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Offline Yossarian

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #30 on: March 31, 2008, 05:30:49 PM »
no i am not saying that at all, i am typing that not all of them would be that accurate.

I think this is modelled by the accuracy of the human gunner(s).  The bomber guns only aim where you aim.

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #31 on: March 31, 2008, 06:17:23 PM »
If I get smoked by whels while diving in on CV, OK it sucks but OK he hit me.

But, getting hit by auto ack while out of visual rangeof the carrier is BS!
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #32 on: March 31, 2008, 06:28:51 PM »
If I get smoked by whels while diving in on CV, OK it sucks but OK he hit me.

But, getting hit by auto ack while out of visual rangeof the carrier is BS!

not really helbent, i have hit planes from 5.5 out with the 5" guns before

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2008, 08:14:23 PM »
AAA=
Aim At Alt-monkeys?
Aim At ultra melons?
Annihilate All Aircraft?
Anywhere Aircraft Are?
Aggravate All Airmen?

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #34 on: March 31, 2008, 08:34:35 PM »
no i am not saying that at all, i am typing that not all of them would be that accurate.
Yeah, because, you know, they're definitely not all trained in their positions or had experience, common sense, and advice from veteran gunners or anything. Psshh, 'course not!
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #35 on: March 31, 2008, 09:18:53 PM »
Yep it's ridiculous, CV furballs suck now because of it. Today I was climbing out away from a A base with a CV right on top of it and I'm getting hit with puffy the entire time. Puffy shouldn't even fire at you unless you are over 8 to 10k in alt.


Gotta love how the puffy ack will zero in on a little fighter doing 300+ but can never manage to hit big level bombers doing the same.




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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2008, 09:23:16 PM »
The other funny whine is, "BS!  PUFFY ACKS KILLED ME IN ONE SHOT!  FIX IT HTC!"  Like it's beyond the scope of possibility that a 88mm or even a 155mm AA round would be able to destroy a plane or kill the pilot with a single round.  Especially when the majority of combat deaths were from AAA fire rather than fighter on fighter combat.


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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2008, 09:34:58 PM »
American Automobile Association? :D

CV ack is fine. You just have to use a little bit of tatics to kill them now. No more lancsstukas. I sank one with a lone SBD 2 weeks ago. I dived from 18K, drop at 9k, go back and rearm. repeat untill dead.

as for the so called "laser guns" on the bombers, that idiot probably attacks from low 6' o clock everytime like the rest of the noobs. from that position he has 12 .50cals firing at him with no need to lead the target, so of course their accurate when you do stupid stuff like that.

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #38 on: March 31, 2008, 09:46:28 PM »
SAPPs standards for recruitment appear to have suffered over the years.

SAPP may ask for my resignation anytime they wish.  Until then, Im staying

BTW I know what AAA stands for you dolts
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #39 on: March 31, 2008, 10:21:25 PM »
RAP = Retards Attempting Poetry.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.  :)
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #40 on: March 31, 2008, 11:06:14 PM »
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #41 on: March 31, 2008, 11:43:54 PM »
DUDE!

Ack is so messed up now!  Come on man, cant get near a cv without getting hit in the head.  I just pulled away from cv with an upper, get some separation to come back to fight him co-alt and get nailed in the head by ack.  I did'nt even have vis on cv!!

This new ack is just sick man, FIX IT

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #42 on: April 01, 2008, 04:17:44 AM »
I still want to see a doublecruiser group with every gun manned by skilled gunners.

Then throw in 30 red guys trying to sink it.  Will be like firework night   :t
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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #43 on: April 01, 2008, 04:36:28 AM »
there is no way when attacking 3 bombers all the guns on the planes would be able to hit you, i think they should disable this feature.but i feel lots would cry about them being turned off, like they cryed in a past snapshot when the CM turned off external view for the bombers in a snapshot.

using a B-17 as example in the classic attack formation.
3 top turrents, 3 rear guns and sometimes the waist guns.  and all of them are trained in the same spot, yea thats really realistic.

Sorry for the mild detour to Cuba, but I've noticed a certain pattern within these hallowed halls, and I have come bearing the whine killer.


Explain to me how in the :devil, you think every single gun is laser sighted on you again? The only gun that has a snowballs chance in :devil of even coming close to hitting you, is the ball turret on the lead aircraft. Oh wait, it aims at that mythical convergance point as well, so as you slowly climb up dead six, it's actually aiming above you. I realize this is not to scale, but if you figure the two trailing aircraft are roughly 80 feet apart at an angle, so let's say 60 feet as you're looking at it from the rear, at 1k those rounds are passing 60 feet either side of you as you close. Not even the split-tailed devil(sorry, gotta get a dig in on the mini buffs :D) is 120 feet wide.
If any of you want to survive while attacking buffs, do not do the l o n g , s l o w climb up from the rear, where i have oodles of time to pick which eyeball I want to put the first round into your cranium. Or better yet, please continue, I enjoy landing buff kills. <S> This public service announcement brought to you by, The 484th BGH and the rest of the buff community, thank you and now back to your previous discussion.

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Re: Whats AAA stand for?
« Reply #44 on: April 01, 2008, 07:15:25 AM »

CV ack is fine. (...)  I sank one with a lone SBD 2 weeks ago. I dived from 18K, drop at 9k, go back and rearm. repeat untill dead.

This post has nothing to do with reality.

Sorry to sound that harsh, but that simply never happened. You may finally have gotten the "ship killed" message, but you must have had help. There is no way to sink a CV on your own with a SBD that way.

The time it takes to get to 18k in a SBD is way too long (about 17 mins!), too much damage is regenerating between your 1200lbs hits.
Assumed you are not blasted out of the sky by the new ack settings (and the SBD is a very slow and easy to hit target), it would take you about 2h to put 8000 lbs on that CV.  If you indeed "go back and rearm" instead of bomb'n'bail, it will take even longer. The task group would just yawn at your attempts.
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