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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: RedBull1 on June 07, 2013, 10:06:37 AM
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So Latrobe's post in the Films and Screenshots thread reminded me of an awesome sortie I had many months ago.
It was one of the really small maps, the one that's basically a little island and it's always (even greater than usual) hordes of red just because it's so small. You can almost run 163's to the frontline straight off the bat.. Anyway that's not really important, the point is there was a massive red horde of both Rooks and Bishops fighting and I was bored so I flew my Dora (I was in a dora or K4 I don't remember, but I think it was a Dora) 2-3 sectors over to the fight and I see just a massive Bishop horde under me.. So I dive in kill a couple of them, nothing spectacular..but then I climb back out to see a AFK and lone rook pony a few K above all the bishops.. So I go ahead and catch up to him..What should I do? Kill him!! Right?... Naaah.. while he's AFK climbing I tuck in under his left wing and fly some close formation off of him (cuz...why not?) for probably 5 minutes or so and eventually he comes back to his screen and sees me..What would you do in his situation? Lol.. Most of the people I've done this so go into a panic stick stir and I just end up shooting them down a second after...But he didn't.. He wagged his wings...So I did the same. Shortly after a few more wing wags to make sure I wasn't going to stab him in the back he dives in on the bishop horde (which has gotten even bigger now) and I follow.. He picks off a couple of them on his first pass with some pretty good aim by the looks of it and I think to myself 'this isn't just your average pony pilot..hmm..' so anyway after his pass he ropes up almost all of the hordelings and I come through and pick off at least 2-3 on his first rope. Then as we both climb vertically away from these 20-30+ bishops I notice we're in perfect formation as I look up - My Knight 190D and his Rook P51D as we continue this vertical climb away from all of these guys.. Then again, he wags his wings and dives in and I follow, we repeat this process quite a few times.. Until one of my passes I got too keen with a spitfire when trying to get a shot and his buddies were quick to get on my 6.. I managed to shake most of them but I ended up with 2 spit16's 400-600 off my dora which (after shooting what I presume was most of their ammo :lol) end up oiling me. It's at this point I look up for the pony pilot while trying to shake these 2 but I don't see him.. Did he leave me here to die lol? Did he get shot down? Where is he? As I look back again I notice there's a third con behind me...Terrific... However, upon further inspection this third con isn't a con at all..It's the pony, and there he is shooting the wing off of 1 spit and blowing up the other spit. I wag my wings again as a thank you and a 'Ok time to go home now!' and he did the same. By the time we finished I think I had at least 8-10 kills and he must've had the same. We flew formation out of the fight, wagged our wings one last time and broke off to our respective bases.
The best part for me was probably the fact that we just killed almost everyone in this 20+ man bishop horde without ever speaking a word to each other, without knowing who each other were, without being on the same country even, and that we worked so in sync and perfectly without these things.
I had the film on my old PC, but that was all deleted when I gave it to my sister :( Sadly I totally forgot about the film until now so I didn't think to save it, I really wish I had..it was really just an awesome sortie.
That was probably my most memorable sortie and I still send a big :salute and much respect to TomFool (he was flying the Pony as I would come to find out later)
Anyone in the Few know what happened to Tom? Hadn't seen him in ages.
Anyway let's hear some other stories, I know some of you guys that've been flying for all these years gotta have some awesome stories, too :salute
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I've had sorties where I've landing 10+ kills, those are fun. The other day I landed 9 in an F6F and got the Cpt David McCampbell Achievement.
What I remember most though are not sorties but events. Like the first time I got into a stall fight in my A5 with a Spit, LA, F4U and PonyD and killed them. Different fights, but remember them.
I also remember flying a 262, making one pass on a buff formation, outright killing two of them and leaving the third in flames, soon to die.
Just the other day some noob was calling out for help, he was being chased by four or five cons. I zip in kill two, drive the rest off and then for the cherry kill a C-47 that was wise enough to up during a furball.
Or landing 8 kills in a K-4 (kind of felt slimey with that one.)
Or???
Boo
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Pwning Redbull silly in my mighty Spitfire MK VIII, and listening to him trying to deal with said pwnage. :ahand
He did smoke my engine, although I did land it. :joystick:
:)
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Stripping the entire fighter escort from a B-17G while flying a C.202 by baiting them into diving to attack the idiot 202 who was slowly climbing up the B-17's low six. Killed both of the F4Us and made the P-51 run away smoking.
Killing a P-38L with a C-47 by cutting a maneuver that I knew would force him to fly into a hillside if he tried for the shot which I knew he couldn't make, he tried and died.
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here...1 for each of you
(http://d1hekt5vpuuw9b.cloudfront.net/assets/article/842146928d4fccff790f1210689bc3f3_hero-pin-craft-580x326_featuredImage.jpg)
now run along and play nice... :neener:
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Not but a few days ago, heading out for a short sweep alone. It's knights and bish fighting north so that's where I point the nose. Close to target I run into a spit... Tower 4 me. :bhead
Three more sorties later and now I am really starting to go only to find that spit for the 4th time now and ram him if I have too!
Wait, what's this.... Spit is fighting a 3v1 hmmmmmmm let's clear the spit so I can fight him. So I saddle up on 2 off his six and break them off and the spit is roping a third which I see what he is doing and go in for the kill.
2v2 now.... 2 knights me and the bish spit... More uppers off the knight field, it's about too get real!
So jug down now there is a N1K1 a 190 a 109 and a few others are still upping.... Down the jug 109 & niki the Bish Spit knocks down 3or so also and were about on fumes... Last con is a pony and at the end of the fight me and the spit are wings in formation running the pony down. I wag wings and he does the same... I notice more uppers again now that we are not on top cover at the knight base so I double back and he stays with the pony... After he knocked that pony down we made a few more kills and then we both just bug out at the same time same heading in sync with staying alive!
All I can say is typing this makes me feel the way I did in the moment and right afterwards! Faking AWSOME!
:salute wash. As the Spit driver!
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shooting down all 8 vtards online in one flight. that still makes me smile.
semp
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Myself and Raphael in 109Es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlDKhCquuU
:D
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I love winging with afk planes and waiting for them to come back. They mostly wing over and start a dive or pull up sharply when they see me, but the most creative one was this guy who came back, saw me, and ever so gently pulled his throttle back. I overshot and he almost got a shot on me! :lol Clever little dude he was!
