Yeah, but where do you draw the line? Sure we have a 30 second refuel and re-arm for playability and to give you a REASON to keep your bird from being damaged. It also gives you a chance to refuel if your patrol didn't run into any enemies. If you can repair and change ordinance on the airfield then the only end to your streak will be death. Heck, as a jug driver my streaks would then mostly be limited to how long I could play online, and not my pilot skills.
Raubvogel, my point is that while in the real world it would take longer to refuel, it is still something that was done in a reasonable period of time. Landing and having new parts put on your plane the same day was not common, those things would take longer to fix. To be able to pull up to the hanger and have a new rudder put on and all the holes patched in 30 seconds is not reasonable in my opinion. Having your plane refueled and re-armed in 30 seconds for playability is reasonable I think. We can refuel and re-arm in 30 seconds where it would take what, 30 minutes to an hour in real life? Having your shot-up plane perfectly repaired in real life would take days of work, not 30 minutes. It's a big difference. What would happen if you had a damaged plane in real life but the squadron needed to to scramble again right away? They would put you in another plane! Wow, exit flight and get another one. Sounds right to me.
And Wobble, the last time I was on I flew a 9 kill sortie in an F6F-5. The CV was in range A8 was shut down, so I took the Kitty instead of my Jug. I nailed three, then refueled, nailed three and an assist, then refueled, got two more and refueled, then got one final one and landed it. I never took a ping and I started from an area that was under heavy attack and we were out-numbered. We rallied the troops and beat them back. I only ended the sortie because it was getting late and the enemy went elsewhere so I couldn't find any targets in that area anymore. I logged a happy fellow.
It just wouldn't have meant as much if I could have taxied to the hanger and fixed my shot-up plane so I could keep going. This way it's really something special.
Yeah it's frustrating to have to end a streak because of damage... that's the POINT! It's always frustrating to get shot. But how lame would my 9 kill sortie be if I could do it every night?
No on-field repairs for me, that's just lame. IMHO of course.
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