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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: 1Boner on August 19, 2007, 02:06:18 PM
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Flyin in one of the LW arenas the other night,and got in a pretty good turn fight with a f4 of some sort.
We started at aprox.12k and of course wound up on the deck.
The fight lasted quite a while,with neither of us able to get much of a resolution on the other.
Well, he finally kills my engine.
I head away,drop my gear and prepare to ditch.
Never thought I,d even make it to the ground without getting blasted.
Well, I made it to a complete stop.
I knew I was a sitting duck, but I waited anyway.
I can hear his engine getting louder and louder coming in low behind me.
I prepared for the inevitable.
It didn,t happen.
He flew REAL low and REAL slow over me and waved his wings instead.
I watched on radar as he headed to the nearest furball.
Classiest thing I have ever seen in this game.
Never found out who he was. (but i,m bettin it wasn,t Storch)
But I would like to salute him and that style of play now!!
Greatly Impressed,
Boner
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great story!
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hey boner i think that was me but i don't know
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I had a Spit XVI pilot do that after a long fight in which he holed the oil on my Spit VIII. When it finally seized I ditched and he just circled, waggled his wings and flew off. It was a long fight and I'd started out of cannon ammo. We'd each reversed eachother a couple of times, but he wasn't getting hits other than the one and my .303s didn't score much and to no effect.
This was along time ago though, just after the VIII and XVI had been added.
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That's pretty cool man.
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I think there are a fair amount of folks who will let a deadstick guy try and get it down.
Not much talent in shooting down a plane that can't fight back.
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If ya were in the Lghey I'd have shot ya. Other planes warrant better treatment of prisoners:aok (lastly the odd awarding of safe ditches far from home base, hard to predict outcome there)
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I do that all the time if the fight is clean, however if I'da known it was you, not a chance.
it was part of my under than five sentences but none the less censored sig line.
but it wasn't me on that occasion I haven't had a close fight in weeks
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Originally posted by storch
I do that all the time if the fight is clean, however if I'da known it was you, not a chance.
it was part of my under than five sentences but none the less censored sig line.
but it wasn't me on that occasion I haven't had a close fight in weeks
I wouldn,t expect you to do that Storch.
Especially after all the mean things I,ve said and done to you.
Good to hear from you again.
Your Biggest Fan,
Boner
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Angry is the only person who has done that for me.
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Some guy in a 190D9 did the same for me the other night. I was shot up pretty good in a Tiffy and he just flew by as I ditched.
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I do this all the time to people who are missing half a wing. If they fly nice and straight and accept the fact that they're going to die, I pull up beside them, give them a salute, and fly away. Of course sometimes they try to turn behind me to kill me. That's when I kill them. :D
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I would have finished you off.
ack-ack
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I'll go with option C, gutless. ;)
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I quiet often do this myself, think I had 2 or 3 of these type fights in the last week or 2......the fight is what some people are after not a wounded bird that can not defend itself...where is the fun in that?.....but I also been going to bed most nights for last cple of weeks watching Flyboys alot as well..........could be why I have been doing this and not killing the ditching planes.....
if u was in the LWA prob was not me though..think I have not flown in the LWA since last tour , only in the AvsA /TA/DA/SEA arenas as of late........
I say it was classy of your opponent, Boner!
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Originally posted by Guppy35
I think there are a fair amount of folks who will let a deadstick guy try and get it down.
Not much talent in shooting down a plane that can't fight back.
i've killed a zeke in a deadstick p38.......only once, and i was VERY lucky that he under-estimated me completley,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:D
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i dont play in main but in h2h i do that alot if i get some one to the point ware thay know thare about to crash and stop fighting i usally will stop pull up behind or beside them and just watch wat thay do
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Originally posted by SFraptor
i dont play in main but in h2h i do that alot if i get some one to the point where they know they're about to crash and stop fighting i usually will stop pull up behind or beside them and just watch what they do
Fixed. :)
Just so you know, people on the BB don't like game style writing and love punctuation. Remember this next time you post OK?
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Originally posted by 64kills
hey boner i think that was me but i don't know
Buddy, there is no chance at all it was you.
Generally if someone lets me ditch like that I'll bail to give him the kill and to find out who he was.
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Originally posted by 64nokills:
hey boner i think that was me but i don't know
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Originally posted by Guppy35
I think there are a fair amount of folks who will let a deadstick guy try and get it down.
Not much talent in shooting down a plane that can't fight back.
<<--raises hand
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hey boner i think that was me but i don't know
Hells no it wasn't you. I can tell..... your one of those pilots thats so stupid he'll follow a plane to the ground saying "Y TE HE!! ISN'T HE DIENG"!!! meanwhile the pilot had already ditched......
