Originally posted by Mudshark
OK, I want to vent too,
Tonight, I am buzzing around shooting up tanks and Osties (at roughly the same rate they are shooting me up), haveing a good old time alternateing between the Yak 9T and the IL2. What fun... There are quite a few of us, everyone seems to be in a right hand pattern, it was all very nice. So I roll in on a second pass on this Osty when (name intentionally left blank) starts telling me not to shoot the Osty, its his kill. So anyways I let loose with a volley of 30mm and blow up the osty. I reply on AHV "Say again?" I mean gee whizz, it was my second pass, I had put rounds into it already.
OK whiney vent over.
Last evening, I was working a GV spawn point with a Typhoon. Along with me were MiG and Booky. We killed at least 25 GVs (I killed one guy no less than 9 times). Our goal was to protect A6. Therefore, there was no competition for kills. If one guy was in a better position for a bomb, rocket or strafing run, the others told him to take the lead. Sometimes you got the kill, other times an assist. Sometimes the results were clearly skewed. MiG puts two 500 pounders right on a Panzer. Nothing. I make a single pass with my Hizookas, the Panzer explodes. I got the kill! Huh? Well, it worked both ways. We were interrupted twice by enemy fighters. MiG and I each received 1 kill and 1 assist where one guy would damage the enemy, and the second finish him. Again, no complaints, teamwork is expected to return these results.
Later, I went to A2 where another horde of GVs were pressing the field. Once again, working as a team, several of us shared in many kills. When one guy had expended his ord, he would spot for the others. I even managed to get a few enemy fighters in the process. Twice, I tried to mark M16s with tracers so that the others could spot them. I rolled in, lined up and gave a short squirt.
Widewing: "Er, guys. I think I marked him too much."
Deacon: "Yeah, so we saw. What the hell are you flying, airborne artillery?"
Widewing: "Just a Tiffy with those mighty Hizookas."
Unknown Rook: "Geez, I gotta go get me one of them!"
This happened both times, so I suppose I marked their graves...
Off topic for a minute.
Last evening I manned a 5" turret on the Rook CV off of A6. During that time, I shot down 21 Bish. That's right, 21. One or two may have been proximity tallys, but the vast majority were clean kills. Am I some kind of super marksman with the 5" gun? No, I'm not. However, the Bish made it very easy by attacking one or two at a time, instead of a mass attack that could overpower the defense. That CV stayed right off of A6 for hours, and was never sunk. Eventually, we captured the field, and rolled back the Bishops much further north. Poor teamwork on the part of the Bish at A6.
My regards,
Widewing
