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Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: lasersailor184 on April 04, 2004, 10:22:24 PM
So I get over an enemy base to drop bombs on a hanger.  I look down and I see ALL la7's except for 2 planes (an la5 and a 109).

I'm not talking about figuratively there were a lot of la7's.  I mean literally.


I expect this going into a rook base, but not a bishop base.  Cmon guys.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: MetaTron on April 04, 2004, 10:38:33 PM
Learn to accept it. La7s are a great base defense tool.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Morpheus on April 04, 2004, 10:51:35 PM
Is that a whine?
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: lasersailor184 on April 04, 2004, 10:59:46 PM
No, it's not an La7 whine.  It's a bishop whine.


Sad to see such a fine team degrade to crap like that.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: RTR on April 04, 2004, 11:07:30 PM
I recommend that, prior to traveling over in a buff to pork a base, you call ahead and give instructions as to which aircraft type you would prefer to be intercepted by. We are afterall, not mind readers. I myself would be more than happy to accomodate your choice. :D

RTR
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: MetaTron on April 04, 2004, 11:31:30 PM
I'll be the guy in the 109g10 that kills all three of your planes before you get a shot off.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Dead Man Flying on April 04, 2004, 11:39:16 PM
I learned to stop respecting chess pieces representing contrived and essentially random stratifications of people in an online game long ago.

-- Todd/Leviathn
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Morpheus on April 05, 2004, 12:32:14 AM
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Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
I learned to stop respecting chess pieces representing contrived and essentially random stratifications of people in an online game long ago.

-- Todd/Leviathn



DING DING DING!

I couldnt have said it better myself:aok

ohh yah... For what its worth...  It was a good honest whine;)
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Steve on April 05, 2004, 01:14:04 AM
I flew some w/ the bish recently.  They've got a bunch of good guys to fly with, just like knights, just like rooks.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Cooley on April 05, 2004, 01:20:10 AM
Nice replys to a bonehead post   :aok
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 04:13:13 AM
Get off your knit perch. The knits are no different from anyone else, lasersailor. I remember several sorties (from March 4th) when the rooks had a CV not far from a knit base. And the knits flew nothing but Spits and LA7s. Fortunately, I kept the film... ;)

Boring knit defence pic #1 - 3xSpit, 4xLA7

(http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/4l3s.jpg)



Boring knit defence pic #2 - 2xLA7, 6 Spits

(http://www.zen33071.zen.co.uk/6s2l.jpg)


... and people wonder why I don't get excited about new planes being added to the planeset. This game will always be a "grab the best plane for the job" game - until maybe AH2/TOD comes out. It will always be P51/LA7/Spit.

As for making this thread a complaint against one particular side, my considered opinion is...   bollocks. There is NO difference between the sides. Some sides might have a few more missun leaders - is all. The evidence is shown above.

Lazer! If you're reading this, . You landed 10. And you gave me several useful 6-calls and pulled a couple of nice drags! Nice flying with you that night.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Mini D on April 05, 2004, 07:53:24 AM
LOL!  Beetle.. you need to stop being such a *****.  You do realize you're whining about what people are launching at a field that's being vulched while you're flying a perk plane don't you?

The same goes for the author of the thread.  You don't like what you're seeing down on the deck at an enemy field, don't fly over an enemy field.  The fact that defense in AH is always a response to an attack that has already hapened means the defenders are going to look for any advantage possible.

MiniD
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: SLO on April 05, 2004, 07:56:48 AM
Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you... quote lazer


who cares:rofl
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: DoctorYO on April 05, 2004, 08:06:52 AM
your a dweeb if you fly LA7, get off your crutch and evolve....



Nuff said..



