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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Kurtank on January 20, 2009, 06:01:26 PM
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DeMaskus, 357th DeathDragons, flying under Limbo0/96Delta in Combined Rook Operations
Before I get into the main event, it would be imperative that I begin at the event that set us up for this entire ordeal.
As CV85 neared A220, 96Delta became interested in using it to take 220, and as Limbo was still present, he led the mission. We quickly captured the base with minimal effort. However, this created an opening for Bishop forces to attack 220 from A219. This created a power vacuum just south at A213, and drew nearly ALL opposition from A212. Limbo quickly set up a standard base take raid, however with more fighters than usually sign up. Total mission strength was approx 25 aircraft. 12 Bf110-G2, 4 Bf109-F4, 4 N1K2-J, 2 Spitfires, and 2 C47. The launch and transit was uneventful. As we neared A213, we hugged the top of the low hill surrounding the base. Only 3 air contacts were seen. When the order was given, I flew my N1K2-J to the designated area between the town and field.
And that's when all hell broke loose.
As soon as the 110's neared the target, an unprecedented number of defenders launched from the field in what seemed as a single mass of fighters. As one would expect, vox was suddenly filled with the frantic cries of 'Uppers on the field! Dozens of them!!' and 'Check si-HOLY CRAP!' I turned to engage the mass of fighters, and resigned myself to be towered. I don't think there was a single pilot who didn't know he was about to die. And this wasn't even the most incredible part. As the blobs merged, the buzzing fighters formed the most densely packed furball I have ever seen. There was not a single con outside D800 from me. Now, remember that we're talking about 50+ planes here. All packed in a little ball. Think MoM mission, only turned on itself and forming a furball that takes up about as much space as a TOWN.
As more and more fighters were shot down (the 110's were the first to go, despite their gun packages.) they were told NOT to reup, as 96Delta formed an La7 sweep (reverted to La5FNs due to massive ENY fluctuation, no doubt due to the furball) that really didn't work all that well, seeing as I went prop to prop with an LTAR....
However, the loss of 213 did open up other possibilities. With the Birds of Prey and LTARs tied up at 213, LCA and the 357th led an assault on A206, which was defeated, but then upped a carrier attack (hitting a carrier on the way from dumb luck) on P200 with TankBstr taking a C47 from A212 all the way to A206, capturing it alone. Half of LCA is known to owe him a case of fine imported whiskey for his accomplishment.
SUMMARY
Incredible furball opened up the way for a number of hard fought victories along the Bishland coast. WTG Rooks!
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and then you think bish horde? LOL at least we don't brag about it.
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Hey, this one was pretty noteworthy.
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look at the horde it took all if you to take 220 that was sad also at 53.
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he said Birds of Prey :rock
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There was a JJ horde not once, not twice, but at LEAST thrice at A222 this afternoon. I even landed kills from the furball! <S> to JJs for persistance!
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Another stupid NOE ! You know why you were all shot down don't you? Your a bunch of skilless dweebs !!! Learn a few tactics, how to bomb from high altitude in a buff, and picking up a few fighter to fighter skills wouldn't hurt. With 25 people you should be able to take 2 bases at the same time. 10 is more than enough for an NOE.
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Kurtank I know your only registered since December but you should have known what kind of response this would have gotten from the cartoon hero crowd. Never forget, this is all very serious stuff!
It manifests in many ways. I dont mention names but last night I heard one such high ranking ace of the air sniveling how a bunch of toolshedders dropped hangars at a base we just took. Well they came up 2 mins later, "course we never would have gotten the base had we not dropped them". So after that I make one last run of the night to a base I had been fighting at before. Well heres this hero and his crew vulching for many long minutes while the town nearby was untouched. Eventually they joined me on the town after they ran out of baby seals but you get my point.
Mind you these are adults telling you their cartoon way of cartoon war is more manly then yours. :lol Kids wouldnt bother.
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Another stupid NOE ! You know why you were all shot down don't you? Your a bunch of skilless dweebs !!! Learn a few tactics, how to bomb from high altitude in a buff, and picking up a few fighter to fighter skills wouldn't hurt. With 25 people you should be able to take 2 bases at the same time. 10 is more than enough for an NOE.
Amen
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Sounds to me like you had a good time Kurtank. Wish I would have been there to help thwart your efforts. OH Mayhem! In case you're not aware Bish love to put up a good defensive effort at times. I actually think they live for it.
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I will say that taking A206 was a lot of fun - I had to sneak in under a landing P47. And then the wife ack kept me out of action the rest of the night.
