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General Forums => Achievement System => Topic started by: Pyro on February 12, 2013, 10:05:16 AM
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I'm looking for some suggestions for more historical achievements. By now you've seen what those are like but I'm needing to come up with some more historical feats to serve as a basis for an achievement. They could be most kills in a type either by sortie, career, or in a day. They could be most kills of a type or even something completely different. These require some research as a lot of them will be pretty esoteric, e.g. who has the most kills in a Ki-61. I don't want a bunch of redundant ones though.
If you have a suggestion for one of these, post it here along with your reference. A lot of these feats may be iffy with regards to actual numbers, especially after being dissected by historians, but that's ok.
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I thought of an achievement (if you can call it that) where a player survives a ram from another player, and the other aircraft is downed from the collision. There are many examples of this historically, are you looking for a pilot's name or a situation? In this case, the name of a famous plane, EZ Goin', would be my suggestion.
Here is an article on the bird in question.
http://www.classic-machines.com/blog/2010/12/23/b-17-e-z-goin-and-the-sonderkommando-elbe-buchen-raid (http://www.classic-machines.com/blog/2010/12/23/b-17-e-z-goin-and-the-sonderkommando-elbe-buchen-raid)
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George "Buzz" Buerling, shoot down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days over Malta.
for the purpose of the achievement make it 27 Spit V kills in a day. "Knight of Malta"
I'm going to use wikipedia as a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beurling
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Have we already gota Saburo Sakai acheivement for landing with a PW?
If not it could be the "I need an Advil" acheivement.
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The South African ace Marmaduke Pattle was the highest scoring ace in both the Hurricane and in the Gladiator, over the desert and Greece during 1940-41. Various sources list his kill tally from 40-60, the problem being many RAF records were destroyed in the evacuation of Greece. However a total of 50 kills, 15 on Gladiators and 35 on Hurricanes is widely quoted. So how about a "Score 35 kills in a Hurricane" achievement for Pattle?
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The Pattle achievement is already there. Did Beurling score all his kills in a Spitfire V?
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Sorry, should have waited until I got home to check that. Could you post a list of all the historical achievements we currently have in the game?
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Here's a list of the current ones in the game.
Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Bf 109F-4 Hans Marseille
Get 80 kills in a WW1 plane Manfred Von Richofen
Shoot down 9 planes in a sortie while flying an F6F David McCampbell
Shoot down 352 planes while flying German fighters. Erich Hartmann
Shoot down 34 planes in a Spitfire Mk IX Johnnie Johnson
Shoot down 39 airplanes in a B-239 Hans Wind
Land 50 sorties in an American heavy bomber 50 Mission Crush
Land 25 sorties in a B-17 Memphis Belle
Shoot down 13 planes in 1 fighter sortie Erich Rudorffer
Shoot down 3 planes in a sortie while flying a SBD Swede Vejtasa
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying an F4F James Swett
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying a P-51 Bill Shomo
Destroy 519 tanks while flying a plane Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Shoot down 18 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190 Emil Lang
Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190F August Lambert
Shoot down 22 planes while flying a P-40 Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 87 planes while flying an A6M Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
Shoot down 16 planes while flying a Me 262 Heinrich Bär
Shoot down 5 planes in 1 sortie while flying a P-40 Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 26 planes while flying a P-51 George Preddy
Shoot down 28 planes while flying a P-47 Gabby Gabreski
Shoot down 35 airplanes while flying a Hurricane Pat Pattle
Shoot down 62 airplanes while flying a Lavochkin Ivan Kozhedub
Shoot down 50 airplanes while flying a P-39 Nikolay Gulaev
Shoot down 68 Spitfires while flying a Luftwaffe fighter Pips Priller
Shoot down 25 airplanes in an F4U Robert Hanson
Shoot down 15 airplanes in a Typhoon John Robert Baldwin
Shoot down 11 airplanes in a Tempest David Fairbanks
Shoot down 36 American heavy bombers Georg-Peter Eder
Shoot down 3 American heavy bombers in @1 fighter sortie Egon Mayer
Shoot down 94 tank killers Otto Kittel
Shoot down 38 planes while flying a German @heavy fighter Eduard Tratt
Shoot down 40 planes while flying a P-38 Richard Bong
Shoot down 13 P-47s while flying a fighter Theodor Weissenberger
Shoot down 11 P-51s while flying a fighter Heinrich Bartels
Shoot down 17 P-38s while flying a fighter Franz Schiess
Shoot down 19 planes while flying a Macchi. Teresio Martinoli
Shoot down 11 B-29s while flying a fighter. Nagao Shirai
Shoot down 4 B-29s in 1 fighter sortie Tadao Sumi
Destroy 14 tanks in 1 tank sortie Michael Wittmann
Destroy 168 tanks in a German tank Kurt Knispel
Destroy 5 Panthers in 1 Firefly sortie Wilfred Harris
Shoot down 26 planes while flying an F4F Joe Foss
Shoot down 9 planes while flying an FM2 Ralph Elliott
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OK I have got a few possibilities:
Shoot down 21 airplanes in a Mosquito: Branse Burbridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branse_Burbridge
Land 100 sorties in a British bomber: Leonard Cheshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cheshire
Torpedo 2 cruisers: Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Emanuele_Buscaglia
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Would it be possible to tie the planes selected skin into the achievement?
