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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #105 on: July 01, 2012, 01:01:47 PM »
Got to DA with pervert last night. He taught me a few things on why I keep getting shot down (which I somewhat already knew but I'm an idiot and never learn  ;) ). He gave me one heck of a hard time just trying to get behind him. One of my favorite AH moments yet!

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #106 on: July 01, 2012, 01:45:53 PM »
Got to DA with pervert last night. He taught me a few things on why I keep getting shot down (which I somewhat already knew but I'm an idiot and never learn  ;) ). He gave me one heck of a hard time just trying to get behind him. One of my favorite AH moments yet!

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and +1 for batfinkv too... same thing


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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #107 on: July 01, 2012, 04:14:02 PM »
One of my favorite memories goes back about 7 or 8 years ago. I dropped a single 500 kilo bomb on a Lancaster mission that spawned just as I arrived at their field in a Dora... One bomb, 21 kills.
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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #108 on: July 01, 2012, 04:57:24 PM »
Lets see.  In no particular order:

Late at night seeing undefended after undefended rook base fall I take off in a Spitfire V and head to the next base in line.  In the now defunct General channel I say "I will not let A20 fall without a fight.  I get there and see maybe 10 players and dive in to a furball with them all.  As it degenerates into a turning stall fight on the deck I catch sight of a C-47 about 5.0 away just as he slips below the lip of the plateau the base is on.  I surprise them as I level out and make a run for the C-47 as their faster fighters try to catch up, shots coming over the wings as I reach the edge, catch sight the running C-47.  I dip down giving myself a respite from the fire as the terrain blocks it for a moment and go for the C-47.  I run down the C-47, killing it just before one of their fights finally manages to get me.

Late at night trying to solo a v base my C-47 is intercepted by a P-38L.  In the ensuing fight I see a way to fly him into an arm of the mountain if he is greedy and perform the maneuver, the P-38 is greedy, over commits to get the free C-47 kill and cannot avoid the mountain.  My one and only intentionally caused kill in the C-47.

One evening when my aim was better than it ever was before or has been since I landed 12 air-to-air kills in the A6M5b without rearming, 4 more than I have ever managed in anything else.  I remember Mitsu throwing a <S> my way when I landed that.

Seeing a big dar bar heading south and no green bar to oppose it and taking a C.202 for some reason.  As I climb out I see the dots well above me and to the north.  I climb for intercept as they fly over I see it is a single B-17G (no formations back then) escorted by a P-51D and two F4U-1Ds.  I pretend to be an idiot as I slowly climb up the B-17's low six while watching the fighters the whole time.  All three of them bite and I immediately turn to avoid their first pass. I quickly get on the P-51D and light him up with my not so incredible firepower, but I don't want to stick and give the F4Us a shot.  The P-51 starts leaking something and dives away never to be seen by me again.  As we tumble to the sea I nick away at one of the F4Us until it breaks apart and goes in.  Now all the way on the deck I work into a firing position on the last F4U and start hitting him.  He levels and tries to run, but too late and he joins the first one in the sea.  Only two kills, but I stripped a B-17 of its entire escort and won a three v one fighting in an inferior aircraft from a position of disadvantage.

Many others in there as well, but that'll do for now.

Ok, one more for Widewing.

I was in a Panzer IV H sitting on a ridge over an enemy field at near max rage practicing hitting things with He rounds when an F4U-4 comes in to land.  I hastily fire a round at it, round lands long.  I adjust figuring I get one more shot, the round lands at the juncture of the F4U-4's wing and fuselage.  "SYSTEM: You shot down Widewing"  Widewing got a TBM-3 with a 2000lb bomb and came and got revenge.
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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #109 on: July 01, 2012, 09:43:17 PM »
This was in the Jokers Jokers heyday , I was in a heavy F6F doing pre-emptive ord porking when I come upon a base at roughly 12k, as i get closer i see a large black blob on the end of the runway. I WEP in and arm 2 1k bombs. It seems the JJ's were just upping a mission and possibly getting instruction as they were just sitting there... 12 kills first pass, 3 more with rockets on second pass.Seems my brother (beamer1) was in the horde and i saw his name pop up in the buffer as a kill. He PM's me that i would be caught and killed... and i was...LOL

And   same scenario except a P47N  when i spot TWO   262  very low...very slow..  i dump my bombs and rockets,,, swoop down to investigate... kill the first on initial pass, the other tries to turn  his fat, slow blowdryer back to base, but he's tooo far for ack cover. after 2 or three passes , he dies to and i get PM's on what a dweeb i am...lol

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #110 on: July 01, 2012, 11:55:12 PM »
My second best memory of AH must be the sortie in a pony where I droped down from 15k above an enemy field. I saw uppers below, many of them.

