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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: RAM on May 09, 2000, 01:55:00 PM
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Mine was today,this afternoon, over A8. I was in my trusted Fw190 when I saw a 109 coming for me, 12 o clock, co Alt. There was a spit near there so I said..."WTF?...lets HO him".
Well the guy shredded my plane...with only 7.92mms!!!! I asked him if he had gondolas and answered me that the he had only MGs left! LOL!
I am writing this now, I had to go out cuz I couldnt pilot because the laughing!
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One of my funniest was yesterday.
There is a bug where your rudder setting at landing is carried over to your next spawn.
I landed a damaged B26 and had to use a lot of rudder to keep it on the runway. I then jumped into a panzer and made a 15 min drive to an airfield. As I got close and started to get jumpy in my chair, I switched to the gunner view. Well when I did that, my left-over rudder setting from my B26 landing kicked in and the tank made a sharp left turn and I rolled it for what seemed like 5 min and then I died.
I was soooo pissed but then I couldn't stop laughing at what it must have looked like to the enemy to see my panzer charge the field and then do a suicide roll on level ground 2K away from them.
Mickey
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A few weeks ago. Was trying to fly my first C47 run to help the squad capture a base.
The squad had taken the ack down and had the enemy surpressed, just in time for my arrival!
I had taken off from A1 so now I needed to shed at least 10k of altitude before trying to drop the paras.
I decide to cut throttle and figure I'll just roll this baby on down Just like aP-38!
heading down...
still doWN!!! trying to pull up now (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Cripes she's a dog and airspeed REALLY starts climbing but I'm not getting any response from the controls!
DOWN STILL I head with all sorts of creaking and groaning from the speakers....
< insert LOUD wing ripping noise and other self destructive sounds>
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
I almost logged from embarrasment.
-Westy
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Was flying a B-17 at about 20k over the old F16. Made a couple of passes as the bad guys climbed up to me. Just before they got into range, a squadie volunteers to gun for me, and I accept. The bad guys are getting closer, when we discover that my squadie hadn't mapped keys for the gunner positions, so I say "unjoin". The bad guys are REAL close now, and unjoin doesn't work, so I say ALT F4 -- just as my engines stop. I'm trying to figure out why, as I notice I am out of fuel....
ping...ping...ping...BOOM!
What a SNAFU that was. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
popeye
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I rooled in a Panzer from A36 one of the first days the new terrain came out. I headed down the big hill and at the bottom I launched the tank into the air for what must have been a 1/4 mile or more, slowly barrel rolling as I flew. I just sat here at the keyboard, slack jawed, as my wife snickered from the couch.
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Greg 'wmutt' Cook
332nd Flying Mongrels
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Well back in 1.0 I flew a c47 right into the tower of the field that I was trying to capture. (I didn't know that I was that low. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) )
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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Just got to a good alt with clear, beautiful skies. Just a crusin along.
Was typing to all of AH land, "Here I am by myself, in the beautiful skies of .........
When Wardog blew me out of the sky!!!! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Swager
I/JG2~Richthofen~
"Damn.....I can't believe I missed that shot!!!"
(http://saintaw.tripod.com/swager.jpg)
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
[This message has been edited by Swager (edited 05-09-2000).]
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Back in beta, I was riding a goon to an enemy base that Beef descretely bombed for me and he got out of there as to not draw any attention. This tactic usually works perfectly, as there's no CAP to draw any attention. Anyways, I'm riding this goon on the deck on a route that arcs above the normal traffic path between these two bases, and I see this dot up ahead. Crap, I thought, I'm as good as done, so I just kept coming at it and when the icon came close, I was delighted to see C47 pop up. What are the chances of us both running secret missions and meeting in the exact spot and altitude going to eachother's bases? I know the guy would have radioed his country to tell em where I was, just as I was doing for him, so I figured I may as well accelerate both of our fates. I took a heading straight on this goon's nose, and when he tried to pull up over me, I pulled up steeply and hit him right in the belly and we both exploded (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
If a goon crashes in a remote area and nobody's around, is there any sound? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Mark VanZwoll
33rd Strike Group
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I was busy typing to a squaddie when I got bounced. I hit enter to send the message off, and began to go defensive. Bank, scissor, grunt, pull. The text buffer was still up and was blocking my 45 view, so I bang on enter again. Yank, pull, swerve, dive... I was beginning to turn the tables on the enemy plane... now pulling lag into a perfect rear quarter shot...he was *mine* and he knew it. I'm so saddled up now it's just silly, less that 200 yards. But DAMMIT the text buffer was still up. I bang on enter yet again.