Good story though, i wish some pilots would have mercy on me sometimes......
*hint* *hint*
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I dont know how much it is class, how much it is tactics...
If I shoot someone to the point of no return (engines out, wing's gone, hes on fire), theres no point shooting him, hes gonna die anyway. It just a waste of ammunition. (which is a pretty big deal for me in 109's) Ill only keep shooting if they're within gliding distance of an airfeild.
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lol boner your lucky that wasnt me im being honest if i fight some 1 and wasit all that ammo trying to kill some 1 then im gonna wasit some more to a least get the kill. unless of corse your closer to the enemy base and id get the kill anyway :) but if it was in real life i would let you go. but in this GAME you would be dead meat! :)
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It happened more often before than nowaday for some reason.
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It was my policy for awhile, and I will still let one go if the fight was good. :aok
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Originally posted by SkyRock
I will still let one go if the fight was good. :aok
if the opponent put up a good fight is the key ingredient for me.....if he was "trying to face shoot" or extend away until you broke off and quit chasing just to turn and try to run you down add infinium.then I wiould do my utmost to try and shoot them down....
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Originally posted by Guppy35
Not much talent in shooting down a plane that can't fight back.
:huh Half the guys I shoot down cant fight back :(
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A couple weeks ago on TT island I fought an LA5 that I shot up. He leveled out like he was pilot wounded. I slid in behide him. I held my fire and we flew like that for probably 20 seconds. I was going to just follow him out of the area. Then he banked. Wrong move. Pop.
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Yea my stick was freakin out and I couldn't get a shot in arrr damn!
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It would never happen to me. I'm usually still trying to get a guns solution in my deadstick plane until the inevitable impact with the ground although sometimes I'm turning tight enough to get slow and level at the last second and ditch.
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Originally posted by DEMONSLAYER
lol boner your lucky that wasnt me im being honest if i fight some 1 and wasit all that ammo trying to kill some 1 then im gonna wasit some more to a least get the kill. unless of corse your closer to the enemy base and id get the kill anyway :) but if it was in real life i would let you go. but in this GAME you would be dead meat! :)
I think you have it backwards. As I believe Chuck Yeager once said, "I'd rather shoot the sob down and even shoot his chute so I don't have to face him again and take a chance on him killing me". That says alot about RL v VR.
In this game you either give the guy a pass or he ends up in the tower. So why not give the shot up guy a pass? You already won, right? There are alot more targets out there to shoot down.
That's actually something the noobs have to learn. One or two guys on a singleton can get the job done. It doesn't require 12 on 1. Your kills will come without trying to steal one from someone else. I normally step in either after asking if all is well or not, the guy is gonna get away or he's out to hit our base. Then I get in. Period.
Waggle dem wings, dude!
The only thing I disagree with is Boners fighting down. Real sticks fight up. :)
Ren
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One night in the MW last week I was fightin a Hurricane IIC in my P40E and he tried to HO me three times but I nailed his engine and he tried to land it. I strafed him and blew him up.
If he hadn't been 1. flying a HOicane and 2. trying to HO me repeatedly, I would have let him go. As it was, I got a great deal of satisfaction from popping the dweeb on the ground. I don't remember who it was but it wasn't someone I'd remember, obviously.
Fight me clean and I'll fight you clean.
to the F4U pile-it.
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Originally posted by scottydawg
One night in the MW last week I was fightin a Hurricane IIC in my P40E and he tried to HO me three times but I nailed his engine and he tried to land it. I strafed him and blew him up.
If he hadn't been 1. flying a HOicane and 2. trying to HO me repeatedly, I would have let him go. As it was, I got a great deal of satisfaction from popping the dweeb on the ground. I don't remember who it was but it wasn't someone I'd remember, obviously.
Fight me clean and I'll fight you clean.
to the F4U pile-it.
good for you. cartoon death and real world confusion to the woobiecaners.
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i fly in h2h but when its 5 or 6 vs 1 i usally go after the 5 or 6 and shoot them down one after the other laughing my head off because thay dont even relize thare being shot at and that the planes around them explodeing but when its a fare fight ill let them pass after i do some damage
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I like doing that. :)
Actually, what is so cool about it? Honestly, this is a damn game..it's not like he spared your life for real. Is it really that big a deal? He didn't log the kill....or maybe he did, when you finally towered...
Oh well, as Douglas Bader said, "It's not a bloody game of cricket." He meant, kill or be killed.
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Originally posted by TalonX
I like doing that. :)
Actually, what is so cool about it? Honestly, this is a damn game..it's not like he spared your life for real. Is it really that big a deal? He didn't log the kill....or maybe he did, when you finally towered...
