Vultching

[Urthona]

The only vulchers that mildly disturb me are the guys that blast past a good fight just to pick off someone on the runway.  If you've got enemy cons already in the air why engage the guy that hasn't even left the ground?  I'm not talking about base cap situations, where basically anything goes.  I'm talking about guys that skirt the edges of fights just to pick off guys on the ground.

[Rich46yo]

The only vulchers that mildly disturb me are the guys that blast past a good fight just to pick off someone on the runway.  If you've got enemy cons already in the air why engage the guy that hasn't even left the ground?  I'm not talking about base cap situations, where basically anything goes.  I'm talking about guys that skirt the edges of fights just to pick off guys on the ground.

Oh you mean the guys that are actually able to get thru as opposed to the ones who only tried?

My favorite Vulch Queens are the guys who run when the enemy actually gets a few planes up cause they are so afraid they wont be able to land their 20 runway kills. Even better are the ones who start screaming on vox to keep the cap on so's they dont have to actually fight. A few names come to mind right off.

[Motherland]

I like vulching... because it's a fun thing to do.

[BaldEagl]

I only vulch to cap a base and that only seems to happen about 1-2 times per camp.  I don't think I've ever landed more than 4 kills from vulching so it's not a big deal from a score standpoint.

[humble]

Lets look at the flip side of vulching....the 20K+ base defender.

I cant tell you the number of times I've gone out in search of the red DAR bar only to find it camped over its own field at sputnik alts. I'm all for a good vulch now and then. If I happen to be in the right place at the right time so be it. The flip side is when you have 15 guys flying racetrack patterns looking for a darwin award winner to venture forth. I'm one of the 1st guys who will leave to meet the inbound DAR from the next base in line....

[LilMak]

I undersatnd the need to "supress" enemy activity when a base capture is underway or goons are IB. What I don't understand is vulching for vulchings sake. Three examples...

1. Clearing ack and Gvs just to pick people off the runway with no intention of taking the base.
2. Parking a GV and zeroing in on the aicraft spawn.
3. Upping a base that isn't capped with five or six friendlies out of ack range. Starting my take off run and spot a tard (usually a 190-A8 or LA-7) screaming in past friendlies and through the ack to pick my plane off the runway. Ususally the idiot goes down in a ball of flames before he gets clear of the ack and it was painfully obvious the tard wasn't going for radar.

My idea to curb this nonsense is to make it so, when you kill an aircraft with it's wheels on the concrete (and only concrete), it does not register as a kill and gains you 0 perks. That way you can still "supress" a base with that goal in mind, but in order to get a  kill that counts, you have to wait until the enemies wheels leave the ground.

[Stixx]

And some of the best fun you can have!

I have a blast upping from a capped base in my IL2. It's hilarious to watch noobs and vets alike auger as they
dive on me for the kill. Yeah, I die alot But I get a new plane each time.