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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Karnak on August 20, 2002, 09:39:10 PM
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(I am fully expecting the La-7, Spitfire and N1K2-J to dominate this thread)
I mostly fly the Mosquito Mk VI. The aircraft I like seeing least is the La-7 as it pretty much means I'm going to die unless it is either way below me, heavily engaged or doesn't see me. However, I garner relatively little pleasure from killing an La-7. When I kill an La-7 I am glad, but only because it means there is one less La-7 near me and I get a decent perk point bounty. I harbour an intense dislike of the La-7 for amny reasons, but it is not the most satisfying kill.
What I enjoy killing the most is Fw190s. This isn't because "Luftweenies", "Luftwaffles" or any other insulting term you can think of tend to favor 190s. Hell, I like 190s, they're my favorite German aircraft. They look great, are leathal as hell and a blast to fly.
The reason I think I enjoy killing Fw190s more than any other aircraft is that they are what I consider the historical nemisis of the Mosquito. Fw190s are the top of the line German prop fighter and so when I shoot one down I have defeated the best historical opponent of my Mossie.
Frankly, even if I loose I still enjoy a good Mossie vs. 190 fight.
What do you gentlemen (and ladies) get the best feeling from killing?
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I tend to enjoy killing the historical opponents of whatever plane I happen to be flying. When I'm flying the P51 I enjoy fighting LW planes, when I'm flying a F6F I favor IJN/IJA opponents.... granted I do have my moments of ALL N1K'S MUST DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but I usually right that off as "I'm just fighting the natural enemy of my hellcat" :). I also enjoy it when I can down a "better" plane.
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F4Fs are tanks.
P38s are a sinch (big target, weak tail)
Yaks are slippery fish (used to have a tough time with them)
N1K's are definitely satisfying but not as much as they used to be (I only find poor pilots nowadays).
Zekes are fun to set fire with MGs and watch them fly around and meet their ultimate fate.
I sympathize with Hogs because I am a hog pilot.. and I see and exploit their mistakes.
109/190s are fun to scissor and rip a wing off. My LW brethren, forgive me :P
Mosquitos set fire just as easy as zekes do.
Come in at a high angle, take out their turrets and watch them flail helplessly as they attempt to gun you down with the Hull MG.
LVTs stranded in the water give me a warm fuzzy feeling as do ostwinds. Come in at a high angle, take out their turrets and watch them flail helplessly as they attempt to gun you down with the Hull MG.
Spitfires have a neat tendency to set fire and have a left/right wing tear off completely (which is good)
La7, yes. Gotta teach the newbs to get a new craft.
Typhoons: filling them with their own 20mm is satisfying.
BUT
My favorite is putting hot taters into another Me262 from my own quad-tater launcher.
[EDIT: or ANY kill from my P40]
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What Oedipus said. Anyone who says anything but a < S > back at me.
Assists can be good too, One particular incident springs to mind a few days ago, I killed a nameless players engine while he was spouting off on CH1. The guy who finished him off deadstick got the mouth, I got the pleasure of sitting back knowing I'd done the damage.
And 109's
Gatso
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Easy question. I fly mostly a 1D. Any fighter that had me on a high six bounce with smash.
Doesn't happen too often, I ain't that great and don't put myself in those positions if I can help it. But when it happens and I kill him, I have visions of "you were killed by nopoop" in my mind...
Doesn't get any better than that :)
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maybe it's the psychotic it me but I get pleasure just from the kill alone, doesn't matter what the plane is or who's flying it.
ack-ack
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I dont get much satisfaction out of killing N1k's - they are usually poorly flown and predictable. I like to see a 38 because gunnery is my weak point. :D
I will say that I have the most fun attacking buff formations - B17's especially.
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to me, the best is when the guy that cashed in tons of altitude, swoops down to kill me and augers, and gives me the kill:)
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there is nothing like killing a H2H temp or 262 dweeb with your hurr I lol nothing like it at all..............
