I'm a funny bird. I refuse to fly German or Japanese planes. The only time I've climbed into one, is to study its weakness from a firsthand perspective. I've never flown one as part of a monthly MA tour. I fly allied planes exclusively.
Somehow I just can't shake pictures in my mind of Japanese and German atrocities during WWII. A relative of mine survived the Bataan Death March and wrote a book about it "Corrigador to Hell". And i've met a few children of holocaust victims. All this left an unshakeable impression on me . And i imagine there are others out there who feel the same, even though this is only a game simulation.
So when you are playing CT and diving on a formation of B-17's with your FW 190... and you suddenly realize the gunner in that B-17 is a little too good to be the AI... You'll know why a human player is flying a fortress over Germany in a campaign game. I'll see you there, Whilhelm.
Every day I wake up and try to convince myself that there are no
true idiots in this world. Every day there has to be one person that proves me wrong. Congratulations sir.
A short account..........
My grandfather (still alive at 88 y/o) served aboard the USS Monongahela (AO-42) in the south pacific. After one particularly harrowing attack upon their vessel by the IJN and managing to shoot down a few a/c, they began a search for pilots. They found a few who had perished, but one that was still alive. He had been in the water at least a whole day and was severely injured. He was, however, nowhere near death. Some sailors pulled him from the water onto the deck (oil tanker, so deck was low enough to do so). The fellow was bleeding, burned and pruned from being in the water for so long but completely save-able. My grandfather figured that the were going to take him to sick bay, but to his horror, they stripped him naked of his uniform, divvied his insignia's, etc amongst themselves, kicked him in the head and mouth until his gold teeth came out, divvied THOSE up amongst themselves and rolled the unconscious pilot back into the drink (sans life preserver that he was previously wearing).
I'll admit that my moral compass is not as finely tuned as some, but this easily falls into my definition of atrocious.
As for your gunning skills in a fortress? Stand closer, Chuck, before your feet get wet. It's not as long as you think.