i.e, by using a RAAF skin, the plane type will count towards a different achievement.
Then you could give achievements for a specific pilots career. So if a pilot flew P39s/P40s in the pacific theater and shot down 23 planes then 1 skin on each plane would add to that total, but both planes must have more then 20% of that total etc.
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Another possibility:
Destroy 52 German tanks in a T-34: Dmitry Lavrinenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Lavrinenko
Tying achievements to skins might be a big headache for HTC. A table of skins/forces/theaters would have to be created for the 100s of skins already in the game and updated every time new skins were introduced.
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Thanks for the suggestions, keep em coming. I can't do anything based on skins unfortunately. I'm adding the following achievements.
Shoot down 27 planes while flying a Spitfire Mk V Buzz Beurling
Shoot down 21 planes while flying a Mosquito Branse Burbridge
Land 100 sorties in a British bomber Leonard Cheshire
Destroy 52 tanks in a T-34 Dmitry Lavrinenko
Hit 2 ships with a torpedo from a plane Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia
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Land 213 sorties in a Mosquito Mk XVI - Mosquito B.Mk IX F for Freddie, serial LR503, flown by Flt. Lt. Maurice Briggs, DSO, DFC, DFM and navigator Fl. Off. John Baker, DFC and Bar, among others, survived 213 sorties, more than any other bomber. Suggested achievement name "F for Freddie"
Land 207 sorties in a B-26B - Flak Bait, a B-26, survived 207 sorties, more than any other American bomber. Suggested achievement name "Flak Bait"
5 kills in one sortie in a Mosquito Mk VI - Sqdn Ldr Charles Scherf DSO, DFC & Bar. Suggested achievement name "Last Trip" as that became Scherf's nickname due to his habit of flying operations with his old squadron on his holidays after he was assigned to a desk job. It was on one of his holiday trips that he downed five in one sortie.
A question, is it possible to key the landing requirement to also requiring damage to have been done to the enemy?
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Shoot down two Yak 9s in one sortie in a Ta-152H1 Josef Keil
While it is simple to do these kills are often claimed to be the last air to air kills of the war for the Germans.
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I'll take a whack at a couple aimed in theme at the AVG.
Get 3 Kills against Japanesse aircraft in a P-40. Order of the Cloud and Banner (33 AVG pilots were awarded this by the Republic of China.)
Get 13 kills against Japanesse aircraft in a P-40. Robert Neale (top ace with the AVG)
Get 5 kills in one sortie while flying a P-40. (Revision of the current/double Clive Caldwell achievement) Paper-wrapped Tiger / From Santa, To Hedman / Robert Hedman (Robert Hedman became an "ace in a day" with the AVG while piloting a P-40 on Christmas day, 1941)
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Here is a Historical Achievement by Fighter Group: On March 24,1945, the 332nd FG flew the longest escort mission ever flown by the
15th USAAF to Berlin. The 332nd FG was suppose to be relieved by another Fighter Group, however that other Fighter Group never showed
up. So the 332nd FG contiune onward never leaving the Bombers they were escorting alone.
