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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: DCCBOSS on April 01, 2008, 09:05:10 AM
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Yesterday morning I was on my way to a gv base in B17's when in the cock pit I saw tracers going past, i quickly manned the rear gun to find another set of B17's flying perpendicular to my flight path trying to shoot me down I returned fire as he went out of range of my guns, as I return to my normal flight path I decided to recheck my six low and behold he was attempting another pass at me, but this time he was approching from my six on angle to my left which gave me the leading shot at him so I let loose all my rear guns and lit him up like a christmas tree, the hits were on him and his drones, he had no chance.
I almost forgot about 3 weeks ago I was gunning for a sqaudy in B24's as we came upon a set of B17's, we were at there low seven oclock and flew under them to about 400 out before I let loose with the top turrets and the pilot was on the front guns, he blew up immediately and we finish off his drones in seconds, I don't think he knew what hit him.
I was wondering do any of you guys run into this type of bomber to bomber action and what type scenario was it under. :salute
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We had a B24 dogfight off the map in MA. Two teams going head to head. So many laughs and some pretty amazing moves.
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Not everyday you run into those situations but they do happen from time to time. I got under 3 flights of Lancasters one day in a flight of Ki-67's. That top 20mm turret made short work of 7 of them in no time. The whinning was priceless.
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ive shot down a couple of yaks with a b26 in a low level turnfight.
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I've used B-17s as flying anti-aircraft guns to defend capped fields. Does that count? Probably not, kind of a gamey thing to do.
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LOL :rofl, that's how I met 5 Point OH. I'm flying rooks, he's bish and he's dogfighting me in a 24, and making it handle like a fighter. I'm lmao, licking my chops, until he shoots my bellybutton down. We end up talking, becoming friends & he recruits me to his squad and the bish. All because some crazy bellybutton dogging in a bomber. :salute
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As posted in another thread, I went buff hunting with a formation of AR234's one night after dropping my ord. I ran into 4 flights of B-17's. I dove under one set, then popped up in front of him firing. I did a wide full speed turn and took another pass. This time I lost a drone and they smoked an engine on each of my remaining 234's so I RTB'd but I did at least smoke one of the 17's.
Another night I was in a set of Lancs descending from over 25K rtb when I spotted a set of B-17's below and to my left. I increased my dive angle and pointed to a spot I thought I'd be able to intercept. My plan worked perfect as I leveled ~1.5K on his six and closing. I jumped into the front guns and at 800 I lit him up like a Christams tree. We both limped away smoking with no kills on either side.
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Yep, we had 4 sets of B24's a while back and an enemy set came round onto our 6:
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I frequently used to attack bombers in 234s, but most recently i had my b17 vs. JAXXO's b26s and then against kamilyun in ki67s i think. Rolling a b17 at a capped field to kill vulchers is also fun.
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We did a textbook b17 raid the other week, shutting down a medium fields hangars.
Looking for some red guys to shoot at, we got quite a bit lower but a squaddie was being greedy stealing all the kills.
I see a set of enemy b17's heading towards our field low. We needed to rtb so we tracked this guy and formed up. I dove on him from above whilst gentile went low under him. What followed was a 5 vs 3 B17 shoot out but the poor guy got caught in a nasty crossfire and his planes got vaporised. Wish I had filmed it now but sure as hell was fun :D
Bomber vs bomber gunship wars reminds me of what the old wooden tallships must have felt like when they went into battle. Tricky positioning then letting loose with a broadside. The victor the spoils.
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Sounds like they really need to have a YB-40 Gunship put into AH. Good Idea, but IIRC it was too slow to keep up with the bomber formations...
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Me and HONDO came up to a set of Lancasters with his 24's rtbing. I quickly shot them down in short order and HONDO added a spit to the talley. Was pretty funny.
Hoagi
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somewere i have film of me in lancs dogfighting 26s killed 2 wounded the 3rd he ran like a baby home!
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I enjoy watching the bombers hotshot it.
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We had a B24 dogfight off the map in MA. Two teams going head to head. So many laughs and some pretty amazing moves.
Does it make any difference being off the map?
Also, whenever I try and fly a buff like a fighter, I wind up killing my wings. Can you gun easily anyway without having a gunner?
Sound like fun :rofl
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Yossarain
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shot down a f4u-1c and a d with a 234 a couple days ago
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Yesterday morning I was on my way to a gv base in B17's when in the cock pit I saw tracers going past, i quickly manned the rear gun to find another set of B17's flying perpendicular to my flight path trying to shoot me down I returned fire as he went out of range of my guns, as I return to my normal flight path I decided to recheck my six low and behold he was attempting another pass at me, but this time he was approching from my six on angle to my left which gave me the leading shot at him so I let loose all my rear guns and lit him up like a christmas tree, the hits were on him and his drones, he had no chance.
I almost forgot about 3 weeks ago I was gunning for a sqaudy in B24's as we came upon a set of B17's, we were at there low seven oclock and flew under them to about 400 out before I let loose with the top turrets and the pilot was on the front guns, he blew up immediately and we finish off his drones in seconds, I don't think he knew what hit him.
I was wondering do any of you guys run into this type of bomber to bomber action and what type scenario was it under. :salute
I fly Buffs quite a bit but never had an experience like that. Sounds like great fun. Just the usual fighter encounters.
