Originally posted by Tumor
Vulching is cowardly and gutless and is the most annoying if not pointless act in Aces High (or any flight Sim).
This is only partially accurate; the pro-vulching posters in this thread are neither cowardly nor gutless.
The problem that I see with vulching is that it's counter-productive. If you don't let the enemy get into the air, you won't be able to have a real fight with him. Why would anyone want to avoid such a fight? I thought that was the main point of AH. Perhaps the game's emphasis on points has something to do with it.
The response that you can simply up from another base is facile. In AH, as Laz2 often points out, the bases are widely separated. If you only have twenty minutes to fly, wasting five of them upping from a distant base just to get back to the action becomes more than just irritating.
So I say: vulching is silly and irritating and should be avoided.
- Oldman (quickly puts on raincoat and face shield)