So Latrobe's post in the Films and Screenshots thread reminded me of an awesome sortie I had many months ago.
It was one of the really small maps, the one that's basically a little island and it's always (even greater than usual) hordes of red just because it's so small. You can almost run 163's to the frontline straight off the bat.. Anyway that's not really important, the point is there was a massive red horde of both Rooks and Bishops fighting and I was bored so I flew my Dora (I was in a dora or K4 I don't remember, but I think it was a Dora) 2-3 sectors over to the fight and I see just a massive Bishop horde under me.. So I dive in kill a couple of them, nothing spectacular..but then I climb back out to see a AFK and lone
rook pony a few K above all the bishops.. So I go ahead and catch up to him..What should I do? Kill him!! Right?... Naaah.. while he's AFK climbing I tuck in under his left wing and fly some close formation off of him (cuz...why not?) for probably 5 minutes or so and eventually he comes back to his screen and sees me..What would you do in his situation? Lol.. Most of the people I've done this so go into a panic stick stir and I just end up shooting them down a second after...But he didn't.. He wagged his wings...So I did the same. Shortly after a few more wing wags to make sure I wasn't going to stab him in the back he dives in on the bishop horde (which has gotten even bigger now) and I follow.. He picks off a couple of them on his first pass with some pretty good aim by the looks of it and I think to myself 'this isn't just your average pony pilot..hmm..' so anyway after his pass he ropes up almost all of the hordelings and I come through and pick off at least 2-3 on his first rope. Then as we both climb vertically away from these 20-30+ bishops I notice we're in perfect formation as I look up - My Knight 190D and his Rook P51D as we continue this vertical climb away from all of these guys.. Then again, he wags his wings and dives in and I follow, we repeat this process quite a few times.. Until one of my passes I got too keen with a spitfire when trying to get a shot and his buddies were quick to get on my 6.. I managed to shake most of them but I ended up with 2 spit16's 400-600 off my dora which (after shooting what I presume was most of their ammo
) end up oiling me. It's at this point I look up for the pony pilot while trying to shake these 2 but I don't see him.. Did he leave me here to die lol? Did he get shot down? Where is he? As I look back again I notice there's a third con behind me...Terrific... However, upon further inspection this third con isn't a con at all..It's the pony, and there he is shooting the wing off of 1 spit and blowing up the other spit. I wag my wings again as a thank you and a 'Ok time to go home now!' and he did the same. By the time we finished I think I had at least 8-10 kills and he must've had the same. We flew formation out of the fight, wagged our wings one last time and broke off to our respective bases.
The best part for me was probably the fact that we just killed almost everyone in this 20+ man bishop horde without ever speaking a word to each other, without knowing who each other were, without being on the same country even, and that we worked so in sync and perfectly without these things.
I had the film on my old PC, but that was all deleted when I gave it to my sister
Sadly I totally forgot about the film until now so I didn't think to save it, I really wish I had..it was really just an awesome sortie.
That was probably my most memorable sortie and I still send a big
and much respect to TomFool (he was flying the Pony as I would come to find out later)
Anyone in the Few know what happened to Tom? Hadn't seen him in ages.
Anyway let's hear some other stories, I know some of you guys that've been flying for all these years gotta have some awesome stories, too