Once at Berlin, in the pursueing Air to Air engagement in and around Berlin, Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Charles Brantly and Earl Lane, each shot down
a Me 262 a piece. So how about this "Shoot Down three Me 262 in a P-51D.
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Sorry if anyone suggested these before.
Successfuly complete a sortie launched and recovered off a carrier. "Wings of Gold" / Naval Aviator Badge
Shoot down 34 aircraft while flying a F6F. "Ace of Aces" / David McCampbell (Highest scoring US Navy ace of WWII, 3rd highest in US forces, highest scoring ace to survive the war.)
Shoot down 5,223 aircraft while flying a F6F. Hellcat Mastery / Cat Tamer / "You've done this, how many times?" (The F6F in service during WWII with the USN, USMC, RNFAA were credited with destroying 5,223 aircraft in combat.)
Shoot down 4,950 aircraft while flying a P51 (B and D). Mustang Mastery / Horse Tamer / "Riding the pony"
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Babalonian's idea of somehow recognizing the massive kills by Ponys and Hellcats is a decent idea, if that many kills are registered in one month.
I fly the 190A5 almost exclusively. I would be happy to find some thresholds in Butcher Birds, so Gallands 99 kills all the way to Nowotny. It would be fun to track how many kills you've had in a month by which ace.
Again, if that is of interest I am happy to track down names and numbers. Just let me know.
Boo
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I wouldn't suggest within a month, or even a year. The real pilots in wartime conditions even had a few years to accumulate that number.
It hopefuly would have a hefty reward for earning it. If it would likely take your average AH pilot, flying an average of 2-hours every day (or alternatively one or two days on the weekend), racking up an average of 10-kills an hour (a very generous rate), 261.15 days to earn that single achievement. If bombing 5 ammo bunkers is doable in ~30 minutes for 10-reputation points, then to scale the reward for an achievement that took 261 2-hour days to earn will/should/could be huuuge. Not that getting 5,223 kills in a F6F isn't already an awesome achievement in this game, but imagine if it got you 500 or even 1k reputation-points for it (or, alternatively, a unique star/symbol next to your name on the roster/buffer).
IMHO: I don't think there should be a lot of "big" achievements, but there shouldn't be a lot of "little" or easy achievements either. A good balance should have a few on both ends of the spectrum.
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Maybe one for kills over 30k feet?
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Thanks for the list below, Pyro. Please keep this updated and posted somewhere easy to find (maybe a sticky on this bb). Have already printed this off and am starting to work towards these achievements!
Here's a list of the current ones in the game.
Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Bf 109F-4 Hans Marseille
Get 80 kills in a WW1 plane Manfred Von Richofen
Shoot down 9 planes in a sortie while flying an F6F David McCampbell
Shoot down 352 planes while flying German fighters. Erich Hartmann
Shoot down 34 planes in a Spitfire Mk IX Johnnie Johnson
Shoot down 39 airplanes in a B-239 Hans Wind
Land 50 sorties in an American heavy bomber 50 Mission Crush
Land 25 sorties in a B-17 Memphis Belle
Shoot down 13 planes in 1 fighter sortie Erich Rudorffer
Shoot down 3 planes in a sortie while flying a SBD Swede Vejtasa
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying an F4F James Swett
Shoot down 7 planes in a sortie while flying a P-51 Bill Shomo
Destroy 519 tanks while flying a plane Hans-Ulrich Rudel
Shoot down 18 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190 Emil Lang
Shoot down 17 planes in 1 day while flying a Fw 190F August Lambert
Shoot down 22 planes while flying a P-40 Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 87 planes while flying an A6M Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
Shoot down 16 planes while flying a Me 262 Heinrich Bär
Shoot down 5 planes in 1 sortie while flying a P-40 Clive Caldwell
Shoot down 26 planes while flying a P-51 George Preddy
Shoot down 28 planes while flying a P-47 Gabby Gabreski
Shoot down 35 airplanes while flying a Hurricane Pat Pattle
Shoot down 62 airplanes while flying a Lavochkin Ivan Kozhedub
Shoot down 50 airplanes while flying a P-39 Nikolay Gulaev
Shoot down 68 Spitfires while flying a Luftwaffe fighter Pips Priller
Shoot down 25 airplanes in an F4U Robert Hanson
Shoot down 15 airplanes in a Typhoon John Robert Baldwin
Shoot down 11 airplanes in a Tempest David Fairbanks