Lo and behold I happened to pop on the field just as a mission had taken off and there was a nice bead line of ponies, mossies etc. going close to the deck. I had just diven down and had a lot of smash so I just zoomed past the whole line. I killed one plane from the rear. Booom. Then the next one. Boooom. All the time waiting for someone to call out a warning on radio. Then the next one, but this was three planes close to eachothers, I couldn't get a proper angle and only damaged two of them. I had to zoom right past them in a risky move, waiting to be shot in the behind. But no - the line of planes just kept going forward and I started firing on the third victim. He goes down. Fourth.. burning. On the fifth target I saw the first one to actually try to evade and drop his bombs :) He went down.

Now the word clearly has spread and I see more fighters drop their bombs and start evasives. I take a couple of more shots but the situation is clearly turning into a furball now. I had the option of continuing with max speed or staying to turnfight 12 vs 1. Of course I chose the latter option. I damaged 3 more planes before the inevitable happened and someone landed a lucky cannon round to my vertical stab and it was game over.

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #111 on: July 02, 2012, 09:49:34 AM »
Sorry, I just had to do this......


This is why game play has gone down hill, where getting "the kill" has become more important than the fight.



This? coming from a guy who lands wheels up on a regular basis?

Nope, sorry........you are incorrect.

This was a test of patience between two players isolated in an area of zero activity.

Please limit your pathetic attempts at trolling to something that doesn't make you look like a bitter person.


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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #112 on: July 02, 2012, 09:52:18 AM »
This? coming from a guy who lands wheels up on a regular basis?

Nope, sorry........you are incorrect.

This was a test of patience between two players isolated in an area of zero activity.

Please limit your pathetic attempts at trolling to something that doesn't make you look like a bitter person.



what the hell does landing wheels up have anything to do with anything :headscratch:

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #113 on: July 02, 2012, 10:08:03 AM »
Not a long time ago, there were a squadron of rooks stalking around over the TT, only opposed only by Tongs (bishop) and me (knight). After being killed a couple times, we decided to wing up against the rooks.
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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #114 on: July 02, 2012, 11:14:20 AM »
what the hell does landing wheels up have anything to do with anything :headscratch:

He was despairing the conditions of the main arena and assigning partial blame to me for trying to outwait an opponent.

Arguing realism while flying without it himself is what I was referencing.
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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #115 on: July 02, 2012, 11:26:12 AM »
This? coming from a guy who lands wheels up on a regular basis?

Nope, sorry........you are incorrect.

This was a test of patience between two players isolated in an area of zero activity.

Please limit your pathetic attempts at trolling to something that doesn't make you look like a bitter person.



The only times I land wheels up is if I have one damaged, or if the field is under attack and I have to land due to no fuel ammo, or again damage that rules out fighting. On top of that I very rarely land any way as landing isn't all that important.

The post I pointed out was one of two people trying to wait each other out. Why, because the kill was more important to them than just ending the flight and moving on. I on the other hand had I landed would have ended the flight and either launched or gone to the store because again getting a kill marked on my sheet is unimportant, and that was all that I was pointing out.

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #116 on: July 03, 2012, 07:55:10 AM »
You landed wheels up to depart from the realism of having to slow a plane down on it's wheels VS bellying in so you can tower out faster.


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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #117 on: July 03, 2012, 08:57:47 AM »
I can't believe that is a favorite memory icepac, that's pretty lame on both sides of the computer screens.

3 hours waiting for a kill is a little... sad
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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #118 on: July 03, 2012, 09:32:00 AM »
You landed wheels up to depart from the realism of having to slow a plane down on it's wheels VS bellying in so you can tower out faster.



As I said it would have been due to damage. I've been thinking on 2 things here. 1 I don't "regularly land with wheels up and don't know where you got this idea. Second, I don't think I've ever said anything about realism in a game either. If I was worried about realism I wouldnt be flying in 10 to 1 odds like I do. I don't know where you got your information.

As for the post, it lame to wait 3 hour to register a kill. In that same 3 hours with my poor skills I would have a dozen more.

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Re: Favorite Aces High memories?
« Reply #119 on: July 03, 2012, 09:36:28 AM »
The legend of the lost mossie mission.

Or winging up with Derjude and perdweeb in 262s.

Or my first "flight" in the 152.
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