Sitting Duck is the first campaign mission of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The mission is very simple and intended to ease the player into the game's controls. The objective is to shoot down six bombers flying in a straight line with little defense.
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| - Sitting Duck is the first campaign mission of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The mission is very simple and intended to ease the player into the game's controls. The objective is to shoot down six bombers flying in a straight line with little defense.
- The sitting duck is a player-designed spring trinket, which first appeared for sale in the palace shoppe in March 2013 . This trinket was designed by Wayfarer. The sitting duck can be purchased for 2,000 PoE (and 2 doubloons, on doubloon oceans). It may be inscribed with a message after purchase.
- What do the Cool Ship, Cool Starship, and Cool Plane all have in common? They are all at their most vulnerable when in docked in port or while parked on the ground. This is a state of vulnerability that pretty much everyone and everything has to accept at some point, as personnel need food and sleep, ships need maintenance, and nobody has found a way to keep a plane in the sky indefinitely yet. A savvy enemy can use the element of surprise to sucker punch an enemy, even a numerically or technically superior enemy, before they can bring their forces into play. Methods for this can range from Fireships to attack planes or a long range missile attack.
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| - What do the Cool Ship, Cool Starship, and Cool Plane all have in common? They are all at their most vulnerable when in docked in port or while parked on the ground. This is a state of vulnerability that pretty much everyone and everything has to accept at some point, as personnel need food and sleep, ships need maintenance, and nobody has found a way to keep a plane in the sky indefinitely yet. A savvy enemy can use the element of surprise to sucker punch an enemy, even a numerically or technically superior enemy, before they can bring their forces into play. Methods for this can range from Fireships to attack planes or a long range missile attack. Of course, it's also possible to be placed in this position because your ship was badly damaged in a previous fight, and the enemy is coming back to finish you off before you can finish your repairs. The Trope name comes from a hunting phrase referring to ducks sitting on the water, often considered to be off limits until they take flight. Due to its applicability, the phrase was adopted in the military aviation community to refer to airplanes that had been caught on the ground, although of course very few pilots have a problem with destroying an enemy plane before it can get airborne. Historically, a combat pilot would get no credit for destroying an enemy plane while it was still on the ground, until the Americans began to grant credit for such kills during World War II. It was theoretically possible to become an ace by only destroying planes on the ground, although German airfields tended to be very heavily defended by anti-aircraft batteries that could do wonders for shortening your flying career. Exploiting this trope is a favored tactic of the Combat Pragmatist, and a favored method of preventing the Fighter Launching Sequence. Not to Be Confused With Sitting Ducks, which was inspired by the same idiom that this Trope draws its name from. Examples of Sitting Duck include:
- Sitting Duck is the first campaign mission of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The mission is very simple and intended to ease the player into the game's controls. The objective is to shoot down six bombers flying in a straight line with little defense.
- The sitting duck is a player-designed spring trinket, which first appeared for sale in the palace shoppe in March 2013 . This trinket was designed by Wayfarer. The sitting duck can be purchased for 2,000 PoE (and 2 doubloons, on doubloon oceans). It may be inscribed with a message after purchase.
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