<S> AH2 Community and Farewell

[999000]

Trobe, I have 3 free kills for you. <S>

[Latrobe]

3). Try flying a newer sim like IL-2: BoS or ILYA Muromets, add some videos to your channel, and bring your experience/feedback from there back to AH

I have actually done that. I've flown War Thunder (*barf* I said a naughty word), Il-2 Sturmovik, Il-2 Cliffs of Dover (with the team fusion mod as well), and 1 other game that I can't remember the name of. None of these games came even close to AH2. They might have had better graphics, and they might have had more realism, but they didn't have AH2's massive multi-player. They didn't have the instant action with that massive multi-player that AH2 can provide either. AH2 may be aged in the graphics department, and it may not be 100% realism, but the game at it's core is the best around.

My bet Latrobe is what you are tired of is the plane you are flying.  It is too easy to win with in ACM.  I challenge you to spend a whole tour in a P-38.  Not as a picker, not with a support group just lone wolf and pure ACM just the way you like it.

Oh I do that quite often! I did a whole tour in P-47s, a whole tour in P-38s, a whole tour in yaks, a whole tour in the 190s. I have many many favorite planes that I fly quite often. My favorites list in the hangar has 109s, 190's, P-51s, P-47s, P-38s, Mossi, Yaks, Ki-84, La-5, F4U's, F6F, and a few others. All of these planes I take up quite a bit when I get in the mood for them. I'll even jump into a faster plane like the P-51 just to chase down the runners but it's just not fun. I'm don't want to chase some poor guy down and shoot his wing off while he stick stirs everywhere in desperation. I want to get into a good old fashion "I've got bullets and you've got bullets, let's try and kill one another!" fight. if the other guy doesn't at least try and fight back then it's no fun.

Its a outrage! 

Indeed 

Quit being a drama queen lol. See you in a month or two.

Shut up bear! 

Damn dude, if I thought you were being serious last night I would have put some effort in to talking you down instead of asking you for your perkies before you left.

Oh yeah! HiTech, is there a way I can give away my 45,000 fighter perks? I never used them anyways. 

[Bruv119]

surely HT will let you exchange them for a cuddly toy?   

[Slade]

Request to leave denied!

Just kidding. Latrobe you have been a rock of great ACM skills flying in and against any plane.  I have learned a lot watching you.  You are a great sport too.

I sure hope this game finds a way to retain your talents.

Slade

[WEZEL]

  This truly is sad news, we did not meet up too much in the MA but it was always awesome being sent to the tower by you when we did    I have learned a ton from you and your videos very upfront and informative and your sabbatical will be a great loss to the community.   

[Biggamer]

Latrobe sad to see you go sir i have had some fun fights with you in the MA <<S>>

[Brooke]

As I have taken my share of neurobiology courses, I have a perfect solution.

Latrobe, if you have a surgeon sever your corpus callosum and get another full computer setup, you can take up two aircraft, one flown with your right hand and one with your left, and have the left half of your brain dogfight the right half of your brain.

You will never run out of opponents flying in the style that you crave.

This is the perfect solution, and I defy anyone to come up with a better one!

[XxDaSTaRxx]

Oh and one more thing Latrobe, thank you for the gif you made for me about the B-17 that I use as my profile avatar. 

And Aces High has lost one of it's nicest, funniest, and great 109 sticks.

We'll miss you Latty 

[Zerstorer]

See you in a few months.   

[BnZs]

I'll even jump into a faster plane like the P-51 just to chase down the runners but it's just not fun. I'm don't want to chase some poor guy down and shoot his wing off while he stick stirs everywhere in desperation.

Dude, if you're in a P-51 and they are in a Spit or something, they'll be dead before they realize they should run. Pretty much the same story if you're in a D9 and they're in a P-51.

I'm encouraging you to stay for purely selfish reasons. This is the only video game that has ever held my attention, I'm afraid it is dying and your leaving won't help matters on that front.

[Shrike]

Latrobe I only got to merge with you once and there were 3 or 4 other planes in the area.  However, it was a memorable fight and I always hoped I would run into you one more time 1 v 1.  I also enjoy the fight.  To me that is the ultimate high in this game.  You are right on when you say it's about the fight!!!  Another high is flying wingman tactics through a furball.  It's not the easiest task to watch your wingman and to watch yourself.  It's really SA to the max.  I hope you get board and return to the game soon.  If you do you should try out the WWI arena on Wed nights .

 

[Tinkles]

Will miss ya Latrobe, but we know you will be back.  At the very least to see the New Terrain Engine  .

[glzsqd]

Latrobe.    I love you!  I want you! I need you!


I need you to want to love me!
Ill be waiting in the MA for you until the end of time!

[BnZs]

The problem is that, then, you're sinking to the level of the lest skilled.

How is using a fast plane to head off the possibility of the opponent running away "sinking to the level of the less skilled"?

Higher speed allows one to force or deny the engagement, but by itself it doesn't do anything to help you win once you are into the dogfight. For instance, if you compare the 109F to the P-51D, the 109 out-turns and out-climbs the P-51D rather badly. Given equal pilots, the 109F wins a dogfight handily. The only advantage the P-51D really has is the speed to run down more planes, such as other P-51s. The P-51 can run down another Mustang or a SpitXVI, but actually hanging with those planes in maneuvers and winning the fight will be more difficult than it would be in the better-turning, better-climbing 109F.

 IOW, taking the Mustang over the 109F will allow one to force the fight against more opponents, but more skill, not less, will be required to win the fight using a decidedly worse-turning, worse-climbing plane.

As for the rest, you are claiming that people who continue to play the game and pay their $15 a month are killing it...I'm more inclined to think anyone who quits because all sorties don't go to their liking is hurting the game more.

EDIT: I really don't want a noted player like Latrobe to quit either. This bodes not well for my favorite game's future. However, I offered a workable solution to the problem he stated, and he rejected it. *shrug*

[The Fugitive]

Dude, if you're in a P-51 and they are in a Spit or something, they'll be dead before they realize they should run. Pretty much the same story if you're in a D9 and they're in a P-51.

I'm encouraging you to stay for purely selfish reasons. This is the only video game that has ever held my attention, I'm afraid it is dying and your leaving won't help matters on that front.

This is where you prove you don't get it.

What you describe above is called "picking", not "fighting". What Latrobe does is called fighting. He doesn't sneak up on people and shoot their plane down. He flies right up along side, wiggles his wings, tosses a quick wink and then gives them his six and says, "Lets fight!".

Guys like these "mouths" we have on the boards banging their fist on their chests and proclaiming how awesome they are compared to any one else will come and go by the hundreds before we see another like Latrobe.

Fair skies Latrobe, hope to see you soon!