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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on August 16, 2004, 09:26:56 AM
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Couple things in the last couple days struck me as funny.
Last night someone was saying/complaining how an inbound plane comming in to pork our base was playing the game like it was a "video game"
The obvious responce from someone else made me chuckle.
"Well it IS a video game"
Couple nights ago someone accused me of intentionally ramming him.
Anyone here ever actuyally TRY to intentionally ram someone?
I've tried it a couple times just for haha's
Lemme tell ya it aint easy unless your comming in on a set of bombers in level flight.
In a dogfight its next to impossable to INTENTIONALLY ram someone.
In fact its far easier to ram someone when your trying not to then to put effort into doing so.
Just for giggles sometime give it a shot and see how easy it isnt.
Just an amusing complaint I've seen from time to time.
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You noticed this too eh? :)
Collisions are a rare occasion for me too.
Even the educated Hoer knows that you must Rudder deflect a front angle shot in. Otherwize it a 50 50 on the winner of such efforts.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Anyone here ever actuyally TRY to intentionally ram someone?
Yes. I was out of ammo and goon shows up at the city so I rammed him.
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i TRY to ram all the time when i run outta ammo. just dont wanna waste all the fuel i brought with me....
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Originally posted by Drunky
Yes. I was out of ammo and goon shows up at the city so I rammed him.
GAMER GAMER
umm...wait...the Germans actually DID ram bombers in WW2, so maybe your not a gamer.
Nah....your a gamer.
GAMER GAMER
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The RAF also rammed bombers during the BoB. An actually tought tactic was to fly up to a Bomber and use your prop to destroy their stabilizers. Worked quite well and since your already over friendly territory you get to bail out and do it again.
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Heh, I read an account of this pilot (in a F4F or a F6F) in the pacific who, in the heat of battle with a Jap pilot attempted to ram the Zeke. Ended up cutting off about the last 6 feet of the plane with his prop. The fight was witnessed by the US troops on the base below. Both pilots bailed successfully a couple hundred yds off shore. Boats went out to retrieve them both.
Stephen Coonts has a great book out (several years now) called War in the Air. It's a compilation of dogfight stories from WW1 to Vietnam. Very well written.
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Originally posted by Curval
GAMER GAMER
umm...wait...the Germans actually DID ram bombers in WW2, so maybe your not a gamer.
Nah....your a gamer.
GAMER GAMER
I can fly an allied plane then switch to a German plane...Check!
If I die I simply re-up...Check!
I'm flying my plane from a computer...Check!
If I don't pay my bill then I can't fly anymore...Check!
Netlag causes me to miss shots sometimes...Check!
I don't see how you can call me a gamer.
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Ramming is gunna happen, unless you want it too , then its like tring to land, on the hot pad, like a helocopter, in a b17, it aint gunna happen. lmao!! when ramming does occur, its because we have all these people from different countries, usa drives on the right, most of the rest drive on the right going the other way.. its all about who has the rightaway where they come from.. lmao! in a HO situation, I always!!, turn on my turn signal and use a hand signal that tells them im a american (the standard hand jesture) ......nnlnn.... <--- ya that 1... and going to the right, never works... tee hee!
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Originally posted by slimm50
Stephen Coonts has a great book out (several years now) called War in the Air. It's a compilation of dogfight stories from WW1 to Vietnam. Very well written.
I've read this one, was very good- wish it was longer. The Zero pilots (Saburo Saki (sp) account of fighting several f6f's and the account of the P47 pilot trying to return home with a 190 on his tail (after it had welded his canopy shut and he could not bail out) stand out in memory.