haha i love SkyRambos little antics!
My story holds simmilar but mine is the case of "learning from the master" story!
Always whenever we played ACATAMA rush, that dam hind wud be such a nuisance, always gets int he way
Anyways, these to players and im sure Rambo knows them, MicJag and Rusty_the_clown, dam these guys were owning us so bad with that chopper, Rusty had no kills but a million points by the end.
On that Map i was like stuff this, im going to get this chopper!
started out witht he usual tracer dart, RPG combo, needless to say i knew nothing of flares aka smoke.
No matter how many timeswe tried, that chopper just hovered and hovered and hovered.
So then i moved onto the Carl gustav manual fire, hopign that luck wud swing my way, but still, they were owning, note this was now well into 30min of the game, the first 2 com stations had been taken out long ago and the opposing team was well into taking the next base.
I thought 4 sure these okes were hacking! i was like no way can they stay in the air so long!
So i tried to snipe the buggers out the cockpit, needless to saym that failed too!
Finally we got to the last part were there were tanks vs tanks and this chopper wouldnt respawn if it were to be taken down.
i said "bugger this, im going to shoot this Heli out the sky!"
again this failed...
A few weeks later, after much practice i finally figured hwo to use the flares properly. The time came for ACATAMA rush and i got the Heli

, well it seems that it isnt impossible to stay in the air so long as they did as i too did the same, its really fun when you do it for the team

. Now it seems players are getting smart, that dam VADS is imba :| knocks the heli back cold! some teamies are smart and take it out as we take off. others not so much, some snipers sit and wait for the okes to get into the vads, much to my satisfaction

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AND then
the one day i WISH i had fraps installed, why, well, we all know port valdez is awesome! i was in a tank at B and there was a heli harrasing us bad, my gunner damaged it enough for it to fly back to the spawn point so that the okes could repair and com back to harrass, anyways, i decided in short to shoot a shell at the heli. My gunner and myself watched as this Heli was flying back, note the heli was past A always, i watched the shell fall and at the last second the pilot of the chopper turned into its past, there were now way past A near the hill, the shell hit and i could not believe it, i literally screamed over TS
ah man, that was my best moment ever in BFBC2!