Originally posted by humble
And the BK shot is a comment on your squad's well-known and often repeated propensity to concentrate on air-to-air (furballing) aspect of the game, and your also well-known and often repeated disdain for anyone that disagrees with your position. If the shoe fits, wear it.
As a general rule I avoid commenting on any thread generated by a toolshed hero (I could care less about who "wins" the digital dirt land grab. However, I am a bit amazed you'd throw rocks at the BK's....overall as good a bunch of sticks {not just as furballers} as you'll find. Tactical aircombat is the heart and soul of this game...only thing the bases do is help frame the fight.
Sooner or later the sequel to AH will come out....[bulldozers low] and you'll have a game you can really sink your teeth into:)
Check carefully humble. many (not quite all) of the BKs are some of the noisiest rock-throwers on the boards. It's there in black and white. Well, gray and black now. And frankly, you're one of the bunch. See cracks like "digital dirt land grab" and "tooshed heros" for evidence of your viewpoint.
You are one of those l337 pilit gomers that thinks that your way to play the game is the only valid way. Many of us disagree. It being a free country, and all that, we will do what we want to, and you can continue to do what you want to do.
Tactical air combat, by the way, is a multifaceted discipline. In the real world, air-to-air combat isn't the be-all and end-all of warfare. It certainly wasn't that way in WW2, or any other war that I have heard about.
They built tens of thousands of b-17s, lancs, Ju-88s, etc, etc. during the war, and none of them are very good dogfighters. They were used for SOMETHING, weren't they? And no, they were not intended as targets for the fighters. On both sides, many thousands of sorties were made to attack airfields and infrastructure, in order to advance the LAND campaign, and the SEA campaigns. Why should we limit ourselves to one aspect of the air war?
And before you get started, I do realize that this is not a WW2 recreation--it is a ww2 vehicle simulator/game. That being said, I am just as likely to get a 'feel' for ww2 air combat as you are, fighting your spit (or whatever) against a typhoon or Fm2 or P40 or whatever. Have fun, and be assured that I am having fun, too.