Shoot down 36 American heavy bombers Georg-Peter Eder
Shoot down 3 American heavy bombers in @1 fighter sortie Egon Mayer
Shoot down 94 tank killers Otto Kittel
Shoot down 38 planes while flying a German @heavy fighter Eduard Tratt
Shoot down 40 planes while flying a P-38 Richard Bong
Shoot down 13 P-47s while flying a fighter Theodor Weissenberger
Shoot down 11 P-51s while flying a fighter Heinrich Bartels
Shoot down 17 P-38s while flying a fighter Franz Schiess
Shoot down 19 planes while flying a Macchi. Teresio Martinoli
Shoot down 11 B-29s while flying a fighter. Nagao Shirai
Shoot down 4 B-29s in 1 fighter sortie Tadao Sumi
Destroy 14 tanks in 1 tank sortie Michael Wittmann
Destroy 168 tanks in a German tank Kurt Knispel
Destroy 5 Panthers in 1 Firefly sortie Wilfred Harris
Shoot down 26 planes while flying an F4F Joe Foss
Shoot down 9 planes while flying an FM2 Ralph Elliott
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Pyro,
Has HTC considered some achievement awards for the TA?
Such as I setup my Joystick.... the poindexter
I took off and landed... The Woodstock {bird in charlie brown}
There's many more I suppose but the purpose would be to encourage players to actually go into the TA and use it.
:salute
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I'd also like to see this one for the TA;
'Helping Hand'
Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.
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I'd also like to see this one for the TA;
'Helping Hand'
Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.
:aok
:salute
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I'd also like to see this one for the TA;
'Helping Hand'
Awarded by a Trainer to anyone who helps out someone in the TA or the MA that they didn't know previously, without expectation of a reward. It is extremely aggravating to see the community giving new players the wrong information because they think it is funny.
Especially the Alt+F4 and enter three times advice. It's just not nice, and some sensitive folks might be extremely discouraged by that.
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Especially the Alt+F4 and enter three times advice. It's just not nice, and some sensitive folks might be extremely discouraged by that.
the alt-f4 is even more lame now than it was before, because now it doesn't even work... aces high captures the keystroke and asks you to confirm. :neener:
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This maybe an achievement, crash landing with no wheels {ur wheels shot up) or landing with one wheel down because of damage to the other one.
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what about the midway achievement.
sink a cv using an sbd.
we dont nearly have enough cv/cruiser achievements in the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
semp
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The "All American"
B-24G of the 765th BS, 461st BG on a mission on 25 JUL 44 was credited with shooting down 14 enemy aircraft during the mission.
Due to our short span missions it might be better to make this simply shooting down 14 enemy aircraft from a bomber. Fourteen kills in a single sortie would be a challenge.
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Shoot down two Me 262s in a prop driven fighter in a single sortie: - Urban Drew.
http://www.brianbatemanavart.com/two-for-drew.html
Or make it less specific: Shoot down two jets in a prop driven fighter in a single sortie.
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Shoot down five planes in one day in a Sea Hurricane: Richard Cork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_John_Cork
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George "Buzz" Buerling, shoot down 27 Axis aircraft in just 14 days over Malta.
for the purpose of the achievement make it 27 Spit V kills in a day. "Knight of Malta"
I'm going to use wikipedia as a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beurling
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He was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War. Being a Canadian myself, I WANT to earn this achievement. :salute
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what about the midway achievement.
sink a cv using an sbd.
we dont nearly have enough cv/cruiser achievements in the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
semp
Rename to "Miracle at Midway" if you sink a CV with a SBD, and +1 :aok
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He was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War. Being a Canadian myself, I WANT to earn this achievement. :salute
Pyro has added it,
You will surely be upping a Spit V in defence of Malta tomorrow night 8pm GMT.