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I have to admit it's the LA7s. Just a few hours ago I was flying in the MA. CAP over a hot base with about 6 others. This LA7 come screaming onto the field and, as LaLas are want to do, latched on to some poor Spit. I was in an FM2 I think. He had the drop on us all, so I sort of circled and kept some alt. When he had burned off his E (thankfully that Spit driver was good or the La7 driver was bad) I spiralled down to his six. Now I had the E advantage . He was in a shallow bank, squeezing off rounds. I found the blessed angle and flew behind and THROUGH him as he exploded with my MGs blaring. This was particularly satisfying because there were a few other guys that stuck to his six and burned E with him, but could never quite catch up. Yeah, any explosion kill is enough for me.
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I think maybe a bottle of 18 year old MacAllan.
I love to sneak up on it.. rip off it's cap and the slowly, slowly drain it of it's life's blood........
Muahahahahahh!
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I like Killing Bombers.
I will fly 75 miles to shoot one down. I stick with bombers for a long time even if they have dropped thier rocks already. I like slowly overtaking my opponent then trying to Head On them.
I like to land hit sprites all over the cockpit. I like to taunt them on open channel.
Its just the thrill of finding a Big formation almost makes me salivate.
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chutes :p
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Originally posted by Gryffin
chutes :p
Your just suckin up to the FDB's to get at there porn! :p
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190s, 109s, any LW. I'll trade a death for a 190 kill if I'm in the MA. :)
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Originally posted by Lizard3
Your just suckin up to the FDB's to get at there porn! :p
If I suck up to them enough they might show me the real hardcore stuff ... lamb porn!
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Anything I manage to kill with a Spit I !
Yesterday a P-51 did a pass over 'my' airfield. I was a bit higher and judged (for a change) exactly when to pull down after him to light him up quite satisfactory with my 8 0.303's Chased him for a few minutes but he slowly pulled away. Some guy tried to get him for me and warned me for a A6M as well. He couldn't catch the P-51 either and was bounced by the A6M as well... I survived.
Vulching N1k2's with a FM2 is also fun *g*
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When I kill Mitsu, I get lot of fun. That is why I never get lot of fun in this game. :)
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I always have a little extra when a Spitfire blows up in front of me.
(those are giving me a hell of a time)
I get a "shwing" when they bail and I dive for their chute too :D
More seriously now, anything that will not involve a 10 vs 1... if I had a good/long fight, even if you're the one who got shot down... it's the amount of sweat on the joystick that matters :)
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When I run away from Fariz, I get lot of fun.... :D
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People like Frenchy, funked, etc in their 51Ds (Bs too in 190A5, but they are too rare), P47s, Spit9s and Typhoons, for the same reasons Karnak said, and because they like saying things like what Funked said; it's a good provocation.
GVs but Osties in particular are a pleasure to disable by guns from above, it is quite a rush to go through one or five GVs' tracer streams and come out with a kill, repeatedly, almost as much adrenaline as..
Going after high divebombers, CV divers the most common, and hitting them before they hit anything.
A good large thick spread of canon hit sprites on B17s, it would be MA heaven to do nothing but rake B17s to and fro while they shoot that uber 50 cal (radiator) poison at you.
Wingtip damage on Lancasters,
Putting as many rounds as possible in Ki67s without blowing them up,
MGing a fast M8's tracks or any GV bobsledding down a steep slope.
Shooting down a well flown spit9 is a pleasure, they are almost impossible to beat twice with the same move, but nothing comes close to P51 or P47 duels, it is really cool to shoot down a plane which is a better dogfighter strictly speaking in flying terms (eventually it will take over in a fight without weapons), is also able to out ping you from further, is as fast as you, and is probably convinced your plane is so much lesser than his.
I fly D9 almost all the time and it's easy to agree the mustang is better; but it is just too ugly and generic compared to my D9 to make one give up wanting to fight it.
