Well,after hearing much rants and claims about A5 uberness, G10 invencibility,etc etc etc, today I had a boring day and decided to give a try to a plane I rarely had flown since early v1.2-the P51.
First sortie was from A27 to A16, where the usual low-intensity furball was going on. 50% fuel and 6 MGs. Got 3 enemies and landed.
Second sortie was very similar. But this time got 4 kills, one of them a bit weird because as I started to fire I got a red beacon for some seconds
. Landed immediatly (so cutting my streak) and reloged.
Third was longer. Went near A1 to kill a low level 109 and then climbed to A13 where there was a massive knit attack on a bish field. I was soon surrounded by unhappy knits
but managed to kill a fw190 shortly before another 109 killed me.
After It I returned with my A5 to fly a coop flight with a newbie friend of mine, then I moved to TA for a long long time.
Came back some 3 hours later, to find rookland gangbanged from all sides. A31, A26 and A16 (now rook) were being bounced at the same time, I chose a P51 and started from A27, moving to A16. I reached A16 at 10K, and dived to clear a 6. There I became involved into a furious low level furball where I killed 4 cons and had 2 assists regardless that we all were at sea level and waves of bishops were coming at 10-15K. I died after a P51 dived on me from 15K when I was at 5K and slow, and HOed me. (this thing is getting REALLY OLD!
).
Next one I upped from A27 again and moved to A16. There was less action now, only one niki. I dived on her,as did other 3 rooks, and noticed a red spot on my left...A M3!!!. I broke the attack on the niki and looped over the M3, and killed it. Still he managed to kill one of my external MGs.
I climbed up to 10K and returned to A16 where the knights were now attacking (they had conquered A31 shortly before). I saw KKen and another rook on a B17 and the bomber firing at them. I sneaked on the B17 and severed his wing with a 5 second burst. Then I realized that a rook had a P38 on his six , but this time I had very few ammo on my internal MGs and only one external. Still I dived on it and cleared the mate's six, getting some pings on the meantime. assist.
Landed succesfully.
And last one I upped from A27 and climbed S to avoid the incoming knit wave from North. Then I went W for a while until I spotted a knit P51 and bish P47 fighting. I dived under them and did an immelmann. The P51 kept running (strange thing, huh?
) but the P47D-25 started a fight with me. A wonderful one, BTW, where I nearly was surprised with the E keeping of the 47. Still with help of flaps I won his six and killed it.
I ended low and slow and spotted a bish 109 coming for me. I was nearly hoppeless, but still I managed to drain all his E, and keep into a scissors with him thanks to the flaps of the P51. I barely kept control of my P51, but the 109 (evidently a G10) ended augering, and I got the kill ( he had shot at me before). Then I climbed back to A16 to see Kwan bounced by a knit F4U. we tried to bring it down but he kept on BnZ me (kwan had to disengage), so I couldnt get enough E to fight it. Then I saw a hi bish P51 coming that instead of going forr the hog went for me. I avoided his bounce and then the F4U's one, but,still, he got pings on me killing my rudder and my chances to down him on the overshoot. Still I pinged him well, but the P51 came into me and finished me.
Total K/D on a plaane that I had not touched since 2 months ago (one mission with Heater and HT), and that I dindt fly regularly since Tour 3:
17/3And most of the time I flew it I flew it low and slow, clearly on the defensive, and in NO moment I tried to run like a little girl because "my P51 cant turn with your uber 190A5".I stayed and Fought, even against the odds. Still I landed all but 3 of the sorties.
Next time I hear that the G10 is the best plane in Aces High, that the A5 is a monster,or that AH is "Cannons High" I'm going to get a good laugh at the poor guy who say it.
(BTW I did a 540IAS dive up to 50 feet to fire at a niki, got impacts on it, but the faulty wings dont seem so weak in my computer
)
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[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 08-31-2000).]
