Author Topic: Good luck with your CT (Read 2764 times)

Hangtime · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2002, 07:45:15 PM »

I had a blast. Killed many politicly incorrect oriental types, knocked down some squid cookie factories, vultched the bejeezus outta one of the two remaining fields, and generally laffed my bellybutton off when animal vultched urcin one too many times and he threw a chan 1 tantrum.

The lil kamakazies constantly upping from the field we were trying to take kept us low and engaged while the smarter sly lil yellow divits upped from their secure field to assault the fleet and start chopping down defenses at their captured outlying fields.

Result, IJN repulsed our capture, and regained ground by flanking the allied attack. All in all, I had fun, the nips had fun, the allies had fun, and we all went home happy. Except Urchin. Who needs to re-aquaint himself with the stratagey of upping from uncontested fields if he don't wanna get shot off the runway trying to up in the middle of a field assault.

BTW.. those CV's just didn't HAPPEN to be there... it took 4 hours of arena time to GET 'em there in position for what was an absoultely hugely fun amphibious assault the likes of which I've never seen before.. 8 CVBG's, 4 w/ a/c enabled, 2 brit and 2 USN., all within close proximity. Was truly a riot.. the rice eaters were kamakazing the Bombardment groups we'd placed closer in to screen for the A/C equipped fleets.

Anyway.. like Mako pointed out.. the CT can't be all things to all people.

Urchin.. truly sorry if yer feathers got rumpled; but nobody pointed a gun to yer head and MADE you up from a hot strip...

Buzzbait · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2002, 08:22:02 PM »

S! Hangtime

I just want to salute you and your Squad for making the CT work.

Your use of the CV Groups was exactly what we were hoping players would tactically organize on this map.

As Sabre says, next time we do a Pacific setup, we will have pure surface combat, and pure CV Task Groups and getting in close will be the role of one, and standing off and launching aircraft will be the role of the other.

You will be able to plan and create even more complex situations...

Urchin · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2002, 10:49:42 PM »

No Hangtime.... that wasn't a tantrum. Me throwing a tantrum would be me saying on Channel 1 that I could probably take any 4 of your squad in a 'fair fight'. I never threw any tantrum, I never even lost my temper. I was merely asking a question. The question was "Are you guys actually enjoying this?" Apparently yes, you were, as you basically just wanted to rack up vulches to proove how 1337 you guys were. I can tell you that the 'IJN' certainly wasn't 'having fun' when I got there, nor when I left- either time. But, some people really enjoy vulching I guess. As for me, I didn't give a toejam. The CT counts for nothing either way. What did I have to lose by upping repeatedly so your squad could show how much they r0x0r?

Like I said before, have fun in your CT. If you decide to come back to where the big boys play, I'll shoot you down there.

hblair · « **Reply #33 on:** January 30, 2002, 11:28:42 PM »

Sorry to see you leave angry urchin. I was online and flying IJN at the time and don't see what the fuss is about. We had a clean field 15 miles away at 6k altitude you could have upped from.

Anyways, it'll be here if you decide to come back.

Hangtime · « **Reply #34 on:** January 31, 2002, 12:00:10 AM »

Well, hell; Urchin.. I just live to vultch, shoot chutes and listen to Luftwhiners wail. When they get all pissy about the odds and threaten to leave because they can't get a 'fair' fight; I try my damndest to get in front of them so they can shoot me down... (everybody else did) ... unfortunately, you couldn't seem to get off the runway much.

We will all miss you terribly in the CT, but hey, if it's too tough for you in there, then by all means do go to the Main. Never any vultchin or mindless furballs in there. Good luck with your scorecard sorties in the main arena! Oh, and hey, club a baby seal fer me!

Urchin · « **Reply #35 on:** January 31, 2002, 12:03:08 AM »

I didn't leave angry. I left dissapointed. I didn't get a chance to try out the Stalingrad setup because I was having computer trouble. My only experience with the CT in its 'new' setup was the Pacific setup. I had expected something different than the MA- I was just wrong. That is fine, it happens from time to time. But I don't feel that people should be singing praises for the CT because it is 'different and better' than the MA. It IS different, marginally, but it isn't even close to better.

Fatty · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2002, 12:23:13 AM »

The funniest part about last night while we were vultching was the fact the Japanese had an elevated field the same distance from the field we were hitting as our CV was...

Okay, second funniest.

Hangtime · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2002, 01:15:59 AM »

Sorry Urchin.. just a quick question...