And then an la7 comes by and shoots one of the two down as the denouement was about to happen.
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Any Bish La-7's, Ponies or Nikis.... Spits are ok too :)
All bombers are also a pleasure.
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Sexual inactivity .
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It's a disease, but anytime I whack a P51x or Spit in my G6 , I begin to swell in my special place :D .
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Originally posted by Samm
Sexual inactivity .
I was sure some of the first replies here would say 'innocence', or 'virginity' or something like that......and this is as close as it came?
Yikes, you guys are more mature than I thought you all were :)
Blue
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Everyone! I am an F6F pilot, so I really HATE any japenese aircraft. I will b n z them until they die! I like killing nikis, F4U's, fellow F6F's, spits, and P51's the most. I like outturning the nikis and they don't know what happened. I like killing F4U's because of the gull wing, just because its cool lol. I like killing fellow F6F's because same plane vs. same plane shows who is better at that plane. I like outturning spits and outdiving and b n z them. It is very fun to suprise a spit pilot. I like killing P51's because its such a beautiful plane and I probably have killed at least 1000 offline so I have seen it too many times. all!
~BlueiceJ~ - new handle will be Wildkat!
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I love historical match ups as Hellcat (BlueiceJ), I'd say being in a F4U and successfully downing any Japanese aircraft (particularly the N1K).
In the MA, once entering a furball, I do what many do, prioritize the largest threat, that usually means hunting the N1K, LA7 and Spits first.
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When im flying my Mk. IX......favorite thing to kill is other spits....109's....the occational slippery Yak fight is when im happiest.....When im in a G10.....going out and finding some bombers...and lobbing explosive milk bottles at them is pretty fun......but the most enjoyment ive had was on a CV 5" gun....there was two formations attacking us at once....first a torp fun of ju88's....then a medeium level of b26's......they all exploded at about 1K....nice.....BIG....explosi ons.... :D ......i just loved that
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For me is it be a cheap kill. Finding a low, damaged con and shooting him down or anything else really cheap. Muahahha :D
Yesterday i chased a deadstick p51 all the way to his airfield, then i vuclhed him just as he was landing. Even got a reaction over ch1 from him.:)
Although shooting down people in LW planes is nice too.
Here's an example of a cheap kill below-:
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MGing a fast M8's tracks or any GV bobsledding down a steep slope.
Umm, it may be a moot point (as it were... :D ), but the M8 armored car is a six-wheeled vehicle. No tracks; that's why they're so much faster than M3s, M16s, Osties, or PzKpfw IVs.
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Taking out formations of bombers, especially B17's that are low and slow and concentrating on bombing my base. Take up a 109 or 190 and slicing back and forth across the formation until they go boom.
Other item is the 1 v 1 match ups that turn into extended fights. After spending 5 minutes twisting, turning, extending, scissoring, etc. -- doesn't matter who wins. It was the fight that was fun. Usually I learn something new. That's the fun part -- learning something new about an aircraft you thought you new.
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Originally posted by Bluedog
I was sure some of the first replies here would say 'innocence', or 'virginity' or something like that......and this is as close as it came?
Yikes, you guys are more mature than I thought you all were :)
Blue
I just answered honestly, I don't think that's immature, hedonistic maybe .
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I have enjoyed shooting down ( on a rare occasion when I meet them) a 57th or 412th squad member, because if you can kill one and survive you know you've killed a good pilot and defeated their good teamwork/wingman tactics.
And they always seem to be polite and give a thinking about it maybe thats just cause they killed me again :)
But I also love killing buff formations as I know the poor guy has just spent ages getting alt, he he he :D
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The most satisfying kill comes from engaging in a good 1v1 fight with some of the really good sticks and being the one flying back home, instead of riding the silk.
My second favorite has to be bombers. Especially flying into and through LOTS of bombers. 2, 3, even 4 formations of bombers. The more the merrier. Just looking at that insane wall of lead being directed towards my poor little P51-B...
