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Whats the highest Kill count any of your pilots have? - 12/29/2002 1:03:57 PM   
BigJoe417

 

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Status: offline 		And does it matter? Do the number of Kills add some extra kill ratio advantage to his future attacks?

I have a few pilots with 7 kills and its August, 1942. It seems that Japan has an endless supply of Zeros and pilots in this scenario so I'm sure by games end the high score on kills will be much higher than 7.
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- 12/29/2002 1:08:08 PM   
BigJoe417

 

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Status: offline 		Just wanted to add something here. It would be great if there were a way to reassign hotshot pilots to different units. I could build fighter groups of my best pilots or make sure there are experience pilots in more units. Spread the experience around abit. Maybe if there were a Pilot debriefing room, AAR room or something like that it could be a place where this pilot assigning could happen. Would this be too much work? What do you think?

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Not really - 12/29/2002 1:16:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		In my farthest along PBEM SC#17 as the Allies (Jan 43), I have one at 10, although he is KIA.

I also have two with 7 that are alive.

One reason is that the AI seems to be overly aggressive at times with it's air forces, while human players manage theirs a bit more.

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- 12/29/2002 1:53:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		There was big week for my Zeroes over Pm.3 Days of fighting and now are 130 Zeros und 90 Allied fighters gone:o ,best here had 4 kills buton the allied side there was a guy specialized on zeros who caught already 13:mad: ,hopefully I will never see him again.

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- 12/29/2002 2:10:48 PM   
SoulBlazer

 

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Status: offline 		Highest I've seen is a Wildcat pilot on the Yorktown who is still alive and has 10 kills.

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- 12/29/2002 3:53:48 PM   
rawink

 

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Status: offline 		I had a P39 squadron at PM get 16!! then he was shot down, that was under 2.11 tho, and hasnt been repeated since the UberP39 has went the way of the DoDo

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- 12/29/2002 10:35:35 PM   
Fallschirmjager


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Status: offline 		I had a P-40 pilot in the coral sea scenario shoot down 5 in the same action...anyone else seen a super pilot like that?

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- 12/29/2002 10:48:01 PM   
Hard Sarge


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Status: offline 		Hi Hunter from the skies (LOL easyer to spell)

yes I have seen 5 or more kills in one fight (seen a Zero pilot latch onto a Wirraway attack and he scored 8), but most times if you can get a fighter into a DB attack, you can see numbers shot down by both sides

my current game, scen 14, Allied, I got one Marine with 15, 1 with 13, 2 with 11 and 1 with 10 (the Navy boys have been out of action, but got a number of them with 9)

early on, one of the good JP pilots got either 10 or 11 kills, but then his CV was hit HARD and returned to port and have not seen him or his Squadron since (either sunk and FOW has not shown it, or it went back to Japan)

middle/end of OCT 42

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- 12/29/2002 10:50:03 PM   
Bc2of5

 

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- 12/30/2002 1:31:56 AM   
rawink

 

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Status: offline 		just found this!!!!!!!! screen shot of my kill board, 6/43

playing scen 17 vs AI as Americans

[IMG]http://www.badrap.net/kills.jpg[/IMG]

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- 12/30/2002 3:55:56 AM   
Hard Sarge


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Status: offline 		Wow, just look at them missions flown !

nice shot

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- 12/30/2002 5:24:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Isn't the lightning a recon plane?

I had a Kittyhawk pilot get 6 in one CAP defense over PM. He is up to 7 now. That squadren had a field day when they sent 19 bombers unescorted on a run over PM.

The Japanese stopped flying missions to PM. They still have a lot of planes at Rabul because they keep nailing my efforts to move units into Gilli.

