Question 1: see attached screenshot; note the following: i’m the last guy left, enemy team got 6 players alive, i’m flying a bricky P-61, it’s still 15:50 time left, and enemy team got a massive lead in match score. Given all that, what were the odds i’d win this (in %), in your opinion?
Question 2: do you wanna see a video about how i won this one?
Odds: 12-14%
video: I can’t play videos on Apple Watch but sure…?
Such precision! :D
In my P-61 experience tho, i feel it’s more like 0.12%-0.14%. Or similar. Guess i got a skill issue, huh…
Oh sorry 6 people…nvm those were my stats for beating one person in the P-61 or other heavy fighter
0.0002986% for me in that situation
Yeah, 6 people, and one of them with 5 frags, too. Couple others clearly killed a lot of ground units, too. You see?
Back when i was playing it, i was thinking like: what do i do? If i go and try to kill those ground pounders - their buddies will sure get me, and if i don’t go kill those ground pounders, they’ll just kill some more ground and i’ll lose…
That’s why it felt pretty impossible to win this one. They used Blind Hunt on me, too, on top of it all.
That is a really bad situation to be in. I wouldn’t even try to win at that point, I’d just try to maximize the kills I get before I die(and since blind hunt is on, try to live out the order for the free 10k SL)
Yep, sounds pretty reasonable to me. But me, i’m kinda stubborn. Also, “phew”, seems my skill issue is not oh so big, after all? %)
So, i guess i gonna make a video of this one, then. Especially because the last guy of those six, i didn’t kill - he ended up landing on his no-AAA field for long-lasting repairs, and then he failed to take off until the point i took out his last team mate, and then he repeatedly respawned but was affraid to take off (and rightly so) - and the match ended by me winning by score, with less than 1 minute left, for their team having “no active players”. Pretty rare situation, too. %)
Basically 0
2 bombers/attackers
1 guy doing nothing
1 guy who likely got hit early in the match
My guess, that was 2 fighters, 4 bombers/attackers.
Though 3/3 is possible.
There should be no real reason the P-61 wins unless they are all bad, fch, or somehow the fighters lose 1v1.
But what can you expect of 6 players in a 100% won match. Nothing but throwing.
It was zero bombers: Wyvern, Firefly, Bf 110, Bf 109, Ki-61 and Spitfire. So yeah, it was pretty much zero chance to win. “On paper”, that is. :)
I posted the video of the full match (server replay, 4x some parts of it) in reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1qzt7ob/p61s_immortal_a_victory_against_all_odds/ . Together with big comment with all the details about my decisions which led to this seemingly impossible win.
And i’ll add just one thing here: the music for this video, it was kinda mystical thing. For freaking REAL mystical. See, 1st, i recorded the replay, then i figured out that since P-61 is a US aircraft, i gonna use some US music - and since P-61 is a heavy fighter, i gonna use some heavy music. I love Ozzy Osborne’s music, so i went and checked my favofite album of his - “Down to Earth (2001)”. And in it, one of songs i like more than most - is “Black Illusion”. And P-61 is pretty black for an aircraft, right? That’s coincedence #1. And guess what is the song in the album right after “Black Illusion”? It’s “Alive”. And middle part of the replay is all about staying alive, too. That’s coincedence #2. And then, i’ve put these two songs into my video editor and checked how much time remains for the 3rd song. It was 3:42. So i went and checked if Ozzy got some song of similar duration. Guess what, i found his “Fearless” - is exactly 3:42! That’s coincedence #3. And when i put this 3rd song to my video editor and saw how it goes, i realized that this “Fearless” song plays when i go to my last head-on this match. That’s coincedence #4. All three songs’ names bearing relevance to this particular recording i made, and their total duration - 12:55 - being exactly the same to the recording’s duration - what are the odds? Practically zero. Just like it was practically zero odds to win this match - that’s coincedence #5. Or are those “coincedences”? Times like this, i really wonder if there’s some higher being sometimes making jokes on us, eh. Half scary, half amazing, this. You know?
