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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: RoGenT on June 12, 2008, 12:32:25 AM
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I had to wonder about this since we all have those moments where we just want to wish it never happened and/or never gotten into that situation. I have couple off hand that I can think of.
This was while back ago. I was having really bad day and saw this lone Spit something or another little bit higher. I had the bright idea of trying to climb up to him and then turn fighting. He didn't fly that great but I did completely stupid move, and he was able to get on my six and shot me down - the guy was a Zippie lol
I was flying to a Vbase with about 5 other guys. No clue why I did this but I was flying about 15K above the base staying out of what I hoped would be fighter view. We got the VHs down and took me little while to get down but I did. I did good drop and such, but then I realized I accidently grapped vehicle supplies as well. They were maaaaaaaaad at me
Another time was when I was defending base from the bish horde buffs coming in. I had the speed but my choice of angle wasn't too good and it was HO but from underneath. I was starting to pull and shooting then.BOOM! one of his eggs got me in mid air
It was during the slow hours of the night so I was out harassing bishop at one of their smaller bases. We had CV near by, or so I thought. I had couple of kills but didn't have enough fuel to make it back. I spotted burning CV so decided, okay, gonna go land there. As I was approaching it, the puff ack was going at it so I kept looking around and trying to see if maybe there was baddie diving on me. I didn't see anything so I figured okay, maybe its just one of our guys messing with me. I was slowing down, then I saw bishop upping on the CV! I knew I just made big boo boo and then.....BOOM! .....manned gun got me.
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Earlier tonight had a few kills over a bish v-base and figured I didn't have enough gas to go home so i'd land at a friendly V-base,
soon as I got close they took the base and some number guy pops out in a jeep shooting at me - boom dead.
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About a week ago i was loop fighting a P-38, he eventually goes level to get away. I think "oh, he went level time to put flaps up and chase". Only to quickly remember i was looking up and forgot i was still in the loop. Too bad a Ki can't pull up in 10ft. Was really quite sad since we had been looping for 5 minutes and i almost had him :(.
-Xcelsior
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Well my greatest moment of embarrassment was when i upped a 262 (which i rarely do) flew around awhile and never saw crap. So i was over a knit base totally bored and said to myself I'll go kill the radar then rtb. I dive in on the radar at which point a huge mission ups, I start to bank to vulch them and get pinged by ack. it startled the hec out of me and I augured it in, right in front of probably 30 knits. I got a ton of <S>'s on 200 though. So all was not a lose, I made 30+ knits laugh there butts off.
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Earlier tonight had a few kills over a bish v-base and figured I didn't have enough gas to go home so i'd land at a friendly V-base,
soon as I got close they took the base and some number guy pops out in a jeep shooting at me - boom dead.
and then i get Adonai's proxy kill:-) for some reason, thought he crash into a tree or something :lol :aok
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Everytime I miss a perfectly set-up snapshot or the target flies thru taters...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2572880776_d926dccc07_o.png)
The next tater fired just as the tail went past the gunsight.
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Everytime I miss a perfectly set-up snapshot or the target flies thru taters...
The next tater fired just as the tail went past the gunsight.
lol moot how did you not ram him.
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Nice screen shots, m00t :aok the tater passes between engine and fuselage, he was lucky there.
But as crockett is saying, didn't you ram him after that?, as, I'm quite sure, you were expecting him to be pulverized before you cross his path :D
<S>
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The screenshot makes it look like that.. I'm doing about 130 and ruddering downwards, and the A20 about 200 when the shot goes off. He does get to only 23 yards away at the snapshot, but tbh the really hard part isn't getting that close, it's landing the shot. Just a fraction of a second of hesitation, or if the trim is just a bit off, or if you move the nose just a few degrees off, the shot doesn't connect and you die for it. In that shot the bullet goes by maybe 5-10inches from the nose.
Thanks, though :)
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In that shot the bullet goes by maybe 5-10inches from the nose.
