Ok lets cut the crapolla here!! #1. If your coming in on an angle that a tank can shoot you down, then that is your bad not the tankers. Dive down on it from above and give the tank no shot at your plane along with keeping your speed up as most have figured out long ago. You have business trying to ho a tank anyway. Most of the time the tank is either preoccupied in battle with another tank or moving to get away or where it's going so this also gives you the option to NOT FLY INTO IT'S TURRET
If you see it pointed directly at you then pull up and try again. Try the back door or side, not the heavily armored front as well #2 Read the description of a T34 on the Homepage where it warns you to watch out for it's turret as it has no pintle gun. That along with speed are its only two defenses againsed staffing bomb****s trying to rack up their assists before flying home. I'm aware there are times a tank has to be marked for friendly gvs or killed with guns due to having no ords but the group who started this thread aren't those people. It's the people who will fly what ever distance climb to whatever alt. to clear mountain just to get there A20 or other bomb****ing plane to a good gv battle so they can mess it up. Most of the time it's a spawn battle with neither side looking to take the others base either. just a good tank furball. They see that and
Easy Kills! Easy Kills!
I think I'll bomb**** for 3 hours straight! That will get my name in lights for all to see!!! Then one 1000lber dropped, then another, I got two of them!! But now I'm out of ords... What do I do know??
I know! I'll stafe the tanks and get some assists! If you do that for the purpose of spotting I can understand that... But most DO NOT. Either way, that's where I come in
I LOVE the fool who wants to give my location away by countless staffing runs. Most either lawn dart of even collide there angle is so poor if I don't pop them for them first for coming in so low and foolishly hoing a tank. Then they get angry and you see a post like this because they can't get there dive angles right and strafe till there bingo. My advise is take your 2 kills and go home or gain alt. and wait for a con to come and engage you. Don't whine on the forums for your poor tactics. If you ARE getting shot down at far distances by tanks there are two things you must remember. One is that more then likely you were over a gv battle like i said and you the tank that got you wasn't the only tank shooting at you. There were probobly a handful that missed as well so it wasn't a one shot one kill scenerio. probly had 10 to 20 shots that missed you. The second is that YES, it was a lucky shot! There is no formula to shooting down planes at far distances. Although you can get a tad more accurate over time the main deciding factor is luck, along with your angle and speed which would again be your errors. And last but certainly not least, #3 the IL. The IL is slow, and a big target for tanks but a skilled IL pilot can turret and even kill a tank even if hoing it. I've shot down many planes in panzers, M4's, and T34's, but the IL is one mean gv killer. With the proper aim and angle I've been killed many times by an IL in distances of 1K out even when coming in level with me. The ones I do kill are the ones who can't aim very well in them and come right on the deck with no speed what so ever. Usally I wait for a plane to get within 600 out before popping out a round at it which most of the time is to late when your dealing with a good IL pilot who knows where to aim and how to fly them. So i take it a tank should have absolutely NO defense against IL's?? If one ups and you have no air cover then that's it, might as well bail right?? Give me a break.. Bottom line is this thread was for the whining bomb****s who can't or didn't make it home to land his tard kills or rearm so he can fly back and do it again.
My heart goes out to you.. Funny you won't see them in a gv ever participating in the ground war below them, Just messing it up for the few that are on the ground enjoying a good gv fight. Sorry but the truth hurts. Maybe next time I see a furball I'll spend the night flying bombers over again and again and again dropping Fighter Hangers all night long...
<S> DeViouS