I remember a long time ago, vtards were rolling bases. As they were finishing up a capture I looked around the map for their next possible target. I had a feeling they'd up from this base and go take the undefended base 200 miles from the one they just took. I up a 109 (forget if it was the F or G2) and head out the their base. My senses were dead on as I enter dar ring I see about 20-30 low 110s! Yippee! I spend about 5 minutes making diving passes on whoever I can line a shot up on and then roping 3 or 4 of them. I shot up so many of them that most of them just turned back to base and landed!! I made it back to base with I think 7 kills. :devil I don't believe I have the film anymore, and it will take forever to go through my films and check.
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Blacking out in a 650+ pullout in a 262 to wake up and find I got so low that I hit a tree and destroyed both engines. I glided approximately a sector to successfully land at a base under attack from from two P47s.
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My first FSO, piloting a wounded bird home for around 20 minutes with a PW and several control surfaces missing. Blacking out on final, hearing the wheels hit the pavement coming to out of attitude for landing. Getting the plane half lined up on the concrete again, breaking the gear as I came down again and skidding and rolling down the runway with only the cockpit still intact. Skidding to a stop upside down laughing my bellybutton off, reaching for the keyboard to .ef and dying from the PW before I could type it in.
One of the oddest things I ever had happen was I was in a 262 and someone shot off my vstab. Plane started to flat spin but I noticed my vertical descent rate wasn't that high, and I was basically fluttering down like a leaf. Tried to keep the wings as level as possible and wound up skidding in and getting the ditch in the ocean near my base.
They're not 10 kill sorties (personal best is 7) but they were still fun.
Wiley.
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Flying a D-11 in a scenario and killing 6 cons :banana:
another time in FSO flying drunk i out flew 2 hurris, roped and killed them, and later found one alone, and out turned him :D
And best sortie ever, getting 21kills in one go without re-arming
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On my favourite sortie i havent gotten a single kill, in fact i got shot down.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ve1ptu5opuuqyuc
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Best sortie ever was busting a vTards/JJ's jabo mishun while they were afk climbing out while I was in a 262. Shot down 12 of them before they knew what was going on, hit the hot pad, and got 7 more of them while they were frantically running to land their vulches :). Good da. Although, I do miss the Candy Mountain missions Karaya used to run :)
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Redbull your story is awesome and really well written :aok :aok
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Redbull your story is awesome and really well written :aok :aok
Thanks man, all true to the best of my memory! Like I said it was many many months ago, but none the less it's just one of those moments that makes you go 'damn...this game is awesome'
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I rarely do FSOs but did one over Europe. Upped a 109 with gondolas, not sure which model. When the smoke cleared I landed 10 kills, the last two being 2 PonyDs after a 2v1 on the deck. No video but a log record.
Also, once tool'n around in a Dora when a PonyD upped from a field. Target rich environment.
boo
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I remember one time at bandcamp....................
sorry Red couldn't resist. :D
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I can think of many, but the one that will always stand out, was back in an old Airwarrior Scenario. It was the first time 'it' happened. All the history and imagination collided with what the game could provide and in my mind I 'was there'. The cockpit surrounded me. Remember this was pre-VOX days too so it was all typing, yet the words were in the headphones so to speak.
I was GL of a Spitfire Squadron, 602 "City of Glasgow" in Spit IXs. It was the Longbow Scenario and we were the last bunch of fighters into France to cover the withdrawal of RAF B-25s and USAAF Jugs. Del was flying my wing. He was +Dizy then. We crossed in and started getting calls for help and reports of high 109s and 190s. Flashes of red passed over the top and in the mix up my wing and I got separated from the rest of the squadron. We slid down the coast and spotted a smoking 25 just crossing the beach. He was clear when we 'heard' a Jug driver calling that he was in trouble. Anyone who flew the AW Jug remembers what a dog it was. We finally spotted the Jug and he was mixed in with a 109G and clearly in trouble. He was going away from us and I kept telling him to break and come back our way so we could clear him. After what seemed forever he did and I got a snap shot off at the 109 and thought I saw pieces fly. Of course Del was right there and powdered the guy while the Jug ran for home.
We then headed back up the coast and spotted high dots which turned out to be a mix of 109s and 190s. Not a good spot to be below them. They came down and it was the start of a brawl where I finally got a 190. We were outnumbered though and it didn't look good. Then I spotted a flight of four dots up high. It turned out to be a flight of 4 Spits from my group. Two of the pilots were mir and Silat. Down they came and we cleaned house before being the last fighters out of France and returning to base.
I suppose it doesn't sound all that exciting, but I'd never had it happen before where I got sucked into the game like that. I've been chasing that experience ever since. Thankfully it continues to happen now and then, generally in scenarios. There is nothing like that feeling that you are in the plane and it's as close to real as the sim will allow.
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I can think of many, but the one that will always stand out, was back in an old Airwarrior Scenario. It was the first time 'it' happened. All the history and imagination collided with what the game could provide and in my mind I 'was there'. The cockpit surrounded me. Remember this was pre-VOX days too so it was all typing, yet the words were in the headphones so to speak.
I was GL of a Spitfire Squadron, 602 "City of Glasgow" in Spit IXs. It was the Longbow Scenario and we were the last bunch of fighters into France to cover the withdrawal of RAF B-25s and USAAF Jugs. Del was flying my wing. He was +Dizy then. We crossed in and started getting calls for help and reports of high 109s and 190s. Flashes of red passed over the top and in the mix up my wing and I got separated from the rest of the squadron. We slid down the coast and spotted a smoking 25 just crossing the beach. He was clear when we 'heard' a Jug driver calling that he was in trouble. Anyone who flew the AW Jug remembers what a dog it was. We finally spotted the Jug and he was mixed in with a 109G and clearly in trouble. He was going away from us and I kept telling him to break and come back our way so we could clear him. After what seemed forever he did and I got a snap shot off at the 109 and thought I saw pieces fly. Of course Del was right there and powdered the guy while the Jug ran for home.
We then headed back up the coast and spotted high dots which turned out to be a mix of 109s and 190s. Not a good spot to be below them. They came down and it was the start of a brawl where I finally got a 190. We were outnumbered though and it didn't look good. Then I spotted a flight of four dots up high. It turned out to be a flight of 4 Spits from my group. Two of the pilots were mir and Silat. Down they came and we cleaned house before being the last fighters out of France and returning to base.
I suppose it doesn't sound all that exciting, but I'd never had it happen before where I got sucked into the game like that. I've been chasing that experience ever since. Thankfully it continues to happen now and then, generally in scenarios. There is nothing like that feeling that you are in the plane and it's as close to real as the sim will allow.
