Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

[Dozer_EAF19]

Originally Posted by Madfish

This has nothing to do with survival or treachery. There have been many incidents or humanistic behavior and especially pilots aren't the murderous being you describe. There was in fact a lot of chivalry in the air and even bombing crews didn't tell the gory tales but usually they took pride in just downing planes. I believe that air combat is just not as involved as ground combat when it comes to really see the brutality. You usually just fought against "machines" and "pilots".

This said I might repeat that I wouldn't mind a little blood effect or two but things don't have to be overly gory just to show what happens. Also things don't have to be overly gory just to not be a traitor.
In fact downing a pilot and capturing him can be MUCH more useful than killing him mindlessly. A plane down is a plane down. What you describe, dozer, is only feasible in the act of attacking another country and thus fighting over enemy territory. Then it'd be reasonable to try hard and kill everything in side as they might go back home and get into another plane again.

Regards,
Madfish.

I think I've been misunderstood a bit here. I never said anything about 'mindlessly' or 'brutally' killing pilots. I was only talking about shooting at a pilot when he's sat in the cockpit of his plane. I'm not talking about gore, you can't see it from 150 yards back anyway! I meant that, as I understand it, when there's an enemy aviator in his aircraft, most pilots wouldn't hold back from shooting at where he's sat, because sensibly it's the quickest way to bring his plane down, and that's the whole point of you being there. That's not murderous, that's an act of war. Shooting a pilot in his parachute is murderous though, but that's not what I said. My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I wrote the last sentence too, hence the

Some were famed for shooting at aircrew deliberately - 'Sailor' Malan of the RAF in the BoB, who ignored what I wrote in my last post, aimed to wound and kill as many aircrew as possible rather than bring the aircraft down, in order to demoralise the Luftwaffe. He probably should have just tried to destroy as many airframes as possible...