Did you ever push away from the PC, rub burning red eyes, look at the clock and realize: Holly toejam! I've been flyng AH all day! (night? afternoon? whatever..)
And, you are just bone tired of the same old loop, ie: liftoff, head into the furball, or climb high to pick off stragglers, dive, turn, loop, bang.. Repeat, over n' over n' over again?
For a kick, I switched sides (to rooks always short-handed).. A good AH pal of mine is now the nme, and we methodically try to hunt each other.
You can also do this with any player, and it's a real hoot trying to specifically hunt n' kill an individual (virtually speaking), especially any players in the top 200.. They are good, and they are slippery ~
So rather than squander another mindless afternoon of turn-shoot-turn-shoot,, I sat in the tower waiting for my pal (he's a top 200 guy.. name with-held) to land some kills.
"SYSTEM: PAL has landed 6 victories in a P51-B"
Ah-HA! He's perk hunting in a 51, B model, and gotta' be in a massive furball to score 6 kills.. just landed and will be taking off immediately for more ~
Found the biggest Red/Green DAR sector, our 2 sides skirmishing over the water between to airbases.. Picked an assasins favorite, the La7 and climbed to a 12k perch. Loosely computed his possible ETE/ETA and altitude and flew over many easy low-slow targets (oh so tempting) to this theoretical merge point.
Tipped the wing and looked down at the swirling furball below.. 15 or 20 planes tangling like mad bees.
Of the red mess, one icon stood out. The only P51 in the bunch! I watched him make 2 kills, and exit the fray,, low n' slow. Zoomed down, and I'll be dipped if the wings didn't have the white stripes of a "B" model!! One burst blew him up.
OH what a rush! (the actually fight was lame, but the 1 hour hunt was exhilerting)..
He cursed me, all in good humor of course. Elated, I headed to the mad bee-hive at his nearby airbase where fighters were literally streaming off the runways.
What the heck, may as well make one suicidal pass at the spawn point, now just a huge blob or red icons atop each other..
As I bore in, they all taxied off the runway in differant directions,, I was going to fast to jink or adjust my aim and just pressed the trigger.
As the bullets started to impact, there was 1 single nme plane on the spawn point.. A P51 "B".
He popped like an M80 on 4th of July! He cursed me (this time, not is such good humor.. MOOhahaa!)
Suffice it to say that this measly 10 minute flight was more rewarding than any other I've had.
Try it some time.. for a monotony break.
RV6~