You know the rest (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Dunno what went wrong there... some kinda radio lag. I can't imagine what he was thinking when he looked back and saw me do this.
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Well, this was probably my funniest death...
I was in a B26 and this con came in hi and fast behind me - think it was a F4U... So, he fired away at me and shot my tail off which promptly made my B26 to do a hard loop so my nose was pointing right back at him (he tucked level right in on my six) and in which I emptied my forward MGs at him! I saw some debris fall from his aircraft and I can't remember whether he bailed or not, but anyway, my plane then decided to go BANG! Just the thought of the other guys face always makes my death worth every penny.... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Regards
'Nexx'
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About 2 months ago I was flying around in my 190 and saw a low N1k. So I started my bounce. Came down on him REALY FAST, he was going pretty fast himself. Well anyway, I started shooting, saw 1 ping then had to brake off to miss the collision.
Well I'm watching him the whole time, he took no damage. I continue watching him as I pass him on his right. I continue watching him as he slides 100yds onto my 6. And I continued watching him as he killed me.
Kill of Udie awarded to Pyro!
dagnabitz! that one still hurts the ole ego (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
udie
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This sounds a lot like the old "stupidity awards" thread back in February in the help and training forum. If you haven't already, you might want to read it. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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Just as the Typhoon came out, one of my first encounters was with an absolute convoy of the best targets possible - at least 2 B26s, a C47 and some 205 escort. The best thing was I had strayed across this flight as they evidently tried to capture a back Knight field, flying under radar height - the entire flight was at 500ft! Rubbing my hands with glee and thinking of the swearing I was about to incite on channel 1, I dived from my 10k perch towards the big planes and their uselessly low escorts. Remembering to eliminate the biggest threat first, I set up a 380mph approach on the 6 of the C47 - the big target quickly closed into my crosshairs and then - trigger! - about 5 20mm shots streaked from the Typhoon, I thought bugger me this thing is fast, attempted to pull up - attempted to PULL UP - and flew smack bang into the rear of the C47.
Apparently he got away with a lost aileron, rudder and elevator...
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I didn't die, but I shoulda shot myself!
I was in a C47. I landed and taxiied up to the maproom pulled the trigger and watched the string of troops run in. What? No capture. Must be that Vehicle Base troop bug!
It wasn't until the next C47 sortie when I did the same, and again no capture. My buddy Oosik parked next to me in a tank says "Hey Jarbo, did ya let all your troops out!" I pulled the trigger instinctively as I was about to tell him I ain't that stupid as the last troop hopped out and ran into the maproom. Capture. My salvo was set to 9. I was goofing off a few sorties before and forgot to reset my salvo.
Jarbo
of the Buccaneers
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I was involved in a 2 on 2 fight, me and Superfly -vs- Saw and Bee, we were in the volcano. we had already killed Saw but Bee was on my 6... I did some pretty cool manuevers, but I couldn't shake Bee, then Superfly dropped in on Bee and shot him up pretty good.... as I was looking back watching Bee go down in flames, and about to type a big "WOO HOOO!!!!" .....I smacked right into the wall of the volcano.
HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Nathan "NATEDOG" Mathieu
Art Director
HiTech Creations
-=HELLFIRE SQUAD=-
"Man's 2nd greatest thrill in life is FLYING. His 1st greatest thrill is LANDING!"
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Everybody knows about mine. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by funked:
Everybody knows about mine. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
I don't (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) plz tell it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Udie can tell it better. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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I'm with you Nate... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
It was a long fight.. it seemed like every time I'd finish up on one target; another would hop my six. We're near the canyons; and the fight started near their field. My bold attacks quicky degrade into a long fighting retreat. I've pancaked three guys against the wall on the way and I've managed to snake my way back to the mouth of the ditch on my side, hotly pursued almost the entire way..
I'm finally clear for a moment, look around see no baddies; clear the radar picture, and update my SA, then; right on cue, two more bandits roar over the ridge and start down hot fer my scalp. Glad as I was to see my field; I had to reverse back into the canyon on the deck to use the terrain.
The first guy down on me lost his wings before he could fire a shot, the second; being a mite more crafty; starts a a rope-a-dope set of hi-low passes, and really starts to rip me up one small piece at a time. 5 blazing passes he makes with gobs of 'e', and I fly the pony like a spit driver caught outside the acks; yankin and bankin and screamin like a little girl. "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL P!"
