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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Nemisis on November 26, 2009, 11:58:15 PM
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OK, so as usual when I can't play, I fly around the offline arenas so I don't forget how to fire the guns :D. I remembered my strafing could use some work the last time I was online, and I made a couple of passes at the towns and bases. I was able to kill about half the town, and 5-6 guns when using anything with .50's. The problem is I take a hit that makes it harder to avoid the fire, and so take more hits untill I die. Is there any trick to avoiding the ack?
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Avoid flying in a straight line.
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So zig-zag untill within effective range?
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There is no secret really, thats why everyone wants to vulch and no one wants to deack.
.50's are a pain anyway, you have to hold em on the targeted ack for a couple seconds, so use cannon armed airplanes, it only takes one or two 20's to kill ANY ack.
Secondly, when deacking a field try and hit the acks on the outside 1st, without flying through the center of the field (this is where most of the ack is concintrated.)
Speed is a big plus, it seems the faster you go the less likly you are to be hit, and the less time you spend in range. Dont make a habit of turning 180's inside the range of ack, when you turn you give the ack a HUGE target that includes your wings and tail surfaces, so make turns outside of thier range, zig-zagging around around seems to work somtimes,(especialy against MANNED ack) but dont depend on it.
Hope I helped :aok
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"Speed is a big plus, it seems the faster you go the less likly you are to be hit, and the less time you spend in range."
this is true unless ur in a perk plane than the AK becomes "MEGA AK" capable of shooting u at any angle, and speed factor goes out the window, the bullets are now heat seeking with such force to undo all rivets from your airplane causing it to fall apart almost immediately after the first shot.and if you are lucky enough to zoom in an catch a glimpse of these mysterious creatures "mega AK" u can see they are now made of pure gold. :noid
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Learn to use rockets effectively :aok
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Learn to use rockets effectively :aok
+1
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"Speed is a big plus, it seems the faster you go the less likly you are to be hit, and the less time you spend in range."
this is true unless ur in a perk plane than the AK becomes "MEGA AK" capable of shooting u at any angle, and speed factor goes out the window, the bullets are now heat seeking with such force to undo all rivets from your airplane causing it to fall apart almost immediately after the first shot.and if you are lucky enough to zoom in an catch a glimpse of these mysterious creatures "mega AK" u can see they are now made of pure gold. :noid
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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B-25H: Best damn de-acker in the game.
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If you want to avoid ack in offline mode, just go to settings and reduce the ack lethality.
This is especially helpfull if you want to practice torpedoing fleets.
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some good gun sights for rockets etc might be useful
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Learn to use rockets effectively :aok
Done, but rockets are good for more than ack. Usually I'm flying the ground support role when in a .50 armed plane.
to APDrone: The only reason I'm in offline is because our internet got screwed up some how. I'm on a wireless connection right now, but I get horrible warping when using a wireless connection for playing. But my point is, that if I do that, then I don't get practice in what its like in the game. I can knock out the ack untill I get my elevators shot off, and then I have to go.
And Jimmy, can you recomend some good gunsights for rockets? Its kind of a pain to estimate how far down the sight to aim.
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Incorporate the Acks up in your straffing runs , that way you kill an Ack and a few buildings on your first pass, stay on the deck as low as you can fly, the Ack cant drop that low then circle back around line up the other Ack and more buildings for the second pass, once the Acks town blaze away on the buildings :aok
Edit... Nemisis PM me your email ill send you a great sight i use on all my planes its great for Rockets sense it has this > /\ incorperated on the site with marks for yards also, i just renamed it Default, that way its on every plane i fly, also has deflection grid to for gunfights
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The AI code for the ack is rather primitive. It doesn't care what kind of plane you are in. It simply predicts your flight path and leads accordingly. Flying fast usually also means flying straight. A recipe for getting hit. BTW, ever wonder how that wank in the zero can circle around in the ack and vulch seemingly forever? Now you know why. (anyone telling you to just fly fast....isn't your friend...) :D
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change alt and direction every minute or so to avoid puffy and base ack
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B-25H: Best damn de-acker in the game.
I would agree, I have deacked entire fields without ever getting the ack to fire.