Oh well, as Douglas Bader said, "It's not a bloody game of cricket." He meant, kill or be killed.
I think whether its a game or whatever (and yes, some people have a hard time distinguishing the game from RL), the saddest commentary is that it's actually worth going out of one's way to note another player NOT acting like a retard.
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bet i know who it was LOL
only a handfull off us fly the fm-2 way up high
of cource i could be wrong
currently
WWeWW
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Originally posted by scottydawg
I think whether its a game or whatever (and yes, some people have a hard time distinguishing the game from RL), the saddest commentary is that it's actually worth going out of one's way to note another player NOT acting like a retard.
post of the month right there.
Scottydawg
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Originally posted by toonces3
post of the month right there.
Scottydawg
On a positive note, squeaker season is almost over, school starts tomorrow here. Huzzah! ;)
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ya but still id like to see who it was. if there down then why make a big deal out of finnishing them off. only a score potato would be pist lol. i dont know its all good. i hate when i fight some 1 and they end up getting a ditch. its a waist of time and gas and ammo for me. sorry all i guess you better win when you fight me or its death for you ;)
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I have had few rare great fights, but when they happen it is right to let the other guy go if they are dead stick and ditching. You both know whoom has won, and is score really that important? I remember this thime when I was in my 109K-4 and I was at alt, somewhere around 20K+ and I get into a GREAT co-alt co-E fight with a 190D-9. We reversed several times and gave it our all, finally we ended up in a crazy verticle scissor each not wanting to loose and each milking the last ounce of climb out of our rides. As fate would have it I managed to get off a snap shot and took half his wing off. As I recall he RTB with half his wing, I did not pursue because if he wanted to land or ditch after such a herculean effort, then I would let him. We exchanged salutes on channel 200 and commented on the good fight. I wish I could remember whoom it was.
As far as me being left to ditch there are a few that have let me ditch or RTB after a good fight. While exact names elude me at the moment, the ones whoom fight with great skill and honor are some of the best this game has to offer, the ones that when ya fight, your palms sweat and your heart races like it did when you were getting your first kill.
to those, my friends and cohorts of the AHII skies. I look forward to our next encounter.
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I won't nail a guy in the chute, but I will hammer the plane till it blows up, lights up, or starts falling to the ground. I have asked no quarter, and will give no quarter. This is war gentleman.
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I was once escorting an enemy C-47 who was rtb'ing over the sea. It was fun to fly slowly in formation with him, but then after a while he maybe panicked and tried to crash into me... did on his FE, but not on mine :)
Cannot remember if I got a proxy kill or not and if I did, who it was. It was just one of those occasions very different for the common flights.
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I had the opposite today, was helping knits cap a V field and there was a lone F4 goober orbiting and taking swipes, he would come down from his pearch go for the HO and then dive into ack.. circle around in the ack for a while and climb out.. rinse and repeat.. I was trying to buy time for troops so i kept messing with him and after one of his "attacks" i ran out of fuel and began coasting down to ditch.. he missed me TWICE.. while i was gliding down with full flaps.. only to get me JUST as I was typing ".ef"
If i was the only game in town that would be one thing, but this guy flew right past a full buffet of easy targets,, B25s were... everywhere.. of course, a goon, an IL2.. but noo.. shot right past all of em to plug a ditched G2..
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Boner
i might have done that for ya
especially if it was a great fight
seriously though: that is Honor and i wish more flew like that.
Hey Boner this is FLOTSOM, i just wanted to throw in my two cents into this.
If the fight was good, then out of respect for the competition i would finish you. this game is about the fun of the kill and the thrill and bragging rights of reading your opponents name up on the screne. although that is an oversimplification of the game and why we play, it is at the end of the day a game of competetors, both red and GREEN!i am not a score potato, but i do like to look at my kill count and see the number get higher.
i have by passed people trying to ditch, but mostly because they werent my kill to begin with. i do my best to avoid kill stealing. but if i drove you to the cemetary gates be rest ashured that i would help you then dig the hole.
FLOTSOM
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Once I was in a furball (I think it was FT, MidMesa map). Had and excellent fight with a La-7 in my spit16. This guy wasn't a HO'in, runnin scared dweeb. He knew how to fly it. Well we had a great turn fight, both of use getting our chances. Then I git in a goos burst hitting his canopy, wings, and engine. He was loosing oil, fuel, and he leveled out like he was PW. So, I told everyone on range channel not to kill the La-7 and escorted him back to base. The whole flight back I think he was just waitin to be blown away.
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I was in a hellcat with half a wing, little ammo, an almost dry tank....and an LA chased me down and killed me.....some people have NO class.