Cool story. First thing that comes to mind though is in the MA we fight Spitfires vs Spitfires and Jugs vs Jugs. That alone takes away a lot for me... and makes the experience more gamey than it should be. If the red guys could only fly the axis aeropane set, that would be much more interesting.
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this sortie:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/4q15fd3sg5ubn6c/soloacesortie.ahf
I flew out all alone in my trusty Spitfire to a big red dar bar near a vBase.
on my way there I saw a high F4U off my right wing, and he began to make BnZ passes at me. I avoided them all, trying my best to perform a reversal. I eventually ended up behind him, but not close enough for a firing solution. I chased him into the combat zone, but he stayed 1k out and I eventually gave up on chasing him. However, he then discovered some balls and turned back into me to fight, probably trusting that all of his friendly planes in the area would clear his six if neeeded, or that I would not want to lose my E to turn with him and thus leave myself vulnerable to his friendlies.
but by this point I just wanted to get a kill on the timid F4U pilot, so I didn't care about his countrymen and turned with him. I shot him down in short order and then found myself engaged with all of his buddies. At first, if I recall correctly, there was a Mossie, N1K, and P51 all trying to get me. At one point the Mossie broke off, and towards the end an ME-410 joined the fight.
I started with a very slight E advantage over my some of my opponents, so I used climbing turns to keep out of the guns of the Mossie and P51. The N1K was pretty much co-alt with me, so when he made a pass I manuevred to line him up with my 3-5 line in order to attempt the same kind of reveral as I had been using earlier against the F4U. This enable me to dodge his attack without giving him my 6, but I couldn't keep up a proper fight with him while still dodging the other planes that were out for my blood, so after avoiding a couple more shots I seized an opportunity to dive down behind the P51.
My first burst oiled him, and my second took off his left wing neatly. However I had made myself a perfect target for the N1K, and immediately after downing the P51 I turned hard to get out of his guns and cause an overshoot, and then rolled back into him. I had a perfect opportunity for a shot for a second as we crossed, and either by luck or good judgement I managed to take off his tail.
The Mossie had turned tail and fled by this point, and with the pressure somewhat off I built up a bit of E and finished off the ME-410 at my leisure, taking my time and making safe attacks to avoid the fire from his rear guns.
While RTBing with my 4 kills another high F4U decided to go for me. But by this point I was feeling invincible, and I reversed him and latched onto his 6 after his first pass. With me 600 out, but not closing, he nevertheless dived down towards my home airfield to gain some separation. As I was trying to decide whether I could land safely, or if I would need to deal with him first, he made the decision for me by pulling up again (possibly avoiding ack fire or one of my countrymen near the field) and going vert right in front of me. I pulled my nose up to follow, waited till I had perfect lead for a shot, and blew him apart.
I then landed and saved the film, feeling EXTREMELY angry that I hadn't turned on my FRAPS recording at the start of the sortie. As I use TrackIR, the AHfilm recording doesn't really do justice to the great bit of action we had out by that vbase.
:old:
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Back when I was still a spit dweeb, I had gone out for an interception with a spit 8 only to find out he ran home when the 3 other guys had shown up. So I wander around for a bit looking for something to shoot but come up empty. I eventually decide that I should just go elsewhere and look for a fight.
As I approach the base I notice that an LA has just porked the dar and ords. I fly right for him and he notices me at about 600 out and turns into me. We pass and start a turn fight that ends up lasting 5 minutes (felt like hours). He shot off one of my elevators near the start of the fight so we were on roughly equal grounds. We each got a few pings on each other, but were never able to pull in on each others six. The fight suddenly ends when a friendly pony comes in to view, the LA7 breaks and makes a bee line for the deck. I've never seen a plane grab speed that fast in my life. The pony shoots him down but I still get the kill. We salute and I go back to base to land.
The poetic part is that he got his revenge. I wrecked my spit landing (still on tarmac) but didn't tower because I was about to pee myself (couldn't go during the fight). I come back to see that he had killed me while I was sitting on the runway.
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Best for me were 1 on 1s starting from at least 15k and going up and down using the entire air column. Usually against a stick a little better then I while he is flying a little lesser air plane. Ive had some beauts in a Yak-9U against a P-47. Im not sure I'd call a P-47 "lesser" but for some reason those two stack up well against each other. Another was enemy in a P-51 and me in a Spit-14.
Anyway thats the game at its best. The various match ups between air planes. It used to be the best 1 on 1s were during the day when the best Pilots were on. I havnt found much of that since I came back.
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It was a frame of a scenario in AW, I don't remember exactly but I think it was the Big Week scenario. I was flying a fw190 and there was a formation of something like 80 B17s. The bomber stream just kept coming and coming. It was awesome in the literal and unexagerated sense of the word.
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most memorable sortie....hmmmm....killing 2 of the best there is in a 2vs1 :rock
another is killing 7 of 7 attacking me..... :t
some days I cant miss..... :rock
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Most memorable sortie, when I was with the 332nd Vikings many years ago. This is what happens when you fly with a bunch of drunken Norwegians, Swedes, Brits and Italians...
FSO, our orders were to roll heavy P47s, dump the ordnance and go fighter sweep. Then land, rearm and go JABO on what ever ground targets are left. Frame starts, we all spawn (12 of us I think). Then suddenly 3 seconds into the frame - BANG! and all of us are back in the tower. One drunken Viking has released a rocket on the runway, killing the entire squadron...
Spawn again, hoping no one will notice (since it was only a couple seconds into the frame). This time everyone keeps their itchy figers AWAY from the triggers and we manage to get airborne. Now dump the ordnance - and half the Vikings are back in the tower again killed by the blasts and falling bombs of the Vikings flying a few meters above them... they respawned and we had a drunken happy good time with only minor friendly fire incidents involving the 0.5s.
Of course we won the frame, but after the logs were checked there was a bit of a riot because the 332nd vikings records showed a huge number of kills and respawns just seconds into the frame :) Some people demanded that the squadron will not drink and fly anymore, but we all had a note from the doctor that said the alcohol was for medicinal use.
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The first time i landed more then 2 kills. I was in a Brewster just starting to learn i like to turn fight. Cruising the coast line at 10k. See one plane think why not. I go nose on and in seconds we are engaged. Flipping back and forth and the edge switching hands. In this hectic and being fairly new i did not notice it turned into a 2v1 then 3 v 1 but all were same plane i just thought man I'm so good i am always almost behind the guy. Luckily enough i shot one down. Heart races, two down, get jittery, three down I'm going home sweating. 4th guy comes on, so me i think well fight or die. i fought took it to the deck landed my first snapshot kill and bugged out for home. To this day 3 tours later I'm unsure if i have landed more then 4 kills. Man oh man it was it awesome just awesome.