If your in a fighter rockets are awesome for vulching and de-acking.
Strip
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OK, thanks guys. If theres anything else, just keep talking.
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Incorporate the Acks up in your straffing runs , that way you kill an Ack and a few buildings on your first pass, stay on the deck as low as you can fly, the Ack cant drop that low then circle back around line up the other Ack and more buildings for the second pass, once the Acks town blaze away on the buildings :aok
Edit... Nemisis PM me your email ill send you a great sight i use on all my planes its great for Rockets sense it has this > /\ incorperated on the site with marks for yards also, i just renamed it Default, that way its on every plane i fly, also has deflection grid to for gunfights
can u send me the gunsight aswell?
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NO!!!, its mine :noid.
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Nemisis its sent, ill just post it here, just right click , save as folder HiTech Creations click, sights save in there, now i have it named as default, if you don't want it as default then rename it, make sure you click Bmp not Jpg :cheers:
Edit.. i have my Zoom preset to where i click it and the sight is the right size as to the rockets path will follow the angled lines perfectly
(http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s35/68zoom/default.jpg)
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Strafing's easy. Just aim low.
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how do you mean that zoom? Are you saying you have your zoom set to the correct level to have the rockets trajectory follow the angled lines.
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yes i set a button that hits the right zoom view and the rockets follow that path in the sight, takes a few adjustments but once its spot on, then your rockets are alot more accurate
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You can also try using the German planes that carry the air-to-air rockets (WrGr-2 I think). They are "flak packs" just like the puffy stuff. You can use those to de-ack. Just fire the rockets at about 1.5k out and they pop shrapnel out and kill the ack. So, in reality, you just need to get them close to the AA gun position to kill it.
A squaddie and I took the bf110-g2 with the regular cannon load-out (the one with the 20mm and 30mm cannons and no bombs), and strapped on the 4 WrGr rockets. We de-acked the field with the rockets and pretty much gunned down the rest of the town except for a couple of buildings. So what I'm trying to say in my ramblings is try the 110 or one of the 190's that carry the WrGr rockets for de-acking and strafing, you might have better results. For aiming most rockets, use the bottom of the sight pipper for your rocket placement. Judging the range takes a little practice. The "bottom" of the sight pipper I am referring to in the picture a few posts up, would be the spot where the tiny hash marks (range ticks that go from top to bottom) meet the circular edge of the bottom of the sight. I personally have very good hit % when I use that spot for my rocket sighting at long or typical firing range. I'm sure someone else may disagree, but, that what works for me.
Good luck. :salute
A8Chustr
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Learn to use rockets effectively :aok
ditto: you can wipe out 4 or 5 acks with one pass using rockets.
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Can anyone recomend a good strafer that still can carry a couple of 1000lb'ers. Even 500lb bombs will do.
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Can anyone recomend a good strafer that still can carry a couple of 1000lb'ers. Even 500lb bombs will do.
P-47's P51's, my Favorite is a Hvy Jabbo lots of firepower
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I can see the P-47, but the P-51 is the one I'm having problems destroying ack with. I suspect the problem lies with the machine guns.
I was asking more for a cannon armed plane.
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110, will just about drop anything i think it carries 1 500lber and some smaller 50's? i think, but its cannons work great for deacking and hanger popping, where are you setting your convergence? If i know im going on a deacking run,or take a town down ill set my convergence out more than i would if im going just as a fighter
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Depends on the plane, but all planes with nose armament of 20mm or below I max out convergance on it.
For 30mm and 37mm I set convergance to minumum so I don't have any verticle bias when shooting at steep angles.
For 6 .50's or more, I set it at D550 And for 4 .50's I set it at D475
For planes with wing mounted cannons it depends on how close there mounted. If one is close I max it out, and set the other pair to D575.
If their both fairly far out, I set them at D450.
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sounds all good, you said you were having problems with the 51 killing Ack, i just think maybe little more practice with them, normally its not to hard to pop the ack with 50's lol when the horde was hitting us at 35 last night all they had was F4's and 51's and seafires, everytime the ack came up, they shut it down,
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seafires have hizookas you know.
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oh i know, but it was the ponies and F4's banging the ack down