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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: cactuskooler on August 24, 2010, 11:47:16 PM
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I'm just about to land at my base when my right wing explodes! I figured a Wirble had shot me, or a squadling had attached my wing with explosive bolts. It wasn't until I thumbed through the scores that I found out I was killed by a ship gunner! You can make out the fleet waay in the background behind me.
Washout1 was the lucky devil that landed the shot.
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Apologies to Oboe, again
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that sux, ive been nailed by ship gunner from crazy distance as well. I wanna say further than 6k and i too was inbound to land....i cried myself to sleep that night. :(
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At least it didn't happen to a Good Looking plane.
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At least it didn't happen to a Good Looking plane.
Fighting words have been recorded.
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At least it didn't happen to a Good Looking plane.
Yea, there would have be a mass protester after that gunner who did it.
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:O
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Probably would have missed you if you were flying a fighter instead of a bomber... :)
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I shot an F6F tonight from the 8" position just before I towered to move to another position for bombers that were coming from behind the CV. I still got credit from the hangar which is just crazy. :D
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I took a one-shot kill while flying an FW near a CV group last night. Trying to protect a bomber flight, circling around to pounce some fighters, and BOOM was gone. Some accurate gunners out there with the bigger guns.
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I took a one-shot kill while flying an FW near a CV group last night. Trying to protect a bomber flight, circling around to pounce some fighters, and BOOM was gone. Some accurate gunners out there with the bigger guns.
Was it Vilkas?
Vilkas pwns all :rock
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About a year ago I was messing around with the SB as an AA platform. I once got 2 planes in one "sortie" with it.
The easiest are the ones coming straight at you to bomb, but the ones I got were 90 degree passing by shots. Bout shat me britches.
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if it was a 5", he doesn't have to hit ya....just get the round near ya, and yer toast.
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I like doing those shots. Go into land mode, click on the base at certain points and you can hit multiple people landing or taking off. :rock
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Somebody got a lucky shot, or questionable "how did you do that?" shot on me. I was 6 k high , 1.5 -2 k away (flying away) from a V-base. Got me tail shot off from the ack.
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Was it Vilkas?
Vilkas pwns all :rock
x2 :x :x :x
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About a year ago I was messing around with the SB as an AA platform. I once got 2 planes in one "sortie" with it.
The easiest are the ones coming straight at you to bomb, but the ones I got were 90 degree passing by shots. Bout shat me britches.
I got 3 b-17's in one shot a while back.
Goon hunting in the SB is fun as he..!
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Somebody got a lucky shot, or questionable "how did you do that?" shot on me. I was 6 k high , 1.5 -2 k away (flying away) from a V-base. Got me tail shot off from the ack.
i make those shots on a daily basis with field gun.
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i make those shots on a daily basis with field gun.
Ya but u suck :D
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Ya but u suck :D
:neener: :cheers:
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I jumped into the forward 5" guns of a CV and started firing at a base the CV was near. My thought was to take down the radar that was still up. Fired a few rounds and got a kill. Wow, I thought, must have gotten someone on the runway . . . get a PM almost immediately asking something along the lines of what is with the invisible plane? He never saw me. Well, I respond, actually, I am in a 5" gun. He responds, oh, that was a phenominal shot then, I didn't see a CV. :headscratch: Come to find out, he wasn't on the runway after all -- I had shot clear over the base by about 4 miles and nailed him on climb out. :rofl
Needless to say, I adjusted my fire after that.
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Happened to me 2. I doubt he was that far out. Was he shelling the base you were approaching & got lucky, or aiming 4 U? :D
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Well I got a hit on a Dora with my Ki87's machine guns way out at 800. :)
But he didn't drop. :frown:
He just sort of, y'know, shrugged. :huh
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What have to say to say is this: When your numbers up, its up. And it really is up if you're unlucky enough intersect the flight path of an 8" shell.
8" shell > us
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Killed a couple C-47s from a SB once. They were flying NOE and I would just put the round right under them into the ground. POOF!
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Ikilledlodechat14.5koneday :O ;)
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Grizz and I were in jets flying around chasing another one on ozkansas one day...we were low and close to the nme base...as we flew by a SB by their base, him on the left, me on the right, I got popped by the SB. :(
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washout is a squad-mate of mine. He is good in both the 5in and 8in guns.
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Generally speaking I can't hit the broadside of a barn with anything except the ground with my plane (would probably miss if I actually shot at it). I do recall one evening when I was in the tower of a base being vulched and I saw the shore battery was up. I went to the gun and found that I could cover one of the airfields runway spawns from the gun. Since I knew where the planes would be flying when someone upped I was able to get the timing down and after many tries knocked two or three out of the air. :)
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Come on Soulyss, surely you're a better shot than I am. The only reason I have even a decent hit percentage is that I'm a cheap bastage about my ammunition, and have really been working on getting close before I fire.
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Wow that's a great shot. Wonder if he thought you augured or something, assuming you were out of Icon range.
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once i hit a Me-109 while in a spit at 200
:noid
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Shelling a base from the 5inch guns is fun. When a CV is close enough, hop on the 5 inch and shell the base with HE or ACK to discourage people from taking off. :neener: :salute
FYI, from the AH Trainers website, "With the 5" gun you can acquire and hit targets within and just beyond icon range, around 6k." :salute