If by "Down and dirty" you mean fight weenie hoards like you and yours and generally racking up 10-20 kills vs. a death or two then I get down and dirty lots actually. May I add that I have a blast doing so. (too bad you can't and probably never will be able to say the same)
If I only die once or twice and rack up 10-20 kills doing so, I "win". It doesn't matter if the base is saved or captured by the nme, I "won".
What gives me a chuckle is how many times you mass the dweebs, have every advantage possible, and fail. Y'all fail quite often actually. For every few bases take you get, I can think of one you failed at. I will even give you a quasi-compliment that you have become more efficient at taking a base and ensuring little to no Resistance. You have learned how to achieve success in spite of your shortcomings.
That would be a compliment if it wasn't for the WAY you have learned to achieve said success. Dive bombing lancs? (check) Kill the FH/VH/BH BEFORE you launch the mission? (check) Constant noe mass hoard raids vs. fields that no nme is at? (check) You name a lame game style and I have seen you and yours do it time and time again. Heck, you've refined it.
If there is a glitch in the game, say dry spawning lvt's, you have gone out of your way to figure out how to pull off that glitch and you use it every chance you can.
It's a shortcut to perceived success. As I stated above, you might take the base (perceived success) but if you die in droves doing so vs. an opponent you vastly outnumbered in my book that is a failure.
What you remind me of is a pack of 30 6 year olds that ambushed and beat up Mike Tyson because of raw numbers alone. You jumped him when he wasn't looking and swarmed him. You then talk smack about it, and go on and on about how "good" you are because you beat up Tyson. That is until Mr. Tyson catches any of you alone, or in a small group. Then you are all dead, and dead quick. Same thing with you and yours in Aces High.. SURE you can brag about what great (snicker) "base takers" you are, but alone or in small numbers you are fodder. That is the reality of the situation. You go on and on about something that is skilless, and try to spin it like what you do is difficult or takes something beyond a rudimentary grasp on the game to pull off.
It isn't, and you don't. Nothing that you do is new, unique, or hasn't been done time and again for 10-20yrs before you ever heard of WW2 flight sims.
And yes, I would place Stang up there with the "Great Ones". Someone who has forgotten more than you will probably learn about this game. Somebody you should prob. shut up and listen to. Someone that earned the respect of the community many times over. The mere fact that YOU don't know who Stang is is quite telling to me. It shows me how little you really know.
I will add that the reason we have hardly fought is twofold. 1) You will never man up and fight me in the DA 1 on 1. It's been offered countless times, and you chicken out every time. (which is a shame 'cause I could actually show you how to fight) 2) You avoid fighting like the plague. If the fight is at all "Even" you are generally no where to be found.
Me? I look for the base with the large nme dar bar and small friendly dar and up. You? You avoid that large nme dar bar at all costs. (which is sad because you never will learn how to fight by avoiding one. All you are doing is perpetuating your mediocrity)
