Was playing Planetside 1 a few days ago, and we had a 4-man Galaxy Gunship running. Had it set up with pilot, tailgunner, and portside weapons only because we were 2 short of a full crew. I had the port autocannon.
So our side's advancing on an enemy base but is bogged down at a bridge crossing. Enemy's got a half-dozen tanks, an AMS, and an AA BFR on a hill on the other side. We stay low, loop around, and hit them from behind. Take out the AA BFR first, then the AMS on the first pass. Pull around into a wide circle with me and the tailgun taking out tanks while the grenade launcher mops up troops from the AMS. We get three tanks down, and the friendlies start rushing across the bridge. The remaining three tanks start pulling back to the base and we chase after, taking out another two between us and the ground forces. Awesome.
Then all of a sudden, the air's full of NC bastards. Two Reavers, two Mosquitos and a Wasp. Pilot starts clawing for altitude to get above them. I manage to take out a Reaver and a Mossie, while the tailgunner gets the other Reaver and heavily damages the Wasp. The wasp and mossie bug out. At this point we're down to about 15% health and almost completely out of ammo. I've got about 50 rounds left in the gun with no reloads, and the tailgunner's out. We land behind a hill and he swaps over to the starboard cannon. We're taking off to head back to base for reloads when the Mossie and Wasp show up again.
Pilot starts flying this C-130 sized plane in between the trees. The Wasp had launched missiles but between his flying and a lot of luck they blew up in the foliage. They've been behind us where we've got no coverage, but he banks around some more trees and I can get a bead on them. I take out the Mossie, but after a couple hits on the Wasp the gun clicks empty. Starboard gunner's got no shot and we're so low on health now that we've got no time line it up for him. We're literally 100 yards from our own facility at this point.
Wasp lines up a shot at us with his chaingun, and I'm thinking "Well, this was a good run." So little health left I can't even see any green. Then we get juuust inside the SOI and the vehicle shield pips up, and the Wasp had aimed a little wide so that only a few rounds hit us... enough to get absorbed by the shield. I knew that once he reloaded we'd be toast, base or no base, so I decided to try something, and bailed. The pilot calls me a coward for bailing in TS as I land perfectly in the center of the wall and dash towards a wall turret. I get in just in time to bring it to bear and finish the Wasp off. The pilot takes a second to realize what happened, then him and the other gunner start going nuts. We repair and rearm, and that damned GG kept flying and NC kept dying for a solid 4 hours until we finally got downed by another GG with Wasp/Mossie backup, but not before taking their GG down first. By that point our gunship had more bullet decals on it than paint.
Also noteworthy is the fact that during the initial battle I had some heavy metal playing with my library on shuffle (Sabaton, if you're interested). Right when the real life-or-death air battle started, though, windows media decided that would be the perfect time to play the song from Robot Unicorn Attack, which I'd completely forgotten was in my library. That somehow made it exponentially more awesome.
All in all, it was another glorious day in the Terran Republic.
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