Do you think that with the relatively low total numbers in the CT your presence, skills and attention to good SA and ACM would have rewarded you and your teamates more than the same efforts in the MA with 400 warpy trash talkin newbies on line?

Or is it just that your plane wasn't enabled, your choice of field sucked, the side you were on was getting as thrashed as your scorecard that you were 'dissapointed'? (in fact it wasn't that way for very long thanks to others that made good decisions and fought back smart instead of walking away)

I can remember times flying in the WB MA when there were less than 20 folks on. It was a ball. I can remember when there were less than 50 folks on AH on a weeknight. It was a blast.

I'm just finding it amazing that more folks have not spotted the best diffrence of all about the CT.. what you do can have an impact on the sim. In the MA a guy can't do anything other than get swamped by the horde of warping wailing bishknitcrooks.

Imagine what a squad can do in the CT.

Lephturn · « **Reply #38 on:** January 31, 2002, 07:20:45 AM »

I was in the other night when there were 4 fleets parked off shore.

Now I'm not a bomber dweeb, but hey, I figured those shore defense batteries are there for a reason. I spent a half hour gunning away as best I could with those things. They are very hard to hit with. I was aiming manually... is there another way? Even when I got hits, I saw no damage. I pegged one CV twice, and I pinged others once, tagged some escorts accidentally. Basically I can only get hits if the CV is moving perpendicular to my line of vision, if it is changing range at all it's nearly impossible to hit them. I had more hits by roadkill luck than skillful aim, I can tell you that.

I guess I just think the shore defense batteries are useless. Shame, because there could be some great CVBG vs. shore defense gun battles there if it worked better. In addition, I would have been much happier if I could have spent a half hour in the guns and have sunk something and at least force the fleets to back off or be sunk. The were able to completely ignore me and another guy in the gun turrets, so I think something needs to be done about the shore defense guns effectiveness. I think if the IJN could have had an effect with the shore defensive batteries, it would have been much more fun. Think how great a big gun battle that would have been! As is, the CVBG's simply ignore the impotent shore batteries.

deSelys · « **Reply #39 on:** January 31, 2002, 07:31:03 AM »

CVs are toughened in this setup. They usually require 3-4 hits from a SB to go down. Here I believe you need 10+ hits.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 31, 2002, 08:09:26 AM »

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Originally posted by deSelys
CVs are toughened in this setup. They usually require 3-4 hits from a SB to go down. Here I believe you need 10+ hits.

True,
I sunk one the other day, my guess was at least 12.

eskimo

Eagler · « **Reply #41 on:** January 31, 2002, 08:12:42 AM »

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Originally posted by deSelys
CVs are toughened in this setup. They usually require 3-4 hits from a SB to go down. Here I believe you need 10+ hits.

that's the first thing I'd change then, if anything make them easier to kill so they'll be kept farther offshore, and put more batteries and mannable acks around a base so it can be defended more easily when the FB's show up for the party

lazs2 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 31, 2002, 09:15:34 AM »

urchin... you enjoyed yourself in the CT. You are just too stupid to know it. If you were smarter you would have had an even better time. You should skulk back to the MA tho because you really don't have the skills required to beat the best pilots in AH, which, are all here in the CT (nevermind that you didn't think much of their abilities in the MA)...

You can't understand the complex acm and SA of "my plane is faster and doesn't turn as well as the only plane I may run into so I should never turn and I should run if jumped". Or the "myu plane is not as fast but turns and climbs better so i should dodge the only other plane I may meet and never chase it very far. In addition, I should probly stay close to my own ack or not come down."

But.... don't go away mad because the CT guys are a better crowd than the skilless ma trash and are above personal attacks.
lazs

Wotan · « **Reply #43 on:** January 31, 2002, 09:17:21 AM »

bradys5 is a sniper with the sb's

he ran up 15 or so kills in the ma one night picking off pt boats after he sunk their fleet..........

Raubvogel · « **Reply #44 on:** January 31, 2002, 10:17:23 AM »

I had a blast killin FDBs that night. Don't know what you're worked up about Urchin. That field to the southwest was at 6k and only took 5 mins to reach the action. I enjoyed being called a Ju88 dweeb by Animal after I sank their CV

There's an oxymoron if I ever heard one...."Ju88 Dweeb" hehe

Anyways...it was fun and it was nice to see some serious numbers in the fight. Don't let one sour apple spoil it FDBs, come on back for some more, we need all the targets we can get

BANZAI!!!!!!!!!