It's not a HO when I do it...

[RTR]

just when you do it

That oughta cover it

RTR

[hubsonfire]

Sometimes, I think I'd be better off dead.

No, wait, not me- you.

[Ghastly]

Two Dollars!  I want my two dollars!

<S>

[SD67]

just when you do it

That oughta cover it

RTR

But what if you do it after somebody else does it first? And if it gives you a nasty disease is it still not a HO?

[Ghosth]

First off make sure your defining a HO correctly. Bare minimum is that your both in level flight, nose pointed at each other.

Anything else is a hot merge or a forward quarter shot in a maneuver fight. 

[Hap]

just when you do it

That oughta cover it

RTR

Made me laugh.

[lagger86]

I just figure every one is going to HO me every time, so I don't fly directly at people in level flight...I'll fly at em at varying angles and sometimes they get a nice deflection shot and I die...it wasn't a HO because I wasn't HOing....so I have no complaint. Half the time I just avoid reverse and repeat. The smart ones actually engage and pwn me like it's their job...the rest just continue to extend turn around and fly straight at me until I run out of gas. A kills a kill I guess(even if it's a proxy on my very poor ditching skills) so again I can't complain.

[SD67]

Let's face it a majority of the HO shots are really frontal deflection shots.
If you Don't like it take a different merge.

[SkyRock]

Let's face it a majority of the HO shots are really frontal deflection shots.
If you Don't like it take a different merge.

Weak HO twit retort!

[Jenks]

 When your opponent is maneuvering to come straight at you, guns a blazing from 1K out ,sometimes more or less, and you are going for a lead turn, you present him with a front quarter shot.    That doesn't change the fact that his intention was to HO,HO,HO.   This is a very common scenario.   More experienced pilots usually avoid the shot, reverse, and if the con is willing to engage, end up on his 6 and kill him.   Often though, the Hoing, stick stirring, hasn't got a clue newb, runs to a safe distance, comes around and tries it again.   I'll admit that when I was the Noob, I did it too, cause I didn't have a clue.   I found very quickly though that it was a dangerous gambit and I have been steadfastly avoiding Ho's ever since.   That doesn't mean I don't feel a bit irritated when the Hoer manages to get me on that "front quarter shot".   
 
 Hopefully most players will realize its a poor choice for an opening move.   I know Mark is doing his best to educate the neophytes.

[Vudak]

When your opponent is maneuvering to come straight at you, guns a blazing from 1K out ,sometimes more or less, and you are going for a lead turn, you present him with a front quarter shot.    That doesn't change the fact that his intention was to HO,HO,HO. 

For whatever reason (inconvenient for their argument, I suspect), this very well said and truthful thought is largely ignored by many

[SlapShot]

When your opponent is maneuvering to come straight at you, guns a blazing from 1K out ,sometimes more or less, and you are going for a lead turn, you present him with a front quarter shot.

%99.9999 of the people who start spraying at 1K or deeper wouldn't know a front-quarter shot if it upped and bit them in the arse.

At the start of any engagement, I am always working for the lead-turn, and over the past couple of years, I can count on one hand the amount of times that I have been pinged on the initial merge and can't remember when I was actually totally disabled/killed at a merge by a front quarter shot, regardless if they are spraying for the HO or not.

After the merge ... I have lost many a fight, but I have never lost a fight, in a very long time, pre-merge, due to an HO attempt.

[RTR]

You must not be doing it right Slap!

RTR

[SD67]

Weak HO twit retort!

I never said I could do it, my gunnery sucks I'm just sayin' that's all.

[Hamltnblue]