Sylvester said:Now wait a second LOAF. You said that Blair is 10th on the all time list with about 1800 kills during the war, and this was quite high for someone in the second half of the conflict. The character I am writing this for served as a pilot for 17 years from 2632 to 2649, so I think that is a reasonable kill count for an early long term ace.
Now wait a second LOAF. You said that Blair is 10th on the all time list with about 1800 kills during the war, and this was quite high for someone in the second half of the conflict. The character I am writing this for served as a pilot for 17 years from 2632 to 2649, so I think that is a reasonable kill count for an early long term ace.
Bearcat said:There's a lot of conflicting interpretations of WC in general. I think we've reached a point where we all kind of have our own ideas of what we want it to be, and even the cannon conflicts with itself a lot.
Bearcat said:For my part, I can't understand how those kinds of kill scores even make a war. If confed pilots were eating up the Kilrathi like that the war would be over in a week.
There's a lot of conflicting interpretations of WC in general. I think we've reached a point where we all kind of have our own ideas of what we want it to be, and even the cannon conflicts with itself a lot.
For my part, I can't understand how those kinds of kill scores even make a war. If confed pilots were eating up the Kilrathi like that the war would be over in a week. In the worst of times Confed was down to what, 1/3rd of the Kilrathi's number of carriers? They would still end the war in a week with pilots that got that many kills. Not to mention how hard it would be to find new volunteers to be pilots.
Bandit LOAF said:(Are high kill scores possible for a few exceptional people in extraordinary situations? Yes -- Erich Hartmann had 352 kills in under three years of service during World War II... Maniac and Blair served for more than fifteen.)
It's also important to note that a kill score is pretty meaningless in the greater picture -- in terms of the importance of a character in the grander scheme, they don't represent much. Someone who is good at shooting down enemy fighters is *not* automatically a good leader... you don't see top aces becoming important generals and admirals and such for that reason.
Bandit LOAF said:It's also important to note that a kill score is pretty meaningless in the greater picture -- in terms of the importance of a character in the grander scheme, they don't represent much. Someone who is good at shooting down enemy fighters is *not* automatically a good leader... you don't see top aces becoming important generals and admirals and such for that reason.
Ijuin said:Maniac himself would be an excellent example of this. He is even better than Blair at racking up kills at times, but he had difficulty handling being in charge of the Black Widows in WCP.
Dundradal said:One of the few nations that did throw top aces into leadership roles was Nazi Germany who did it with several aces both in air kills and tanks kills. And we all know what happened to them...
Bandit LOAF said:Linear time: the people who became top aces *because* of the war couldn't also be the ones who set up the air force that started it.
Halman said:Which has nothing to do Germany's long range strategic bombing capacity. Are they going to bomb factories in the US? Because thats where those heavy bombers were built.