I hear that.
Funny story, I had NO idea about kill strikes for sometime. I was just using the default with care packages. Anyway, I had my best Kill Steak yet - got the spy plane, then the care package, then the cobra. I was wondering when the Gunship came. I asked tet on TS and he said it was 8 or 9. I then kill 8 and nothing, then 9 and nothing. Eventually I am at 12 kill streak and still no gunship. Now I am getting frusterated, because tet is getting Gunships and I am getting none. When I hit 14 kill streak, I get back on TS and ask tet again is he sure, because I didn't get one. He said for me to check my kill streak load out - WHAT? I never bothered to look at it. After the game I logged off and saw that I could design my own kill streak load out. I ended up with my highest kill streak that game and didn't have the nice gunships or anything. Now if I could only repeat that.
I hear you on the maps - that Nuke town is a blast-fest and kind of hard to get more than 5 kill streak on it. I don't think I have ever gotten over 5 on that map.
However, jungle and a few others I can get well over 10.
I play when tet is usually playing and I can tell you he has figured out some great strategies to keep him on the move, low profile, and high streaks. He is constantly on the top of the leader board, I think I only beat him out once. tet needs to change his name to "Got Gunship?"
Personally, Im not a fan of the choppers, but I guess I'm a traditionalist. It juat always bothered me when someone would get a chopper in MW1 or 2 which would pad their scores to the point where they were beating me, even if I had been spanking them all game... lol, guess I'm just bitter.
Currently I'm using napalm strike, auto turret, and mortar strike. Gives me some nice midrange killstreak rewards, and they are all quick to deploy, so I can stay fighting.
SSG.Braxis*BK*