No way was that 5-10 inches. Hell, you scratched the paint off! :D Great screen shots moot! :aok
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This one time in band camp.............. :rofl If i posted all my moments poor HT would have to get another server to host them. :lol
Still the classic one is closing in on a bomber that has no clue i'm coming. I scream in on his 6 at who knows how fast (500 i think it was) start to giggle as i pass 800 yards thinking i'll fire 1 short burst at 400 he'll go boom and i'll be a hero. At almost the same time as i hit 400 i start having a sneezing attack and run right into him without fireing a shot. :O I die and he flies home. :cry
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I was flying to a Vbase with about 5 other guys. No clue why I did this but I was flying about 15K above the base staying out of what I hoped would be fighter view. We got the VHs down and took me little while to get down but I did. I did good drop and such, but then I realized I accidently grapped vehicle supplies as well. They were maaaaaaaaad at me
I have done that!!
Luckily I realized just before the drop, bailed and played it off like i got shot down by some invisible N1K
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Embarrassing moments? Happen all the time. Every time I start to think "Man, I'm good!" I end up ramming a buff, augering my 262 right next to a goon, not seeing that the enemy I was chasing reversed, or getting shot down by a 110 or Stuka rear gunner :o
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After an CPID change, I had earned enough perkies to take up an AR234.
I thought for SURE I had UN-checked the formation box, and was on the runway, throttles down.
After taking care of some afk stuff I was back, throttle up and preparing to RATO...RATO on, flaps starting to come up and I keep stalling out. The land in front of me keeps rising and I am not climbing worth a jack.
Within 30 seconds after RATO is over I stall out into the ground and crashes...the next AR234 tries to rise, but does the same--and same for the third.
Over 160 perkies gone in less than 60 seconds...much to the laughs and howls of those around me. :o :o :o
Live and learn.
ROX
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Everytime I up has the potential to be embarrassing. Last night, in my C205, I dove on a Spit and got so much E that I crashed into the ground nose first..... :o After that I just logged... :lol
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Not being careful, I dove on some bombers in a 262 once starting the dive with too much speed, she shook at the most twice then compressed. I flew right past the bombers and straight into the ground. It was all very pleasant and serene as I cordially flew by and planted 262 seeds into the cartoon countryside.
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I saw a high Nikki, I was in a F4U, and dragged him a bit away from the other high cons. I make a half arse climb and bank thinking it's a newb and he splits me in half. It was A8nisky, anyone else it wouldn't have been so funny.
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The screenshot makes it look like that.. I'm doing about 130 and ruddering downwards, and the A20 about 200 when the shot goes off. He does get to only 23 yards away at the snapshot, but tbh the really hard part isn't getting that close, it's landing the shot. Just a fraction of a second of hesitation, or if the trim is just a bit off, or if you move the nose just a few degrees off, the shot doesn't connect and you die for it. In that shot the bullet goes by maybe 5-10inches from the nose.
Thanks, though :)
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The photo reminds me of the Apollo 13 line, "the Earth is getting real big in the window."
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Last night in AVA I up a pony away from the furball, set autoclimb, and go get a beer, talked to my kid for a second and walked back in the office noticing a dot somewhat close to me. Grab my trackir, headset, slap them on and hit the joystick causing instaspin lost most of my alt and E trying to recover but managed to gain control right in front of the guy who, very cheerfully and economically, proceeded to dispatch my dumb ### back to the tower.
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taking off in a 234
accidently fired butt cannon
hit friendly behind me
tail shot off
ditch 20 feet of end of runway.
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taking off in a 234
accidently fired butt cannon
hit friendly behind me
tail shot off
ditch 20 feet of end of runway.
:lol :lol
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taking off in a 234
accidently fired butt cannon
hit friendly behind me
tail shot off
ditch 20 feet of end of runway.
Now that's funny!
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At a Vbase, we're defending.. "anyone watching the maproom?" someone asks...
Yep.. I was sitting right next to it with my Ostie, hull gun covering it too...
within 2 minutes, as I'm distracted shooting at some low flying bombers, the base is captured. LOL I wasn't paying attention and someone drove up troops right behind me.