DoctorYo
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: lasersailor184 on April 05, 2004, 08:22:57 AM
No, they weren't being vulched or anything.  I only saw one friendly within tag range.  But he was being chased by the other half of the La7's.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 09:37:42 AM
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Originally posted by Mini D
LOL!  Beetle.. you need to stop being such a *****.  You do realize you're whining about what people are launching at a field that's being vulched while you're flying a perk plane don't you?
Our CV was so close to their field that I was worried about waves of ju88s/LANC at 300'. Hence the 1C, otherwise I'll fly the 1D or F6F. The scales tipped in our favour - this was actually a 3-way fight with Knits having to tackle Bish LVTs on shore as well as us rooks. Because in effect the "fields had been moved closer together", neither side had much opportunity to gain height. It was all at the deck. After 3 sorties of this I got bored and left. (AH political correctness forbids me from saying how many kills I got)

Anyway, MiniD - the point is not what I was doing but what the knits were doing in light of Sailor's post.

:p
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Mini D on April 05, 2004, 10:30:47 AM
So... it's OK for you to losely justify using a perk plane because it was best suited for the situation while criticizing others for using the plane best suited for the situation they were in?

Gotcha.

MiniD
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 12:19:37 PM
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Originally posted by Mini D
So... it's OK for you to losely justify using a perk plane because it was best suited for the situation while criticizing others for using the plane best suited for the situation they were in?
Well that's a good point, but remember - off the CV our choices are limited: F4F/F6F/F4U(3)/Seafire/Zeke - have I missed any fighters? I could have got all the kills I got in a 1D. The LANC/ju88 divebombers never arrived.

And I wasn't so much complaining about the knits. Those three sorties really boosted my stats against Spit/LA7 (T49). I posted here to show that knits are no different from Bish and Rook, because sailor seemed to think that only Bish and Rook mounted a LA7 (&Spit) defence.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Furious on April 05, 2004, 12:40:33 PM
What's funny is you rail against the excessive use of your "Uber Trio", while flying the one plane that was perked due to overuse in the MA.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 12:57:26 PM
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Originally posted by Furious
What's funny is you rail against the excessive use of your "Uber Trio", while flying the one plane that was perked due to overuse in the MA.
What's even funnier is that you guys tell me that repeatedly, and I have to remind you that said perkage predates my entry into AH. I'm not interested in ancient history. As I said, I could have got all my kills in a 1D as it turns out. I don't have any data and have done no tests, but the 1D seems to fly better than the 1C.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Furious on April 05, 2004, 01:10:22 PM
What's funniest of all is that you will ignore any relevant fact that does not further your arguement.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 01:45:31 PM
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Originally posted by Furious
What's funniest of all is that you will ignore any relevant fact that does not further your arguement.
If you're talking about my 1C, that is not a relevant fact. This thread is/was about the way rooks/bish resort to LA7s. I provided evidence to show that knits are no different. Those scenes above would have existed whether I had been flying zeke, F6F or Seafire. Indeed, that scenario would have been going on even if I hadn't been there at all.

Now, did you say something about "relevant fact"?
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: lasersailor184 on April 05, 2004, 02:03:33 PM
No, the thread was about the Bishops hopping in La7's.



It's fully understood that rooks will lame it up at all chances given.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: beet1e on April 05, 2004, 02:23:23 PM
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
No, the thread was about the Bishops hopping in La7's.



It's fully understood that rooks will lame it up at all chances given.
Fair enough. I accept all that. And my initial reply is about the fact that the Knits are no different. I often fly a Rook F4U1C, but I'm sure that Bish & Knits also "lame it up" (lol!) in a F4U1C - I don't think I'm the only person that flies it. :lol
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Morpheus on April 05, 2004, 02:35:34 PM
Yet another thread JACKED by the Beetle:rolleyes:
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: Steve on April 05, 2004, 03:10:08 PM
That's ok Morph, Beet is more interesting than some tard whining about various countries. He's got a whine about both rooks and bish in here. Maybe our  thread starter is a noob.  When I first started, I thought one country was better than the others...had a friendlier group etc.  Took me some time in each country to realize that all are about the same.
Title: Cmon bishops, used to have respect for you...
Post by: lasersailor184 on April 05, 2004, 03:42:49 PM
You guys are missing the point.

I'm not whining because the Bishops are upping La7's.  I'm whining because I thought I knew the bishops were better then that.