And awaaaaaaay we go....
20. You've been jumped by two bandits who are on comms, right at take-off, and proceed to knock them out of the sky and land within 5 mins time.
19. Your best memories of flying this game are the times you succeeded in clearing your wingman's six right before he was about to get waxed. Especially, when he didn't see the bogey coming.
18. You will leave a bogey that you have dead in your sights and could easily dispatch within another min or two, to save a wingman or team mate in need. Especially, when they are calling for help.
17. You only need to speak online when spoken to and your skills are only exceeded by your humble respect for the respectful and your total annihilation of the disrespectful.
16. Your keen situational awareness extends to informing your team mates of exactly what to expect at any point in a mission or dogfight and being a true selfless leader.
15. When joining a server, you find a noob or someone having a difficult time and you spend your entire time on the server just covering them and nobody lays a bullet on them.
14. The known warpers come out of the woodwork because they can't win any other way and require loose settings servers to succeed, but you fly as dominantly on a wide open speed check server as you do on the gnat's *** tightest there is.
13. You constanly receive HL pages for recruitment in squadrons.
12. You willingly and gladly share any and all information with anyone who asks, as you know that making better enemies will make you a better pilot.
11. Other Uber aces fear you and when they can't beat you, that's when the usual "Warp, Lag and Roll" begins until they finally leave the server in frustration.
10. When joining a server, you immediately join the side with the least amount of pilots, regardless of color or planeset, and proceed to shoot down the highest scoring pilots on the server.
9. Your name is Megile or you have guns like HaVoK.
8. The only thing that you fear when flying IL2:1946 is the threat of your significant other packing their bags and leaving you. For some of us, fear in this case is optional, as we know it would just allow us more time to fly this sim, if they did leave. You'd just have to make sure they didn't take any of your stuff with them.
7. Your in-game plane and overall game knowledge is so extensive, that you don't even care what planes are in the planeset, as long as something is flyable and there is someone to shoot at.
6. You are just as dominant on an "all difficulty switches left" server as you are on an "all difficulty switches right" server.
5. Squadron members join servers just to spawn and make tracks of your dogfighting for squadron training purposes. Usually in an alias.
4. You join one of the many "Stat-Ho" servers and several regulars immediately leave the server, as they know their Kill/Death ratio was about to take a beating. Of course, they immediately come back in their aliases so their stats won't suffer when they get whupped.
3. Your skillz are so honed that you can easily detect any and every disturbance in the Force, and can immediately pick out the pilots that are not flying honorably, quite easily.
2. You can immediately assess the skill level of your opponent after the 1st merge of the 1st engagement and then adjust accordingly. Also, you never salute your downed enemy unless he salutes you first, as you know that most use the salute to patronize their victims.
1. Squadrons have to send 3 and 4 at a time to get you because they know that 1 or 2 vs 1 will not work.
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