m10bob
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Joined: 11/3/2002 From: Dismal Seepage Indiana Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns quote:
ORIGINAL: High Command When attacking 177 Unescorted Bombers with 100 Fighters, i would based on historicle results and Aircraft Preformance, Pilot Avverage Skill, and other factors, demand that at least 50-125 Bombers were shot down, and thats a abseloute minimum! Well this is completely absurd, one of the worst unescorted raids of the war was the Schweinfurt raid. About 350 B-17s flew across hundreds of kilometers of enemy territory and were attacked over and over by hundreds if not thousands of enemy fighters, and only 60 planes were lost. Granted almost all of the bombers were damaged (many beyond repair), but only 60 were shot down, that’s about 20% of the raid and that’s one of the worst raids of the war in terms of losses, if not the worst. The other 99% of unescorted raids were over enemy territory for a mere fraction of the time that the Schweinfurt raid was, so your demanded loss ratio above is completely absurd and unsupportable. You’re *educated* demands smack of an emotional reaction to getting pounded in game. While I empathize with your need to vent, your arrogant tone and insulting nature make me think you’re simply a poor sport with a need to lash out at someone, so you come here and start your thread by basically attacking the entire forum community. Suck it up and take it like a man, and quit making grand pronouncements that are totally unsupportable. Besides if you’re the kind of player who likes to play in the gamey style of creating an unstoppable death star of 72 land units in one hex, you deserve the consequences of that action. Jim Ditto.(Of course). Gotta wonder about the "university". High Command, in your initial comments in this thread you did kinda denegrate the forum as a whole. Of course you should expect the forum to respond. While you seem to have addressed us as elementary school kids, the facts are we include Aeronautical engineers, pilots, professional warriors, college students,(and grads), doctors, lawyers, (possible American Indian chiefs), and most certainly veterans of wars, (not just elementary school kids.) Besides, as a school kid, I was pretty savvy to WWII aircraft, and had met several of the famous pilots of that war at aviation historical meetings, book sales, etc. As long as WITP has been released, do you suppose none of us have ever found things about the game we did not like? Matrix has listened to us over the years and has occasionally altered the game to suit many of our postings. Your post, however, went beyond finding fault, and set a tone of hostility against *us*... If you were trying this tactic to get anybodies attention, you succeeded, but not the way you may have intended. This forum is not a select group. Anybody can join, and are welcome to share their knowledge, and we appreciate input of merit, but your comments seem to lack either knowledge, or merit. You may still redeem your credibility. Just re-think your future posts, because once offered, they cannot be taken back, (even with the "edit" button.
< Message edited by m10bob -- 10/22/2007 2:17:57 PM >
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