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Offline Zoney

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #45 on: July 24, 2014, 09:30:55 AM »
Fighting on the deck is great fun and you can find that all the time quickly and easily.  Fighting at mid alt (15K) is great fun and only a bit more of a challenge to find and you find them less often.  Fighting at high alt (25k plus) is few and far between especially because many of them dive away after just one turn.  I'm always looking for a high fight and probably 50% of my engagements are against bombers when I would just as soon they were fighters.  All of this is fun, but the high altitude fights cost more in terms of time and patience.  Fighting at alt is certainly a different skill set as you all know planes perform quite different when near their maximum ceiling. That's what's great about the game.  You can do so many different things in an aircraft.

I have no problem fighting on the deck, as I said it's great fun, I'm just not going to start there.  If you don't want to take the time and climb, no problem.  Just fly under me and I will come down to you  :D

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Offline Scca

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #46 on: July 24, 2014, 12:19:53 PM »
He lied and replied it was a single sortie.
One rearm or 10, it's still a single sortie :)

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #47 on: July 24, 2014, 12:25:12 PM »
"Quality fight"? I still find the nearest red dar bar sufficiently challenging, most of the time. Also, how do you distinguish the "ace" red dars from dars produced by mere dabblers?

The definition of a "quality fight" varies from player to player.  What I am saying has nothing to do with the quality of the opponent - climbing up to altitude and hunting lancasters may just what the player wants.
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Offline Zambelli

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #48 on: July 24, 2014, 12:58:23 PM »
I just wish the dang thing were easier to find when on the ground and that stupid little shack weren't there.   :pray
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Offline waystin2

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #49 on: July 24, 2014, 01:19:42 PM »
I just wish the dang thing were easier to find when on the ground and that stupid little shack weren't there.   :pray

LOL.  I though the guys were calling it the wing shack because of the great chicken wings.  I have since learned it's not the case... :uhoh
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Offline Wiley

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #50 on: July 24, 2014, 01:22:18 PM »
I just wish the dang thing were easier to find when on the ground and that stupid little shack weren't there.   :pray

This.  Rearming is the only time I am ever tempted to use F3 mode.

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #51 on: July 24, 2014, 05:28:19 PM »
I just wish the dang thing were easier to find when on the ground and that stupid little shack weren't there.   :pray

the medium and large air fields 1 runway has a rearm pad right next to the runway
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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #52 on: July 24, 2014, 08:00:00 PM »
This.  Rearming is the only time I am ever tempted to use F3 mode.

Wiley.

It is the only time you CAN use F3 mode in a fighter in the MA, and since in real life they often had a ground crewman guiding around the fighters with poor forward visibility, go ahead.
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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #53 on: July 25, 2014, 06:56:50 PM »
One rearm or 10, it's still a single sortie :)

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I simply want the risk takers to get some lovin for pushing their luck. Most of us can land 2 kills in a sortie. The down side would be a message of 2 kills *20. The up side would then be 40 kills *20.<<----that thar is some risk taking.. :)
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Offline Scca

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #54 on: July 28, 2014, 12:08:56 PM »
This.  Rearming is the only time I am ever tempted to use F3 mode.

Wiley.
You have my permission also..   :D
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Offline muzik

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Re: Re-Arm Pad
« Reply #55 on: July 29, 2014, 07:13:55 PM »
I could care less whether someone rearms with a bullet in them. Seems to be just another attempt by the op to squish other peoples fun.

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