Author Topic: SYSTEM: SO-n-SO Landed 16 victories in a A6M5 (Read 603 times)

rv6 · « **on:** October 11, 2002, 06:05:11 AM »

A revelation struck me last night after participating in the 3 hr hellacious furball fight for 44.

I'm a "middle-of-the-pack" player,, know all the tricks, but not a razors-edge dude like some.

You ever wonder how in hell do guys land these tremendous amount of kills in fighters?

I mean, 8 kills, 12 kills, and the alltime shocker scrolled up a few nights ago.. One of the TOKYO SHOCK BOYS landed 16 freakn kills IN A ZEKE????!! Nobody made a comment as it scrolled up out of sight. I spoke aloud: "HOLY F&%$ !!"

Zekes don't have 16 seconds worth of ammo for gawd sakes!!?

The thought struck me (DUH!).. People landing mega-kills, have just gotta' be on a perfectly timed Field Vulch! And, by sheer luck, gotten additonal "Proximity Kills".

I can't imagine any player (regardless of skill) shooting down 6? 8? 12? mid-line players, (in a non-vulch setting) and getting back to base.

I usually rank around 300~400th,, know all the tricks,, and can hold my own. If I get 3 or more kills (once in blue moon itself!),, I'm outta ammo, outta gas, outta energy, smoking engine, and simply outta luck!

So,, how in hell do people rack up these numbers? Maybe its those ever circling 40k FW190 & 109's? 100% fuel load? 2 hr flight time, picking off strays and cripples? (no fun at all in my book)

I dunno..

Someone explain it to me?

RV6

Innominate · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:08:16 AM »

Vulching, with short controlled bursts, while either having excellent timing, few other people around, or often both.

Sometimes you just get lucky, and there is always someone trying to up right in front of you.

Also, you can get many more by reloading, instead of landing and re-upping.

GScholz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:18:47 AM »

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Originally posted by Innominate
Vulching, with short controlled bursts, while either having excellent timing, few other people around, or often both.

Sometimes you just get lucky, and there is always someone trying to up right in front of you.

Also, you can get many more by reloading, instead of landing and re-upping.

How do you just reload?

Thanks.

Wilbus · « **Reply #3 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:18:48 AM »

Landed a 14 kill sortie in a 262 last night, had 16 rounds left no reload. Non were vulchs, no prox kills. bout 10 of them were aware that I was there. However, bout 5 of the 14 were goons.

Then landed a 9 kill sortie in a 190 D9, almost all deflection shots, had 150 20mm left but had a gun get hit so landed. No vulchs, was a few miles away from base fighting as rook against the knights. No reloads.

Secret to get many kills is to learn deflection shooting and snapshots, hit the enemy when they least expect to get hit (hard turns etc).

I hardly ever reload, I just replane instead, only time I reaload is when the field I wanna take off from is down or similair.

GScholz, to reload, land on runway then taxi to one of the metal plates at the end of the runway (1 in each end). Big silver plate with a small hut, roll on to it and stop, message will pop up in the message bar that says the refuel and reload will be complete in 30 seconds, after 30 seconds you get a new message that it is complete.

Wotan · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:30:59 AM »

I have landed above 10 kills in a zeke many times. Aint nothing remarkable about that. Even if he didnt rearm. The cannons on the zeke are deadly.

I wouldnt worry much about how other guys are flying or what they are doing.

Heinkel landed 6 kills in a val last week.

I think fishus kill streak of 250 some is still the highest. Urchin had 102 kills in an a5. Check beemers k/d for last tour.

GScholz · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:33:29 AM »

My personal record so far is 7 vic’s in an La7. Sneaked up on an enemy AF where they were staging an assault on one of our bases. Got 6 bombers and a Spit, all at about 3k ft before a 190 got my engine oil. The 190 and a Tiffy pursued me all the way back to base, they were seriously PO’ed since I held up their reinforcements. Used my last 17 rounds to damage the Tiffy, so he disengaged. Thanks to the timely rescue by flaps737, who up’ed at my base, I made it back. That 190 just kept coming though, thanks to the flak he broke off and got flamed by flaps737. Thanks flaps!

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:35:32 AM »

Highest streak I've had was 19 kills in a Yak-9U. No vulches.

250 kills? I don't think I could sit in front of the computer for that long.

thrila · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:40:48 AM »

Aslong as you fire short controlled bursts most planes have plenty of ammo for 6, 8 or 10 kill sorties. The a6m has a pitiful amount of ammo so i wouldn't expect to see a high kill sortie in it often.

I expect to get atleast 3 or 4 kills before i get to half of my 20mm in the spit.

I saw the text buffer when wilbuz landed those 14 kills. What a luftweenie!:D

rv6 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 11, 2002, 06:50:07 AM »

"RELOAD"... AH-HAAaaaa!!
OOOH!,, Now I see how it can be "physically" possible! (you still gotta' be a good pilot, of course)

Never knew or heard of that before (and always wondered why in hell guys were parked over on them metal plates.. thought they were just killing time, taking a leak, filing IFR flight-plan, etc, ha!)

200+ Kills? U gota b kidding me.. Like someone said, I couldn't sit there that long.. Like the guy in the Chinese Internet Cafe~ that died from days of nonstop online.. No food, no sleep,, just died in place! Tee-shirt said:

"You'll have to pry joystick from my dead cold fingers!"

Hey, thanks for the answers guys!

RV6

Curval · « **Reply #9 on:** October 11, 2002, 07:10:17 AM »

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Originally posted by GScholz

How do you just reload?

Thanks.

You still have to land, but instead of exiting to the tower go to the end of the runway. There you will see a small building sitting on a "re-arming" pad. Stop your plane on the pad and you will get a message saying "Re-Loading Weapons in 30 seconds"...or something to that effect. In 30 seconds you get a message saying "Re-Load Complete"..then re-up.

Damage is not repaired though...be advised of that. If your plane is hurting go back to the tower and grab a new one.

GScholz · « **Reply #10 on:** October 11, 2002, 07:41:13 AM »

Thanks Curval!

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 11, 2002, 07:54:10 AM »

I got one in a row one time.
lazs

hblair · « **Reply #12 on:** October 11, 2002, 08:02:51 AM »

10+ kills with no reload is very possible in planes like the F6F or P51 with a boatload of .50 cal ammo. I'm hard pressed to get more than 6-7 with no re-arm using the 30 mm hub cannon on the 109G6 or 109G10.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** October 11, 2002, 08:14:31 AM »

14 kills in an F4U-1A 2 months ago for me, no refueling(44.3 perks!). My personal best is 44 with refueling, got bored after that. Its boring flying higher than everyone else, and running away at the sign of potential trouble

Wotan · « **Reply #14 on:** October 11, 2002, 08:14:40 AM »

Those were streaks as in no dieing, not 1 continous sortie. I was just using that as a point to show streaks in general can get pretty high.

But streaks from 10 to 18 are doable.

I remember 1 guy kept tryin to car bomb me. I was well out of 20mm after 3 kills. I would turn tound spray him with mg and he blew himself up.

I ended up with 19 kills 15 on thew 1 guy.

But Skurj got 200 kills, actually more the kill counter quit counting them. He was uin a fleet gun though.

Brady landed I think 20 while in a 205. He got like 100 perks in that sortie.