Lazs,
We're starting to sound like a couple of old men. I think we're both tired of the issue.
You are quite wrong to say that I contradict myself. The statements
"I have no trouble finding fights" and
"So, one kill in what, half an hour? I couldn't give a flying ***k about that." are truths which are NOT mutually exlusive. The difference between us is that you fly the same old, same old... whereas I like variety. I don't just want to fly the same plane tour after tour after tour. So I'll fly something different. Yes, I like the F4U, and not only is it an excellent ground attack plane, it's a good fighter and is the one I normally choose when flying my favourite missions - operations off the carriers. Sometimes, defence of Bishland calls for an assault during which I might kill several planes in a sortie. At other times, like last night with AKwabbit, I'll fly a jabo mission. Sometimes defence calls for manning of the field guns or an Ostwind. I enjoy all those activities. I don't just want to fly the same plane day after day, year after year, doing the same old routine - killing cons for its own sake.
Now it naturally follows that you are always in current practice with your F4U, whereas by changing types I sometimes have to spend a period of readjustment. So your k/t k/d k/everything will be good. So they should be. You still lost 56% of your planes, and I was not much better, losing 52% of my fighters. (I score jabo separately) Now I could show you an old WB scoresheet in which I had 28 kills to only one death. It proves nothing. At the time I did that, I was testing my new rig and wanted to see how effective my LW guns were with the new processor. But for me, the flying was quite unnatural. I was just dweebing around, looking for hapless souls to kill. The only time I died was when an ack came back up underneath me, and pinged out my engine, and then some bastige shot me as I tried to ditch
Yes, we have a different view of fights. To you, this game is about the fights themselves. To me, the fights and kills are events which happen along the way to the ulterior objective.
I agree about the P51D. Maybe it is an easy ride in some ways. But I explained my reasons for flying it in
this thread, in which I expressed disappointment with the lack of support shown by some of the other Bishops at that time, eg. being surrounded by ten friendlies and not receiving help to get a con off my six, never mind a 6-call.
I am mediocre at best but you are even worse.
I think you're making the classic error of trying to judge someone's ability by means of the scoresheet alone. The scoreboard provides only one perspective. Sit back so that your nose is no longer pressed against the monitor, wipe away the smudge mark, and try to see the big picture. And it really is a big picture with this pizza map! I can see why you're having trouble
Look Lazs, me old fruit - we are old buddies, remember? When I thought I was going to have to quit WB because of the gun porkage of 2.6, I paid THIS tribute to some of my favourite guys:
- To my unofficial purp squadron of the morning hours, when the MA was civilised with only 50-odd people on - these for me were the best times ever, and I shared them with folks like -save-, danish, ellobo, jekkyl, helllo, jjrebl, -lazs-, senna-, kilbot, and -japan Tnx for winging with me on some truly great missions.
That was in 1998/99. Sure, I was content with air to air combat sorties back then when we flew for purple. But I have progressed. Are you
sure you just want to kill con after con ad finitum/ad nauseum? Don't you
ever want to progress? If you don't, that's fine, but I think you're missing out.