Close to helpless; hammered senesless, I'm really hugging the dirt while nursing an oil smokin engine; missing the rudder; half an elev, a flap, an aileron, and the bastid has even managed to prang my right side gear and guns. The fargin damage report is a litinay in red.
I'm snapping my views around, looking for the guy to come back down and deliver the cue de gras when over the radio comes "yer frakin lucky I ran outta ammo hang..."
Stunned; relived; overjoyed, I reach down to type 'nyahhhh yah" or some other such brilliant witticisim.. and crumple into the canyon floor. *WHUMP* chuf.chuff.chuff. Engine out now; the pancaked pony is back in the air; staggering along at about 25 feet high. "By god she BOUNCED!" The brutalized pony ain't goin very fast.. mebbe I can salvage a ditch... I stuggle with the useless controls, banging rudder pedals that arn't connected to anything any more when she finally drops her nose down and digs in.... then the shadow gets big; she starts over on to her back... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*sigh* That one still has me shakin my head. Soooooo close...
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Hang
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All my stupidest deaths fall into three catagories..
Looking over my shoulder at a low f4u wondering what he is going to do next.
Or
blabing on channel one when I should be worrying about the 10 guys in the cabin behind me, and how close the ground is..
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I think I am just about close enough to hit with this 1k bomb now......
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Over this past weekend I was with several TWC members and we were taking a base. I was flying a B26 with 250lbs for the acks and anything else, we leveled the hangers and acks. I lined back up to drop on the radar just for fun when after the 250lbs bomb was release I watched as I saw our goon closing in very slowly on the base... I thought to me self surely I'll miss him (the bomb was already on it's way down) then I thought oh god please don't let me kill a drunk!!!
There was nothing I could do but watch and wait....
Radar Destroyed
Back in the tower!!!
I laughed my bellybutton off I dropped a 250 pounder that hit the radar AND the goon as it was taxing to the map room! What are the chances of that happening again???
Thank's for Killshooter! I'd have felt really bad if I had killed a drunk or two.
Mox
The Wrecking Crew
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In the beta I was one of a few trying vainly to defend a heavily vulched field (12 or so enemies). After more than a few frustrating attempts at taking off I switched fields and took a light P51 to try to hurry and return with alt advantage. Got up to 10k and was zooming along on WEP, saw a goon inbound as I approached the field and dove after him. Kept power on as he was getting close to the runway and my airspeed crept up and up. I was nearly in position to open up so I pulled back to line up my crosshairs and BAM! BAM!...
I wonder if he saw the 500mph wingless silver blur that flashed by just underneath and buried itself several feet into the ground. I didn't even have time to bail.
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Mmm well my funniest home video goes like this...
This was back in beta days... Rooks held field 7 and 8 and were pounding away at 4. I had just done a pretty nice sortie in my G10 and was runnin a bit low on fuel. I decided to fly at 10 K over the beeline between 7 and 4 when I spot a very low la5 going fast on the deck... I knew I didn't have any cannon rounds left but I figured what the hell let's try to bounce him and if it doesn't work bug out.
I do a split S and want to tuck my G10 nicely under his belly when I notice that he's realy flying very low (like 300-400 feet) and missin a part of his left wing. I of course get all worked up and greedy cause this bastard LA5 is NOT going to ditch on me MUNCH MUNCH (evil laugh) MUAHAHAHAHA. So I hit WEP and continue the shallow dive. 1K he still doesn't see me, 600 yards, not moving hehehe he's mine MUAHAHAHA... at 300 yards I start firing with my MG's and notice that my plane is incredibly slugish I push the stick to go under him... NO GO!!! I franticly hit the elev trim button and fly under him missing him by a hair (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) then I hit the ground and my propeller stops I bounce up again right in front of the LA5 and he gives me one of his 20 mm candy (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
First I felt angry of course then I started laughing when I think off his face when he saw my very close smokin, raurin 109 pull up in his nose at 100 feet alt (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
BEE
PS: NATE I still remember that volcano fight... hehehehe one of the best ever (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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BEE(JENG)
=CO=II/JG2~Richthofen~
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://http://members.tripod.com/JG2/)
(http://nottosc.tripod.com/109bee.gif)
'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit'
[This message has been edited by JENG (edited 05-09-2000).]
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Funked UDIE has video. Shame and you are a trainer also.
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Tommy (INDIAN) Toon
1st Aces High Trainer Corps.
Home of The Allied Fighter Wing A.F.W.