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Nothing like upping a formation of bombers, releasing all the bombs on take off, and flying them around like death stars.
When you need to make tight turns, turn on auto climb, turn a bit with rudder, and apply 50-75% power.
You can make a formation of b17 .ect stay in a tight pattern while also doing a tight climbing turn.
leathal to anyone foolish enough to step upto the plate.
Lucky for me, i fly in zig zag pattern till i die or run out of ammo.
The good times, are killing me.
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i was in a set of 24s the other day and i recieved a check six, and to my suprise, it was a lancaster comeing up on me, i hopped into my tail gun and B00M it was raining lancaster parts,
:salute :salute :salute erkle ;)
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Me and HONDO came up to a set of Lancasters with his 24's rtbing. I quickly shot them down in short order and HONDO added a spit to the talley. Was pretty funny.
Hoagi
LOL..Yeah that was pretty fun.
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Some time ago I was in a flight of KI67's and found myself a couple K under some lancs. So I ask Thndregg to jion me and he nicely mows down the flight with the 20 mil :).
I have taken out flights of B-17's with my B-26's and lanc's and 24's with my B-17's but the best one has to be when I shot down 1 yak9-U with my pilot gun in a JU-88 and made the second 9-U auger into the water and land my 2 kills. :D
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Yes, my lancasters were once attacked by 3 ki67s...they didn't have a chance. And another time my ju88s were attacked by lancasters. Very funny.
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shot down 2 ki-84's today with an sbd, was going for a 51D but a spit got me :(
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Well look at that, I made it to silver member. :D
You may continue....
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Once upon a time in the longago, there was an Arena in AirWarrior called "Air Gallions" which was set up for this exact purpose. It was a hoot.
-Sik
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I ran a B-26 mission to bomb a field on baltic, I think. I get over target, lose a drone to fighters, bomb, turn, and RTB at full speed. I dive from 12k down to 9k-ish to get away from the giant furball behind me, and as I'm RTB I run across 2 B-24s (he's lost a drone too) on their way to MY base! So I just keep closing, coming in, pour on the juice, and come up right behind them. I use the fixed nose guns and hose them with every last bullet.
I dive under at the last second, but didn't even think to jump into the turrets! (hey, it was a new concept to me!). I got both kills, as I had set both on fire. Somebody overhead was watching, and I got the whole thing on film. Was funny as heck!
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The A-20 is a good buff hunter.
Fly directly below about 1k distance out, and then snipe out the bombers wingtips with the top turret, works great and usually the buffs die before they realise what is going on.
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Once upon a time in the longago, there was an Arena in AirWarrior called "Air Gallions" which was set up for this exact purpose. It was a hoot.
-Sik
Yup!
An entire arena for fully gunned B-17 deathstars vs fully gunned B-17 deathstars. That was fun.
ROX
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Balance1 out turned me in a B-17 once....and i was in a SPIT!
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I flew B25 the other day and made attempt to dog fight Zeke; Didn't turn out too well for me but he PM'ed me saying he was worried few times when he saw me trying to dogfight :aok
Still hoping to find B25 heading for field when I'm in one too; hasn't happened yet
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I still think the film of Ju-88s bombing Lancasters midair was hilarious. :D
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Remeber not long ago shooting down a F6F with a JU-87. Took me about 20min and 1200rounds to finally knock a big enough piece off him :rock
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Last night I assisted in a VBase defense and shot down a B26 with my B25H. Something about that 75 is so satisfying and all of those .50s aren't too shabby.
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Started to have a good one on titanic tues around base 60. Rooks were bringing in low buffs and took out FH's, so I upped B17's, jettisoned my eggs, and headed over to mid-field and came across some 24's co-alt. I headed to their direction and began a fun dog fight with a form of 24's until 5 friggin dweebfires come in and spoil the fun.... :furious
Side note: I vaguely remember, but in AW I think we were able to fill each buff gunner with an idividual player? I think we were able to have 7 players attached to 1 b-17. Anyone remember if that is true?
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That's true, 6 gunners and a pilot for a total of 7. Would be nice if we could do that in AH, but I doubt it will ever happen.
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I think your right, but it would be nice. At least we can fire all guns for a single position at a target when its in the range of motion for that gun
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Corrs I think your right on this... if i remember correctly filling up a 17 and going 200ft through the pass was always a great time for the unsuspecting spit :t
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That's true, 6 gunners and a pilot for a total of 7. Would be nice if we could do that in AH, but I doubt it will ever happen.
True indeed. The Air Warrior "Death Star"...all positions gunned by a different player plus an opportunity to take up a "Navigator" (Observer). It was ONE nasty little B17 when you ran into one. When you got home, everybody got the same perkies.
Bad part...you couldn't gun for yourself back then...you had to depend on the gunnery skills of others...if you had no gunners and you were attacked, you were helpless...you got chewed and BBQ'ed :(
ROX
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about a mounth ago i was in the TA and I was flying a B17 and i ran apon a 109g-14, well we got into a dogfight with him, almost the whole time in the fight I was on his six
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Once upon a time in the longago, there was an Arena in AirWarrior called "Air Gallions" which was set up for this exact purpose. It was a hoot.
-Sik
Was it Air Gallions or something with Balloons. Any way we use to dog fight b17s in what we called deathstars, every gun was manned by a different person.
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How about dog fighting Goons with the door gunner we had back in AW. That would be a sight to see in AH....