:salute
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Pyro has added it,
You will surely be upping a Spit V in defence of Malta tomorrow night 8pm GMT.
:salute
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7300546590_f4c6b61238_m.jpg)
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Shoot down a plane while wounded - James Nicolson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brindley_Nicolson
Could also be: Shoot down a plane while on fire.
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shouldn't we have some kind of addition to some of the achievments already here........like 352 kills in a luft fighter WITHOUT GETTING KILLED!........that sort of thing...as many of these achievments can be performed by constant repitition.......get a kill,die,get a kill,die,get a kill die. Some should be...get the achievemnet...AND NOT DIE wile performing the task. AND OF COURSE THERE SHOULD BE A FW190 WALTER NOWOTNY ACHIEVMENT.
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Personally I don't like the idea of K/D based achievements, its just another reason for players to fly timidly.
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Personally I don't like the idea of K/D based achievements, its just another reason for players to fly timidly.
This is the reason I haven't suggested such despite instinctively thinking things like Hartman's should be done without dying or being captured.
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"Six bombers in four (or five) minutes."
During Winter War on 6th of January 1940 Finnish Air Force Lieutenant Jorma Sarvanto intercepted a Soviet bomber formation returning from bombing raid on Finnish city Kuopio and shot down six of them down in 4-5 minutes. Eventually the whole eight plane formation was destroyed.
(http://www.sci.fi/~fta/sarvanto.gif)
"This feat received tremendous publicity in the world press, who considered it a world record at the time. Most major Western newspapers published a photo of Lt. Sarvanto holding a large greased sheet of aluminum with a big "5" on it, a trophy from one of the victims."
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace92.htm (http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace92.htm)
http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/sarvan/sarvan.htm (http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/sarvan/sarvan.htm)
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(http://www.sci.fi/~fta/sarvanto.gif)
No wonder he was such a hot-shot pilot - the guy had 3 hands!
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shouldnt Hartmanns 352 be in just 109Fs, G2s and G6s? maybe make it G6 only. German fighters to me, suggest 190s,262s etc... (shrug)
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shouldnt Hartmanns 352 be in just 109Fs, G2s and G6s? maybe make it G6 only. German fighters to me, suggest 190s,262s etc... (shrug)
Agree, only 109 G's and the K (He did never fly the F or other 109's in combat)
I got my 'Hartmann' almost exclusively for kills in the Me 163, Me 262 and Ta 152H. He never did fly any of these in combat :old:
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Not true, he started in Emils
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Not true, he started in Emils
He did fly them as part of his instruction, but he never had any combat in them. (He also did fly even earlier versions of the 109). Keep in mind he joined the frontlines only in fall 1942. By that time JG 52 had already converted from the 109F to the 109G.
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Antoni Glowacki:
During three sorties on 24 August 1940, flying SD-A, Głowacki shot down three Bf 109s and two Junkers Ju 88 bombers over Ramsgate, to become the first "One-day Ace" of the Battle of Britain
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Since we don't have battleships, how about sinking a cv with a Stuka? Hans rudel
or destroy 9 aircraft in a stuka.
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Since we don't have battleships, how about sinking a cv with a Stuka? Hans rudel
or destroy 9 aircraft in a stuka.
Why the CV? Why not the mega-cruiser? :D
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I doubt the Americans, British or Japanese would have considered that "battleship" to be a battleship.
Sinking the cruiser would be appropriate.
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I doubt the Americans, British or Japanese would have considered that "battleship" to be a battleship.
Sinking the cruiser would be appropriate.
that's sounds good to me.
Not sure if there are any Ju-87 achievment but rudel has some pretty drab good
ones
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There already is an achievement for Rudel:
Destroy 519 tanks while flying a plane Hans-Ulrich Rudel
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Does it make sense to give achievement points for getting shot down (Got Silk?) or carrying extra gas (dropping drop tanks)? :rolleyes:
How about an achievement for getting 1,000 kills without any vulches?