Edited for a mistake. My grammar is sub par.
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FSOs and Scenarios are by far the most memorable experiences in game. I remember one Friday landing my FM2 on the wrong end of the carrier, completely out of fuel and with less than a minute of time remaining.
The one I dont remember has to be the funniest though. We were assigned 110s, I fell asleep just before my squad engaged a group of 30-40 Spitfires and Hurricanes. Apparently they were yelling at me over teamspeak the entire to time wake up, but I never did. When I finally woke up nearly 2 hours later I had flown almost off the map, and had low fuel but otherwise was completely unscathed. :D
Good times.
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I have to say probably one of my best experiences in AH was actually this morning with Ernst21 and me both in 190A5s duking it out at less than tree top level we are pulling scissors like crazy little do we know that there is a hill coming up at the last minute I pull hard on the stick to miss a tree and I watch Ernst try to pull up as well but he couldn't so his 190 said c'mere tree I want to hug you all in all great fight man I can honestly say Ernst has come along way in his fighting abilities since we were both in the 20th FG back when BAR was around
Ernst I :salute you man your a good stick and friend
Eric19 :salute
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I distinctly remember a 1v1 and a tire to the face lol
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I distinctly remember a 1v1 and a tire to the face lol
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Do you still have the Goodyear logo stamped on your forehead backwords? :D
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its faded but i can still feel the welts :x
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i remember one time, when quite new to the game,
i had 3 kills and a busted up plane trying to get it home..
i was chuffed to bits with my 3 kills..but the engine died on me and i was gliding home , hoping to make it ..
i glided a fair old way and had the field in site and was coming down but misread the set up..
the field was in a hollow and the ground was rushing up to me..all I could see was hill...and the dreaded trees
i thought `oh well..i`ll have to land it...`
So I put it down and trundled to an almost stop .. right on the edge of the hill over looking the field...
so with some heafty rudder action i kept my momentum going and started to roll down the hill..
i trundled down this hill thinking..no ferkin way...am i gonna make it..
i rolled to a halt at the bottom of the hill...wheels on concrete...`woot woOT`
epic..
dont know why it sticks in my mind the way it does but it does..
had plenty of other epic moments... but for some reason the joy and disbelief it could work out when all look lost gave me a top Buzz..
<S> Jimmy
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Most recently I did this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKKrCqzxxM
I will never forget the fun I had at V85 today. :)
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its also impressive that you survived long enough to jump the hill with those 30 spawn campers shooting at your jeep. jumpin gover the oblivious t34 spawn camper as he is fixated on the spawn is classic too.
I like all the tank shells flying from every direction throughout the video and the bomb**** planes overhead lol.
I think you are getting hooked on breaking out of spawncamps in vehicles the same way you like to fly low n slow into red clouds of airplanes :D
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its also impressive that you survived long enough to jump the hill with those 30 spawn campers shooting at your jeep. jumpin gover the oblivious t34 spawn camper as he is fixated on the spawn is classic too.
I like all the tank shells flying from every direction throughout the video and the bomb**** planes overhead lol.
I think you are getting hooked on breaking out of spawncamps in vehicles the same way you like to fly low n slow into red clouds of airplanes :D
You should have seen what I did after this. I wasted 1800 vehicle perks upping a King Tiger and driving straight towards the rook spawn shooting at anything I could. Rounds were pinging everywhere, I blast about 3-4 of them each go. I had a chat with a friend who was on the rook side watching this. Supposedly it was just as much fun for them as it was for me. People were shouting "Kill it! Kill it!" Wizzy was apparently in hysterics. The one down side to all this fun is I don't get to hear the reaction from the other country. :lol
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lol least you took some of them down with you.
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I have two most memorable sorties: #1 being my first FSO flying with G3MF I think we were VF-115 Satans Playmates when this happened. It was a Russian setup and we were in P-39's defending some airfield. I was winging with NAVCAD who I flew with in the Dirty 30 squad in earlier years. Anyways, here came the 109's as a fighter sweep and we pushed through them to the attacking 110's. NAV was lined up on a 110 when two 110's came thrashing over me firing at him. I just pulled the trigger and shot down both of them. I was very happy because in my very first FSO I had shot down two 110's then for the next three FSO I don't even think I touched a plane because I was blasted from the skies!
#2 Would be the DGS II Scenario in Frame 6. I remember this frame because it was my first time leading a group. I was the XO to Redtail7 who was commanding our group the 355th FG P-51's B's/D's. He told me that I would lead the last frame. So when we got our orders for that week I spent the whole week planning our fighter cover scheme. I don't even remember our target but anyways I had my guys in position and I had personally put Red Flight and myself out front. When the fighters came in all hell broke lose. We had 190's, 109's, and 410's everywhere. We got the bombers to target and I even helped clear one of my G3MF friends six of a 190. I was congragulated by Redtail7 for a job well done and that I should be GL in the next scenario. In frame 6 we shot down 16 Luftwaffe aircraft to the loss of 7 of our own. It was hard work leading a group and being a first timer to that I was very impressed by the 355th.
:salute
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Most recently I did this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKKrCqzxxM
I will never forget the fun I had at V85 today. :)
lol :rock
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IMPOSSIBLE LANDING: Amazing
http://www.mediafire.com/download/yzjvkw155mf/impossible_landing.ahf
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When i won my first 3v1 last week against 2 P-51s 1 B 1 D and a 38G i splashed the 38 then rolled in on the B we fought for a minutes his friend up high BNZing me i get him then i look up to find he i pull a kill your speed move and reverse him and turn fight for a while then stall fight then i got him and RTb'ed with 5 kills.
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Any and all 100+ participant HQ raids. High altitude, lots of bomber formations.
Hard to beat that.
