No you could have called out on the radio "low fuel Snap" and RTB (you did admit you knew it was Snap). However you turned into the fight ONLY when you had numbers. If your true reason for not engaging was low fuel call it and stay out. How ever you proved that the reason you ran wasn't fuel, but that you were afraid to loose and not be able to get your name in lights by only engaging after there was a number of people all ready in on Snap. Lame game play.
It's not that easy though. To commit on a 1v1, you need time, and thus fuel. As soon as they had the numbers on him, fuel is not an issue anymore, the fight will end quicky opposed to a 1v1. Wmakers argument makes perfect sense here. Lame gameplay? Hardly.
It's rather lame to expect to get some special treatment for flying a SBD in A2A combat, getting ganged, loose and then whine about it on 200 and here. Looking at the film and this thread, "SBD" is at least mentioned 10 times, though the plane type irrelevant for the core discussion (run from a 1v1, come back with the gang)...I wonder why it is stressed that often, maybe a "here! look at me!!" thingy?!
