Shooting Planes on the re-arm pad.

[whiteman]

Personally I don't shoot guys on the re arm or landing.

[waystin2]

If you offer me an opportunity to kill you, consider yourself dead.  It doesn't matter to me who, what, when, where or how.  My "job" when I'm in a fighter is to kill as many opponents as I can as quickly as I can and rtb safely (sometimes harder said than done).

That doesn't mean I'm not up for a good fight when one presents itself.  But between those I take what's offered.  No appologies.  If that makes me one of the "hated" members of the community, so be it.

I could not have said it better myself Bald!  I can kill a man in a fair dogfight, but if I can kill him before he starts a fair fight, I will.

[FireDrgn]

It normally just hurts more getting vulched on the re-arm pad. Because typically you have kills.. I don't see it any different than attacking a plane lifting off the runway.....I will let someone land any time they ask or say rtb..  On the re-arm pad you already  had a chance to tower so...... i see it differant..

[A8Hunter]

Anytime I park on re-arm pad and take a trip to the tower I have only one thought: S T U P I D.  Daddy didn't raise the smartest kid but I know enuf to not sit idly by with an enemy aircraft in the area and not have a very close eye on em. Like the vulcher or not, we must take responsiblity for our own actions first. And I will add, I have taken several trips to the tower for my own failure in this area,,,,several!
Get smart, or die I say

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Dont you get more perks for killing someone who has a few kills under there belt?

p-51D "no kill low perk"
p-51D "3 kills higher perk"


Right?


Would be cool.

[Ack-Ack]

Dont you get more perks for killing someone who has a few kills under there belt?

p-51D "no kill low perk"
p-51D "3 kills higher perk"


Right?


Would be cool.

AW's scoring system was like that.


ack-ack

[Lusche]

AW's scoring system was like that.


ack-ack

Did it have any noticeable influence on "tactics" ?
I mean, if implemented here I could evry well imagine the majority of players trying to kill RTB fighters at all costs, while ignoring inbound Jabo's. After all, the homebound enemy might have some kills under his pelt = more perks...

[wrongwayric]

It's a realistic war based game! You ain't sitting in the tower drinking coffee or eating doughnuts i'm shooting you! Your never safely landed in my opinion till your out of your plane sitting in the tower/hanger. If you choose to attempt to rearm then you should be looking for cons! If they dive in tower out, how hard is that? You chose not to safely land your 1 or 20 kills and attempted to rearm and up! You got caught! Same as a gv waiting for supplies on an enemy field/town, you take a risk. I've made the same mistake and sure it po's me but it is part of the realistic aspect of war. Next you'll ask for a white flag to hang out your canopy to call off the con on your 6.
AKsleepy

[1Boner]

Interesting answers gentlemen, Thank you.

You have all (for the most part) cleared up a few things for me.

Like, all the talk on these BBs about this game being about "The Fight", is just that-----talk.

And for all the taunts about killing strat, attacking undefended bases, and other inert objects (milkrunning)
It is really no different than shooting an inert aircraft or a basicly defenseless aircraft trying to up for a "fight"

Why would I want to let a guy get up off the runway? Damn! he might try to (gulp) fight!

Personally, I never vulch a base unless we are trying to take it. But to each his own.



A real eye opener gents.

Thanks again for your input.


Boner

[Lusche]

Personally, I never vulch a base unless we are trying to take it.

This is indeed an eyeopener. A bit along the line "When I do (vulch, ho, pick, whatever) I have a justified reason for it." And of course the enemy never has one himself when doing such low things

If you vulch you will have to concede this right to your enemies too.


BTW some players (including me) may have not such a limited definition of "fight". Out there in the MA there is a battle going on. The fight begins the moment you spawn and ends when you are back in tower.

[wrongwayric]

You obviously missed the realistic aspect of this game then. Timeout while i launch/land/rearm guys ok? Part of the challenge of the game is being smart enough to know when you have the upper hand and when you don't. Upping or rearming on a field that has cons around/over it is a risk. Sure it's about the fight but it's also about common sense.

[Bronk]

Anything  red icon is a target.

Quoted for truth.

[Lusche]

Quoted for truth.

You could at least have corrected my grammar 

[Ack-Ack]

Did it have any noticeable influence on "tactics" ?
I mean, if implemented here I could evry well imagine the majority of players trying to kill RTB fighters at all costs, while ignoring inbound Jabo's. After all, the homebound enemy might have some kills under his pelt = more perks...

No, because in AW you never knew what a player's "rank" was.  It was a hidden stat that regular player's couldn't access.  IIRC, the way it worked was if you were engaged with a fight and shot down someone of equal or greater rank then you moved up the ranks.  Shoot someone of lesser rank and you didn't move up.  Cool thing was that these ranks weren't available to be seen by the masses so no one got hung up about playing for ranks though playing for score what rampant.


ack-ack

[Spikes]

I personally don't like shooting them on the pad, but if they had vulched me a few times and ran home I would chase them down and kill them any way I could...