[AAR] A pilot's round of Muttrah

[hobbnob]

Date: 06/01/11
Server= HOG 24/7 Muttrah

Report follows:

Joined the round, had about 3 people on each team. I made an air trans squad to get things going.
After a couple of minutes the two man clan squad and the lone wolf squad merged to form one infantry squad, and they invited me in to help with commuication.
Got a few compliments from the SL on flying, which wasn't really difficult as I was only doing trans and suppruns, and I never got locked by AA. I almost died once as I was going to extract the lads and I pinballed off a couple of buildings, forcing me back to the carrier as a shaking, exploding mess.

After about half an hour of closely supporting this infantry squad I was invited to the newly formed cobra squad, and since I'd just lost a match against a shipping container I decided I'd have my first go of gunning on multiplayer.

The pilot had reasonable flying skills, and we only crashed once about an hour after starting, so we had a very good session. At first I was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to do anything since he was constantly doing hydra runs and not hovering to let me engage when I told him to, but after a few minutes we started working as a team, with a pretty good spotter as well.

We had about 5 enemy contacts by the docks, 2 of which were sly gits trying to get to the cranes and set up AA positions, the others being vehicular targets (2 of those flat APC things and one truck)

We also had a squad (possible fob) digging in at an apartment block, which we pounded with both the 30mil and a few hellfires, getting 4 confirmed kills (we checked for bodies).

As well as this we had two contacts on the crane at the construction site, which we were unable to engage with hellfires, so they got a lot of cannon fire instead.

Reading the score screen I eventually got 24 kills on that position, however I also killed 3 friendlies, one of which was our own spotter (we made sure to call visual contacts as well after that)

[Punkbuster]

Nice!
If you liked it, I am a good pilot but I lack friends who actually love flying, So you can PM and I can fly with you sometime!
I have like 150 friends on my xfire list and non of them likes flying or gunning.
Anyway, I want to give you a tip, Even if your pilot is doing strafes, You can still be effective, Especially with the new hellfire aiming system where you have to click for the missile to change heading...
So where ever you see your pilot shooting... shoo a hell fire then switch to the gun and shot even if you see nothing but smoke... There might be very damaged APCs or Jeeps in the smoke and you will kill them.

Cheers,
Punkbuster

[hobbnob]

Yeah punkbuster that'd be good, I don't use Xfire much because the UI confuses me :P but I'm on 1900-2100GMT (2100-2300 IST) and usually on either muttrah server or the UKWF flight training server if it's online

[Punkbuster]

Originally Posted by hobbnob

Yeah punkbuster that'd be good, I don't use Xfire much because the UI confuses me :P but I'm on 1900-2100GMT (2100-2300 IST) and usually on either muttrah server or the UKWF flight training server if it's online

I am usually on PRTA... I have high ping in the Muttrah city server... 300+

[LanceVanceDance]

I think the flat tracked APCs are called MTLBs

[saXoni]

Originally Posted by LanceVanceDance

I think the flat tracked APCs are called MTLBs

You're absolutely correct, sir.