I have just recently gotten back into playing WWII air combat sims. I used to play air warrior a lot, though I stayed in the relaxed realism arena 95% of the time. So AH is in new to me in a lot of ways.
I have to say though, I really like this game and I can't wait to get my new system up and running so I can stop fighting in a strobe light(I get about 4fps in a fight).
In any event, yesterday I took up a P-38L and met a P-51D co-alt and basically co-e although I'm probably not the best judge of that yet. He beat me to the dive so when we merged he was coming up and I was going down to deny him the angle. Something from the way he was coming up made me think he was going for a head-on shot. I normally don't take head-on shots because I'm so used to AW where you can't really land any hits that way.
I leveled my dive to be able to go nose to nose and sure enough when ge got about 700 out he started firing, so I returned fire. He blew up instantly right in front of me. I had no time to rejoice in basically my second air to air win after about 30+ deaths becasue he landed a few on me.
I came out of it alive but just barely, my right engine was out and I was wounded so any time I maneuvered, I blacked out. I made a straight course for the nearest field to try and land a kill for the first time. Every time I tried to lose alt or straighten up for the runway, I would black out and have to hit x so I didn't crash in that condition. To make matters worse I saw two dots approaching and when I checked the radar, of course they were unfreindlies. Combine that with the fact that my frame rates drop down to three when I get close to an airfield and I was in a hell of shape.
Sadly, there is no happy ending to this story, I stalled about 75 feet above the runway and died.
The good part of this story, at least for AH, is that you have definately won me over and I plan on being here as long as the game is up and running.
