Author Topic: It’s not the pilot, it’s not even the plane… maybe it’s the ego… (Read 676 times)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #30 on:** January 09, 2002, 08:06:00 AM »

Both great books! I highly concur!

Karnak · « **Reply #31 on:** January 09, 2002, 08:21:00 AM »

WWII combat was not nearly as leathal as AH combat for a whole host of reasons, hence Tuck survived.

The fact is that WWII pilots, with some frequency, dove, or even climbed, into enemy forces that would mean their certain death in AH and yet survived.

AH is not a guidline for what is realistic behavior as all of the fear is gone.

BTW, every interview I've seen with kamikaze pilots, or almost kamikaze pilots, has said that none of them wanted to do it and that all the films and governement statments is just so much tripe. They wanted to live very much, but they simply didn't see a way out of it.

Kieran · « **Reply #32 on:** January 09, 2002, 08:43:00 AM »

C'mon, Pyemia-

I humbly bow to what is obviously a superior intellect.

bowser · « **Reply #33 on:** January 09, 2002, 04:46:00 PM »

"...AH is not a guidline for what is realistic behavior as all of the fear is gone...".

Well a lot of players seem to be afraid of something. They won't fight unless they have a clear advantage, whether that is E or an abundance of buddies. Maybe it's just fear of what their stats could look like?

bowser

Mr Hanky · « **Reply #34 on:** January 09, 2002, 06:20:00 PM »

I was defending a CV when dar showed a con aproaching from a nearby enemy base. I thought it might be a bomber trying a low level suicide run for the carrier, so I headed that way full speed at about 7k.

It turned out to be a P-38 at about 12k. I went up to 8k but decided to keep my speed in case the P-38 decided to engage. He flew toward the CV and didn't decend. I stayed a tad bit in front of him and hoped I could out-dive him before he released his bombs.

He began a dive right over the CV and I dove to cut him off when he suddenly pulled up. He had released his bombs at about 8k. I pulled up too. He sunk the CV and the ack barely fired a shot at him.. it was impressive.

Then I had a lite P-38 above me still by about 2k. I kept my speed and tried to entice him down a bit.. figuring the flak going off would make it appealing to him. I also flew away from the CV so he wouldn't be afraid of the ack. It worked.

He engaged fully... and we fought hard all the way down to the deck where I managed to get a front aspect lead storm in on him prior to him bringing his nose around. I lost a gun but he exploded. Then I saw the name of the pilot I had killed and said "uh-oh... here it comes..." to myself.

Sure enough, the pilot followed up on the comms with a "I'm getting a different plane! You wait right there!". Not <S> or "Nice fight"... or anything remotely apropriate. His ego was so assaulted that he felt it needed immediate rectification.

When I see the title of this thread... I always think about that pilot.

NUTTZ · « **Reply #35 on:** January 09, 2002, 07:35:00 PM »

HEY! I made his top 10 list many times AND in different planes. I rarely land, i'll be flying home with 7 cannon left and see 3-4 enemy and I don't know why, I hear one voice in my head that says "go land, re-arm", but that voice gets squeak slapped by the other voice that says "7 cannon, 4 enemy, YOU CAN DO IT!" and find myself winging over to the cons. One day I'll listen to the first voice, and then again the second Voice does sound alot like Fester come to think of it.

NUTTZ

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Same here rammjagr, K/D is only stat that matters for me too. However, when AKDejaVu did his Top-10 on each plane stats, then my goal was to get in there with some plane. It was challenging and there was one good point; You could fool around and "have fun" with all other planes except the one you tried to build as good K/D as possible. But you had to have decent amount of kills before you were counted in. Also "top 10 killers" were along (= most kills in each plane) DejaVu, if you're reading this, could you clarify how the "rules" went again? Also, as a part2: What excatly are you waiting for? For HTC to fix something or ...?

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #36 on:** January 09, 2002, 07:54:00 PM »

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Also, as a part2: What excatly are you waiting for? For HTC to fix something or ...?

HTC doesn't really have to fix anything. Their search engine wasn't designed to handle what I was doing with it and it caused problems on the server. There are ways around it... I'm just waiting for HT to get things set up on his side. Needless to say, its a tad bit down on his priority list.

AKDejaVu

Tac · « **Reply #37 on:** January 09, 2002, 08:12:00 PM »

"He began a dive right over the CV and I dove to cut him off when he suddenly pulled up. He had released his bombs at about 8k. I pulled up too. He sunk the CV and the ack barely fired a shot at him.. it was impressive."

Hey Id like to know how he did that.