Killing any plane that is in a heavily defended area...such as a cv or airfield.
I guess basically, any fight where the odds are crazily against me that I am able to fly away from as victor.
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Any LW plane
Any 13 TAS.
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Since chutes are already taken, I'll say squad members.
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I most enjoy killing blue planes for some reason. F6F's and F4U's are at the top of the list. Pony D's are up there at the top too. Spitfires are always fun. I like getting into a knife fight with an LA7 on the deck and working my way around and killing him.
Just mark me down for liking to kill allied planes. Dunno why, I'm no axis sympathizer or anything. It seems people with simple personalities tend to fly allied. Shattering their "War Hero" dream with a well placed tater just brings a good giggle from me. :p
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Originally posted by Karnak
(I am fully expecting the La-7, Spitfire and N1K2-J to dominate this thread)
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What do you gentlemen (and ladies) get the best feeling from killing?
Yes, I engage those three with much zest and gusto, particularly if the Spitfire is the Spitfire Mk IX model (I've learned to tell the differences by the camo colorings). I've been flying the Spitfire V lately and have learned to enjoy the killing of N1K2s and Spitfire IXs in it, and it brings along a nice perk bounty reward for doing so. Other than ship and field gunners, the Spitfire IX is the leading cause of my demise this tour. With a bit of alt for diving speed, my Spitfire V can tangle with La-7s if the La-7 pilot lets his speed drop down too far.
Last night I was monkeying around in a Spitfire V down low in a valley and had the pleasure of watching first an LA-7 and then a P-51D smack headfirst into a mountain when they tried to bounce me. I love those "watch out for that tree" kills.
I also flew an La-7 a couple of times just to see what it could do, and it was a lot of fun running down Mustangs and Typhoons that were on jabo raids of my base. I selected the armament that comes with 3 guns instead of 2, even though the ammo load per gun was smaller, and bagged 3 kills before having to retire to my base with low ammo counts. But - just a few squirts are enough to knock down most fighters so the low ammo load is offset by the punch-per-shell. Unlike the Spitfire V's .303 bullets, which pack a punch equal to an insect bite, the La-7's shells can really mess up an enemy aircraft.
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Originally posted by Karnak
What gives you the greatest enjoyment when you destroy it?
I always aim for La7's first then of course niki's and spits about equally, mostly due to the high likelihood of a fragile ego in those cockpits :)
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favs:
#1 - the guy that bounced my six from a huge height adavantage (especially tasty when in a group)
#2 - the tard that tries to drag me to ack or a group of friendlies after having been bested. I.E. the guy from #1, after losing advantage and missing the shot, runs to momma's skirt. I love seeing those guys explode.
#3 - whiners
#4 - perk planes
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Ostwinds
Seems most of the guys I encounter who drive these are damn good shots. I can't tell you how many times I've manned an Ostwind and watched guys fly thru unscaathed at the stuff I throw up there :)
I really enjoy going after them in the A8, with bombs n rockets, and if I still havent killed em, and Im still alive, trying to light them up with the 30mm.
I'd try with the IL-2, but it seems I always loose my tail even from a head on hit. If that bird is armored, Ill be darned if I know where. Lots of tail-less crashes....??
Panzers are fun too, especially if you get someone who is really good with the machine gun spot.
I really admire the GV guys. I get so focused on them, most of the perks I give them is from me stalling-spinning or mashing into a tree ;)
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1) Any 1v1 fighter kill.
2) When RTBing in a Hellcat with less than 100 rounds left and I reverse and kill the La7 running me down.
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German planes I like destroying.... My skin crawls sometimes when I see an nme flying one...usually it means they going to HO me... more times than not...
