First:
quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
When I fly in the CT one of my goals is not to get killed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From Pangea and is my reason.
Hawk,
You are saying that no one should kill you because its not one of YOUR goals? That doesn't make sense. We all play this game so that we can "kill" each other. It’s OK to kill someone when they are in a plane, GV or boat right?
The only difference between killing a guy in his chute and killing him any other time is that he is defenseless and poses no threat in his chute. By not shooting him when he is in his chute; we are only pretending to be chivalrous, we are only pretending to be humane. If you lose the fight and have to bail, what does it matter if you “survive” or “die”? You lost either way. Fair, or not.
In reality, in war, your goal is to eliminate your enemy when he poses the least threat to you and your country, when it will pose the least risk upon yourself. If you could sneak into an enemies’ airbase, in the middle of the night and kill all of their pilots by bombing their barracks while they slept, you would be doing your country a great service, there would be no dishonor in it.
I have read, in many sources, that approximately 80% of all air-to-air kills in WWII were bounces. Pilots didn’t fire warning shots to wake the enemy, to give them a fair chance, they killed while they held the advantage of surprise. This game simulates war, and is not meant to always be fair.
Imagine that you are a Russian fighter pilot in WWII. You’ve been hunting for Erich Hartman for months. He has killed many of your comrades and will probably kill many more.
Then one day you find him. You quickly realize that you are out-matched. But you land a lucky Hail-Mary snap shot, his wing breaks off, and he bails. He opens his chute and you realize that he is floating safely down into his own territory, only to fight you and your comrades another day. If he lives, he will probably shoot down and kill another 100+ of your country’s pilots and planes, maybe even yourself. You’re not going to shoot him in his chute in this situation? If you do, you kill an enemy soldier, its part of your duty. If you don’t, you’re probably sentencing 100 or so of your countrymen to death, not to mention the loss of resources. Then there’s the trickle down effect of how many Russian infantrymen and tankers will be saved by all of the damage that those IL-2s would have been able to inflict on German tanks and troops had Harman lived, to shoot them down.
You would have shot him in his chute, we all would have.
But this is only a game. What each of us does perhaps only simulates in our minds what we would have done had we been pilots in WWII. Clearly we all have different motives for all that we do, and our motives can even change from minute to minute. Some of us, at times, play for immersion. But why do care that someone else has a different view on such a situation at a particular moment? As I have illustrated above, there are times when it is your duty to shoot an enemy pilot in his chute. In this game, there are many who like to watch chutes turn into 100’ fireballs just for a laugh. And then there are players who just get a kick out of watching enemy players go ballistic on channel 1 over something they view as a non-issue. I have to admit, even though I (generally) don’t shoot chutes, I do get a good laugh when players freak-out on channel 1 over being shot in their chutes. It’s just so silly to get upset over this.
It’s just a game.
It’s just a game.
It’s just a game.
eskimo
