I flew for about an hour this evening. I wasn't really in the offensive mode, so I decided to do some fighter sweeps. Most of the engagements were the usual fights.. lotsa positioning and waiting until someone made a mistake.
By the end of first sortie:
1 La 5 winged, 1 Spit IX killed, 1 P-51 killed and 1 P-38 killed. RTB ok.
I'm beginning to think "wow.. where are the 1Cs and N1ks?". I noticed that there were some people hitting A8 so I decided to defend there. I came up at A19 and came into 8 from the south. Bish were hitting it very hard with a CV parked just to the west. I got down and dirty with some other rooks that were upping from 8.
By the end of my second sortie:
1 F4u-1C kill, 1 Seafire Kill, 1 F4u-1D kill, 1 Fw 190A-8 kill. Finally killed in HO with Seafire. Was a real dumb move.
I decided that it was pretty fun at A8, so I upped 19 again and headed over there. I noticed that there were fewer friendlies (fh had just gone down) and decided to fly to the east of A8 and check for a C47. I aproached the factories to the east of A8 and noticed two low cons. One of them apeared to be straffing the factories. I caught him at the stall point of his hammerhead and damaged an engine, blew a wingtip and various other parts off. As I rolled out, I came noticed the C47. He went down in a spray of bullets. Then I returned and finished the P-38 that was still flying, but never made an attempt to do anything but straff more factories (no help for C47).
I decided to head towards 8 and help the few remaining cons there. I came in on an F6F and F4u-1D...
Final tally after Sortie 3:
1 P-38, 1 C-47, 1 F6F. Finally killed by a F4u-1D that I had just blown to bits. I mistakingly thought that the missing parts on his wings were ailerons.. turns out they were flaps. That hurt.
I returned to the east of A8. There were no longer any friendlies at 8 so I figured a C47 was inbound again. I came in above all of the low cons at 8 and proceded to hunt for the C47. He was just east of the base, but I'd have to dive into a hornets nest to get him. I did it and ended up pinging, but not killing the C-47. Now I turned back for an HO aproach and finished the job, only giving 1 F4u-1D a shot at me. I managed to egress with enough e to keep me out of harmes way.
I returned and decided to keep my e and straff the F4u-1C that was landing. I hadn't noticed that A8 was captured and was pinged by ack. I developed a fuel leak.
An F4u-1D had also attatched himself to my 6. I did not have enough e to escape him and was killed just before a successful scissors move. It was a nice snapshot.
Sortie 4:
1 C-47 kill. Died to same fricking F4u-1D pilot again.
A6 was now under attack. Cobra and GronK had been defending the base in osties, but were not getting much air support. As I showed up, there was a Spit IX and B-17 over the base about 1k above me. I decided that engaging the spit with an E disadvantage would be a bad move and was amazed that the spit overflew me without engaging. I also decided that the B-17 looked as if he was out of bombs and I wasn't about to engage those .50's with my current E state. I decided to fly farther south and see what was heading in.
I found a low lancaster and was fortunate enough to dive on him just as another rook came in on his 6. I took the tail and wing off the Lanc without taking a ping. The other rook wasn't so lucky and succumbed to the lanc's guns. As I came off the tumbling lanc, I noticed that the spit was now engaging me. He was 1.1k behind and about co-e. Silly spit. I drug him low, over the osties and began to separate. He broke at 1.4k yards and we ended up tangling at about 5k. He made a couple mistakes and lost a wing.
I decided to fly to A7 and intercept planes from there. I bumped into a B-26 along the way that also had the worlds worst gunner. I survived a dead 6 aproach and managed massive pings on him. I moved onto 7 where we were bounced by a higher P-51. Thank God Mighty1 was geared up for the job. He saved my bacon.
5th sortie:
1 Lanc kill, 1 Spit IX kill, 1 B-26 kill, 1 109G-6 kill, 1 109G-6 vulch. RTB ok.
Quite an hour of play. 1 CHog kill. Never saw a N1k.
AKDejaVu