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Lightning - 12/30/2002 6:58:40 AM   
tanjman


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by OG_Gleep
[B]Isn't the lightning a recon plane?[/B][/QUOTE]

OG_Gleep,

The P-38 Lightning series were fighters/fighter bombers (depending on your source). The F-5 Lightning series were the photo recon version. BTW the 'P' stands for Pursuit and the 'F' stands for Photo. :D Go figure the USAAF ;)

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- 12/30/2002 11:20:47 PM   
Hard Sarge


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Status: offline 		Hi Tan
ROFLMFA

had never really noticed that one before, good call

sure they had a "good" reason for it at the time, but it sure don't look like it now :)

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Re: Not really - 12/31/2002 3:39:16 AM   
Sonny

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by denisonh
[B]In my farthest along PBEM SC#17 as the Allies (Jan 43), I have one at 10, although he is KIA.

.................. [/B][/QUOTE]

Glad I got that sucker!!:D

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- 12/31/2002 6:02:44 AM   
Q-Ball


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Status: offline 		I had a Corsair pilot rack up 27 kills in #17 by Dec. '43 vs. the AI. He was in VBF 224, one of the first Wildcat sqdrns you get. They converted to Corsairs in early '43, and just to see how many kills they could get, I always based them at the most forward airfield on CAP. They reached 455 kills by the end of the game. AI was on Very Hard. Corsairs are just death to anything that flies! No way you could do that against a human though, we're too **** smart.

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- 12/31/2002 1:25:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yea Sonny, you got him over Gili Gili, if I am not mistaken.

But I got a number of aces workin on taking his place. (no naval aviators, cause you gotta have carriers for those guys
:D )

Who's you top dog? And more importantly, is he still alive.

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- 12/31/2002 2:02:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		While I'm drumming my fingers and humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic (humming the hymn, not hymning the hum), waiting for the little gray boxes to stop flashing (Officer Deckard is credited with Skin Job no. 3), I always figure that the next box I see after one of my pilots gets his sixth or seventh kill will announce his demise ...

I did get a VMF pilot up to 18 kills in a PBEM game once, of course, he got caulked on the next mission.

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- 12/31/2002 3:30:40 PM   
Matt Erickson

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by pasternakski
[B]While I'm drumming my fingers and humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic (humming the hymn, not hymning the hum), waiting for the little gray boxes to stop flashing (Officer Deckard is credited with Skin Job no. 3), I always figure that the next box I see after one of my pilots gets his sixth or seventh kill will announce his demise ...

I did get a VMF pilot up to 18 kills in a PBEM game once, of course, he got caulked on the next mission. [/B][/QUOTE]


yeah too bad we can't rotate these guys out for a war bond tour;)

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- 12/31/2002 9:25:10 PM   
Sonny

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by denisonh
[B]Yea Sonny, you got him over Gili Gili, if I am not mistaken.

But I got a number of aces workin on taking his place. (no naval aviators, cause you gotta have carriers for those guys
:D )

Who's you top dog? And more importantly, is he still alive. [/B][/QUOTE]

Don't know, I'll look it up and let you know. One of the groups who were flying LRCAP over Buna while I was trying to take it got 64 kills, but I don't think any (living) pilot has more than 7 or 8.:)

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Pilot Rotation - 1/1/2003 12:51:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Historically speaking, Allied fighter pilots should rotate out of theatre after 50 combat missions (25 for Bomber pilots) and the number of aces should increase the skill level of future reinforcements (these guys went back to teach other pilots).

Japanese pilots should fly until they die, racking up hefty kill scores, but contributing nothing to the overall training level of their air forces.

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- 1/1/2003 3:30:02 PM   
Hard Sarge


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Status: offline 		Hi Dail

different war mate, those were early ETO rules

in the PTO you flew tours of duty, VMF at least flew 3 tours and then were sent back home (later in the war these may of changed also)

(part of the reason for the Pressure on Pappy B to get his last set of kills in, he was on his 3rd tour and was headed home shortly)

also during the hot days on Lunga, the higher ranks and top pilots flew the 12:00 mission (as that was the normal time for the raids to come in) the other pilots got stuck with the other Cap missions, so the younger guys may of been flying 2 or 3 Cap missions a day, while the "good" guys were flying 1

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