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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Camel on March 16, 2000, 12:23:00 AM
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and thanks!
Great fight!
Camel
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Salute back at 'cha! I wish we had time for a 3rd frame, I think we battled into a tie on the 2 we had!
Dogfighting in the clouds is simply a blast, one either hates them or loves them, personally I love it!
Bucs got a good squad! Cya's up!
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Ripsnort(-rip1-)
++JG2++ ~Richthofen~ XO
Aces High Training Corps
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
(http://Ripsnort60.tripod.com/190srip.gif)
"Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them."
[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 03-16-2000).]
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Ditto, Ripsnort, and salute to you and your fellow JG2 pilots (except for BaneX, who shot me in my chute in frame 2 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)). The fight was pretty even I think, and fighting in and out of the clouds added to the excitement. My connects were somewhat unreliable for frame 1, tho I still managed to down one Jerry. For frame 2, my connects were plenty solid enough for BaneX to wax my emphenage pretty quick.
BTW, I descovered that the La-5, unlike some other A/C in AH, is unflyable with half a wing missing (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif). I bailed successfully, just at the base of F1's plateu. I had just turned to begin walking back to base -- one of the ROE's was that you could replane if you bailed or ditched okay, but had to walk back to base or be rescued by a C-47 -- when BaneX swooped down and strafed me. In all fairness to BaneX, he was reacting to that very ROE; the fight was still going strong, and had I lived I indeed would have been airborn five or ten minutes later to rejoin the fight. Another ROE was one life/frame, you see. We were over Russian territory, and the LW were way behind our lines. No hard feelings, BaneX (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Sorry I couldn't stay on and team up with JG2 in the main. Again, thx for the great time.
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Sabre, a.k.a. Rojo
(S-2, The Buccaneers)
[This message has been edited by Rojo (edited 03-16-2000).]
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I missed out on the 2nd round, since I was probably the 1st to die. Due to on-line anger management problems, I shut my PC off immediately and did something else the rest of the night (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Is there an official score? I know we won the first round, since there was 4 of us left chasing one remaining LA-5, whom I put a few rounds in myself. I think there might have been one more LA-5 up high as well, but even so, we were still up bodies.
I'm not sure what happened to me in round 2, as I had 3 k's and a damage in round 1. I was on the defensive, and remember reading that nothing outside of a runstang can catch a G-10 on the deck. Well, that intel is hosed, since I was caught on the deck after a 4000 ft power dive by one of those nasty commie's. Of course, if I was a better pilot, I would know what to do one somebody is at my 6 and closing. At around 700, I start thinking, and at 500, I'm usually dead. GRRRR!!!
My accuracy is pretty good when I have a target to shoot at (see round 1, hehe), but whoopee if I'm not one of the most piss-poor energy fighters on the planet.
HELLLP!!!!! Any advice would be appreciated.
[This message has been edited by Gman (edited 03-16-2000).]
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<S> to the Bucs
Great fun last nite. You know these mini-scen are real white knuckle stuff! First of all you try to fly in formation, as a #2 in a Rotte I have to keep up with my leader, field RW calls, keep your SA up and then you add CLOUDS.
I got 1 kill and 1 assist in the first go round befor I got a 20mm enema. The second flight we all took FW 190s and I wound up as a manuver kill for someone as I spun low. Need to work on the FW skills.
Thanks again Bucs.
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Milo
"A MiG on your 6 is better than no MiG at all"
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
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GMAN,
I was the one that got you in the second round. I got on your six early on when you were attacking my flight lead. I shot, missed (as usual), then you broke into a beautiful spiral dive. I fought like hell to keep with you, getting at least one or two hits from extreemely blind lead shots (you were under my nose when I hit you). When you pulled out of the dive and started extending, I relaxed a bit on the stick and let my slight altitude advantage and that montrol engine under the hood do something for me. To be truthful, I was about to break off at range 400+ (my convergence is set to 300), when I noticed you flying straight and level. So, I lined up a desperate shot with apparently just the right elevation and fired a quick burst. To my surprise, I saw hit sprites, then smoke, then pieces of aircraft. I guess I must have softened things up with my earlier hits.
Whatever you do, don't let this get you down! You're a good pilot in a good squad. Learn from them and you'll soar (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
And don't feel bad about going down so early in the fight. In frame 1, I was the designated casualty. Ripsnort shot me down before I could stop my head from spinning after the first merge.
Oh, and if it makes you feel any better. After I shot you down, I turned back to help my flight-mate camel dispatch an annoying FW190 and wound up a hood ornament trying unsuccessfully to avoid a nasty HO situation. Nice shot, weazel.
<S> GMAN!
buhdman, out
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Walt (buhdman) Barrow
(formerly lt-buhd-lite)
The Buccaneers - "Return with Honor"
home.earthlink.net/~wjbarrow
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Was alot of fun...
1st flight my wingie and I extended to south
to engage, then made mistake of turning back to rejoin jg2. We lost our e and swager was the first down with me following rather quickly.
2nd run banex, rocket, and I went w to get flanking bucs. bane got in trouble, rocket was trying to clear his 6. I dove down and finished the buc off (got assist). Rocket, banex and I then extended to recover alt.
Re-engaged to e, 1 kill and racked the cowling of another before I went down. Little while later banex grabbed his chute. As we went down we could see 2-3 bucs smoking but getting away.
Sour
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Sourkraut
JG-2 Richthofen (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2)
"Hey - someone has to be the target...."
(http://saintaw.tripod.com/saurkraut.gif)
[This message has been edited by sourkraut (edited 03-16-2000).]