hey now, no need to call the p38 a bomber, even though there was a lvl bomber version created call the 'droop snoot'. sure it can carry nearly the equivilent amount of ords of that of a b26, but when a 38 gets light and and switches to guns and starts scanning for a target you better hope you can run away or pray and hope you get lucky.
had another intersting battle last night. chawks were havign squad night and we were attacking rooks, simply cause rook are dirty and need to be liberated from thier formerselves ( but thats nother story). i forget the number of the base, but it was in the middle of the map along the rook/knight border. i was 18k in my pony scannign for hi cons as usual. i spot a dot on dar just north of me over a friendly base. i get there and see a spit16 sitting just above the cloud cover. i was a little disappointed it was another dweeb spixteen, but hey it was a rook so i should have expected it:p. i got over top and behind him and rolled in on him. he saw me at about 800 out and rolled his plane to the right. i anticipated the move and led him a little bit, gettign a few hits on his tail. then i shot up like a rocket and did a hi yo-yo you counter his turn. not sure what happened after that, but i remember having full flaps out, elevator trim all the way forward, turning with that spit. i got my guns on him and gave him about 150 rounds from each set of guns. he went up ina fireball. with him dead i went to support the attack on the vbase to the south. i got to 17k again and began scanning for targets. i spotted none and went below the cloud cover to look for targets. i saw a p38 and an f4u co-alt heading straight for me. i pretended to be a nub and go head on with the both of them but i nose down and pulled up into a loop. i dont know what happened to the f4u, afte rthe loop he just seem to disappear. so it ws just me and the 38. he wasnt a very experienced pilot from what i could tell. he turned on the head on merge when i looped, bad move on his part. i came outta the loops and saw him turning to the right just off my 3 oclock. so i pulled another hi yoyo and got in behind him and shredded his plane with my .50's. all of the sudden i get check 6 calls from 3 different knights and i look behind me to see a spit 14 600 behind me and closing. i kick the stick to the left and slam the right rudder all the way foreward, making him zoom right past me, but not before he took out my rudder. he pulled up again for another pass so i turned to bait him into my trap. still at 9k i had plenty of playign room. i watch him as he began to dive in on me so i nosed down and went into a WEP dive in my pony. when he got 600 out i cut the throttle and pulled up and into a large barrel roll. he cut his throttle tryign to stay with me, but couldnt and went up a bit to counter the barrel roll. i followed him up and saw him go inverted to come back down so i did the same. next thing i know, we are in a rollign scissors manuver barely 100 feet off the deck. im full flaps hanging on for dear life, waiting for the spits buddy to come pick me while im slow, but he never shows. we go for another loop in the rollign scissors and im tryign to watch hima nd the ground at the same time. i reach the top of my rolling scissors and then next thing i hear is a loud boom behind me. i look back and the spit is gone, and i got a proxie
. i level otu and get my airspeed back up and pull my flaps up, began to head for home. no sooner did i get to 300 mph, i look back and see a typh headed for me 5k out. shot up and heading for home, against my better judement, i decided to engage the typhoon head on. i close on him fast and i fire a short burst at him from 1000 out, scoring a few hits and i pulled up before i got in hhis 20mm hispano range. he follows me up and we do about 4 loops i counted. at the bottom of the first loop it hit me that typhoon's roll rate is horrible so i decided to scissor him, pulling into a left turn. watching him, i reversed back and forth, denying him a shot. i watch him as he pulled up into a loop after i got around on his 6, i couldnt follow him because i was barely maintianing 150 mph with full flaps. i followed him as high as i could and rolled over into another rollign scissors manuver. he tried to follow me, btu after the second loop of the rolling scissors i saw him auger, right into a group of trees. i flew home with a big smile on my face, a spit14 and typh out manuvered by a pony missing a rudder, both proxies, plus two normal kills. i dont know how i survived that fight but apparently someone was on my side
to all who i fought wiht last night, it ws by far the most inentse night i have had in the game in the 9 months i have bene playing AH2.