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During my first full tour in the MA I managed to kill five GVs with a single 1800kg egg from a Ju87 in two straight sorties. I don't think I'll ever be able to top that
Did a few NOE HQ raids with FBCrabby back in 2011 that were amazingly fun. The one where I smacked a tree a sector from the HQ wasn't as fun though lol
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My most memorable sortie was during the Longbow scenario in AW. I was a gunner in Spiff's B17 and while over Germany we had been attacked numerous times. We were on our way back to England, Spiff nursing the badly damaged and smoking B17 all the way, determined to make it back and land. As we flew, I was looking outside keeping an eye open for any LW planes chasing us. After a while, we were spotted by some patrolling Spitfires (dead pilots could have a second life in a patrol Spitfire as long as they didn't cross the channel/North Sea). They escorted us back to England, flying around us the whole way. I remember looking out at them and getting a very real feeling of 'being there'. A lump came to my throat and tears welled in my eyes as I looked out at the circling Spits, the immersion was so great! I really felt extremely relieved when we made it back and Spiff finally landed the B17 on British soil.
My uncle, who died early last year, was a rear gunner in a Wellington bomber and it is in his memory that I will continue to remember this brief moment in time in an online game.... :salute
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Most recently I did this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDKKrCqzxxM
I will never forget the fun I had at V85 today. :)
Latrobe although you amaze me every time I come across you in your 109 this is the most epic thing I seen in a game in a long time, bet that guy in the tank you jumped over was like wth :huh :huh
:salute
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I'm not sure who started that rumor that I'm some amazing 109 pilot, but it seems to have spread like crazy. The fact is, on a good day I'm an average pilot and on an average day I'm a rather poor pilot, and I don't get very many good days.
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I'm not sure who started that rumor that I'm some amazing 109 pilot, but it seems to have spread like crazy. The fact is, on a good day I'm an average pilot and on an average day I'm a rather poor pilot, and I don't get very many good days.
what it is...is you actually fight....and fight well.....sadly 90% of MA that is foreign to so it makes you look extra awesome......and all us actual fighters know you are just Plain awesome...... not extra awesome...... :neener:
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is you actually fight....and fight well
Well, I try to fight, but I sure don't fight well. My staggering number of deaths is testament to that.
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Well, I try to fight, but I sure don't fight well. My staggering number of deaths is testament to that.
no....see that shows you fight...someone like flyingfin or chalenge might look at that and think you are no good...but someone who is actually a fighter sees it and knows you fight.....you fight very well...... I am a pretty good judge of that kinda stuff......:salute
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Well, I try to fight, but I sure don't fight well. My staggering number of deaths is testament to that.
Your one of the best in 109s hands down. :salute
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Maybe by your standards my flying is "good", but unfortunately I don't fly by your standards; I fly by mine, and my standards say I'm not even close to being good yet. I don't think I have ever been able to beat you in a fight. To me, losing 100% of the fights against someone good means I'm bad. To just survive the fight would mean I'm good, and to win the fight means I would be great. To win every fight no matter the odds would mean I was in the elite of the elite. Seeing how I die in 90% of the 1v1s I get into I think it's pretty obvious that I have yet to reach the level of "decent pilot" yet.
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Maybe by your standards my flying is "good", but unfortunately I don't fly by your standards; I fly by mine, and my standards say I'm not even close to being good yet. I don't think I have ever been able to beat you in a fight. To me, losing 100% of the fights against someone good means I'm bad. To just survive the fight would mean I'm good, and to win the fight means I would be great. To win every fight no matter the odds would mean I was in the elite of the elite. Seeing how I die in 90% of the 1v1s I get into I think it's pretty obvious that I have yet to reach the level of "decent pilot" yet.
You will never win every fight no matter the odds... that's beyond elite.. its impossible..
You die in 90% of the 1v1s you get into because by the time you enter a fight 1v1, you already have 8 kills on board.. a damaged airplane and never rearmed... so even though you may lose that final 1v1..you faught like an animal and decided to look for more and not RTB, knowing you wouldn't make it home.
Most pilots in the MA, say "RTB" for any fake reason the can come up with the minute they see kill #2 pop up in the text buffer.. knowing they will get to see their name in lights.
I have flown with you enough now to know that getting home is never your goal.. it is killing as many as you can possibly kill before you die .. and you do it well :)
Now say no more Mr. Latrobe.. I will not except anymore excuses :salute
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Maybe by your standards my flying is "good", but unfortunately I don't fly by your standards; I fly by mine, and my standards say I'm not even close to being good yet. I don't think I have ever been able to beat you in a fight. To me, losing 100% of the fights against someone good means I'm bad. To just survive the fight would mean I'm good, and to win the fight means I would be great. To win every fight no matter the odds would mean I was in the elite of the elite. Seeing how I die in 90% of the 1v1s I get into I think it's pretty obvious that I have yet to reach the level of "decent pilot" yet.
ehhh......you are a fighter in a combat game....when most everyone runs unless they hold all the cards.....I have zero respect for players like that......you don't talk smack....you fight.....I cant ever remember you running away no matter what.....this tells me a lot about your "person"......you are humble.....need I go on?????
there is a small list of people(not that small but in comparison to how many play it seems small) that I have respect for in this game.....you are one of them. :salute
I know most think I am wrong when it comes to your real life coming through ingame.....I don't care....I know people will play the game how they are...if they know Honor it will show.......to me that is far more important then "skills" at cartoon fighting.
You will never win every fight no matter the odds... that's beyond elite.. its impossible..
You die in 90% of the 1v1s you get into because by the time you enter a fight 1v1, you already have 8 kills on board.. a damaged airplane and never rearmed... so even though you may lose that final 1v1..you faught like an animal and decided to look for more and not RTB, knowing you wouldn't make it home.
Most pilots in the MA, say "RTB" for any fake reason the can come up with the minute they see kill #2 pop up in the text buffer.. knowing they will get to see their name in lights.
I have flown with you enough now to know that getting home is never your goal.. it is killing as many as you can possibly kill before you die .. and you do it well :)
Now say no more Mr. Latrobe.. I will not except anymore excuses :salute
and what he said....well put Blu :aok
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Latrobe, you are one of the best. If more of us emulated your fighting style (including myself) the game would be a better place. :salute
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Latrobe, you are one of the best. If more of us emulated your fighting style (including myself) the game would be a better place. :salute
That is true :salute Latrobe :rock ... but... well.... um...
