What is a Vulch

[Debrody]

Um, thanks for sharing there, DeB.

 

 

Hehe, what a drunkarse could write 

[Ack-Ack]

it's my opinion.

What I wrote has been the definition of a 'vulch' since the early days of online flight sims, your opinion isn't going to change that.

if you're out of the range of ack, it's impossible to vulch.

If you don't take off or land at a base under active attack by fighters, it's impossible to vulch.  I vulched a formation of bombers awhile back in a B-25H when I lobbed a 75mm round from 3k when I saw some dots appear on the runway spawn.  I was out of ack range and I still vulched. 

ack-ack

[CAV]

A vulch.... is the fun stuff you get to do when yourside is doing all the right things and winning.


Cavalry

[MrGeezer]

VULCH  -- (Verb)  An action to disable, injure, or kill an enemy aircraft while it is at it's most vulnerable state of taking off or landing.  Other situations where the enemy is at a complete disadvantage and cannot maneuver or take any actions to defend itself also lend itself to the term.

Or...as rooks call it--  THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN GET A KILL.

          

[Ack-Ack]

Other situations where the enemy is at a complete disadvantage and cannot maneuver or take any actions to defend itself also lend itself to the term.

No it doesn't.  It's a very specific term for a specific situation.  You can't vulch a plane that is flying around at 5,000ft or one flying around the deck at 50ft.  You can only vulch a plane that is either landing or taking off (or ditching). 

It's like the term 'cherry pick' (or 'pick') which has always meant shooting down a plane that is otherwise already engaged with another plane.  A lot incorrectly use this term to describe flying around while not in aerial combat and being ambushed by another single plane, when the correct term for this situation is "bounced".  For example, I ran into a P-51D the other night, flying along and totally oblivious I was there and I bounced him from out of the Sun.  The player immediately called me a "cherry picker", when the correct term should have been "bounced".

ack-ack

[Tank-Ace]

Lol, love how uptight AKAK is getting about this  .

[Oldman731]

Lol, love how uptight AKAK is getting about this 

He's only trying to preserve the heritage.

- oldman

[Shifty]

Lol, love how uptight AKAK is getting about this  .

He's not uptight. He's correct and you're confused.

[kvuo75]

If you don't take off or land at a base under active attack by fighters, it's impossible to vulch.  I vulched a formation of bombers awhile back in a B-25H when I lobbed a 75mm round from 3k when I saw some dots appear on the runway spawn.  I was out of ack range and I still vulched. 

ack-ack

3k is not outside of ack range. (manned ack range)

vulching is vulching.. like spawn camping.. its perfectly legit, and perfectly legit to make fun of...

[LCADolby]

AKAK is 100% right

I use the term cherry picking for people that hang just off runways and dive on the uppers gaining alt. I would use bounced, but cherrying is much more fun to say.

[Redd]

AKAK is 100% right

I use the term cherry picking for people that hang just off runways and dive on the uppers gaining alt. I would use bounced, but cherrying is much more fun to say.

was sitting above a little herd of 4 or 5 low ones the other night at about 5k above trying to kill them one at a time and keep my E , and one of them was screaming on 200 at me to "come down a you coward and stop cherrypicking" . Now if he was just taunting me to get me to do something stupid I can fully understand that , but he was actually serious.


and AKAK is right , vulching is on the runway , it pretty goes back to the days when there was either no ack (or no meaningful ack) and vulching was pretty much standard fare

[Slade]

What is a Vulch

Killing a pilot in a manner that they disapprove of and tending to be in the context of diving from a higher altitude to obtain the kill.

[Triton28]

if you are in range of the ack, you are vulching.

 

No.  It's a catchy phrase, but completely false.   

   

[Max]

..a cheap shot..

if you ruled out every "cheap" shot in the game, it would no longer exist. 

[bozon]

If you shoot me down it is a vulch. Not only that, it also makes you a HO dweeb as well.
Since I cannot shoot myself, I never vulch or HO.

If people are not happy with my definition, they can call it "strafing a 3 wheels GV", and stafing GVs is OK.