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Offline caldera

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what is your crowning AH achievement?
« on: October 02, 2016, 02:48:38 PM »
What one fight, moment or accomplishment do you consider the highlight of your AH career? 


Had some epic fights, but my shining triumph of tardage was getting 300 kills in the TBM in one tour.   :banana:
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2016, 03:07:45 PM »
Shooting down Lusche in a 262 while flying KI-67s. He had tormented me my first year or two in the game cause he was so damn good at shooting down bombers. Often I'd fly at strats all night long just trying to beat him and I always lost. Then one night I saw a 262 approach my right side and just hang there about 1,000 out like he was trying to decide whether to attack or not and I didnt do a thing to make him think I didnt see him.

I had learned to roll the bombers with my rudders to get those HO-5s on fighters who thought they were below their range. When I saw his name I almost blew a gasket, I had killed the best Bomber hunter in the game...finally. I felt like I just shot down Günther Rall. I dont think I ever beat him again.
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2016, 03:24:37 PM »
227-7 best K/D ratio for actually trying

17 Kills in one sortie in a P51B and 16 kills in one sortie in a f4U-1. They are my 2 highest kill sorties to date.
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2016, 03:31:44 PM »
I've gotten 13 kills in a K4 without rearming before and 16 in a 262 without a rearm. I never really tried for kill streaks in them though cause the circumstances were never right, so the highest I've ever gotten was 22 kills in a 262.

I also became kinda happy to see an increase over my hit% over the years, been averaging in the low teens now.

I really just listed some things I was pretty content on seeing I don't think I have a "crowning" achievement.
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2016, 03:34:37 PM »
Learning to dogfight the big turd and keeping on learning after each encounter. :cheers: The rest is anecdotal at best, and nobody cares about my unintended sparks of glory anyway.
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2016, 03:37:37 PM »
Joining JG11.  :salute
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2016, 03:48:57 PM »
Setting all the default rear views to look around the headrest.     :cheers:

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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2016, 03:56:46 PM »
I avoid the LW planes most of the time and often just jump into the Shark tank so k/d and streaks isn't so impressive but landing a 10 kill streak in the Brewster while defending an air base is not so bad.
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2016, 04:00:06 PM »
I was in a 190 the other day... and... I... turned!

It was so wonderful I tried it in a runstang next :aok

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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2016, 06:19:49 PM »
What one fight, moment or accomplishment do you consider the highlight of your AH career? 


Had some epic fights, but my shining triumph of tardage was getting 300 kills in the TBM in one tour.   :banana:

Dunno if i could pick one. and there is a bunch I probably wont remember being put on the spot but I've had a bunch of individual memorable pleasurable moments that stand out.

I had a legitimate 20 kill flight once. albeit I had to re arm a couple times.m I have the film some where I just dont remember what I named it.
One time in a 109F and at a disadvantage I was in a 4 V1 and made all 4 auger.

Another time in AH1 I was in a panzer with another panzer wayyyy in the distance coming down a hill. He just looked like a dot. I used max elevation to the point I couldnt even see who I was shooting at and best guess and killed him 1 shot.

Single handed defending a maproom in a wirble for over an hour in AH2

Killing 9999999999 PT boats about 20 times in an LVT while he kept shooting torpedoes at me.

Killing a CV from 20K in a Stuka after nosing down at 25K.

Killed 3 on 1 rope a year or so ago. All three followed me up and all three were hung out to dry one right after the other on my way back down

Running into the side of a mountain while leading  a squad on a mission. So loyal to me were they that they all followed suit.

Shot down 2 B-17's that were much higher then me with rockets from a typhoon

But the thing I've probably felt satisfied and enjoyed the most  was when I was with the Pale Riders and we mastered the art of formation flying which is infinitely more interesting then taking part in a conga line.
We had people compliment us and some even thought we were bomber formations at a distance. makes for a nice little trap

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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2016, 06:28:41 PM »
The time I was able to post a PT boat mission that a lot of people joined and actually worked.  Although all we did was use friendly volunteers to drag some enemy fighters to the PT spawn as the mission launched.

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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2016, 06:35:15 PM »
I was in a 190 the other day... and... I... turned!

It was so wonderful I tried it in a runstang next :aok

I think you are breaking new ground and setting a dangerous example Vudak! 
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2016, 06:52:45 PM »



I was in a 190 the other day... and... I... turned!


For me I'd say right now, it'd be, being able to give some of my time and skills to help make the AH Community's resources better. 
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2016, 08:24:45 PM »
Learning to dogfight the big turd and keeping on learning after each encounter. :cheers: The rest is anecdotal at best, and nobody cares about my unintended sparks of glory anyway.
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Amazing how big that fighter was, compared to it's contemporaries.  I love big jugs.  :D


Great stories, guys!   :cheers:


 
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Re: what is your crowning AH achievement?
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2016, 08:33:24 PM »
Losing a fight to Gwurzel and taking the grand position of worst player in AH  :D