Very good film, Grunherz.
Exactly what I needed when I posted that 109 thread. Only a handful of people were able to provide film, but of course there was a lot of talk...
Two things that particularly impressed me about your film.
- First was your wisdom to decide when not to press home an attack. A couple of times in the film, a bogie was not quite where he needed to be for you to fire upon him. Instead of attempting an E-bleeding turn (sounds more polite than a bleeding E turn - lol) you aborted the attack and chose to conserve E instead by converting your speed back to alt. You never once gave up your alt advantage.
- The second thing was your judicious use of ammo. With only a 60 round load out to the hub cannon, you cannot spray and pray. Only when a bogie filled your windscreen did you use the hub cannon. I was monitoring the ammo counters carefully.
This leaves one question. For some of those kills you used only the 20mm guns. Those are BB guns for me. I suspect it's a connection thing. I remember in WB, always having to use planes with strong guns because of the lag/packet loss, whereas some guys could get kills using only 2% ammo. But when iEN went to another ISP, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth over the lag/warps/packet loss. I, on the other hand, seem to have gained a preferential distribution of the available bandwidth and had the best month ever. Once got a clean kill with 3% of my .50 cals from a F6F. Aces High has always been much better than WB in this area.
So my question is this: What sort of connect do you get where you live, and what is your ping time? I get 150ms in AH. In WB, I was lucky to get better than 400ms, and there was no way for me to get kills the way you did, with the 20mm - at least not in the online game. Offline it was a different story...
Thanks again for the film! I'll watch it a few more times.
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