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This one time... At Band Camp.... :O
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Back on Mindanao in AH1 we were attempting to capture A42. We went NOE from A27 which was about 5-6 sectors away. I'm one of two goons and I get there first. I open the doors and get ready to drop troops and instead of hearing "Geronimo" from the drunks, I hear silence. I brought Supplies. I believe SHawk might have been there.
I was not so much embarrassed, as I was pissed off that I let my teammates down. But, I laugh my arse off in hindsight.
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I like to play around on VOX.
For example:
When I bring troops to the map room I yell out.....oh toejam, I accidently brought supplies.
Or when I'm in a mission I once asked if flying inside of a plane for 30 seconds would increase its overall speed by 10 mph. Some guy tried this and replied that it worked for him. I looked over and watched a few others try this. ROFL.
Or I like to call Hurricane's Denzels. The reason is that Denzel starred in that boxing movie called "Hurricane"
Or I will object to killing churches in town because of religious purposes.
I'm weird. :rolleyes:
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well, seeing as it's a game, I don't see any reason to get embarrassed about anything. That's what's nice about not seeing the person you're talking to.
TwentyFo, if your name is a reference to the TV show, then WTG!!!!!
Also, as to the churches, I've decided that it's perfectly OK to bomb them, as they contain no religious symbols. No crucifixes = bombs away (and yes I did use FireFox's spellcheck for that one).
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Yossarian
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Wasn't Yossarian a character in Catch22?
Anyway, my most embarasing moments are as follows:
Dive in on country mate to clear his 6 of a Mossie. Little bit too much E so I ask him to break him right. I pull up for the snap shot & off comes my tail. Trying to figure out who the heck was on my six that I didn't see I log & check the film. Turns out I made a perfect snap shot on the F6F the Mossie was chasing. KILLSHOTTED myself!!! :mad:
Next embarassing moment, I'm up in an F4U-4 crusing around 7k. I see a low alt Il2, drop my tank & proceed down. Open up @ D400 while doing 350 or so & proceed to ping him with 2 guns (forgot to switch secondary back to guns) I then proceed to overshoot (not expecting him to have survived) & he saws my tail off. Good thing about that, I always check what I have selected before engaging now, nothing like firing the 75mm in a B25H when you wanted bombs.
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Forget who it was, think PanosGR zipping around in his Yak, I flying a 109k4 tend to get really close to someone before shooting, i.e under 200
to point im seeing 0 on the screen, anyhow at this rage a 30mm is almost an garenteed hit so I fired away, right then he pulls up but the 30mm hits.
His tail flops straight down, his plane straight up - me of course diving the avoid the bigger pieces, ram the tail section and down i go, before i even got kill credit :furious
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About a week ago I was flying about in a Yak-9T at about 8k looking for nothing in particular, when I see a P-39 completely leveled out at probably 6k by a bish base. I dive in and get some extra speed. Creep in behind him and let loose with the 37mm and knock his tail clean off. I keep behind him and don't break (stupid move) the guy's 39 flips around without a tail and knocks off my wing with his banana cannon. We both go spiraling to the ocean, probably both laughing too.
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About a week ago I was flying about in a Yak-9T at about 8k looking for nothing in particular, when I see a P-39 completely leveled out at probably 6k by a bish base. I dive in and get some extra speed. Creep in behind him and let loose with the 37mm and knock his tail clean off. I keep behind him and don't break (stupid move) the guy's 39 flips around without a tail and knocks off my wing with his banana cannon. We both go spiraling to the ocean, probably both laughing too.
I did the same thing to a NIKI once. I was really PO'ed.
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Once I took up some Ar234s and like ROX I forgot to uncheck the formation box. I was showing someone them, and I told them that there were guns that fired w/o a gunner. I showed him it shooting, and when I looked back after i had turned on my RATOs I see 2 drones on fire from my shooting. Lost them. :frown:
bobtom
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ThndrEgg had a high alt B17 mission going so I figure I'll strap on drop tanks to my beautiful F4U-4 and play escort. we get to like 25K play with a few 262's but no kills for me. By this time I was down to 20K and getting low on gas so I turn for home. Cruising home at 400 some MPH I get half way and look down and 5K below me was a couple reds messing with a green so I think goody I'll dive in real fast and they won't know what hit em.
