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Offline Guppy35

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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2011, 10:16:58 PM »
ya but i dont fly like that lol if i had wouldnt have made so many  :neener:   :salute

I rest my case your honor :)

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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2011, 03:25:09 PM »
A lot of the photos from the allied side are just showing them flying around at altitude and not getting into much action. I know there are some kill screen shots because allies had more kills in the practice frame than the axis.
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2011, 03:32:01 PM »
BearKats, smoking from flak damage, shortly before he was shot down over - only slightly over - airbase A5...




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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2011, 04:35:48 PM »
Shot out the canopy with my Argus C3 35mm and some color film the wife shipped to me.

Berlin with some cloud cover.


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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2011, 04:49:57 PM »
A lot of the photos from the allied side are just showing them flying around at altitude and not getting into much action. I know there are some kill screen shots because allies had more kills in the practice frame than the axis.

Of of the things that happens to some of us history junkies, in particular on long escort flights, is you get caught up in the way the game can connect with your imagination from all those stories you've read over the years.  I think thats the immersion part of what a scenario can provide.  That you can be flying wing in a formation of fighters escorting boxes of bombers over "Germany' is really kind of cool.  I think that's why you see more of those kind of screenshots, as its not something you'll see in the MA.  The correct skins, the right planes covering the right planes etc makes for some really nice screenshots that connect that history to the game.
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #35 on: February 01, 2011, 05:27:13 PM »
As many of you know Scenarios are where immersion is available.  You ARE a real escort fighter.  You ARE a LW Pilot trying to get the Bombers
who are destroying your homeland, your city, maybe your house and family.  The LW Pilot targets the "Dicke Autos" and are trying to avoid the "Indianers"
for the most part to get the bombers.  After all....it's the bombers who are destroying your country, not the Fighters.

This Scenario as DGS did provides the MOST opportunity in this game to be a Real Virtual Escort or "Whites of their Eyes" Bomber Killer.  This Scenario actually
parodies what really occurred over Europe during the Biggest Air War in History during WWII. The Mighty Eighth versus the Luftwaffe!

Here is the reality from an 8th Fighter Pilot Escort.  He will be flying over enemy held territory with limited range.  If he goes down he is out.  If he goes down his
Squadron mates have one less aircraft to defend the bombers with.  There will be no help coming the range is to great.  The fighters lose aircraft and find it
more difficult to defend the bombers.  Damaged LW aircraft land and replane and get right back into battle.  Low fuel LW Pilots land and rearm and get back into
the fray since it's over their homeland.  In the meantime the Allies are losing bombers and more fighters.  And here comes the LW again in strength.  What used to be 50
escorts is down to 29.  What used to be 300 bombers is down to 260......that's 10 crew per plane X 40.  400 good men were lost in Bombers, plus 11 more in escorts.
And here comes the LW again in force to attack the remnants of the Bombardment Group....and the escorts.  It will be somewhat easier now but never a piece of cake
to get to the Bombers.  The LW has downed 21 escorts so far, and the Allies will lose more escorts and bombers in this next attack.

Lot's of escorts took themselves out of escort range by getting lower then the bombers making the bombers easier targets.  Discipline is needed and smarts.  Sometimes
a cold pass to get the fighter off the bombers is more valuable then a one on one kill.  Why?  Because it's the bomber and it's crew that is most important.  The bombers
are knocking out factories, cities, sub pens.  The fighters can't do that..they are there to keep the bomber crew on target to deliver its' deadly ord.  That is what is
important.  That is what will close down Germanys' war production and thus end the war.

As an escort fighter remember why you are there.  To get the Bombers to target.  I'd much rather stay alive and keep shooing flies off the Bombers so they can deliver
their payload, then get kills and see the bomber group I was escorting destroyed or made in-effective because of low numbers.  I'd anyday trade getting home alive,being effective
aggressive, and smart at the same time, with no kills and the majority of my bombers make it home with eggz delivered.

Remember why you are there.  Unless you've been forced lower you don't belong there.  If you follow cons to the deck you've just taken yourself out of the game.  You are useless.
You are useless to your squadmates who are disciplined, and the bombers they escort.

That was and is the reality!
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #36 on: February 01, 2011, 07:19:05 PM »
:salute thanks man, and just to let you know that was probably the best fight I have ever had so far  :)





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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #37 on: February 02, 2011, 04:15:26 AM »
BearKats, smoking from flak damage, shortly before he was shot down over - only slightly over - airbase A5...

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lol bearkats got called out to a car accident and was AFK
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #38 on: February 02, 2011, 07:16:49 PM »
yeah immersions cool and all but i wanna see photos of stuff blowing up  :banana:
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #39 on: February 04, 2011, 05:59:00 PM »
yeah immersions cool and all but i wanna see photos of stuff blowing up  :banana:

Didnt you see the one I posted?
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #40 on: February 05, 2011, 03:29:46 AM »

Had to fly a looong way home like this after Krusty got a hold of me... Least I made it :D
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #41 on: February 05, 2011, 04:07:13 AM »
Hey Kermit!! :devil
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #42 on: February 07, 2011, 01:42:12 PM »
That would have been my 15th kill was 3rd wave we had engaged  :rock :rock

Sorry, You're better than me then, if it was the 3rd wave WOW  :rock WTG man 3 freakin WAVES!!!!!  :x :salute :salute
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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #43 on: February 07, 2011, 01:45:44 PM »
I think that's excellent that you made it back with part of a wing missing.  It does take a lot of effort and time to get back under those conditions.

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Re: BOG Screenshots
« Reply #44 on: February 07, 2011, 02:00:23 PM »
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Had to fly a looong way home like this after Krusty got a hold of me... Least I made it :D

Well, 2 squads of 47s and 38s bouncing defenseless 190a8s from about 15k above the 190s' optimum alt... I got mad... Hulk... MAD.... Hulk... SHOOT!!!!

 :neener:

Figured you might back it back, but was too busy dodging 5 others to finish you off.  :D