What about me? http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,349419.0.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,349419.0.html)
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Latrobe is my hero. :salute
I surround myself with red guys a lot, but alas, I do not put up the fight or look as good as he does doing it. But dammit, I'm trying. :D
As for memorable sorties... there's been a lot in my short time here. The latest one that sticks out to me is the 2nd frame of Coral Sea FSO. Our squad of 6 was tasked with escorting TBM's to hit the enemy boat. Halfway there we get bounced by several (10+?) high zekes. We fight our way out of that with two losses and continue to target. Almost to target we learn our TBM's got shredded (damn). We're just about to turn back to our boat when we vis a lone SBD coming in to make his drop. We escort him to target (he got hits, wtfg) and one of our guys who shall remain nameless (coughbadcorecough) gets a little excited and dives to the deck to engage 3 zekes. I try in vain to rescue said nameless pilot, but in the process ensure our SBD buddy got out alive. Climbing back to our boat with a flight of 2 (one guy got separated), we get reports of our boat being down. Decision time - head for dry land now (we've got just enough fuel to make it) or head for our reefed boat and take vengeance upon our transgressors. I put it to my wingman (cactus) and his response was the most awesome response he could have made. "Kill". Kill it is. We head to what's left of the boat to find one green guy mixing it up with 5 reds. Cactus and I dive in and the second epic fight of the sortie is on. Back and forth we went until cactus and I are both out of gas and ditching in the drink while our green guy friend is the last plane flying. I had 8 scalps that frame but it could have been zero and I'd have been happy. Truly one of those, "I love this squealing game" moments.
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Here is a picture from Latrobe's last insurance claim...
(http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-109F/Bf-109F-JG27.4-(W5+-)/images/Bf-109F-4.JG27-(W5+-)-abandoned-North-Africa-1942-01.jpg)
JG5 are only covered for 3rd party fire and theft :cry
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It was a frame of a scenario in AW, I don't remember exactly but I think it was the Big Week scenario. I was flying a fw190 and there was a formation of something like 80 B17s. The bomber stream just kept coming and coming. It was awesome in the literal and unexagerated sense of the word.
The Big Week scenario was probably one of the best player events of any game and at the time, a mile stone for Internet gaming.
ack-ack
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Well, I try to fight, but I sure don't fight well. My staggering number of deaths is testament to that.
All those cartoon deaths yet you can still come here and talk about it.
I think you've figured out the secret of this game :)
Not much point if you don't wade into the fight since we don't really die anyway :aok
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I was upping a P51D which I dont regularly do - to chase down some Bishop me262s that were picking and running off. I got around my target alt of 14k and went down near V85 (at that time was under bishop control - the notorious camping base for vehicles) the Airfield just west of it the bishop took in a massive horde.
A furball started, and I headed towards the airfield, lone behold a single 262 making passes and running, he wasn't managing to hit anything so I started flying south where I predicted he would land (out in the open water) and sure enough there he goes flying on the deck towards the AF across the pond.
I started a shallow dive figuring a 51 had enough fuel I could nail him at any of the bases he attempted to land, he had no clue I was back there, I stayed out of range 5/6k in attempt to keep an eye and catch him landing.
I race downward towards the AF, fully expecting him to land and then it happens - 4 me262s are taking off, each just lifted and still had their gears down, I dove behind the rear most and shoot him down then went to the third, second and first aircraft. Four 262s shot down in a sortie.
tour 136, not sure anyone else claimed that many 262s in the late war arena sortie, but It was exciting and fun. Naturally ink came after me with an La7 and nailed me LOL
It was nothing more then pot luck, if any of them managed to get up to speed I would of been dead no questions asked.
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Blu I boogie when I'm low on ammo and fuel. Or have 8kills :D
another great fight was on the current map. Was me in an SBD against a pair of 262's(o e being SFOX and a cohort) nikonguy and some nameless chap in F4's. They tried BnZing me for a good 5-10minutes. Nikonguy ended up killing me and after said I was pissing off the 262's with perfectly time break turns :rofl
And today me in an a8 against paleoguys ta152. Rolled dived and we were pretty much even until a friendly came by and made him break. Went at it again with more e and ended up taking a wing off
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Here is a picture from Latrobe's last insurance claim...
(http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-109F/Bf-109F-JG27.4-(W5+-)/images/Bf-109F-4.JG27-(W5+-)-abandoned-North-Africa-1942-01.jpg)
JG5 are only covered for 3rd party fire and theft :cry
:lol Funny Dolby, that cheered me up a little. The main reason I keep coming back to play this game is because you people make me laugh and have a good time.
Sorry if I sounded like a Debbie Downer, my stupidity really gets to me a lot and then my depression kicks in. My opinion still stands though. According to my standards I am not close to a good pilot yet. You say I lose 1v1s because I'm already damaged? I want to get to the skill level where I don't take damage from anyone in any fight. You say it's impossible to win a fight when the odds are too great? I'm going to make it possible! Once I've finally reached these levels only then will I might consider calling myself a good pilot.
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:lol Funny Dolby, that cheered me up a little. The main reason I keep coming back to play this game is because you people make me laugh and have a good time.
Sorry if I sounded like a Debbie Downer, my stupidity really gets to me a lot and then my depression kicks in. My opinion still stands though. According to my standards I am not close to a good pilot yet. You say I lose 1v1s because I'm already damaged? I want to get to the skill level where I don't take damage from anyone in any fight. You say it's impossible to win a fight when the odds are too great? I'm going to make it possible! Once I've finally reached these levels only then will I might consider calling myself a good pilot.
im still working on winning a 20 vs 1 :D
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My most memorable sortie was during the Longbow scenario in AW. I was a gunner in Spiff's B17 and while over Germany we had been attacked numerous times. We were on our way back to England, Spiff nursing the badly damaged and smoking B17 all the way, determined to make it back and land. As we flew, I was looking outside keeping an eye open for any LW planes chasing us. After a while, we were spotted by some patrolling Spitfires (dead pilots could have a second life in a patrol Spitfire as long as they didn't cross the channel/North Sea). They escorted us back to England, flying around us the whole way. I remember looking out at them and getting a very real feeling of 'being there'. A lump came to my throat and tears welled in my eyes as I looked out at the circling Spits, the immersion was so great! I really felt extremely relieved when we made it back and Spiff finally landed the B17 on British soil.
My uncle, who died early last year, was a rear gunner in a Wellington bomber and it is in his memory that I will continue to remember this brief moment in time in an online game.... :salute
I wish we could still fly our fighters and bombers back to England during scenarios.
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I once landed away from a town and broke the wings off my goon while trying to capture a base......drove it along the ground ( it was flat thankfully) for 3 or 4 minutes at 150 mph until I reached town, dropped troops, and captured the base......and yes I do have the film.....still laugh about it.....
