The Bf109 non-ACE: ta;es from online...

[Jumoschwanz]

I would like to point out that nobody has to feel bad about how they fly online, feeling bad is a choice.

A lot of people, including myself have had lots of fun flying suicide ground attack missions, flying into furballs and attacking AAA at airfields.

If you enjoy completing missions then complete them, if you enjoy seeing how long you can last in furballs then do that.

I was on a server a bit ago and every time I tried to take off one field in a Mustang I was shot to pieces by one of three Bf109s that were sharking the base. I could have switched to a different airfield, but I thought it would be fun to keep trying to take off from the base and see if I could evade them and maybe even land a shot on one of them. A few times when they shot me up I was able to make crash landings back at the base, that was a little victory for me. I did the same thing on another server, getting shot up right after taking off in a Spitfire a few times, I kept at it and notified the others RED pilots that our base was being sharked and I got some help and ended up shooting one of the sharks down myself. So it cost me a few planes but I had fun and got some satisfaction I was looking for.

Years ago on Spits_vs_109s I used to fly lone wolf and did very well, but I had big odds against me as there were a few organized RED squadrons on it that I messed with in my Axis aircraft. I flew into a large formation of bombers and fighters once with my lone Bf109, just to see if I could pull off the impossible and foil their mission single handed. I did not do it, I got one bomber and one fighter, then someone shot one of my wings off and I was dead. The satisfaction came when one pilot that I shot down many times typed into the HUD "Ha Ha you did not get me this time.....

[K_Freddie]

Essentially the way I look at games..
Always trying something different, perfecting it, if it works well enough.. 'going for broke' most times and most times managing to get back to base looking like a sieve with many pieces missing.
My biggest kick, as you say, is hitting on superior numbers and getting out of it.. somehow.

What I found very trying, is with others who wish to enforce 'their rules' of tactics and flying.. takes the fun out of it. Do this with an organised war map, fine.. but not all the time - it is a game after all.

[majorfailure]

Originally Posted by K_Freddie

it is a game after all.

True. Absolutely. And it is still fun after ~10 years. No other game has ever kept me that long. And I believe it may last for a while longer. Still eager to see the next patch and the things it will bring.

[Laurwin]

most fun I round I ever had in this game online was maybe with this one F4F wildcat vs zero map.

We did really good with American teamwork vs slightly better zeke fighters.

It felt like the American giant was really using his fist of wildcat fighter pounding the japanese zekes out of the sky. We used local superiority in numbers as well as constant boom and zoom attacks to demoralize the enemy.

(that is, as soon as we could climb from carrier, sometimes we had to defend in lufbery circles and thach weave near the carrier at lower alt, vs zeke attacks.)

[Woke Up Dead]

Originally Posted by Laurwin

most fun I round I ever had in this game online was maybe with this one F4F wildcat vs zero map.

Sounds like a couple of maps on Skies of Valor, I had lots of fun flying the Wildcats the way you described too. Flying the zero against smart Wildcat pilots can be a fun challenge as well, they're smart enough to get that local number superiority you talk about, but in the Zero you can still stay on top of them and look for openings to swoop down.