Last night I was flying in a Hawk. I got a good kill on a 110, sent him down in flames
then I started srafing inf that were hiding in a clump of trees, waiting for it to get clear so they could run to a building.
I made about 3 or 4 passes before I got all of them. Well at this point i'm slow and low, about 50ft agl. My prop is set to the economy setting so I set it to MAX to get my speed back up. I popped over a hill about 1 mile away from the troopers I had just killed and at the bottom is a panzer 2 pointed at me. He started shooting that 37mm HE at me so I jinked to the right. I almost made it, but 1 shell hit my spinner.
I think that some shrapnel from the HE round hit my left wing, that or it ricocheted because I immediately started rolling to the left with little athority in the roll axis, but enough to get me straight. The cool thing though was what happened with the prop. As the shell hit and the plane rolled, it started shaking too. The engine started to whine loud, like I had it wide open. My speed on the other hand started to drop.
I was messing with the prop rmp settings with no effect, the engine still whined and speed stayed the same. I cut the throttle back and the engine rpm settled down, but my speed dropped to much so I firewalled it again.
So here I am at 100 ft agl 160 KPH about 50 miles from base and the sun is going down. I was lucky to be headed in the right direction to get home. I had to use flaps to stay above the trees, so I headed for the river that rus just south of our base. That way I could stay low without augering into a tree or hill. I was SO SLOW!! all I could do was hold the stick right to keep her level as I watched the sun go down.
I could barely see the bridge as I got to Mauberg (where the airfield is) but I knew I had to turn to land. So I made my turn to the right and by this time I had gained abou 200 ft of alt to make it over the trees. Only problem was that I couldn't SEE!! I flew until I though I was over the field at about 20 ft. Then I chopped the throttle to let the plan stall for landing (thinking I was 20ft agl). The plane stalled, then the left wing kept sinking!!!! LOL I was still at 100ft or so because I almost flipped inverted just before I saw the tree that ended my flight
FM has some big problems still, but there's lots in there that WB or AH don't have (YET
) I'm still in AH though
I don't always want a 1 or 2 hour mission!! AH is great for furballing too, not too much of that in WW2OL. It's too important to RTB for rank and stuff.
The way I see it there are 2 good companies out there, HTC and CRS. All IEN did was put a new face on ICI (HT's) code. I did WB3 in august and aside from the new look everything else worked/felt/acted virtualy the same as it did when I quit WB 2.7 over 2 years ago. NOW that being said, I hope that CRS is able get people to look past the poor release and to start playing their game. That may be tough though, as most of the people I see really seem to hate them for that and seem to be fairly unforgiving.
For now I'm happy though
I get 2 games for less than what I used to pay for just AH