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im still working on winning a 20 vs 1 :D
furball in a 38 and 262 :D
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furball in a 38 and 262 :D
no...gotta do it in my KI84 :joystick:
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no...gotta do it in my KI84 :joystick:
I have better idea, I'll pilot a Ki-67 and you'll gun for me, or the other way around
That reminds me. Last epic battle I had with My ki took place against 10-15 red dudes. Took out 4, got hit bad, took another 2 and somehow had several ponies and spits spreading my planes part across the water. :airplane:
Granted with 7min of fuel left you become a brew, but better :rock
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a brew, but better :rock
Never say that word again.
I don't care how much you may dislike Ink, there's no reason to compare his favorite aircraft on low fuel to that...that... that THING.
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:cry
I'm so sorry
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A6/K4/262 work? :D
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Never say that word again.
I don't care how much you may dislike Ink, there's no reason to compare his favorite aircraft on low fuel to that...that... that THING.
:rofl
it eats brew's up.....ill never forget fightin 3 lo and slow on the deck and killin em all plus a Yak and spit...Yak was only one to get away engine hit....I got a great VOX cheat rant on that one hahahaha
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Last night was pretty memorable. A bunch of us in Zeros and F4U1s fighting a handful of Ki-84s, P-38s, and what have you.
Got some pretty good kills there. Thanks, Akak!
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Last night was pretty memorable. A bunch of us in Zeros and F4U1s fighting a handful of Ki-84s, P-38s, and what have you.
Got some pretty good kills there. Thanks, Akak!
Welcome, it was a fun little furball.
ack-ack
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I wish we could still fly our fighters and bombers back to England during scenarios.
Me too.... it certainly added to the immersion! Taking off from England too and spending time just forming up with other bomber groups made it all seem much more real than those awful air spawns! I don't think most players these days would have the patience that we apparently had lol! :old:
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Last night was memorable for me I was flying 109s and 190s with JG11. It was most fun :banana:
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When me and grizz were dueling it out he was on my 6 in a 109g6, and a series of his bad shots and me turning and climbing with a tail slide on top I some how got a brief shot on his pilot for the kill.
Was a lot more epic in film in which I have :)
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From an immersion standpoint:
I was stooging about in a Mossie VI all by myself deep in enemy territory when I spotted two Bf110G-2s maintaining perfect formation with eachother. I kicked WEP in and went in pursuit, gaining ground rapidly. At about 600 yards I climbed level with them and at 300 yards I opened fire on the trailing Bf110, shattering it. I slid to the right and immediately opened fire on the lead Bf110, blowing it up as well. Total time from first shot to last shot was less than 3 seconds. Neither Bf110 even twitched, though I know they were manned (not AFK) to be keeping formation that well.
Only thing that would have made it better is if it had been night in the game when I did it.
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First time Santa came I killed a 47 in an f4u. Was epic due to the total darkness all around.
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From an immersion standpoint:
I was stooging about in a Mossie VI all by myself deep in enemy territory when I spotted two Bf110G-2s maintaining perfect formation with eachother. I kicked WEP in and went in pursuit, gaining ground rapidly. At about 600 yards I climbed level with them and at 300 yards I opened fire on the trailing Bf110, shattering it. I slid to the right and immediately opened fire on the lead Bf110, blowing it up as well. Total time from first shot to last shot was less than 3 seconds. Neither Bf110 even twitched, though I know they were manned (not AFK) to be keeping formation that well.
Only thing that would have made it better is if it had been night in the game when I did it.
Reminds me of an account by coastal command 235 (I think...) squadron - day time, 2 VI's off the Norwegian coast came across a tight formation of 4 110s. The Mossies quickly closed the distance while the 110s gunners were eating their Leberkase and didn't notice them. The mossies dispatched 3 of them, but the lucky 4th one escaped during the dogfight. If only ch.200 was invented then, I bet the mossie pilots would be calling him a coward on ch.200, trying to tease him to turn back and fight them.
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My most epic sorties were in 2010/2011 when I played before joining again now. Fought as a knight in late war arena then too and a player named Floatsup put up fun missions with great turn up.
Once there was a battle going on where an enemy cv was attacking our airfield. Floatsup made a B25H mission for attacking the carrier group. The idea was to destroy all battle ships and deack the cv so we could land on it afterwards. I think well over 10 pilots participated. We took off from another field and sneaked from the other side. After the mayhem of flying bombs, gunfire etc was over, the whole group was basically annihilated. Sadly there was some miscommunication and the cv was sunk too, so no landing on the carrier.
The other time the same guy put up a mission for a B17 formations to raid the enemy strats and HQ. Again over 10 took part. We got to the city and some fighters attacked, but nothing spectacular yet. When we got closer to the HQ all hell broke loose. Most of the prop fighters had been shot down, but now a number of 163s and 262s started to attack. I got one comet as he was making his first pass from above and I think I got another one shortly after. During the reduced throttle formation flight I ended up about 200 yards in front. After a while all the buffs but me were shot down. One 163 and 262 started to make their slashing attacks against me and got two of my already badly damaged bombers down. I managed to evade the ensuing attacks by maneuvering as well as I could. Nearly all of my guns were damaged and finally one of them got my elevator. I was saved by a couple of friendly fighters that drove off the attackers. I spent the next 20-30min controlling the beaten up B17 and finally managed to land it as the only one who returned.
The third story actually composes of two lone flights. I was climbing over the sea with a Typhoon, heading towards a fight area. I`ve been watching a large enemy dar bar behind their lines for some time now and as I was flying, it also moved towards the sea. One friendly called out a large climbing buff formation. I raced there and saw a huge formation, I think it was the rooks doing their "mission of the month" flight. Couple of friendlies were already attacking some stragglers behind. The formation looked like a spearhead and there were no escort fighters around. Attacking the lead formation from the front and above seemed like a good idea. After pushing the nose down and diving down straight like an arrow the luck was on my side, because I ended up at the perfect position to open fire. Got one of the drones burning, but the gunners hit the radiator and damaged the plane a little. After diving through the formation I pulled up and extended to the formation`s one o`clock position, reversed and attacked again from low. Delivered some damage, but lost a wing and bailed out. What made this memorable was the following salute. The large text box was almost filled with white salute and my game tag.
Anyway I got a P47M to intercept the same formation over our strats. By the time I arrived the enemy was really high up and now escort fighters were also present. The fight was already on with friendlies engaged with fighters and bombers. This time I was at the formation`s eight o`clock high. I saw only one escort P47 a little higher than the formation near me, but still well below. Made a decision to dive down, get the jug and attack buffs in a single pass. As I dove down towards the jug that didn`t see me coming at all, the plane suffered from high speed compression effect and I couldn`t control it anymore. Chopping the throttle and deflecting the rudder didn`t help. I zoomed past the other jug almost colliding with him, continued towards the formation still struggling to regain control. I got to a firing range of one formation with the uncontrolled jug and fired the guns getting some hits. Just scooted past him eventually regaining control below the formation. I pulled up to make new attacks. I got at least one kill because somebody else shot down the buffs I fired at before. I do not remember wether it was a fighter or a bomber that got me at last, but after I bailed out the enlarged text box filled again with salute and my game tag like a slap in the face.
