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UK_Widowmaker

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Hi all

Was flying a campaign mission, and was checking out the map...found a Allied Airbase (was flying Camel at the time)....came in for a closer look..Allied aircraft parked there...but the gunners opened fire on me.

Is this supposed to happen?...mistaken identity or summat?..or just a little bug?...they shot me down, and I died!...quite irritating!
 
UK_Widowmaker said:
Hi all

Was flying a campaign mission, and was checking out the map...found a Allied Airbase (was flying Camel at the time)....came in for a closer look..Allied aircraft parked there...but the gunners opened fire on me.

Is this supposed to happen?...mistaken identity or summat?..or just a little bug?...they shot me down, and I died!...quite irritating!
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I say old chap, care to give us the details? Name, location and time, so we can avoid the buggers.
 
Maybe it was just overrun ? Got to love wars so irritating :)

In RB3D I remember being attacked by "friendly" Nieuports just made it more realistic for me, it was rare but as friendly fire happened all the time just added to it.

Anyhow... we can sanitise it.. which field, squad, date ?
 
Aha. There was a rumour flying about that some squadron had got their hands on a large hoard of rare vintage plonk... now you know who, and they seem anxious to defend it. :friday:
 
Well, I shall send 'Ginger' and 'Strangely Brown' over in a BE2 and get the required Information!...No-one will miss them! (least of all the rogue Allied Gun teams!)

Will report back, once we have identified (the bodies):amen:
 
Well, WIDOWMAKER, that would make me wonder.
A clear statement for you, to look for another airfield to land. Had you drank up all their beer the evening before?
 
I've had the same thing happen Widowmaker......well sort of. There I was, just flying along in my Roland, minding my own, when I happened upon a flight of 3 Noops. Well, we had a helluva scrap and we got down to low altitude over the front, mostly on our side (German) and the blokes in the mud opened fire on the Noops. There was flaming lead everywhere, and I was in the crossfire! 2 of the enemy crates went down and I did too. Ground troops shot me up pretty badly and I had to land her. I made sure the CO knew about thier foolishness in my post flight report.

-Rooster
 
UK_Widowmaker said:
Hi all

Was flying a campaign mission, and was checking out the map...found a Allied Airbase (was flying Camel at the time)....came in for a closer look..Allied aircraft parked there...but the gunners opened fire on me.

Is this supposed to happen?...mistaken identity or summat?..or just a little bug?...they shot me down, and I died!...quite irritating!
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You haven't gone and been intimate with the gunners wives again Widowmaker ? Your reputation surely precedes you old boy !
 
catch22 said:
You haven't gone and been intimate with the gunners wives again Widowmaker ? Your reputation surely precedes you old boy !
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That's how I like my Women!..Straight, and to my point!...woof woof!
 
Polovski said:
Maybe it was just overrun ? Got to love wars so irritating :)

In RB3D I remember being attacked by "friendly" Nieuports just made it more realistic for me, it was rare but as friendly fire happened all the time just added to it.

Anyhow... we can sanitise it.. which field, squad, date ?
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I kinda want it left in!..As you say, it adds to the realism!..Therefore, it's location is top secret!..My lips are sealed!
 
I fear it may have been recaptured, we found a small glitch which may or may not be related, depending on where it is. But we'll leave the mystery then :)
 
I had it happen in a QC last night. I enlisted a hun pilot and went against some Camels. Flying over a hun aerodrome the whole bunch of them on the ground let loose at me.
 
It's funny and a little strange to me, that the word "hun" is still in peoples mind, for the Germans. As far as I know, it came from an anti-Germany poster from wartime, showing a terrible looking German soldier, who looked like a Hun rather (although the real Huns were from as far away as Mongolia, I think), who came over the civilized world with a horde of other Huns.

Isn't it interesting, how easy propaganda works - even after so many years?

But never mind - you call us "Huns" - we call you "crumpets".
 
"Huns" and "Crumpets"...:costumes:

This is quite good! (as long as no one is taking offense).

Olham, I have noticed the use of the term but only ever in the context of WW1, which is somewhat understandable since so much of the biographical and historical literature written about the war by participants refer to Germans as "Huns". I never hear others call German miltary people by that name in any other circumstances. I guess I think of it the same way that Japanese miltary personnel in WW 2 were called "Japs" and I heard that for many years when I was growing up after the war ended, although the term finally vanished.
 
Jimko said:
"Huns" and "Crumpets"...:costumes:

This is quite good! (as long as no one is taking offense).

Olham, I have noticed the use of the term but only ever in the context of WW1, which is somewhat understandable since so much of the biographical and historical literature written about the war by participants refer to Germans as "Huns". I never hear others call German miltary people by that name in any other circumstances. I guess I think of it the same way that Japanese miltary personnel in WW 2 were called "Japs" and I heard that for many years when I was growing up after the war ended, although the term finally vanished.
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It didn't vanish, it evolved. I call my wife a Jipnap (she's Japanese). :icon_lol:

I'm also fond of telling her, quite gleefully, how I've just killed her "Jap grandpappy" for the umpteenth time in any gane where I'm fighting the Japanese.:applause::icon_lol:
 
Siggi said:
It didn't vanish, it evolved. I call my wife a Jipnap (she's Japanese). :icon_lol:

I'm also fond of telling her, quite gleefully, how I've just killed her "Jap grandpappy" for the umpteenth time in any gane where I'm fighting the Japanese.:applause::icon_lol:
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:costumes: Ok, but be careful! If your Sushi tastes a bit crunchy one day, I'd definitely stop eating if I was you...:costumes:
 
Olham54 said:
It's funny and a little strange to me, that the word "hun" is still in peoples mind, for the Germans. As far as I know, it came from an anti-Germany poster from wartime, showing a terrible looking German soldier, who looked like a Hun rather (although the real Huns were from as far away as Mongolia, I think), who came over the civilized world with a horde of other Huns.

Isn't it interesting, how easy propaganda works - even after so many years?

But never mind - you call us "Huns" - we call you "crumpets".
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Especially prevalent in OFF...Must be the old saying of "Watch out for the Hun in the Sun"

Hun wasn't used so much in WW2 (we had equally unpleasant terms for the Germans of course)..... My Dad used to call the WW2 German Soldiers 'PottyHeads'...due to their Helmets, which many Allied Soldiers took home after the war, for exactly 'that' purpose
 
Think, you're right JIMKO. And no: no offense taken

Blach! I wouldn't like to eat my soup out of the helmet, a soldier has been wearing for god-knows-howlong, WIDOWMAKER.
By the way: German soldiers called the British "Limeys" (does anyone know, what that came from?)
 
Olham54 said:
Blach! I wouldn't like to eat my soup out of the helmet, a soldier has been wearing for god-knows-how long)
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Ahem, well, um...it is worse than that Olham. A pot is used for food, but a 'pottie' is used to catch it when it comes out the other end after eaten.:hand:
 
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