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DeMaskus, 357th DeathDragons, flying under Limbo0/96Delta in Combined Rook Operations
You must have been basking in thier armchair generalship l33t skillz
Before I get into the main event, it would be imperative that I begin at the event that set us up for this entire ordeal.
Oh good! The suspense is killing me after hearing who you need to follow around to feel like your accomplishing something in this game.
As CV85 neared A220, 96Delta became interested in using it to take 220, and as Limbo was still present, he led the mission. We quickly captured the base with minimal effort.
Awesome! An easy base take! I hope everyone got lot's of WTG!'s and that you all felt very proud of your easily taken cartoon real estate. Hope it doesn't do something like start a fight; God forbid!
However, this created an opening for Bishop forces to attack 220 from A219.
OH NO! A fight! How horrid. Who would think that a fight would ensue. Shoot. What did you do next? Set up an awesome defensive screen with rides assigned for bomber intercept and fighters to cover them? (no, thats probably too boring and doesn't get nearly as many WTG!'s as sneaking some more real-estate, the real purpose of this game)
This created a power vacuum just south at A213, and drew nearly ALL opposition from A212.
Quick! Better steal that one fast!
Limbo quickly set up a standard base take raid, however with more fighters than usually sign up. Total mission strength was approx 25 aircraft. 12 Bf110-G2, 4 Bf109-F4, 4 N1K2-J, 2 Spitfires, and 2 C47.
Oh wow, that misshun is oozing the historical feel of how nearly all WW2 misshuns went. I bet after taking off you were all talking about how much this is just like what your grandfathers did it in real life! :rofl
The launch and transit was uneventful. As we neared A213, we hugged the top of the low hill surrounding the base. Only 3 air contacts were seen.
No wonder we never heard of these from the history books. No one ever saw them, they were so sneaky and low to the ground that the trees and hills kept them hidden! :rolleyes:
When the order was given, I flew my N1K2-J to the designated area between the town and field.
And that's when all hell broke loose.
Oh no! Someone wants to ruin your sneaky base steal! Those griefers!
As soon as the 110's neared the target, an unprecedented number of defenders launched from the field in what seemed as a single mass of fighters. As one would expect, vox was suddenly filled with the frantic cries of 'Uppers on the field! Dozens of them!!' and 'Check si-HOLY CRAP!' I turned to engage the mass of fighters, and resigned myself to be towered.
A true warrior faces the odds not with a sigh of defeat, but with a war cry! Here's my whole problem with your horde mentality. You see people coming to defend and you've already decided that your going to die and that all is lost. This is the point where you should be laughing giddy, some other people on the internets want to fight you in a ww2 combat simulation! That's the whole point of the diddlying game!
I don't think there was a single pilot who didn't know he was about to die.
Oh heaven forbid! Maybe they won't give you a shiney new plane this time and you won't get to play anymore! :rolleyes:
And this wasn't even the most incredible part. As the blobs merged, the buzzing fighters formed the most densely packed furball I have ever seen. There was not a single con outside D800 from me. Now, remember that we're talking about 50+ planes here. All packed in a little ball. Think MoM mission, only turned on itself and forming a furball that takes up about as much space as a TOWN.
So awesome furball ensues. I'm sure your horde of highly skilled web warriors gave a good show of themselves, right? :rofl
As more and more fighters were shot down (the 110's were the first to go, despite their gun packages.)
And you'd think they should be able to HO their way out of any problem (like people wanting to fight them!)
they were told NOT to reup, as 96Delta formed an La7 sweep (reverted to La5FNs due to massive ENY fluctuation, no doubt due to the furball) that really didn't work all that well, seeing as I went prop to prop with an LTAR....
However, the loss of 213 did open up other possibilities.
A failed NOE, better try somewhere else now! :rolleyes:
With the Birds of Prey and LTARs tied up at 213, LCA and the 357th led an assault on A206, which was defeated,
Wow, I'm starting to see a theme here... :lol
but then upped a carrier attack (hitting a carrier on the way from dumb luck) on P200 with TankBstr taking a C47 from A212 all the way to A206, capturing it alone. Half of LCA is known to owe him a case of fine imported whiskey for his accomplishment.
I know I'd want as much booze to fight the boredom.
SUMMARY
Incredible furball opened up the way for a number of hard fought victories along the Bishland coast. WTG Rooks!
