Snailman - K/D

[katanaso]

A high K/D is pretty easy to achieve.  Each of us know how to do it, only a few enjoy doing what it takes.

Heck, back in AW, I went a tour without dying.  It was not enjoyable to me, and it was the last time I did anything like that.

[Squire]

I love Kraft Dinner.

[Chalenge]

A high K/D is pretty easy to achieve.  Each of us know how to do it, only a few enjoy doing what it takes.

Heck, back in AW, I went a tour without dying.  It was not enjoyable to me, and it was the last time I did anything like that.

So you could get a K/D over 100 pretty easy huh? Just words until you do it.

[Debrody]

So you could get a K/D over 100 pretty easy huh? Just words until you do it.

Ya its super hard to climb to 30k in a pony and "save gas"... but you might know..  he he
you dude, you are "heelareus"

Btw Snail, youre right. The correct phrase would have been the "boring arse" instead of the "score 'hore"

[Bosco123]

If you like reading about ww2 combat read "the blond knight of germany". a book about hartmanns flying that explained how he came about the strategies he used to survive in the air. he called it head flying vs muscle flying. he did both but ussually the latter only when cornered.

I read that book myself. As he did, I too, do not like to take any shots outside of 400, preferably less.

[Chalenge]

Ya its super hard to climb to 30k in a pony and "save gas"... but you might know..  he he
you dude, you are "heelareus"

Chalenge-d with physics are you? You are an average flier at best. Probably you should remain silent when the adults are talking.

[Noir]

Chalenge-d with physics are you? You are an average flier at best. Probably you should remain silent when the adults are talking.

[titanic3]

Chalenge-d with physics are you? You are an average flier at best. Probably you should remain silent when the adults are talking.

Like Deb said, fly a 262 all tour. The only way to lose a 262 is if you were being stupid. I took Midway's challenge, I'll accept this one.

Although knowing my own style, I'll get shot down by ack somehow. Last time I went for a 262 streak, I got to 24 before I got impatient and dove on an ack hiding con. Took a hit in my engine and had to land.

[Karnak]

Ya its super hard to climb to 30k in a pony and "save gas"... but you might know..  he he
you dude, you are "heelareus"

Btw Snail, youre right. The correct phrase would have been the "boring arse" instead of the "score 'hore"

Depends entirely in how you go about it or weight it.  While K/D was the one stat I watched, I certainly never flew in a way to maximize it.  Thus what I was watching was how well I was doing in actual fights, not cherry picking from orbit.  Basically, I fought as best I could and the K/D ratio fell out where it would.

[Debrody]

Chalenge-d with physics are you? You are an average flier at best. Probably you should remain silent when the adults are talking.

I can take it. Never said im any good... never had a K/D above 4, and it wasnt above 2.4 since last october. Ya i sux.
Still, cant wait to face you and show you what an average retard i am.
 

Edit, to Karnak: dont let me wrong, i know people who fight like men (its on you to decide what does it mean) yet they have a good K/D (lets say, 4+), those are the ones who has skill and arent as stupid as me.  
I found them respectable and more power to them.

[titanic3]

Depends entirely in how you go about it or weight it.  While K/D was the one stat I watched, I certainly never flew in a way to maximize it.  Thus what I was watching was how well I was doing in actual fights, not cherry picking from orbit.  Basically, I fought as best I could and the K/D ratio fell out where it would.

Same, K/D is the only stat that matters to me (probably due to years of playing FPSs). When I first played AH again in fall of '11, my K/D was around 1.4-1.8. By the time I joined Freebirds, it was around 2.0-2.4. By the time I left FBs, it was 2.4-2.8. When I joined Top Gun, it was 3.0-3.2. And now, it's around 4.2-5.0.

It's a neat way to keep track of how you're doing.

[katanaso]

So you could get a K/D over 100 pretty easy huh? Just words until you do it.

Yes.  I've already done it.  It was incredibly boring for the most part, and all I had to do was be in a plane that could run away when I wanted to.

This was probably before your time in these games.

ETA:  Now it's much more enjoyable to stallfight a 51 vs a Spit 16, or like yesterday, try to turnfight vs INK's Ki84.  K/D doesn't mean much when you know what to do if you want a high ratio.  Heck, I mentioned this before, but if there weren't perks, some of us wouldn't even fly back several sectors to land.  We'd just auger and replane like we used to do.

And there's a difference between the guys with 25/1, 50/1, 100/1 K/D ratios and the guys that actually fight without turning tail at the first sign of danger.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Fishu held a k/d streak record for a long time he had something over 270 k/d. Then he burned out and quit.

[Lusche]

By chance I had (and still have) a kinda killstreak at this beginning of tour 150.

Now I'm wondering if I should actively go for it... I haven't done that in years because it's kinda unnerving me    Usually I can fly much more relaxed after my first deaths 

[mthrockmor]

I smell a competition brewing.

1- We start next tour.
2- Highest Kill to Death ratio is winner, the Snailman will verify.
3- Do we require you to select only one bird for the whole tour?
4- Do we require all combatants to fly this same bird?
5- Do we track who is killed to ensure someone doesn't kill the same noob 200 times?
6- Do ditches count as a death? [Note: Wasn't Hartmann shot down like 10 times?]
7- What else?
8- Thread created for those who want in.
9- Same thread is used to post the winners.
10- When a combatant is killed they need to log into BBS and post their kill on the thread so we know who is out.
11- Those who finish the tour without a loss get a loaf of French bread and a bottle of warm, flat bear.
12- Highest K/D gets bragging rights.
13- Who's in?