T0J0
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1 Any kill while in a C 47.It just doesnt get any better than that
2 That poor bastard that chased me with his 5 friends after I Jaboed the base.Then after the others peel off and theres just him....and me......I love to turn around and WACK his bellybutton :)
Watch what ya chase.Ya just might catch it
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The guy who's saddled up on a friendly's six. Best part is getting the "thanks Nifty!" from the countrymate on range channel, or squaddie on the squad channel.
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I really love killing whatever I'm flying. I kill what I'm flying more often than anything. I may be the best in the game at killing what I fly. C'mon, bring it on, I dare ya.
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I kinda like killing an opponent who is flying the same aircraft that I am.
I think this is because "you" won the fight, not your plane. Well maybe the 5K alt advantage helped and the fact that the guy just took off :D
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Any member of the 13th TAS :D
13th TAS... the sworn arch enemy of the 412th FS
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Personal pleasure obtained from:
1) The guy who never sees me coming, and gets 8 x .50 from my Jug for his poor SA.
2) Any Zero (they burn real good).
3) Any La7 "hero" who complains he got HO'd after going head to head with my Jug.
4) Any LA7 "hero" who thinks he is invincible above 20K.
5) Pumping rounds into the white underside of a Spit.
6) Ruddering back and forth to spray a buff formation.
7) As a bonus to #1, hitting him just hard enough that a crucial piece of aluminum comes off, and watching him flop all the way down from 15K, and as an ADDITIONAL bonus, watching him bail at 10K for that long, slow ride down.
8) Any maneuver kill (Watch out for the mountain).
Of course, given my poor skills I rarely get to experience any of the foregoing often enough to really enjoy them.
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Anything that Fester is flying. :cool:
Kuben
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best kill is a HO Monster N1k flown by a n00b that had 10.000.00 k alt advantage but came HO like 90%off the time
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La-7 dweebs. Love to see them go down in flames, especially if I did it.
:)
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Last Week I vulched a Spit XIV, could have had another one but didn't want to go to the well one too many times, I was in a Spit IX :( .
I concur with my squadmate, a couple of posts above this one.
Chutes. You can't help it sometimes, someone pulled the sissy silk and "hey, hey, look at me!". You almost......feel bad for them.
Any corsairs especially the perks, pretty good track record against them.
Karaya2
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Killing pilots that have bailed that are freefalling and have not yet opened their chutes .
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smoking those Ho'ing, non-acm niki drivers in my f4f after they've missed their first 3 HO attempts :D La-7's are particularly sweet in the f4f too. heheheheh
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For some reason, I get an erection beating a zeke in a turnfight with a 38. Few nights ago i got into a scrap with a great pilot in spit14 and he had around 10k on me. Took him 15 minutes to kill me. Even though i was the dead pilot, I still had a big smile on my face :D
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Pulling an especialy long butt hair and then killing it... the dingle berries can suck though.
xBAT
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Shooting down other buffs with a b17 is fun.
Shooting down anything that is farther away than 1.4 in a flakyak is fun.
Opening a H2H arena and manning a field gun with tracers off is fun .
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1) Anyone with AK in front of their name
(hardly ever happens though)
2) P38s (see above)
3) ANYTHING - My favorite plane hands down is the Spit 1, any kill is cause for minor celebrations. Plus I stink on ice.
- Seagoon
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Shooting me 110's rockets into the cockpit area and than wate to pick him off when he is wounded and blacked out. It is the ultimit evil.
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Bradys5
There is nothing more despicable then a man that makes a practice of driving a flak panzer onto an enemy taxi strip, parking there, vulching spawners, and exiting at the first sign of trouble.
Aside from that, Flak Panzers in general, followed by sale collabos, Vichy. Traitors/country-hoppers must die!
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LA-7s, especially after having them chase me for 2 sectors and reversing on them.
Nikis.
And most of all: SPITS. I just love it when I enter the fray:
SPIT SPIT SPIT
SPIT SPIT SPIT
SPIT SPIT
and boom one. Best if they break and i send some 20mm down their canopy roof in a snapshot.
Ah well, Luftweeny here :)