Embarrassing moment

Today on HL i was playing in one off the servers, the senario were around the kursk pocket. We the germans should protect the advancing force and if we saw any enamy ground or airforce we should attack. So wen i saw the groundforce i attacked. There was no problem with that. After a while enamy airplanes arrived. Dogfights began to accrue, but very gentle some sporadic bursts. So i joined the fights and got a visual contact with a russian aircraft followed and shot him down. Now the embarrassing moment. I saw some tracers in front off me and saw a twin engine airplane, i took off and began to shoot at it and got a lucky hit and he whent down. then i was disconected. I was sitting in my chair and where thinking:confused: what happend. I realized that i hade shot one of my own. I started to think the aircraft marking did not alter colour from black to red or blue. As it did in other servers.

The core of it I ned to be more watchful.
Or in swedish
Man skall inte vara allt för het på gröten.

It was embarrassing.

Yours

Don’t ask me for advice… I shot my squadron leader down once… :rolleyes:

Fly on servers with icons off. :wink:

I know that feeling. Put the recognition manual next to your bed. I shot PAF relying on the non-german colour of the camo, not looking at the shape of his 109. He had a romanian skin that night. Arghh.

“Friendly fire Isen’t”-
Murphy

It takes time and practice. But on head’on senarios where the other guy is shooting I rather be the one that walks away alive.
Fratacides happends. The challenge is to minimizes them :wink: