Shooting Planes on the re-arm pad.

[1Boner]

Anybody think its any more or less acceptable than say "lanc stukas" ?

Consider that the base is not trying to be taken.

Maybe 3-4 of each side defending /attacking.

Of course the attackers have a huge alt. advantage.

And most of the defending bases ack is down.

Just curious, I,m  thinking about starting to make it a habit of mine.

I noticed one of the top "aces" using it as a tactic.

Personally I find it extremely distasteful and cowardly, but hey, what the hell !

If it can raise my score from the thousands to maybe #1, who cares?

Any thoughts?

[Yeager]

Whereas Lank Stukas employ a gigantic azzed four engine bomber as a low level suicide triplet monster....aka total rubbish, shooting a poor fellow on the rearm pad is simply the nature of war.

[Ack-Ack]

Sounds like someone is smarting over getting blown up while sitting on the re-arm pad.  You knew there were enemy near your base and willingly took the risk to sit on the re-arm pad for 30 seconds while being re-armed and re-fueled.  The blame falls on you, not the other guy.  It's like whining about being vulched, no one forced you to take off of a base under attack.


ack-ack

[DoNKeY]

Sounds like someone is smarting over getting blown up while sitting on the re-arm pad.  You knew there were enemy near your base and willingly took the risk to sit on the re-arm pad for 30 seconds while being re-armed and re-fueled.  The blame falls on you, not the other guy.  It's like whining about being vulched, no one forced you to take off of a base under attack.


ack-ack

Will I kind of have to agree with akak, I also think that it's somewhat cowardly, but maybe that's because I live for the fight, and wouldn't want to fly all the way over just to shoot a "helpless" guy.

donkey

[moot]

Adapt or die.

[1Boner]

LMFAO!!

Yeah you guys are probably right!

But after shooting his Tempest down with my A6M, I assumed he wouldn't think I was that much of a threat on the ground.

I figured a guy of that caliber would WANT a fight.

I guess I was mistaken.



Erroniously Yours,

Boner

[Xasthur]

If the base was being cleared for a capture.... well, you should have known better.

Diving through ack to pick someone on the re-arm pad or landing is the height of poor form, in my opinion.

People bang on and on about this being 'war' and all that... It's a game and landing/re-arm pad-vulching is cheap and un-sportsmanlike. That's all there is to it.

At the end of the day this a game full of people and where ever you have a group of people there is always a bunch of arse-holes in the group. There will always be one little hoot who was otherwise unable to shoot you down and will follow you to the ends of the earth to vulch you on landing.

All you can do is not be one of the arse-holes and hope that you will receive the same in return.

It's up to you, you can be whoever you want to be. You can be one of those guys that everyone hates or you can be one of those guys that everyone, regardless of 'country', likes or at least respects.

Which do you think is more fun?

 


[edit] I see there is a word filter on the word 'arse-hole' without the '-'... it becomes 'overthunk'   

[hubsonfire]

Why do people rearm instead of replaning? Score/stats/additional WTFGZ!!11!? If anything, those people deserve to be shot more than some random plane in a furball.

[Xasthur]

Why do people rearm instead of replaning? Score/stats/additional WTFGZ!!11!? If anything, those people deserve to be shot more than some random plane in a furball.

Why do they deserve it? What's the difference? I enjoy the added bit or 'realism' of landing, rolling down to the pad, taxiing back and taking off again.

Score has nothing to do with that.

[Strip]

Why not sit there with .ef in the text buffer?

I think this more about someone not keeping there head up.

Strip(er)

[C(Sea)Bass]

Why not sit there with .ef in the text buffer?

I think this more about someone not keeping there head up.

Strip(er)

exactly.

[hubsonfire]

And some of us enjoy the realism of strafing targets of opportunity, especially those who normally only rearm to inflate their /sortie stats.

[VonMessa]

Why not sit there with .ef in the text buffer?

I think this more about someone not keeping there head up.

Strip(er)

Or like Lusche, have it mapped.

Base attack, 15 planes
Good Cap  10 planes
Shooting guy rearming while his base is under attack.........   Priceless

[C(Sea)Bass]

Theres the always fun experience of running across a large group of players all rearming on the same pad. I saw this from the bombsight on my B-24 while porking bases. Needless to say I made alot of enemies when I dropped a 500LBer on the re-arm pad and killed 12 of them.
They were just too big of a target of oppurtunity.

[Pannono]

Theres the always fun experience of running across a large group of players all rearming on the same pad. I saw this from the bombsight on my B-24 while porking bases. Needless to say I made alot of enemies when I dropped a 500LBer on the re-arm pad and killed 12 of them.
They were just too big of a target of oppurtunity.

lmao must have been fun