Your favorite death

[colmbo]

Way, way back on Air Warrior I'm in a turning fight….we're very evenly matched, been fighting a long time.  I've pinged him a couple times…he's pinged me a couple times.  He makes a good move and gets some more hits on me and I start smelling smoke.  I'm thinking oh crap, he hit me hard!   WTF!!!  SMELL SMOKE??

The motor in the refrigerator had cooked off, had to drop the joystick and start saving the house.   

[The Fugitive]

Mine was just a couple weeks ago. One of our bases was under heavy attack, defenders were out numbered 4 to 1. My wingman and I roll in on a group of JU87's. First pass I lite up the lead pretty good. My wingman rolls in and tries to pepper two in one pass and ends up colliding and losing half a wing. As I roll in for another pass I spot a goon low over the water heading for the base. In that instant of looking at the goon the JU87's break and I collide with them as I pass.

Now with half of my port wing gone on my pony I get my plane slowed a bit and under control. It's either try to limp 45-50 miles home, or try for a pass on the goon.   I nose down and head for the area I saw the goon in. Finally spot him a couple miles out of town. Now I have everyones attention! 3 or 4 come strait for me and blow the HO shots they go for.... pony flopping around sure does help. I have 3 more diving on me, the HOers are coming around and the goon is making a hard break turn to the right.

I nurse my pony as far to the right as I can with out flipping over, pull the trigger and spray out all I've got. I lite up the goon from nose to tail as I swing by, BOOM! "You have shot down 999000"    Dudes easy when he doesn't have any guns! Now I'm tree top level no where near max speed in my pony, missing half a wing with half a dozen guys bearing down on me. I think I made it half a mile. LOL!!!  It was a GLORIOUS DEATH  

[Tinkles]

Mine was just a couple weeks ago. One of our bases was under heavy attack, defenders were out numbered 4 to 1. My wingman and I roll in on a group of JU87's. First pass I lite up the lead pretty good. My wingman rolls in and tries to pepper two in one pass and ends up colliding and losing half a wing. As I roll in for another pass I spot a goon low over the water heading for the base. In that instant of looking at the goon the JU87's break and I collide with them as I pass.

Now with half of my port wing gone on my pony I get my plane slowed a bit and under control. It's either try to limp 45-50 miles home, or try for a pass on the goon.   I nose down and head for the area I saw the goon in. Finally spot him a couple miles out of town. Now I have everyones attention! 3 or 4 come strait for me and blow the HO shots they go for.... pony flopping around sure does help. I have 3 more diving on me, the HOers are coming around and the goon is making a hard break turn to the right.

I nurse my pony as far to the right as I can with out flipping over, pull the trigger and spray out all I've got. I lite up the goon from nose to tail as I swing by, BOOM! "You have shot down 999000"    Dudes easy when he doesn't have any guns! Now I'm tree top level no where near max speed in my pony, missing half a wing with half a dozen guys bearing down on me. I think I made it half a mile. LOL!!!  It was a GLORIOUS DEATH  

I killed 999000 in an LVT, even had it recorded.. will have to find it.  I've killed him in my 88s before while he was in his death star 17s

Have both sorties recorded will have to find them sometime.

[ReVo]

I killed 999000 in an LVT, even had it recorded.. will have to find it.  I've killed him in my 88s before while he was in his death star 17s

Have both sorties recorded will have to find them sometime.

Hiding in the 88 doesn't count. 

Nice job getting him with an LVT though. 

[Brooke]

I was flying Ju 88's in the "Operation Husky" scenario (June 2007), loaded with torps, out to sink enemy shipping.

After a long search, we found the enemy task group near the edge of the map.  I zoomed in to look at it from long range and sew this:


The odd blue band far ahead looked sort of like clouds to me, or maybe like a far-off mountain range, but we were in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, no land anywhere near, so I figured it was some sort of cloud effect.

I had to reposition for a good attack angle on the carrier.


And then, looking forward, the blue bands began to look a lot like a water mountain.  I was at 1000 ft alt in the middle of flat water, though, so I figured that it must be a graphics anomaly -- some sort of glitch in my card's graphics rendering.


Just then, I started taking hits from a Spitfire and had to jump to rear guns to do battle with him.  I was still doing battle with him when this happened:


I didn't know this at the time, but back then (not sure about now), a map edge wrapped around to what was on the other side of the map.  In this case, it was mountains, and so the water on my side of the map was ramping up to the height of the mountain range, making a water mountain, which I had slammed into.

Unfortunately, the Spitfire was able to break off and not crash.  

