Scott:
Don't say anything complimentary about Foooooo or mano (senior sneaky)...they are hard enough to live with as it is!
GV's are a lot of fun for lots of us. Always curious why these threads start where folks who are good in fighters somehow resent GV play, when they can avoid it entirely. Oh well, it is as it is. Each of the arenas is different, some good for gv's and some not so good. There are fights within fights...even a spawn camp is not always as brutal as it seems...and if it is, just don't spawn there. Most of the camps go back and forth and there are some great spawn in fights that can't ever be fully camped, though not too many of those. The Crater is perhaps the best...but there are others.
Related to flying, you need to spend a lot of time in these FM's to be good in AH planes, just as you need to spend a lot of time in the gv's to consistently do well. Time is something many of us are only rationed, so we spend it where we can most likely find what we want in the period we have. If we had unlimited time...would be great to try and get competent in these FM's.
An example, I first learned air combat in a wwi sim. A knife fight in a phone booth. No one could extend, you develop specific muscle memory for that kind of flying. It does not translate well to wwii planes. Came to AH when they opened the wwi arena, and of course that died pretty quickly and probably won't be improved or expanded or... But once in awhile when a specific terrain is captured, we have about an hour or two of great fun in there. Of course, some of the same people who complain about gv's complain about that arena. I had tanked a a lot in other sims and also flown wwii planes in those sims. The tanking here more quickly translated into something I could do and find a little success now and again. The air combat - I was dreadful! Not good in the new-to-me FM's and it's a steep learning curve the way most fights occur. I provided a bunch of deaths...the only constant. In tanks, once in a great while there is a kill...so, tanks it is. Time limited...do what gives you some satisfaction...tanks here.
To the originator of this thread...some of us have spent as much time in tanks learning to utilize the different terrains available to find the enjoyment we are looking for, at least more often than not. It is not all spawn camping, in fact it doesn't have to involve spawn camps at all. That's your choice. Not many of us enjoy the bomb****s, but again, that is part of the game.
And Scott...again, nothing complimentary about Senior Sneaky or Foooooo...they are tough to live with as it is! Next thing you will be saying something good about Rondar the Great or Jam or DR with the same end result...stop it!
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