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Offline Bosco123

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Your worst Sortie
« on: March 12, 2008, 01:41:22 PM »
Lets start this one:

Last night I was fling in a 1C picking. Had 10 kills and a spit5 took out my main feul. I went to get back to my carrier,when I relized that The ack was shooting at me insted of the spit5, I knew I was screw, then my engine died.

That had to be my worst sortie yet.
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Offline Hornet33

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2008, 01:55:02 PM »
Got you beat.

Not long after I started playing I realized I had enough perks to take up a 262. Up I go and fly over to a base where a big furball is going on. Get over that fight at around 13-14K and turn a couple of wide circles looking for a decent target. Mind you I'm at full throttle this entire time. See a P-51 looping over the top of the fight and think to myself, "East Target" and roll in for the kill. Well he sees me coming, reverses his turn while in the dive and when I try to match him I suddenly realize that none of my controls are working, glance at my airspeed and it's pegged. Screamed right through the middle of the furball and lawndarted from 14K at close to Mach 1.

Mind you that didn't deter me from flying again right afterwards but I didn't have enough perks for anouther 262 but I had plenty of bomber perks so I up a 234. Of COURSE I forgot to uncheck te formation box in the hanger so there I am on the runway with 3 planes. No biggie, so I take off and right about that time my daughter comes in and wants some attention. I set the auto climb and turn to talk to my daughter who wanted to show me a picture she drew. Right about the time I turn back to the computer I see my 3 planes in a steep decent right into the side of a hill.

In total I lost around 450-500 perks in the span of about 5 minutes. I logged at that point.
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Offline smokey23

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2008, 01:57:20 PM »
6 kills in my B-24 and 4 smokein engines flew all the way back to friendly base then ditched 20 ft from the end of the runway :frown: "DOHHH!!!!!!!"

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2008, 02:10:10 PM »
A ton of kills already (not sure how many, but alot!), saw a lone 190, thought "O what the heck just one more". I shot him down but not after 5 minutes of trying to get on his 6 and he gest my last fuel tank. Ran out of fuel just short of the runway = Ditch .

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2008, 02:12:51 PM »
Computer very slow for a few seconds, double post oops!  :o

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2008, 02:18:36 PM »
Field was under attack so I jump there to defend... I spawn on runway and startup. I start roll and get maybe 30 feet from spawn when a LALA vulches me.
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Offline gpwurzel

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2008, 02:47:41 PM »
Recently, every time I up from a field, there always seems to be a NOE raid coming in  :noid - needless to say, I dont last very long. :lol

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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2008, 02:52:46 PM »
Lets start this one:

Last night I was fling in a 1C picking. Had 10 kills and a spit5 took out my main feul. I went to get back to my carrier,when I relized that The ack was shooting at me insted of the spit5, I knew I was screw, then my engine died.

That had to be my worst sortie yet.

                        Ill bet it happened to both of us at the same exact time/CV. I was in a Spit-16 and had a few kills to land and when I aimed at our CV, to get my speed back up under ack cover, the bloody thing started shooting at me. :huh I had no idea there was an enemy CV right up against ours. I laughed later but at the time there were a few choice "MFs" coming out of my basement office.
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Offline bobtom

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2008, 03:33:15 PM »
Was flying in a 262 and was shooting a bomber....he fired 1 burst...only 1...that hit my pilot. Done.

Offline Blammo

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2008, 03:51:05 PM »
Any time I get my panties in a wad and insist on trying to up from a capped, vulched base.  Usually takes me 5 or six times to get it through my head to up somehwere else.
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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2008, 04:00:40 PM »
It was that one where I died.
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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2008, 04:52:30 PM »
Any sortie that I can't hit anything is bad one  :eek:
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Offline Bosco123

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2008, 05:08:28 PM »
My other worst sortie had to be on Sunday. uped a 262 that I thought was cheap, I roam and see a huge Dar. I see at least 20 bombers flying tword me and I think to myself Jakpot!.

2 bullets took out my tail.
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Offline trax1

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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2008, 05:13:58 PM »
Was flying a Temp and came across 5 F4U's, so it 5 vs 1, but I had alt on them, I took out 4 of them and was low on ammo so I hit the deck and bugged out home, I was about 2 mile's for the field getting ready for my approach when MstWtd pounced on me in a 109, he ping'd me on his first pass, he looped over and finished me off, needless to say I was upset. :furious
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Re: Your worst Sortie
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2008, 05:34:22 PM »
I was new to the game Always will be I guess and defending a base when a low set of bombers pass over the field. I take off after them in my Nik1. Burn up my whole load of ammo shooting them down and turn back to my base thinking, "Finally I'm gonna land some kills."

I line up on the runway and drop throttle when the field ack starts firing at me. Of course I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, so I'm looking around for the enemy con that has surely snuck up on me, I mean, after all, why else would my field ack be firing at me! Can't see him so I figure I'll just drag him through the ack, and let it do its intended job.

As I stand in the tower scratching my head I check the map only to realize the base I'd been attempting to land at had been captured while I was distracted by the bombers.
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