Author Topic: fav plane to fly and kill... (Read 1426 times)

WMLute · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:29:36 AM »

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Originally posted by kilz
i dont remember once you calling WMLute a dweeb for flying a Niki

ahhh... but I AM a dweeb.

ask anybody.

I fly the niki for a couple reasons.

Top three are
1.) legs (100% fuel and d/t my normal fuel loadout. 46+min of flight time)
2.) ammo (I hate running out of ammo, and it's one of the best de-ackers in the game)
3.) ord (2-550lbs eggs can kill most gv's. gota hit the tiger JUST right, but it will drop a tiger)

I also love how it can dive and not compress untill 470kias ish, and when I take an ack hit, more times than not it's a gear.

I like the fact that it can ALMOST turn with most planes in the game. (zeke's, hurri's and fm2's give me a spot o' trouble tho) BUT I can name over a dozen planes that will out turn it.

It's slow, average climb rate, average roll rate, and only a "decent" turn rate.

I fly the niki for a comination of reasons, but it's far from "uber" and quite easy to kill.

Take away the head on, and the Nik is not really that "Great" of a bird.

But it IS one of the best all around planes if you know and understand it's strengths.

A similar ride would be the F6F, as it, just like the nik, is average in most catagories, and great in none (well... great ord loadout).

yankedudel · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:32:26 AM »

I don't see anything. One minute I'm in the air the next I am back in the tower.

Where'd he go??? Where'd WHO go????

Saxman · « **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:42:43 AM »

Fly: F4U-1A, F4U-4

Kill: The red ones, although I find a special pleasure in hunting down badly-flown F4Us.

Ghastly · « **Reply #18 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:55:13 AM »

To Fly: F4U-1A, Spit IX

Favorite kill is the the 262 driver who thinks that he's untouchable, when I've got the alt to catch them after a dive ...

Simaril · « **Reply #19 on:** December 27, 2007, 10:57:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Saxman
...I find a special pleasure in hunting down badly-flown F4Us.

<-------Reminds self to avoid Saxman

RATTFINK · « **Reply #20 on:** December 27, 2007, 11:03:56 AM »

I love to kill the following when I'm out hunting in my seafire or Hellcat

Kawanishi N1K-J "Shiden"

Mitsubishi *A6M5b "Otsu" & *A6M2 "Sakae" *Zero

Lavochkin LA-5FN's & LA-7's

Other then that... any plane w/ a red icon

RATTFINK · « **Reply #21 on:** December 27, 2007, 11:11:45 AM »

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Lutemister

I fly the niki for a comination of reasons, but it's far from "uber" and quite easy to kill.

Take away the head on, and the Nik is not really that "Great" of a bird

Exactly!! Why I love to kill LA's & N1K's

This is usually the last line of defense people take when their base is being overwhelmed or when they are an inexperienced. I have no problem w/ people who love to fly them as long as they don't use them as ramrods.

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Lutemister

A similar ride would be the F6F, as it, just like the nik, is average in most catagories, and great in none

I beg to differ sir. Although I will say that the F6F is not modeled correctly in this game. And needs a revision.

Spikes · « **Reply #22 on:** December 27, 2007, 11:14:26 AM »

I like to look hard for planes with red icons over them.

Shuffler · « **Reply #23 on:** December 27, 2007, 11:32:34 AM »

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Originally posted by MajIssue
Comon guys, be REAL!!! Everyone looks to have an advantage over whatever else is in the fight. If you are high in a 190D you are going to BnZ (Cherrypick) and if you're in a Spit 16 you are going to get into a turn fight. So it is reasonble to assume that, in that spit, you would try to get your 190D adversary to fight a turning fight, the fight that favors your ride (if you're smart) and if your Dora is above a Spit16 you will zoom down on him like hell's fury and zap him before he can reverse (for example).

Am I right or is Idealism and fighting a "fair" fight the new rage in Aces High?

Well I do find it hard to fight the one's that just run.... but other than that... I pretty much fight anything that comes along. I do however look for japs and other 38s mainly... but I take all comers.

I die alot but the kills even out the feeling........

Saxman · « **Reply #24 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:02:34 PM »

Hee hee Ghast. I did that to shreck once. He was running down a friendly on the deck in his 262. I was patrolling in a 4-Hog about 20,000ft (Base alt was about 3-5k).

He never saw me coming.

Yippee38 · « **Reply #25 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:19:10 PM »

When I fly the Yak-9U I look for P-51s and Typhoons.

SFCHONDO · « **Reply #26 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:35:16 PM »

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Originally posted by WWhiskey
In the FM-2 i look for Zekes and Spits and Niki's, La's are also on the list of must kill first. Mossies are the easiest targets it seems.F4u is the most fun fight if the driver is good.
In the Jug i look for the biggest enemy planes i can find!also P-51's are a favorite target,P-38's as well! i hate any thing i see above me in the Jug tho!
In the p-38 i look for P-51's.

How do you get the Mossy is the easiest trgt. You killed 4 this tour, died by them twice, last tour you had no kills of Mossies and died by them twice? Tour 93 you killed 1 and died twice. So in 3 tours the mossie has killed you 1 more time then you have killed them. Can't see where you have fought them enough to know, plus the mossy is 1 up on ya for past 3 tours. Not picking on you, just curious how you come up with this deduction is all.

E25280 · « **Reply #27 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:58:07 PM »

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Originally posted by WMLute
I fly the niki for a couple reasons.

Top three are
1.) legs (100% fuel and d/t my normal fuel loadout. 46+min of flight time)
2.) ammo (I hate running out of ammo, and it's one of the best de-ackers in the game)
3.) ord (2-550lbs eggs can kill most gv's. gota hit the tiger JUST right, but it will drop a tiger)

I also love how it can dive and not compress untill 470kias ish, and when I take an ack hit, more times than not it's a gear.

I like the fact that it can ALMOST turn with most planes in the game. (zeke's, hurri's and fm2's give me a spot o' trouble tho) BUT I can name over a dozen planes that will out turn it.

It's slow, average climb rate, average roll rate, and only a "decent" turn rate.

I fly the niki for a comination of reasons, but it's far from "uber" and quite easy to kill.

Take away the head on, and the Nik is not really that "Great" of a bird.

But it IS one of the best all around planes if you know and understand it's strengths.

A similar ride would be the F6F, as it, just like the nik, is average in most catagories, and great in none (well... great ord loadout).

Paraphrasing, it is a jack of all trades, but master of none.

You have at least a fighting chance against any other plane.

Absent any planes, the large ammo loadout makes it a very good ground attack platform. It might not have the pure ordinance loadout, but since it seems I am intercepted before I can drop at least half the time, the cannons help make up for that.

For the original post, usually the only plane I am actively "hunting" is the goon!

Other than that, I target whatever plane I can catch.

Anaxogoras · « **Reply #28 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:06:09 PM »

I look for any historical matchup in whichever plane I fly.

Lacking that, I target Spit16s and La7s, in that order.

(edit: because I perceive them as the most dangerous)

BaldEagl · « **Reply #29 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:10:33 PM »

If I'm in a F6F I'm probably heavy so I go for GV's until the ord's gone. After that any flying object will do.

If I'm in a 190A-8 I'm hunting buffs but occasionally get distracted by other fighters.

If I'm in a Spixteen or IX (or any other model Spit for that matter) it's all about fighting fighters... any kind and any number.