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After more than 10,000 hours in game, and tens of thousands of kills and deaths in every imaginable way, I find it actually hard to remember the most "epic" sorties.
I think the majority of sorties I actually remember are from my very early days in the game. When everything was new and exciting, and I got sweaty palms just by slowly creeping up to an enemy AFK fighter. I vividly remember the small milestones. My first two kill sortie I will never forget, I was so incredibly excited about it. Or when I crossed K/D 3, I thought I was on the top of the world :lol
And then there was that epic La-7 duel in the main... when I rediscovered that film years later, I didn't see any epic dogfight, it was just two noobs missing each other and stalling out again and again. But in my memory it was GREAT!
The day I 'discovered' the joy's of 'spawn camping' ... which resulted me sitting in totally boring remote spawns for hours, waiting for an occasional upper :uhoh
Killing 999000's B-17s in a Hurricane I :ahand
My first Me 262 sortie ever... ended quickly cause I accepted a Ho by a 190 :bhead
Later, after reaching the "been there done that" zone, my 'excitement' shifted to numbers, watching my personal stats... the 1000th tank kill in a Hurricane D for example, the 100th killed B-29, dropping 4,000 tons of bombs on the Strats...
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The sorties that comes first to my mind when talking about "epic" sorties, there probably wasn't anything epic about them but they were from my early days in the DA. When I flew the F4U's most of the time, and the reason those sorties got stuck in my mind is probably just because of the pure adrenaline rush and fun I had in them. The most fun fights that I can recall was against nrshida in his ki84 and and quite a few good fights against pervert in various planes. Those were the fun days for my part.
Now I fly mostly in MA, and I still try to have fun. But the "epic" fights are very scattered.. Probably because I don't play very often anymore, and the rust is growing. :rolleyes:
There was however one fight only a few days ago that could have been epic in my book if the fight was not jumped by a countryman, if I only had used a mic I probably could have called him off but we were in the midst of a rather big furball so I guess that's the reason it happened.
Anyway, I was in the P51D zooming in on a slower P47N from behind/above, he avoided my shot with ease and broke hard. I had to drop speed dramatically not to overshoot, but I managed to stay with him by doing a lag roll and the stall fight was on. I did not know who I was fighting, but I noticed it was someone good by the flip and prophanging just below me as I almost got whacked right there and then. I barely twisted myself out of bullets range and somehow managed to get on his six landing a few hits myself. But not enough to do real damage to the riggid P47. We both danced ontop of eachother in complete stallouts, and I thought it was quite beautiful myself..I mean, it is not often you get those close fights where it looks like everything is in harmony. After a short dance we were now in a downward spiral P47 infront of me and I was starting to think I could actually pull this off, that's when I saw bullets streak by me and blowing the P47 out of the sky.. :frown:
I was so perplexed I lost all of my SA and got killed myself shortly after, and in frustration I deleted the film. :bhead
So as I don't have the film I have only described the fight as I recall it, but I might have missed out on a few details. It all happened so fast. I think I got the kill if I remember correctly, so I must have landed some good hits afterall.
But I sure wish we could have finished that fight Bruv119, the outcome could have been you've totally turned the tables on me. I know how well the P47 can turn the tables in the hands of an expert. I've seen it and gotten killed by it before. :old:
As you said yourself on 200, this was turning into an interesting fight. And I can only take that as an compliment coming from THE top dog of AH. :rock :aok
You did not happen to save that film by the way Bruv? :salute
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It was a good fight essay, It was my own bad SA for getting in too close to your field, I wasted my height killing one guy, think it was a squirming niki (txcoyote) then save's 190A5 started poking about. He does like to extend alot and use team play but I riddled him with bullets and knew they had to kill him or I would be in trouble. He went floppy fish to evade a second burst and I had to break off him because you were zooming in.
I remember your second climb I looked back and you were about 100 yards below me, throttle cut wanting to saddle me and finish. I pulled enough to stay out of guns but then ruddered over the top, Jugs and 109's can do these fancy stall moves you see.
Save then quite rightly picked my jug sitting there all slow and ripe but the encounter did get some adrenaline pumping and that is all you can ask for.
I Don't blame Save for coming back for the pick I would too if some guy had just riddled my plane.
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sorry I wasn't filming.
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Yeah save is good at that I guess that's why they call him save, I know I have been "saved" by him a few times in the past :lol
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I did not notice you and Save allready were fighting eachother, in that case I was just as much jumping the fight myself. :noid
Not my intention at all!
I was just looking for someone to twist planes with, and your P47 looked like a good target. Well, if it was just you and me there it would have been beautiful. :rock
But then again, you would probably have had your full focus on me coming and the whole fight would probably have ended with me in the tower before I even knew what hit me.. :lol
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I remember, after getting slaughtered time and time again by him, tearing up a 262 from 1,000 out with KI-67s. When I saw it was Lusche I finally killed I almost crapped my pants. :x It was a big moment for me back when I was flying bombers almost exclusively. He, and a few others, had mastered a method of coming down on top of bombers and taking them out in an almost straight vertical dive and it was about imposable to defend against. I would upp one sortie after another trying to figure out some way to beat it. I never really did.
Anyways I caught him at the end up his game day drifting in a little to close to those 20mm cannon. I had learned how to rudder towards the fighter and then dip the inside wing to get a fire solution and get a spray off and luckily hit him. It was the first time I ever killed a really ace player in AH.
The TA used to have so many players in it I'd often upp bombers and have other trainees practice their attacking while I practiced my defending. I flew with the 484'th and would fly formations with a few other Rook bomber squads, great guys all. The game had a dynamic strat component with a lot of active players in it. It was a great time to be driving Buffs and a great time to hunt them.
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I remember, after getting slaughtered time and time again by him, tearing up a 262 from 1,000 out with KI-67s. When I saw it was Lusche I finally killed I almost crapped my pants. :x
I remember that, Tour 92 :)
Wait.. that's almost 6 years ago now ... how the time flies! :uhoh
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Lusche, I think you have even killed me in one of the those observer planes F1 something! <S> 999000