde one base after another you betcha the necessary and appropriate reaction will be taken... Wading into a portable sea of Dweebfires and Lgay7s requires the heavier artillery...

We're talking late war arena here, Tempests and 262s have a place in as they are decidely LW. If they make you sqeamish I am sure to 10-30 guys milkrunning for points in the EW/MW arenas will enjoy your company...

Zazen

[Furball]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
the other "technique" i have only seen out of one rook "elite squad" is flying multiple 262s/tempests into furballs where they have the higher darbars picking off occupied turners at the back edge of the fight....honestly who brings a 262 to an offensive situation except someone who is trying to pad k/d???  

Someone who likes flying the Me-262 and wants to kill a lot of cartoon planes?

[Stampf]

Originally posted by Zazen13
Well, when your adversary and his 50 wingmen spam horde one base after another you betcha the going necessary and appropriate reaction will be taken... Wading into a portable sea of Dweebfires and Lgay7s requires the heavier artillery...

Zazen

Exactly!!  Has nothing to do with K/D.  Just Killing.

[BaldEagl]

I leave everything set to fighter mode, even the 110's because I mostly use them to hunt buffs.  I also fly the Hurri IID and Yak-9T in fighter mode.  My trusty F6F-5 is always in attack mode and used to drop objects, vehicles and other planes.  I also sometimes switch the LA-5 to attack mode for straffing ground targets but only rarely.

Last week one night the settings on my F6F got messed up.  I landed 6 vehicle kills plus some damage in fighter mode.  None of it counted toward my score

One downside is that, unless I'm in the F6F, when I'm at a base about to be captured by friendlies and someone says "Just 2 more buildings and the town is dead" or "We need this place de-acked" it won't be me helping.

[LYNX]

Originally posted by BaldEagl
I leave everything set to fighter mode, even the 110's because I mostly use them to hunt buffs.  I also fly the Hurri IID and Yak-9T in fighter mode.  My trusty F6F-5 is always in attack mode and used to drop objects, vehicles and other planes.  I also sometimes switch the LA-5 to attack mode for straffing ground targets but only rarely.

Last week one night the settings on my F6F got messed up.  I landed 6 vehicle kills plus some damage in fighter mode.  None of it counted toward my score

One downside is that, unless I'm in the F6F, when I'm at a base about to be captured by friendlies and someone says "Just 2 more buildings and the town is dead" or "We need this place de-acked" it won't be me helping.

Your taking the piss....right?.  Having a laugh?  This is bait ....right?

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by whiteman
heres a question, i used an IL2 the other day and after an hour noticed it was on bomber and not all the kills counted toward score. How does that work thanks.

Bomber mode doesn't count kills of anything toward score but they are added to your expanded kill stats.

Same thing with kills in a chute (a man after bailing) with your .45.  The go in expanded kill stats as a kill in a chute but don't count toward score.

Also GV kills in fighter mode; same thing.

[FALCONWING]

hehehe angry i was NOT referring to hells angels...they are fun to furball against!!!

and for the other "guilty consciences" that i salamandered that posted (all from the same squad hehehe).... all i can say is you obviously recognize your style IMMEDIATELY since three of you posted in less then 2 hours LMAO!!!!!!  im sorry Angry confused things by responding.....but im still reeeling the fish in so please stay in the bucket and dont let the other fishies know....
 
BTW have NEVER seen these elite Pile-its oppose a BoP mission...(unless of course you count zazen in a field gun or dolfo/killnu in a flak) so the "i fight 50 of you crap is hee-larious!!!  I cant even credit one of these guys for having saved a field from capture by upping and breaking a cap.....

what i HAVE seen repeatedly is what i stated..these pilots doing e-picking/alt picking in tempests/262s/f4u1c's  etc in unequal furball situations and then running home when anything that could make it a fair fight shows up...again puhlease...what are you doing in a poor turning fast big cannon plane if you are NOT picking...your shure not furbahllin son =)

but enough insults/observations...a few nice observations....

the only "FITER" squad that actually does seem to like to take on bad odds and truly does seem to furball without advantage is.....drum roll please...........The Blue kNIGHTS...

the only "fiter" squads that truly dont have chess piece loyalty and will show up on the lowest numbered side to make a fight of it are actually two:  

1. the blue knights
2. guppy/corkyjr's crew...bleh im drawing a blank on the name of the squad

and the hell angels seem to be having some fun switching around and it has been fun finally getting to hear some voices (bucky73, chanzz, joey04)

i now have to go throw up because i complimented the blue knights twice in one post and i have begun internally hemorrhaging from my spleen...

[Krusty]

Originally posted by FALCONWING
i now have to go throw up because i complimented the blue knights twice in one post and i have begun internally hemorrhaging from my spleen...

That'll learn ya!

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by LYNX
Your taking the piss....right?.  Having a laugh?  This is bait ....right?

Nope.  All true.

I do hunt buffs with 110's (gotta love 6 cannons plus machine guns for buff hunting plus the 110's performance at alt is good).

I do fly Hurri IID's and Yak-9T's in fighter mode (I can usually get 2-3 kills but aiming is hard... killing is not... it's for the challenge).

I do fly La-5's in attack mode.  They are particularily good at straffing water-born targets (LVT's and PT's).

I do fly the F6F-5 almost exclusively in attack mode (one of the best dive bombing platforms in the game IMHO and a very capable fighter after the ord is gone).

I do fly almost everything else in fighter mode all the time (I thought the game was mostly about fighter combat).

[1Boner]

Originally posted by Zazen13
Well, when your adversary and his 50 wingmen spam horde one base after another you betcha the necessary and appropriate reaction will be taken... Wading into a portable sea of Dweebfires and Lgay7s requires the heavier artillery...

We're talking late war arena here, Tempests and 262s have a place in as they are decidely LW. If they make you sqeamish I am sure to 10-30 guys milkrunning for points in the EW/MW arenas will enjoy your company...

Zazen

50?   WOW!!  THATS ALOT!!!





Breaking out my abacus,

Boner

[E25280]

Originally posted by stickpig
Why do alot of people score most of thier sorties as 'Attack" vs fighter?

looking at some of the top scores and this seems to be ther norm.

Simple answer -- more people assume they will be in "attack" type situations rather than purely furballing.

Even simpler answer -- WHO CARES.

Geesh, some of you folks should worry more about finding your own way to have fun rather than obsessing over how others play the game.

[SHawk]

Yep, I'll fly in attack mode 95% of the time for the simple reason of getting credit for the ground kills. If you dropping bombs on GV's or straffing towns or acks in fighter mode, you don't get credit for the kills. Sure it'll say SoInSo landed 5 kills in a plane, but check your score and you'll see you only got credit for the aircraft kills.  Call it timid or scorewhorin or whatever you want, but the simple fact is I like getting credit for what I kill.
Most of those that don't see it this way probably haven't dropped a bomb (or even carried one) from thier aircraft as long as they've played the game.
You know who you are.