knows I didn't shoot on the first pass?
In your first snapshot of your engagement with the 152, I see a flash on your left wing where your gun is located. I would interpret that as a shot.
Anyhoo, I respect your overall philosophy of "it's all about the fight" and subscribe to the same. However, I think in some cases it is taken a bit too far. The assertion that the 152 should have gotten low and slow with you in a turn fight with him being in a horde busting plane (he probably had no idea that you guys were in I-16's when he rolled and just saw a blob of red) and you being in an I-16 is ridiculous. There is a good chance he didn't even realize the rest of the cons were I-16's and was looking for a quick dispatch so he could get to the bulk of the horde (this is the most effective way to fight off hordes - kill each plane quickly and move on to the next). Don't take the situation out of context. I know that particular 152 driver quite well and to imply that he flys around and HO's ppl and picks is pretty silly. The context was that there was a blob of red that he upped to fight (honorable in itself considering most would have just gone off to the other side of the map and chosen a fight with better odds or jumped in a FLAK or field gun if one was available). I condone his horde busting tactics even though, in this case, the horde happened to be a candy mountain mission - something he was not able to know on first contact.
Don't misconstrue what I am saying and think that I am saying that Corky et al flys around in a horde or that you were a horde in that case. It sounds like a fun mission. All I am saying is that those who upped to thin you probably had no idea what you were and were using sound tard busting tactics (again not saying you guys were being tards - I'm just saying that is what he probably thought he was up against).
Thanks for your time. Cheerio.
