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Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: DVDA on October 12, 2004, 12:49:43 AM
Ok so im wondering whats the point of killing a PT boat with a fighter?

You risk your prettythang flying threw a bunch of PTs picking them off while trying not to get killed and for what? When you look at you kills (fighter) they dont count.

If you start with 0 kills for your total stats for the tour and kill 100 PT boats you finish with 0 fighter kills....why?
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: DVDA on October 12, 2004, 12:55:24 AM
what im saying is if you take off in a F6F and score as fighter and you kill 10 PTs you dont get any kills recorded, you look at your Fighter Score 0 kills 0 Assists....why?
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Purzel on October 12, 2004, 01:05:10 AM
Because its fun :)
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: TrueKill on October 12, 2004, 01:10:36 AM
PTs are ground kills just like a GV
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: DVDA on October 12, 2004, 01:11:02 AM
yeah but lets just say your trying to keep your Kills to death ratio up, there is a herd of PTs coming at your CV you know damn well if you fly into them you will probably kill one or two but die in the end, so you dont even try jeopardizing your CV
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: ccvi on October 12, 2004, 01:35:14 AM
The PT's 40mm can hit and sink a CV from out of ack range.
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Nilsen on October 12, 2004, 02:57:56 AM
Besides the things mentioned here DVDA, it is (or was) actually one way of improving your hit % in fightermode and the same can be said for pinging gv's in fighter mode.

Don't remeber 100%, but i think i'm on solid ground here :)
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Gixer on October 12, 2004, 05:25:16 AM
Killing PT boats with the SB was always more fun. Some guy would spend a hour getting close to the shore and then boom. :lol

Or if using a plane, cut the engine, they'll never hear you coming and probably never get to see you either.



...-Gixer
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Kweassa on October 12, 2004, 05:42:17 AM
The infinite PT spawning torp launching is a sheer terror for stupid people in command of TGs. On the other hand, it does give you about 20 kills in the 5" guns before the shi*load of torps sink all your ships.
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Deth7 on October 12, 2004, 09:22:28 AM
Because the explosion stands out real good against the blue water:cool:
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: ccvi on October 12, 2004, 01:25:54 PM
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Originally posted by Gixer
Killing PT boats with the SB was always more fun. Some guy would spend a hour getting close to the shore and then boom. :lol


And some other guy would spend an hour in an SB waiting for PTboats.. :rofl
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Gixer on October 12, 2004, 03:31:57 PM
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Originally posted by ccvi
And some other guy would spend an hour in an SB waiting for PTboats.. :rofl



No, they are like sheep in that hour you've already raked up 20 kills on the rest of his squad. :D


...-Gixer
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: JB73 on October 12, 2004, 03:50:50 PM
PT's are gud fud!

scored as attack they rack up the hit % and stuff, ALSO they are a perk harvesting machine.

kill 3 PT's in a 110 and get more perks than 5 fighters.


also DVDA .. most know about sorting as "attack" and do so prior to attacking PT's i know i do it intentionally. message out CV sunk .... i up a 110 knowing full well 100's of PT's will spawn and i keel dem!
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Widewing on October 12, 2004, 07:26:08 PM
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Originally posted by JB73
PT's are gud fud!

scored as attack they rack up the hit % and stuff, ALSO they are a perk harvesting machine.

kill 3 PT's in a 110 and get more perks than 5 fighters.


also DVDA .. most know about sorting as "attack" and do so prior to attacking PT's i know i do it intentionally. message out CV sunk .... i up a 110 knowing full well 100's of PT's will spawn and i keel dem!


I like the 190A-8 for clobbering PTs... great firepower, smaller target than a 110.

My regards,

Widewing
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Blue Mako on October 12, 2004, 07:38:03 PM
Is it just me or is it strange that in all the work on AH2 they couldn't change the scoring system to count kills no matter what the vehicle type?
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: JB73 on October 12, 2004, 07:54:00 PM
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Originally posted by Blue Mako
Is it just me or is it strange that in all the work on AH2 they couldn't change the scoring system to count kills no matter what the vehicle type?
why would they do that?

HTC himself said he put the "attack" thing in intentionally, to stop that.

the original goal was to stop people from madly flying around shooting at anything... actually having to think about their sortie.
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 13, 2004, 12:07:59 AM
Cause if ya dont kill them they may kill you
Title: Whats the Point of killing PTs?
Post by: Masherbrum on October 14, 2004, 10:26:34 AM
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Originally posted by DVDA
yeah but lets just say your trying to keep your Kills to death ratio up, there is a herd of PTs coming at your CV you know damn well if you fly into them you will probably kill one or two but die in the end, so you dont even try jeopardizing your CV


Keep rolling the easiest kills in the game.  PT's hate La5's.  I landed 9 kills in one.

Karaya