Best Moments

[Letalis]

We recently had a topic asking what your worst most stoopidest demoralizing moments were in-game.

I want to see the flipside: When did the stars align for you? When did you really bring your A-game? (or just get freeki'n lucky...)

 

[Xasthur]

Best moments:

800 yard 30mm hit on a Pony that just kept running.

I had my tracers off and was only snapping one round off at a time... He stopped evading at 800 yards, thinking he was safe. Plink, tail section fell off. Ha.

I didn't just lol at that, I really LOL'd. Haha.

Good snapshots with 30mm are always bright moments.


Victories in Many v 1 situations... love them when I get them.



And my all time best reversal was one that I didn't get on film.... La7 dropped in.... I scrubbed just enough speed and pulled something like a full-rudder outside barrel roll... he sailed past and pulled up and across to my right. WEP on, nose up and snapshot.

Boom.

It was perfect, if I do say so myself.

[SPKmes]

Was fighting the guy above. It was my first real 1v1 that lasted more than a couple of merges. from that fight I started to understand things my trainer had been telling me and slowly but surly started to fear better in the MA. 

oh yeah and I only just recently took a good look at your avatar and realized who you were.  archaius

[Latrobe]

I felt I was on my A-game when I landed. 

[Xasthur]

Was fighting the guy above. It was my first real 1v1 that lasted more than a couple of merges. from that fight I started to understand things my trainer had been telling me and slowly but surly started to fear better in the MA. 

oh yeah and I only just recently took a good look at your avatar and realized who you were.  archaius

Always good fights with you, Tongs.  mate.

[Grape]

When I landed 6 kills in a Zeke w/ pilot wound, fuel leak and missing parts followed by a chance sighting of the nme CV (unharmed) while at 15K in Lancs, I dropped eggs while in level flight (all 14 thousand pounders) with hope and a prayer...BOOM. Scratch one nme CV  

[Rider]

Yesterday, not my greatest moment but sweet and satisfying none the less.  I was in a Ki-84 with 3 kills.  My ride was beat up pretty bad including a missing aeleron.  I found a good opportunity to safely escape to rtb (or so I thought).  A P-38 decided he didn't want me to leave.  He would get to about 1.5k off my 6 and I would be forced to engage.  This happened twice and both times I got the advantage but never enough to get the kill, just enough to turn the tables except that I couldn't gain on him and he kept running toward ack and I would try to rtb again.  The third time I figured something had to give or I was never going to get back to base.  This time I ran for the hills, crested the hill and pulled the hardest left low yoyo I could with a missing aeleron.  Because he couldn't see me he continued on a straight path and the next time (and last time) he saw me I was 400 off of his 3.  Then I limped my 4 kills home and quit for the night.

Then there was the 109 that kept trying to pick my Ki.  I finally got on equal e-terms and he decided to climb away.  He did this continually always refusing to engage.  I got tired of it and decided to match his climb.  He just kept going and going and going.  What he didn't realize was that I had a full tank of gas, the Ki-84 can fly for 2 weeks on a full tank.  He got up to 30k (where a Ki has no business at all, but he still wouldn't engage) and he kept going and going and I kept following and following until he finally ran out of gas.  Again, not a spectacular moment or even a skillful one but satisfying.

Anytime someone complains about being dead on 200.  No need for me to comment, afterall I'm busy flying and fighting, not in the tower whining on 200.

Sure, I have the 1v3 victories and the hero moments but, to me, nothing is more satisfying than destroying that guy that just wants to be a thorn in my side.

Rider

[Ratpack1]

Recently I downed a T34 from 6.2K away in my panzer. Took FOREVER! I counted 10 successful hits and nearly as many pings on that sucker.  How come when I am in a T34 it goes down like old Christmas lights in a flash! to fuzeman who was my adversary, he spittled all around me but never scratched the point. Don't know if its my best but its was noteworthy just the same.

[usvi]

Taking down low Lanc-Stukas with Shore Bat...too funny!   

[waystin2]

The Pigs lost a member last year (Salute Potzie).  It was unbelievable to see all the Pigs arrayed on the field and in the Air to pay our respects to a fallen virtual brother.  Best Moment?  As good as it gets.

[Cajunn]

Best moments:

800 yard 30mm hit on a Pony that just kept running.

I did the exact same thing last night on a Pony, 800 out and boom I was shocked when it happen. He was running back to his base and I just sent a burst over his way and got the lucky hit.

[Hornet33]

Way back when I first started playing in late 2004, we had the big map with the 10K base right in the center. Can't remember what map that was but this one particular morning the Bish had the 10K base. I was flying Knights as always since I was in JG-44. Anyway it was early on a Sunday morning, no one from my squad was online and I was bored so I took an M3 from our nearest base (over 35K away) and started driving up that damn hill. Over an hour later I'm almost to the top, having driven around the long way to come up on the town on the far side of the base. As soon as the town started flashing I backed up till it quit, around 3K away maybe. I could see the town from the trees I was hiding in. Luckily for me there are no spawn points to that base so any of the Bish that were taking off weren't looking towards the ground around their base to see if any GV's were around.

Well about that time a few on my squadies got online. I told them my situation and they immediately enlisted the help of a few other Knights and upped a mission to take the town down. I waited for about 30 minutes and all of a sudden this massive 110 raid comes in and starts leveling the town. P-51's are escorting them and the Bish are upping like someone kicked over a hornets nest (no pun intended ). Well in a matter of minutes the town is flat, the Bish are upping fighters like crazy and flying off to the south looking for a goon, the rest of them that aren't looking for a goon are engaging the Knights who are dragging them off to the east away from me.

I saw my chance to make my run so I fired up the engine, put her in gear, and rolled into the middle of the town, did a quick check to make sure everything was flat, and let my troops go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 go in........BOOM!!!!! goes the map room, and then the crying and cheater screams started!!!!!!

Ended up being a 3 hour mission for me, but being able to sneak that base with an M3 was the all time high for me.

[Sunka]

[Soulyss]

To me nothing beats wading into the pack with some squaddies, outnumbered, outgunned and somehow coming out the other side battered, beaten, leaking oil, but still flying and making it back home. 

[caldera]

Chased an La-7 with a Yak-9T while he was on the deck running home. He figured he was safe being 1.5 in front. A direct hit with the second round. Boom.