Well I dove in being an idiot I never chopped throttle and I zipped right on through the dead center of the action at 550 to 600 MPH and couldn't pull out LOL. Well that F4U-4 holds together real well in real fast dives, even if you can't pull out. :P
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I've had two things happen that were mentioned but couldn't remember until I saw those.
I shot the tail off pony and he started to 'leaf' and as I was passing by him, he lets loose his guns and gets nice kill shot on my pilot. I was :O
This happened tonight - It was slow fights again so I decided to up LA7 and head over to stir up some trouble. I saw box of KI67s (or 61s, always get those two mixed up) upping so I figured okay, easy kills. I'm coming in at 10K as I usually do if I am in pony. Well I dove in, cut throttle, blew wing off one and realized I wasn't going to make it time - nothing like hitting the ground at 600+ MPH to ruin your night. :lol
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Very funny thread :salute
I of course have no embarassing storys as I am perfect, now you all may sun yourselves in the glow of my greatness :uhoh
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Very funny thread :salute
I of course have no embarassing storys as I am perfect, now you all may sun yourselves in the glow of my greatness :uhoh
Yanksfan is my hero. :salute
I have more embarrassing moments than the Mars Co. makes M&Ms.
ROX
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Most embarrassing moments: Anytime I try to fly a P38 ... or maybe that's just humbling.
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I was in a zero with a couple of little bombs. Got to enemy VBase to help with the capture. There was a GV guarding the maproom, so I figured I'd drop some iron on him. I chopped throttle and started down. When I tried to release my bombs, my canons fired...I was so PO'd that I had forgotten to switch secondary to bombs, that I forgot to pull up. Augered right next to the maproom. We all had a laugh at that one.
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well if you have ever see the memphis bell this happened to me i was in a b17 mission in a formation with my buddy and a 109 comes in at 500mph/ and/ or./ dot/lol i meants/ knots and my gunner shoots of the tail of him and flys towards me and my buddy I scream into the mic to break hard so i did losing my wings and the same for my buddy turns out the 109 did't even come close to use and it hit the poor old goon down at 8k taking of it tail they were POED!!!!!
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My favorite is to be engaging fighters in the tail gun of my 26s and jump to bombsight for final run and instead of dropping my bombs I fire the 50s...it's that whole secondary fire thingy that seems to plague everyone.
A few nights ago I was returning to a cv to land my kills in a F6F (3 or 4). I lower my tailhook and gear, start to lower throttle and POW smack right into the rear of the boat.
I took up a 262 several months ago (i never fly them for the following reason). After netting a few kills on low bombers, goons, etc trying to take a port I decide to go after a formation of 26s at about 3k of the deck. I chop throttle and dive from around 10k. I get to around d600 and pull the stick a little bit more for some extra lead and make a nice little divot in the sand below the bombers. I misjudged my speed and compressed the darn thing and never even got to fire at the bombers. I bet he was amused though.... :mad:
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was in the DA not too long ago and i noticed a lone Zeke heading home.
i only had about 50 rounds in the machine gun of my spixteen (noobish mistake) and i go to dive in on the guy.
just as i pull the trigger, a C-hog flies up RIGHT in front of me.
all of my ammo goes into the C-hog, leaving me screwed as my now-empty spixteen gets shot up by the C-hog.
forgot who the C-hog pilot was though, had some good laughs on the "all" channel.
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My former squad and I upped ju87's for what ended up being a very long mission, after the 1st base we where going to bomb was taken, we continued on to the next in line....unfortunatly that base was well on the way to being captured and the guy in commeand was trying desperatly to keep all the rooks from taking out anymore targets than they had to.
As we had been in the air for over 30 min we decided to level the sukker with our 1800 kilogams...the guy was mad to say the least, and we sumarily augerd to avoid our identitys being revealed...but he called me out on country channel for being a love muffin.... :uhoh
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I was flying around and found some bombers afk. I started video running figured fool around a bit and would be real funny video . Well after a few passes my frame rates go to heck and I ram them. never showed that video.