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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Karnak on March 10, 2010, 01:07:37 AM
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Tonight I flew a sortie in AH for the first time in months, since November or October I think.
Actually had a fun time. Took a Mossie off of a field where the Knights were being hit, accidentally sent Grizz a check6 as I fumbled with my now unfamiliar HOTAS buttons and climbed on up to go after a formation of B-24s that had bombed our field. They were at about 16-17k, above the Mossie's critical altitude, but I caught up, mistimed my first attempt to attack and got pinged up slightly, mistimed my second attack, got pinged up some more but still took out the #2 ship in the formation. I rolled away and started setting up to try again when I saw a dot low ahead and to the right. A single dot meant a fighter, and fighter vs fighter is more fun for me, and I prefer keeping on the offense when I am using the Mossie, so I left the remaining bombers to go for the fighter.
Fighter proved to be a P-51D, which I passed about 7k over before turning to dive on him from behind. It was clear he'd been watching me as he began a gentle dive to try to even our speed, and then went into a split S. I knew what he was trying so I pulled up and went over the top to come back down on him, getting closer this time as again he resorted to an energy draining split S. As I went up and around in a yo yo to preserve as much of my energy as I could while draining his I figured he'd avoid me this time, but I'd get him on one of the following two passes. I drove him down again and as I pulled back up I saw a Typhoon that had snuck up on me at 1000 yards and closing, I couldn't tell if the Tiffie had a lot of smash on me or not, but I tightened my nose high turn and the Tiffie dropped low, so I rolled over on top and came down on the Tiffie, forcing him to break to avoid me. I climbed up, worried a bit that WEP was getting raw now, watching behind me as the Tiffie tried to follow and stalled out. I brought my Mossie around and dropped down on the wallowing Tiffie, easily dispatching it. The P-51D was now above me, but as it happened still lower on energy and as I pulled up I climbed above him and started to turn on him, taking a potshot as he crossed my nose, but missing. I pulled the Mossie around as tightly as I could, seeing the P-51D go into a flat spin behind me, but I couldn't get around and down in time to put any bullets in the P-51 before it hit the ground. Still, a kill I guess.
After that I took a low, fast flight back to the base I'd lifted off of. Listening to the chatter on the way in I knew it was under attack and I wasn't sure I had the fuel to make it across the channel to another friendly base. As it happened there were a couple of Tiffies and a bunch of friendlies at the field. The first Tiffe saw me coming in and tried for an HO, which I side slipped past, and the second also made a couple of tries at me before attempting, unsuccessfully, to run from the friendlies in the area. I landed with the three kills.
Not a bad flight for the first one in months, and having been very inactive in the game for years.
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COOL! :rock
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Cannot go wrong with a mossie for a grad return :aok
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Good little AAR. You know if you are free Saturday we could use more mossie pilots for the scenario. :)
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Glad you had a good time and are back in the sky again.
We use to have some real nice fights in the DA in that canyon (when killshooter was on). Was always impressed by how you flung that Mossie around and took on any plane.
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Thanks for the AAR Karnak. A well written one can be a great read and a lesson all rolled into one! :aok
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what BK said take your mossie and live the dream in the scenario.
It will be a great couple of hours for immersion and killing luftwaffe planes. :D
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Good read karnak. First sortie back after a break is always so much more gripping, I find.