First time in my aces high time I have ever made any excuse for losing a fight. To me it would be the same as you having your throttle control go out right after you chop it.
I would end up killing you but was it really a victory? I wouldn't think so.
Every time I up a plane I believe its a forgone conclusion I am going to win. Does that always happen? No it does not. Is it my fault I die, yes. Was it my fault when vudu shot me down yes but it
had nothing to do with fighting. I hit a button without realizing it and it gave him the advantage nothing he worked for. I held all the cards at the stage in the fight it happened which is why he
would be lucky.
First time in my aces high time I have ever made any excuse for losing a fight. ... great ... why start now ?
To me it would be the same as you having your throttle control go out right after you chop it.
I would end up killing you but was it really a victory? I wouldn't think so. ... I am sure that there many WWII pilots that lost there life to malfunction(s) during a dogfight and paid the ultimate price ... and whoever downed them as a result ... placed a kill sticker on their plane for sure.
I hit a button without realizing it ... so YOU made a mistake ... not him. So it would be more along the lines that you were UN-LUCKY. Your mistake does not transfer LUCK to him ... it's all on you. You, in essence, are saying that vudu really didn't have a chance at all without YOU killing YOUR engine ... it's ludicrous to say the least if not insulting.
I held all the cards at the stage in the fight it happened which is why he would be lucky. ... I can't tell you how many times planes that held all the cards that have thought that the lonely and lowly FM2 was a forgone kill in their pelt pouch ... only to find themselves sitting back in the tower ... and LUCK had nothing to do with it ... they simply screwed up and paid the price for it.
Attributing a loss to someone else's luck, especially when you caused it, is total bollocks, to take a British colloquialism.