[guncrasher]

back in aw I was a really good gunner.  my squad always wanted me to gun when on a bomber.  once I was a gunner on an a26, it was gonna be a 15 minute flight time at least, so I decided to look at the map, i was scanning to see where all the action was.  next thing I know we are back in the tower.  I question the pilot what happened. he was like dude, I told you 3 times we had a spit behind us why didnt you fire? I was embarrassed when i told him I was busy looking at the map to see where the action was.


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[craz07]

^^^^ heheheeee

[Saxman]

Probably Miracle at Midway, Frame 1 (11/7/08). VMF-251 had 10 F4Fs to patrol Midway Island. An outbound strike package from Enterprise spotted bandits inbound to Midway, and the squadron vectored to intercept, with sections of the squadron making contact at about 25,000 feet. The squadron rendezvoused before engaging, with three sections (four ships from our Blue Flight and two from White Flight, which only had two aircraft) attacking a group of low D3As. Red Flight under my lead was getting ready to roll in when a second group of bombers was spotted inbound at  higher altitude, at which point we redirected to engage the fresh group.



What ensued was one hell of a furball between ten F4Fs and what ended up as over 120 D3As (I still consider that a bit of shenanigans  ). We ended up taking down about 21 of them, with myself downing 6 and HAMMERR taking out 7. Midway was completely swarmed with nowhere to land to refuel and rearm, so a couple of us managed to break out towards Enterprise, with the rest forced to ditch out of gas. Myself, aJoust and HAMMERR managed to get back to the carrier, intending to rearm and refuel. However on my landing, I snagged the wire and shut down my engine, only to get CATAPULTED OFF the rear of the flight deck despite having successfully touched down. Needless to say, after running that gauntlet only to have my night ended by a landing glitch  I was NOT a happy camper. 

[Changeup]

I have the honor of being kilt by a shore battery shot.  I believe it was either Davski or one of the Wild Hog Brothers...yes, I was airborne.

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I have way to many glorious deaths to pick just one.

[guncrasher]

I killed a tiger 2 from a 37mm field gun.  hit him about a zillion times along with some other guys in the 88's and others with rockets and bombs.  but i am the one who smoked his engine and took out his track. and ended up with the kill.

that was sweet .



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[BnZs]

Making an LA overshoot and killing it with a point blank tater from a 109K4, only to also be killed by the tater blast. Here's the pic from the film:

[BaldEagl]

The power goes out! My PC room, pool table room and washer upstairs all turn off. No breakers are tripped and no other rooms are without power. Surely the tiffy had some easy kills, and/or I got disco-ed. Either way my day/week is done until I can figure out why I have no power to 3 rooms without a breaker tripped.

I had this happen to me not long ago.  Half the house without power and no breakers tripped.  I called an electrician who told me to call the power company.  I did and and they came out and worked on the nearest transformer and everything was fixed.

[bozon]

diving after a red guy into our town I fill him up with 20mm from my mossie when suddenly I hear laoud cannon hits in my headphones and the text buffers fills up with "you shot yourself" messages. There was a friendly tank parked in the town and I hit it with the cannon rounds that missed the bandit. I go down burning marveling the awesome power of my own quad hispanos.

[FGBullet]

I had a similar problem with losing power a few years ago. Four rooms would lose power for a few hours, then everything would be fine for days. This was off and on for a few days until I figured out what happened. The outlets all had the wires inserted in the back instead of secured under the screws. Even though the wires were still inside the outlets, a couple of them were loose and losing contact. I replaced all the outlets and all is well.

P.S. My brother just purchased a new home. The previous owner remodeled the home and replaced all the outlets. Best I can tell, half the outlets have the hot and neutral wires crossed. It's a large home, gonna take me a few evenings after work to fix them all.

Hope this helps.

FGBullet

Today, took off in B-29's from a 5K field. (Normally no problem) my left drone never "hooked up" with me and my right, and exploded. A little po'd I turned around and tried to land crashed 4ft to the left of the runway with my other 29 off the runway. So I bailed out of my wreak to try to get the 3rd B29 safely on the runway, no dice... As soon as I jumped to the 3rd it fell apart on the hill that it was on so I ditched.

But wait there's more! So I re-uped 29's everything went fine, climbed to 27,000ft (doing wash, moping the floor and such) make it to the bish City, first bomb run I have friendly Lanc's under me ( thinking what are the odds we drop the same row of city buildings I line up and drop to what I be leave will be right next to the row he is dropping on) NOPE! I dropped on his row.

As I extend for another round, a tiffy is right under me, I'm not worried, I start to use short burst at long range and score hits, just to let him know I'm not going to make it easy for him.

THEN BOOM!.....

The power goes out! My PC room, pool table room and washer upstairs all turn off. No breakers are tripped and no other rooms are without power. Surely the tiffy had some easy kills, and/or I got disco-ed. Either way my day/week is done until I can figure out why I have no power to 3 rooms without a breaker tripped.