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Does it make sense to give achievement points for getting shot down (Got Silk?) or carrying extra gas (dropping drop tanks)? :rolleyes:
How about an achievement for getting 1,000 kills without any vulches?
Most games include a mix of hard and easy achievements, silly and serious achievements.
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Martin Becker was credited with 9 RAF Bombers in a single sortie (apparently his rear gunner got the last 3). I believe he was in a Ju 88, not a 110.
Gunner's name was Karl Johanssen, it seems. Separate award for shooting down 3 buffs with an MG 131 in a single sortie? Becker shot down 7 without aid from Johanssen during the Nuremberg raid.
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I dunno, Han-Joachim Jabs award? Shot down two Spitfires in a single sortie in a 110 G.
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Shoot down six Japanese dive bombers in eight minutes. - Alexander Vraciu
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Outside of shade abuse, finding six Japanese dive bombers to shoot down is not very likely to happen in the MA. So how about: "Shoot down six aircraft in eight minutes in an F6F" instead?
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Toni Hackl shot down a P-51, a Lanc and a Mossie in a single sortie, I think he was in a 190.
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There isn't an achievement for base defense, so how about this:
I - "Bug Squasher" - kill 10 troops
II - "Meat Grinder" - kill 50 troops
III - "Oh, the Humanity!" - kill 100 troops
IV - "None Shall Pass" - kill 250 troops
V - "Vlad the Impaler" - kill 500 troops
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Lafayette Pool
Destroy 258 Vehicles in a US Army Sherman Tank m4 or m4(76)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_G._Pool
Lafayette G. Pool (July 23, 1919 – May 30, 1991) was an American tank-crew and tank-platoon commander in World War II and is widely recognized as the US tank ace of aces, credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armoured vehicle and self-propelled gun kills. He has received many medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the Legion of Merit, the Silver Star, the Purple Heart, the Fourragère, and the Légion d'honneur.[1]
War Service
Pool served with the US 3rd Armored Division[2] in France between June and September 1944. He was commander of three Sherman tanks, (an M4A1, and two M4A1(76)W) all of which bore the nickname "IN THE MOOD", and all of which were eventually shot out from under him.
Pool fought in 21 separate engagements during his time in France before eventually being knocked out of the war when he lost his leg following an ambush by a 'German 88'
After rehabilitation and being fitted with a prosthesis he returned to the Army in 1948 and went on to serve in the Korean War. He left the Army in 1960 with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 2.
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There isn't an achievement for base defense, so how about this:
I - "Bug Squasher" - kill 10 troops
II - "Meat Grinder" - kill 50 troops
III - "Oh, the Humanity!" - kill 100 troops
IV - "None Shall Pass" - kill 250 troops
V - "Vlad the Impaler" - kill 500 troops
+1 :aok
LtngRydr
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Do we have an achievement for getting a really high kill/death ratio? Call it the Air Dominance achievement.
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There isn't an achievement for base defense, so how about this:
I - "Bug Squasher" - kill 10 troops
II - "Meat Grinder" - kill 50 troops
III - "Oh, the Humanity!" - kill 100 troops
IV - "None Shall Pass" - kill 250 troops
V - "Vlad the Impaler" - kill 500 troops
:aok
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James Jabara Achievement: first Jet vs Jet Ace:
- Be first (in tour) to kill 5 jets while flying a jet.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aces_of_aces
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I keep trying to think of historical achievements for the Mossie, the most obvious one I can come up with is *cough* the Scherf.
Charlie Scherf shot down five enemy aircraft, air-to-air, on a single sortie in a Mmossie FB VI. His Nav on the op was F/O "Red" Stewart. Other pilots got four on a sortie, however Scherf was the only one to get five, and in daylight at that.
I should be able to find a couple for the bomber Mossie, first cookie on a city target, first cookie on Berlin (= HQ?) spring to mind.
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I keep trying to think of historical achievements for the Mossie, the most obvious one I can come up with is *cough* the Scherf.
Charlie Scherf shot down five enemy aircraft, air-to-air, on a single sortie in a Mmossie FB VI. His Nav on the op was F/O "Red" Stewart. Other pilots got four on a sortie, however Scherf was the only one to get five, and in daylight at that.