A.F.W. Homepage (http://www.geocities.com/~tltoon)
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I just pulled off a good one tonight. I was flying at 34 in a 205 at about 18k. I saw a lower spit flying along, unaware of me it seemed. I rolled inverted, got under and behind it, and closed to 300. I then opened fire. I knocked off it's wing, which made it begin to spiral down. Unfortunately it spiraled right into me!!! Take a guess who got the kill. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS
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I just wrote this in my review draft last night, then logged on this AM and saw this thread....good timing! I don't normally like to say what I'm writing in an upcoming article, but this one is worth it:
"I thought it would give the reader a good feel for the game if I described a couple of experiences that stand out in my mind from playing AH since March.
I'll start with my most embarrassing...why not. Along with a couple other pilots, I was flying a CAP (about 10,000 ft) over an airfield. We (OK, the other pilots (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) ) had already shot down several incoming enemy aircraft. One enemy Spitfire was heading for home when I noticed that I would have a pretty good chance of diving on him and catching him with his guard down. Radioing the other pilots I was with (we had been talking while in orbit and I was explaining that I was new, etc.), I told them I was going to go for the kill. They encouraged me on, and I banked away and dove on the low and clueless Spitfire. My G-10 easily picked up speed and I aimed for a spot where I expected the two of us to intercept. Faster and faster and faster and the dot soon became an enemy fighter, behaving exactly as I wanted, flying along straight and slow. At about 2000 yards, I tried moving my stick to fine-tune my flightpath and found that my controls were completely locked from the high speed dive. While I'm sure the enemy pilot was a bit spooked at the sight, it was probably also funny as hell for him to see a G-10 scream in from out of nowhere and plow into the earth just ahead. I was so embarrassed I got up and walked away from the computer for a couple minutes. My friends up in the CAP orbit were watching the whole thing, and had tried warning me, but I didn't read their messages. When I took off again, they explained to me what I had done wrong and how they would have handled the intercept."
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John Sponauer
Senior Editor, SimHQ.com
jsponauer@simhq.com
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I just ended a buff run, landed safely and decided I would try to taxi into the hanger. Using brakes, rudder and engines I manouvered the big B17 toward the hanger, taxied up to the door about to enter and snap, off come the wings, I died a split second later. It seems a B17 doesnt fit too well into a fighter hanger. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Diving on an M16 in a Spit... he notices me and opens fire. Guns blazing we are both firing away but he blows off my wings. I'm still diving right at him and have to bail... frantic <enter enter enter O >Out pops my chute only 150 ft from the ground and I'm thinking, "damn he's around here somewhere. I saw him as I bailed... where could he be?"
I'm looking in all my views to find him but he's gone. No kill message but I'm still decending in my chute. I land right on his vehicle, he was stopped right below me the whole time and I didn't check the straight down view.
Sure hope I still had my service pistol. Could have taken him captive and drove myself back in the M16 to my base.
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Soda
The Wrecking Crew
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lol Spoons! I did just that same maneuver last night when I loaded a G10 for bomber killing.
After flying to 20k (which had been about 5k higher than the last time they came to attack) I found just one of the dastardly bastidges flying below me... far below me. Cut throttle, full rudder deflection for E bleed and I began the chuckling that soon the B17 would be pieces..
Range 5k, airpseed 400! range 2.5k, airspeed 500...stick aint working!!!!! range 1200 and I'm not even lined up..carp.. airspeed 600mph and ___(SMACK!!!)
I don't think my carcass can be dug out of the hole I made.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Flying during low usage hours......
I'd taken out the ack at a base and I'd grabbed a C47.....was flying along merrily at about 80ft......almost at the base.....wasn't paying attention, the ground came up and my props dug in. Arse.
Ok, thought I, not far to go, maybe I can glide in......
touched down just before the base.....carried on rolling at 100mph.....saw the map room off to the right so I gave it some rudder to head that way. Next the damn thing starts to skid, then roll. Both wings snapped off and I slide to a halt next to the map room on my side. And blow me if it wasn't the side the damn troops come out of. Balls.
Glad no-one was there to see it.
Swoop
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Ummm, I flew for a month in Beta with gear down, I've always been under the impression that Green was "retracted" and red was "Gear down"....no one said a word, after all, would you tell a duck with no wings that it couldn't fly? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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i stood on runway, gived full power
to my g10 and was typing:
"HI JG2"....these were my last words.
my 109 crashed right into a hangar.
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(http://saintaw.tripod.com/habicht.jpg)
JG2 "Richthofen" (http://www.busprod.com/weazel2/)
[This message has been edited by HABICHT (edited 05-11-2000).]