Well, I had my first and only experience with the art of the long range kill last night in the MA. By the way, went back in there for the first time in a while, as I didn't have anything else to do and really had a great time! I guess many of you were right in your advice to weazel about simply take some time away from it to get refreshed and revitalized. It worked for me, thanks. I simply forgot about realism and bringing the equipment home nonsense and went "gang banging" with by small brotherhood of "Baby Seals". All two of us!
hehe... 170- 200 mph tanks downhill to 27 sure aren't realistic, but what a riot as a game. Thanks for the tips mighty1 on how to survive the Panzer IV 30 foot air leap maneuver, quite an ACM (GCM?) move.
Anyway, Apache (BTW, an awesome HOG driver), was on the six of my wingy and chewing his butt. I came screaming in on Apache's six with a full load of ammo driving a Nikki (George), but was still too far out to get him off my bud mighty1. So, I opened up with all 4 x 20mm's at a ridiculous 1.3k to 1.5k and just held the trigger down. It probably would have melted the barrels off real guns as it sure wasn't the classic 3 second short burst the army taught me. Anyway, Apache was doing a slow banking turn to the left tracking mighty1, with a sky full of my tracers and ball ammo scattering all around him. I bet I had burned through 1/2 my ammo load at this point.
All of a sudden, I see a single flash at somewhere between 800-900 yards (think it was 854 or so) and Apache's wing falls off. I was stunned, yet happy that I had managed to get there to help, unfortunately about 2 seconds too late as my seal wingy mighty1 became a fur jacket for some rich woman downtown.
My dual ammo counter was down to about 9 at the end of this short chase.
Duh!!...you think I had the film on...nope. To bad, as it would have been nice to post here. My point is that I've seen all the noise on here about long range kills and how unrealistic it is. I'm not sure that's the case as considering the amount of lead I sprayed all over the sky in desperation during this engagement, I'm sure something would have hit someone.
Anyway, thought it might be of interest to a few of you as it seems to be a particularly sore point on here. I have to say, even without icons I still would have been spraying all over Apache at huge distances just to try and get him off my wingy, so I don't think icons or no icons would have made any difference to me here.
Regards,
Badger