I should be able to find a couple for the bomber Mossie, first cookie on a city target, first cookie on Berlin (= HQ?) spring to mind.
I suggested "Scherf" on the first page, and land 213 sorties in the Mossie XVI for the bomber Mossie.
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Ah, cheers. Haven't played for yonks,so I'm operating rather blind when it comes to achievements.
Is there a full list of existing achievements somewhere?
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Ah, cheers. Haven't played for yonks,so I'm operating rather blind when it comes to achievements.
Is there a full list of existing achievements somewhere?
Not sure, but the two I suggested did not get added so your support on them is good. :)
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Nelson Stepanyan
67 tanks in an IL-2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Stepanyan
:uhoh Better late than never. :D
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The "shady Lady" achievement: For performing a long range bomb run, should be atleast of 3,5-4 hours duration. Either in the B-24 specifically or in any bomber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shady_Lady_(aircraft)
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The "shady Lady" achievement: For performing a long range bomb run, should be atleast of 3,5-4 hours duration. Either in the B-24 specifically or in any bomber.
You'd have to fly the B-24 at cruise setting directly from take off. If you even only climb at Mil, you are very unlikely to stay airborne for that long. In other bombers, it is more do-able. For the record, my own two longest bombing missions in Late War had been at 03:34 (HE 111) and 02:50 (B-29)
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Have flown the Lancs for 4 hours and 15 mins (u can squeeze out another 15-20 min from it) I haven't tested the B-24 but 3 hours should be doable It's some of the point to push the plane beyond their limit so u should really have to manage your fuel well to get it.
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Robin Olds
Shoot down a 109 in a P38, in glide mode. He forgot to switch after droping tanks and his engines were off when he fired.
LtngRydr
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I didn't see it here so...
Shoot down 5 German fighters in a single P-38 sortie - Herbert B. Hatch
"10 June 1944, during an air mission over Ploesti, Rumania. As part of the formation of fighter escorts for P-38 fighter bombers attacking a vitally important oil refinery in Ploesti, Lieutenant Hatch destroyed five enemy fighters, probably destroyed one and damaged another." - From Forked Tailed Devil - Martin Caidin
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Robin Olds
Shoot down a 109 in a P38, in glide mode. He forgot to switch after droping tanks and his engines were off when he fired.
LtngRydr
I imagine that he remembered AFTER dropping them (the lack of noise becomes a big hint)...
Mike
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There isn't an achievement for base defense, so how about this:
I - "Bug Squasher" - kill 10 troops
II - "Meat Grinder" - kill 50 troops
III - "Oh, the Humanity!" - kill 100 troops
IV - "None Shall Pass" - kill 250 troops
V - "Vlad the Impaler" - kill 500 troops
+ 1 :aok
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Richard Candelaria- shoot down 1 jet and 4 piston powered aircraft in 1 sortie.
http://www.acestory.elknet.pl/candelaria/candelaria.htm (http://www.acestory.elknet.pl/candelaria/candelaria.htm). The story is in there, there's also a episode of dogfights including his story. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_yVzUeIUI (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_yVzUeIUI)
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...Formation flying achievement? Minimum number of aircraft within oh say (wingman latch range) for a minimum number of minutes?
Might be tough to code, but it'd sure look nice to see aircraft grouped together properly in our game... :pray
Safety in Numbers (for buff pilots)
Strength in Numbers (For fighters/Jabos)
Just thought of one for a fighter pilot intercepting a bomber group (min 3 formations), if the lead group is killed; ACHIEVEMENT!
Cutting The Head Off The Serpent!
EDIT:
+1 to the troop smashing achievement!
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About the Robin Olds achievement for killing in glide mode in a P-38. :old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPtuL8dsTE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnPtuL8dsTE)
LtngRydr
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There isn't an achievement for base defense, so how about this:
I - "Bug Squasher" - kill 10 troops
II - "Meat Grinder" - kill 50 troops
III - "Oh, the Humanity!" - kill 100 troops
IV - "None Shall Pass" - kill 250 troops
V - "Vlad the Impaler" - kill 500 troops
:salute I like this lol very good