SUMMARY: A lot of lame base stealing and fight avoidance. Listen, if you want to feel a little accomplishment in this game send me a PM. I'm not very talented by any means compared to some of these stellar sticks around; but I'm more than willing to help you not feel so helpless when someone decides to fight you. You mentioning meeting an LTAR prop to prop seems to show you might need a little help setting up merges (especially since you were in a HO machine with 4 x 20mms and still lost)
Yours truely,
420ace
<The Screaming Meanies>
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SUMMARY: A lot of lame base stealing and fight avoidance. Listen, if you want to feel a little accomplishment in this game send me a PM. I'm not very talented by any means compared to some of these stellar sticks around; but I'm more than willing to help you not feel so helpless when someone decides to fight you. You mentioning meeting an LTAR prop to prop seems to show you might need a little help setting up merges (especially since you were in a HO machine with 4 x 20mms and still lost)
Boy you must be down to scraping residue. :huh WTF kinda post was that?
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Boy you must be down to scraping residue. :huh WTF kinda post was that?
Mostly stinky bait. He made it so easy! But seriously, he voiced the opinion that they were all going to die. All 25 of them. If they are that helpless against people fresh off the ground I'm sure I could help some.
:aok
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Mostly stinky bait. He made it so easy! But seriously, he voiced the opinion that they were all going to die. All 25 of them. If they are that helpless against people fresh off the ground I'm sure I could help some.
:aok
I just spent two days trying to defend against Bish hordes of Nikis, Typhoons, bomb laden Jabos. I was HO'd, rammed, and picked so much my teeth are still lose, "assuming there were hangars left at all" and "I could even get off the runway". NOE missions are far easier to defend against then Bish horde tactics. There aint no great flying in the horde either, just a lot of hangar banging, picking, vulching, and HO'ing. What a crock!
The guy had fun flying his airplane his way. He didnt ask to be talked down to or be schooled by all our resident ace cartoon pilots.
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Another stupid NOE ! You know why you were all shot down don't you? Your a bunch of skilless dweebs !!! Learn a few tactics, how to bomb from high altitude in a buff, and picking up a few fighter to fighter skills wouldn't hurt. With 25 people you should be able to take 2 bases at the same time. 10 is more than enough for an NOE.
funny how everytime I go on these NOE missions, I shoot down at least 3 of your 'expert' pilots with the greatest of ease. What usually gets me are the wirbs....not the 'expert' pilots.
THE OP has the story somewhat wrong. We were outnumbered 10 to 1, at least. No joke.
Sure we all died..but it started an event...and we shifted our focus elsewhere. Meanwhile a lone goon strolled into your 'expertly defended' base about 30 minutes later while we killed your CV south of there in another mission. Yup - taken.
Result 2 missions - 1 large af taken. 1 CV downed. 1 Port possibly taken (was ready for capture when I had to log) 1 bundle o' fun.
Maybe you experts can show me how to do better then?!?
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LOL!!! first off I'm no "expert", the point is 6 monkeys in wheel chairs and a half dozen grannies with there walkers can take a base with an NOE. Also you said so your self that "..but it started an event...and we shifted our focus elsewhere" or in simpler words.... "we ran away from the fight!" This is the kind of game play that most of these threads are talking about.... first avoid the fight by running NOE's, then when one shows up, you run away from the fight by moving to another target. And what even funnier, is that people are PROUD they play this way !!!
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I think me needs some popcorn. And my anti-purse armor.
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And what even funnier, is that people are PROUD they play this way !!!
:rofl
I bet they get lots of wtg!'s when they capture a base away from the fight they started though. That's the important part. :rolleyes:
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420, could you possibly be more negative? The guy had a fun time. I had a fun time. I'm sure the Bish defending had a fun time. When it comes down to it, it's been said before - it's our $15.95, don't tell us how to spend it.
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The guy had fun flying his airplane his way. He didnt ask to be talked down to or be schooled by all our resident ace cartoon pilots.
But they are the "elite" players.
Only they know how to play the game the proper way.
I love how they always throw the word "skills" around.
What if someone just wants to goof around in the game? Doesn't care at all about gettin the "skills"
Shame on them.
This guy comes on an tries to share "his" view of fun and is immediatly attacked by these arogant (but skilled) punks.
Its sad really.
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$15.95, when did that happen ? :uhoh
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Where have I claimed great "skillz" good sirs?
And another thing. I don't see anywhere in the rules for the forums that I'm not allowed to comment on a narrative.
Bring it! :aok
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Ooooh, you were attacking the Bish, good show then, keep up the good work. :salute