[Jumoschwanz]

Yet another thread where someone is disappointed that they can not win against the enemies aircraft by "dogfighting".

Always in the face of incredible overwhelming history that says dogfighting was far down the list of things that won the air war in WWII.

The United States and USSR advantage in WWII air combat was either in teamwork and/or overwhelming production capability. Japan was a tiny island and Germany was a tiny country, both with very limited resources.

It was the rare exception in WWII when an allied pilot with sensational flying ability was able to successfully dogfight with an experience Japanese pilot in a Japanese aircraft.
There are so many books, essays and articles filled with how the allied aircraft's advantage lay in speed and teamwork that it would take you a lifetime to read them all, but the ones everyone looks at are the very few where some good allied pilot used his bag of tricks to get his SBD, Wildcat, Hellcat etc. to fly toe to toe with some Jap pilot of questionable skill.

The only way to beat Aces flying Jap planes is to use an advantage in E or numbers, or to exploit a weakness in the AI.

All the bad things that ever happened to this sim have had allied Fan-Boys at the root of it, complaining that they can not dogfight with Axis craft, or that their machine guns for some reason are not as powerful as CANNONS. They will look for anyway to get things done except for the way it was done in history, including hacking the official patches of IL2.