The decline of the General attitude to losing a fight has been getting on my nerves.
Last night I was in a pony cruising about 18k between 57 or 59 (cant rem ember the base number) the base right above P61. I was heading over the enemy base when a Jug goes about 3k away and about 5k underneath me. Io' watch to see if he roll in to attack but he keeps on at the heading he is going. As he passes through my 3 o'clock position I WEP up and roll in. Dive low and come up underneath him doing about 550 IAS. But about 75 rounds into him as I go by. He still was on same heading till shots were fired. Frantically rolls but by that time it was to late. MOst of my rounds hit. I watch the Jug go down.
About 20 seconds after I get a Pm from the man ranked last night at 43 " Late War: Always some out Alt Dweeb looking for a EASY KILL"
The definition of Dweeb is, a boring, studious, or socially inept person.
This really ruint the rest of the evening for me
. Do most score hoards try to place the blame of their dying on advantages not in their favor. I.e. Alt over opponent, Co Alt merge. OR higher E advantage.
There was at least 5 things he could have done to defend against my slash attack. Yes I know I was higher and that I came out of the sun. But he had 1-1.5 minutes to see my con even before I turned into attack. Then he had about and another 1-1.5 once I got on his six.
What makes me bubble Inside his he blames me for HIS POOR SA!!!
Here is prime example of what I try to do when I am flying. For me it is about every 15seconds.
Hard to tell without seeing any video of it but it sounds like Del turned back in for you as you went for the 190 making him the immediate threat again. That's where SA comes in. ALWAYS be looking around, and I mean ALWAYS! Watch my video again and you'll see even as I'm making an attack run on one plane I am looking around and checking on all the other targets as well. I only focus on my target when I'm getting ready to shoot.
Practice setting an internal alarm clock. When you're flying out to the fight and over enemy territory, set the clock for 5 seconds. Look around, see if there are any enemies around to your left, right, above, below, behind, or in front of you. 5 seconds later your internal alarm should be going off saying "Hey! You should check the area again!" Look around again. Look left, right, above, below, behind and in front for targets. You'll be surprised how many times you suddenly see a plane that wasn't there a second ago.
When in a small fight (1v1, 2v1, 2v2, etc) set the alarm for 2 seconds. Every 2 seconds (max) in a fight you should be checking your 6 and looking around to see if someone else is targeting you. Try not to tunnel vision onto one target. I forget who said it but someone has it in their sig "If you think you're having a 1v1 in the MA, you're SA has failed you."
When in very large furballs, like in my video here, set the internal alarm for .5-1 second. ESPECIALLY when fighting them alone. Everything, yes... literally everything, will be targeting you. Be checking up on ALL targets at ALL TIMES!
But still He had horrible SA
Sorry guys about the rant but had to get out the system before get back on this afternoon after work.
