BF2S Forums For all you fellow AH1Z Whores out there...

No one hogs an AH1Z. They all go for the Mi-28.

The range to effectively use that wonderful cannon is as far as the damn eye can see. Using it, I could easily kill you in your AA site from 300 meters away.

Mi28 is easier to fly imo. Better pepper me about my 5 hours in the helicopter though.

Edit: Awesome video though.

Last edited by junkpi1e (2006-03-10 01:19:00)

Naw, come on. It's just a friendly debate, no need to bring stats into this. What'd you got against the Mi-28 anyways?

Gunners love the MI-28. Pilots hate it. The gun may cause unholy splash damage and kill all living matter within a 15 meter radius, but it flies like a cow. It may be 'easier' to fly inasmuch as its harder to lose control in regular flight, but its also much less maneuverable than the z-10 or ah1z, meaning a probably loss in a dogfight. Add to that the rocket pods that are spaced very wide, and flying that thing is a real chore. And killing something while flying it is even more of a chore.

BF2Craglyeye wrote:

The thing I noticed about the video is that the pilot seemed to hold quite steady while the missiles/TV were firing.

However all  BF2 "pilot hereoes"(not the inverted commas) expect you to hit a moving tank while they are somersaulting, backpeddaling or spinning.

Or try to be selfish and do it themselves.

Thats cause all seasoned pilots know that u line up for a quick tv-shot against another chopper and then do the somerssaulting to avoid getting blown up by the tvm. And hopefully the pilots have a gunner that knows how to use the tvm just as that chance present itself. I rearly see pilots just hovering in the same place anymore or standing still for very long.
The thing about doing it themselves prob. has do with experience of the pilot. Lesser exp. and the pilots trys to nail everything by himself or u missed ur first shot with the tvm and them pilots try to take out wathever u missed.

AH1Z for me i think it rocks great movie m8  always like to sneak up to tank and kill them with my ah1z
most peeps like the Mi-28 but one thing is sure it is very ugly

gentlemen, lets just say that two helicopters in real combat would never really see eachother.
the AH-12 and the Mi-28 have both good and bad characteristics.
Mi-28 was primarily designed as an anti-infantry platform, while the AH-12 was designed for anti-tank purposes.
the Mi-28 is much bigger then the AH-12 and is capable of carring way more armanent then what is curently on it in-game.


but, yea, nice vid.

AH1Z SOCOM GHOST ... outstanding video!!!  thanks for posting it...

Now, if we could get an .avi or .mpg version of it so I can save it to my collection...!!!

It's obvious to me that BF2Craglyeye may not pilot the attack heli's too often in BF2.  The video can stay steady because they don't have J-10's and IGLA's trying to light you up.  I give just enough time for the gunner to fire the TVM then I'm make tracks and doing rolls to avoid the TVM's, IGLA's and Air to Air missles all coming my way...

Dancing in the sky's....

RiSSoN

Kung Jew..

For me it's visual and VoiP..  I create a squad and invite my gunner so I can talk to him and he can talk to me.  If you get to know the gunner well enough, you can line it up and he'll fire ... as soon as he does I try to make my self more elusive, weaving back and forth, rolling or flipping backwards.  It all depends on your opponent (attack heli).  If he's good / great w/ a tv, you absolutely do not stay in one place... or his TVM will be sitting in your lap. 

As the pilot, you have the full front view, but I use a joystick (Logitech Freedom 2.4) and sometimes the keyboard and mouse.  The joystick it nice because it have the hat switch setup to look left, right and 3rd person if need be to see if incoming jets or heli's are coming my way..

This is my perspective on it...  I've flown with some really good pilots that give me a quick sec to fire a shot..  Once you do and you're using your TVM monitor, it doesn't matter what the pilot is doing because your watching through the TVM...

RiSSoN

Hrmmmmm........

Let me rewrite this to make more sense....

Let's say, hypothetically speaking, a "friend" of mine has a rotweiller.  This "friend", is my gunner from time to time in BF2.  His dog eats his headphones and mic. 

Now, my "friend" can hear me,  but cannot speak back to me.  If he launches a missle, he will not have time to type anything to me and maintain control of the missle guidance. Is there any way that I can detect that he has launched from the pilot's view? Aside from seeing a missle fly away, is there a light on the control panel or the Pilot's HUD that signals when the gunner has taken his shot?

KJ

PS Sorry about the threadjack.

Last edited by Kung Jew (2006-03-10 14:08:58)

Wow thats awesome firepower!!
Thanks for sharing!