A tactic as old as flight simming itself...

[SHawk]

Hence why you couldn't fly/fight your way out of a wet paper sack 

+1

[Shuffler]

Hence why you couldn't fly/fight your way out of a wet paper sack 

+2

[bustr]

At least it's not like all the sqweekers and newbies are turning OFF their tracers to hide the HO.

I was HO'd last week by a long time vet who turned his tracers off. Not seeing tracers during the HO\ err merge.... threw off my timing and I rolled myself into the bullet stream thinking I was evading the bullets. I only had the gun flashes at the last moment in the merge to let me know he was firing. I was manuvering to slip past him at the merge when he fired. Never occured to me how much of a visual reference the other planes tracer stream is in the game for evading the HO.

THUS - The master merging shooter should disable tracers, stay in the head on merge till the last possible moment, then snap a merging shot.

Wow, just changing the language and it sounds so ordinary, technical, and less PC. Merging Shot........... 

I'm protecting the name of the long time vet because I bet he's an equal opportunity HO'er and will share with the rest of you....... 

[Bear76]

Hence why you couldn't fly/fight your way out of a wet paper sack 

ouch

[Gabriel]

Half the fun of HOin is just to annoy people.

[Yeager]

Guys, it is a guns game.  Get in the path of a bullet and you will be killed.  Whether its from aft or front, above or below, to or fro.......Of course you can cotinue to whine about it, doesnt change anything.

Tally HO 

[Shuffler]

Funny I thought it was a fighter game. You can fight... or skip the whole idea all together and just Ho. Of course if you skip the whole idea of the game.... might as well go play Galaga..... Hoing is all you can do on that game.

[Bear76]

It's a proclaimation..."I suck", nothing more. From that point on it's an easy kill usually.

[Shuffler]

It's a proclaimation..."I suck", nothing more. From that point on it's an easy kill usually.

I get killed by a HO every so often. Most who try to Ho me die though. Fairly easy to shoot down someone who puts all their eggs in one basket. You just have to make them miss the first pass.

I can't help but laugh when you fly by them and they are spraying away..... ammo can't last too long for those types... and just what the heck are they shooting at. The most basic thing one needs to do is put the piper on target then press trigger. Maybe they get too excited knowing that if the con they are Hoing gets by... they are going to the tower.

[Yeager]

Funny I thought it was a fighter game.

lol maybe thats your problem shuff    Try to understand: AH is alot more than just a fighter game, and to many people a hell of a lot more.  its a strategic war game, a GV game, a territorial conquest game, a bomber game, a naval game.  All sorts of combinations therin.  As you now know well AH a WW2 strategic wargame and soon to add a WW1 dogfight arena (hey! right up your alley, well...sort of)!  

About the only thing AH is not: AH is not a first person infantry combat shooter.  Too bad really.  

   

[waystin2]

might as well go play Galaga..... Hoing is all you can do on that game.

So the aliens are guys who can fight out of wet paper sacks, and the little spaceship is a fighter pilot who can't, and you ho, or, um, errrrr.....I'm lost  Darn you for your deep analogies Shuffler!

It's a proclaimation..."I suck", nothing more. From that point on it's an easy kill usually.

I am not advocating HO's, but this is virtual pilot myth.

[waystin2]

nm

[Simba]

My word, a blast from the Red Baron past!

And the same old HO thread to follow. Y-a-a-a-a-a-a-w-n.

 

[Saurdaukar]

Y-a-a-a-a-a-a-w-n.

+1

What continually amazes me is the seemingly insatiable desire of HO'ers to validate their own lack of ability.

Oh it's a real-war tactic this, oh its your own fault that, etc, etc.

Flying to a fight and shooting on the merge is like driving to a cat house and jerking off in the lobby.

Some people get it, some people don't.  Both are present in this thread.

[kilo2]

+1

What continually amazes me is the seemingly insatiable desire of HO'ers to validate their own lack of ability.

Oh it's a real-war tactic this, oh its your own fault that, etc, etc.

Flying to a fight and shooting on the merge is like driving to a cat house and jerking off in the lobby.

Some people get it, some people don't.  Both are present in this thread.

What continues to amaze me is how many people worry about what others do, or how others fly. If you don't like the HO don't do it. Its easy to avoid the HO so if it happens to you, you deserve it.