Sometimes, we choose to get into the five inchers because the enemy are vulching us every chance they have, or maybe because there are s***loads of buffs taking off from a field and the five inchers are the quickest way to destroy them without allowing them to get lined up for CV damage. Then, when there are not buffs, we aim at the aircraft to help clear our teammates sixes. Is that a crime?
It takes skill to keep an eye out for other potential threats to the CV, even though they may not be diving on YOUR six and you don't have to get on THEIR six to take them down. If you leave the VH up, you have to be wary of the swarms of PT boats, or the Tiger that is trying to sink your CV. If you leave to ordinance available, you have to keep an eye out for lancstukas. If you are near other bases, you have to keep an eye out for dive bombers and heavy bombers that may try to hit the CV. I don't know if you do any of those things, but doing all of those things at once takes just as much skill as it does to succeed in a P-39 against a P-51. If you don't do any of the things I have listed when you man a five incher, you have no right to talk about skill.
for 1 i dont use 5inchers except in the case of buffs,if its just fighter i up a fighter.
2nd:no its not a crime but its cowardly game play to use againts fighters in a furball.if your being vulched on a cv then that must be a glitch cause whenever i get close to cv ack i die
3rd:your just missing the point alltogether
everyone uses them for buffs,im talkin about just fighters in a fight,some get killed and are to scared to up again so they just jump in a 5in and blast away,it takes no skill at all, a 2 day noob can do it
4th:as for the tigers,puttin your cv that close to land is the person in control of the cv and is just plain senseless,oh but that helps you also by keeping fighters at low alt with puffy ack,so i think thats a fair trade.
5th:pt boats,again,dont put your cv in front of a pt spawn,simple.most pts have to travel a good distance to even reach a cv let alone sink it.as for the swarms of pts the only time i see swarms of them is in a cv vs. cv battle,usually after one as already sank.
6th:so your sayin the only defence a cv has against buffs are 5inchers,kinda the same as dry spawning lvts againt a horde of jugs or other cv planes.as was mentioned before most airfields are miles away from most ports with no chance of uppin in time to defend the port.
