No white flag?

[bubbrubb]

Ok so i will let some a-hole live who, maybe the very next day, has the potential to kill one of my buddies.

There is no chivalry in war. War should be brutal and swift.

[FBCrabby]

Oh... I thought you just wanted me to shoot off your gear for you... sorry!!!

its ok - I missed your gear anyways 

[Shuffler]

Ok so i will let some a-hole live who, maybe the very next day, has the potential to kill one of my buddies.

There is no chivalry in war. War should be brutal and swift.

Always depends on the player.

[ImADot]

Ok so i will let some a-hole live who, maybe the very next day, has the potential to kill one of my buddies.

Or maybe even 5 minutes later...and then your buddy could re-up right away and kill him...and so on...and so on...

Like Shuffler said, it depends on the player. If it was a good fight and there's mutual respect, let him go. If he's a jerk, and/or you really care about your score, go ahead and finish him off.  It's a game, so what does it matter one way or the other?

[68ZooM]

i have let many damaged planes to fly home, of course like what shuffler said also holds true, there is just certain situations that I'm just not going to give up my advantages over other enemy cons in the area just to drop to the deck to finish him off so he gets the free pass home.   Usually within 5 Min's or so i will either get a you shot down or an assist on (insert name) Message, damaged planes very seldom make it home anymore to many people are all about the kill and don't care how they get them.  almost like the players that will check6 a player with no one behind him to get him to break off there target so they can get the kill, same with the ones who will clear a persons 12 lol seriously if i need help I'll call out 

[Krusty]

5 Min's or so i will either get a you shot down or an assist on (insert name) Message, damaged planes very seldom make it home anymore to many people are all about the kill and don't care how they get them.

That's a heavily biased and overly romanticized view of what goes on.

If a plane is damaged so badly but survives over 5 minutes, he probably crashed on landing.

If a plane takes a lot of damage but due to their own actions goes diving back into a fight to mindlessly furball, it is their own fight.

Sometimes picks happen to RTB damaged planes, but the way you present it the game is a cesspool of deplorable people.

That's not the case from my own observations.

[caldera]

almost like the players that will check6 a player with no one behind him to get him to break off there target so they can get the kill

That happened to me once, where the guy that gave me the phony check6 was someone I had shot down not five minutes before.  If you can't get a revenge kill, get a revenge steal? 

[vafiii]

The only time I get annoyed is when someone takes me out on the re-arm pad. If it's an all out fight around the base then I'm fair game, but when one lone meat head (usually a P-51 pilot) decides to vulch me from 20,000 feet then that really gets my blood pressure boiling. Don't let me bump into you on the street, you so and so...

[Rino]

     Kill him, you're doing him a favor by getting him a new plane quicker 

[Guppy35]

Since no one is really dying, who cares?

On many occasions when completely shot to pieces but still flying, I'll put it straight and level and type 'free kill' on 200.  If someone is that desperate for a kill, who am I to deny em?

On more then one occasion if a guy is shot up but somehow still flying, I'll let him go too.  I figure he's earned the chance to get it home of he wants to.  I know we've escorted guys like that back to base just for fun.

And I've sure killed a few lame ducks too


It would be an entirely different story if I really held the lives of other people in my hands.  No doubt there were instances where pilots of all sides, knowing the other guy was going down, gave them a chance to get out.  With the bombing campaign over Germany if a bomber dropped it's gear it was usually a sign it was bailing out the crew.  The legend behind the idea of the "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group was that it was singled out by the LW for destruction because of such an incident where the German pilots held off and got in close to escort the 17 and the crew shot one down, raised the gear and tried to run.

I don't know that anyone ever confirmed that as fact, but the bomber crews believed it for a while.

In AH, someone dropping the gear might just mean they are going to try and bounce back into the air.  Anyone who ever saw the film of Nomde (I think) on the deck in a fight, dropping his gear to bounce off the side of a hill, to stay in the fight, will know what I'm talking about.  Having done it once in a 38 slow in a valley on the deck, it does work

[Krusty]

Batty put up a famous video of him getting an overshoot in FT by doing that and taking off again! 

[68ZooM]

That's a heavily biased and overly romanticized view of what goes on.

If a plane is damaged so badly but survives over 5 minutes, he probably crashed on landing.

If a plane takes a lot of damage but due to their own actions goes diving back into a fight to mindlessly furball, it is their own fight.

Sometimes picks happen to RTB damaged planes, but the way you present it the game is a cesspool of deplorable people.

That's not the case from my own observations.

I'm glad you over dramatized that all on your own, it was a simple observation i have seen many times over. i'm sure others have to.

[Shuffler]

If I pull off a damaged plane and 5 minutes later get a kill, I'll usually ask what happened. They are usually glad to tell you of their demise. Many times it's a pretty good story. I can relate to on my own attempted heavily damaged landings.

[Noir]

I am the bad guy that shoots for score when you already surrendered. 

[PR3D4TOR]

Yeah Krusty. After that stunt "Pickplepuss" pulled (deliberatly or not) the Luftwaffe singled them out for destruction. Crews from other bomber groups would cheer when they knew the 100th were on the mission. The average life of a 100th crew in 1943 was eleven missions. By wars end they had flown 306 missions, losing 229 planes and 785 men KIA/MIA and 894 POW.