.. and yes I already know you will come with some kind of answer and another set of well placed words... that's what you do .. clearly that's all you do.
This topic and post is closed for me, go ahead and fire again vs the Dr1 leaving the battlefield without wings, here as there the fire will not be answered ... the German blood from my grandpa is getting to my brain and I rather close this page and not argue with my virtual friends about things without solution... at the end the winner always write history.
Peace
Ehre
Ehre I hope you do return and read my reply, I think it may suprise you. We've had our misunderstandings eh?... but always worked things out in the end
Interestingly, those misunderstandings usually came about because of the way I fight, which some would interpret as less than 'gentlemanly'. Staggering back up badly damaged and taking a long shot at you after you broke off and left me to RTB was one instance that comes to mind. At the time I think you said that you would never understand that. Hopefully you do now. Whatever I'm worth as an opponent, you can be sure you'll get 100% of it, I figure there's some sort of honour in that?
As for this Dr1 thing it's surely obvious by now I've been running a campaign against it. I feel strongly that it's ruining the game, that it's incorrectly modelled, and that it's availability in such numbers is unrealistic. I also believe that when top shelf virtual pilots like yourself fly it exclusively (or mostly) it steals their kills. As an example (bear in mind I already acknowledge your ability) when we fight and I get shot down (90% of our encounters?) I attribute it mainly to the Dr1.... I just have no way of knowing how we'd go if, for instance, I flew the Dr1 and you flew the Camel. Certainly if you were in a Camel or DVII to start with and doing as well then I would be the first person to sing your praises. As it stands all I can say for sure is you are very good in the Dr1, but I
suspect you would be hard to beat in any of the available a/c. I'd like to find out, you're flying has a certain unique element and style to it which should be fully unleashed, and this can only happen when you are put under pressure. Basically you're taking it easy at the moment, I realise being in a position to achieve such a high K/D ratio is tempting but there's more substantial rewards here if you look hard enough
There's another matter which boils down to plain unfortunate circumstances. WW1 was largely about Germany fighting England, France and Russia, also the USA towards the end (although there were plenty of US volunteers involved throughout). It is if you like the historical demographic backdrop to the conflict. It seems appropriate that we can make light of the national differences (references to sauerkraut etc) where such humour better than any other sentiment demonstrates a comfortable and good natured friendly rivalry, putting historical conflict to bed as it were. Humour however is subjective so if you have taken offence please understand that none was intended.
I hope one day you and the other top Dr1 drivers move to another ride. Until then I trust you can continue to shoot me down with something less than raging hatred
For my part I'll continue to challenge myself under your virtual guns, who knows maybe one day the pressure will transform this old hack also-ran into a top class Dr1 beater.
