[xnomad]

The great thing about the damage model now is that the MG's actually do some real damage. I get a lot of kills with the 109's MGs. You can also be so surgical with them as they damage what you actually hit. I use them a lot at a distance as there is just so much ammo you can be real wasteful with it.

Then when you get in real close give it some cannon. But yeah you have to aim higher for cannon to adjust for the drop.

As for deflection shooting, the Emil isn't that easy with the cannons but the later models with the nose cannon and the MG151 are a lot better. The Emil's MG FF muzzle velocity is too slow and I think a lot of real LW pilots only used them for close in with very little deflection.

The MG131 and MG151 of the G6 and upwards had fairly similar velocities (IIRC). And are easier to group together in a deflection shot.

I've read that a vast majority of pilots were actually quite poor at deflection shooting, until gyro gunsights came in. They didn't have hours to train like we do, hitting refly and shooting some more. The ones that were naturals had often had a lot of experience in their childhood with hunting and shooting so learned the skill then.

Well except for the LW in Russia as they had lots of time to learn and lots of targets Walter Kuprinski springs to mind here.