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Originally Posted by III/JG11_Tiger
Pe_Tihi, after flying this sim since the original demo I would say Bnz is more difficult than TnB, your speed is greater your angles of deflection are often higher and more difficult to calculate, and the fact that you are trying to kill in one burst also often makes it more difficult. Apart from that many of us are trying to simulate the real war and any smart ww2 pilot knew that dogfights were for a different era, this was the undoing of many a Japanese pilot, who thought it more honorable to dogfight than to just kill the enemy as quickly as possible then fly home to fight another day.
As for your data on aircraft can we please have some more references.
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I am beginning to regret comparing the ZnB and TnB tactics ant their followers. TnB certainly wasn't a recipe for a long life during the war, and in the game , too, ZnB is certainly less risky strategy. BnZ requires certain skills, too- simply my personal opinion to rate these skills lower.
It is quite dificult, though, to BnZ a fighter plane knowing about it. The BnZ-ers I have seen prefer in the general to hit a plane involved in a fight which absorbs the pilot's attention in another direction. Getting bored from them and climbing to their height- some seem at loss at what to do, others try getting away- only a minority has the skills and is confident enough of them to fight it out with you in a manoeuvring fight. Which they generally loose.
From BnZ ing friends I hear about the excitement of stalking the opponent and sweating to remain unnoticed. It is completely unknown to me- am not the type for it. And getting hit from above while fighting two guys won't make the BnZers more likeble to me, either.
Hitting someone in this matter leaves me cold- it doesnt tell me anything about who flies better; and that is what interests me. I want to have the opponents attention- am simply like that. So that is why I say- play according to your prefferences. What i say here are simply my tastes.
Simulating real war is thank god, impossible in a flight sim. You sit in your armchair in front of a PC, and you cant get burned, maimed , or killed in any of the terrible ways possible in a war. You are even not freezing, or having your blood drained from your head in manoeuvres.
Your mentioning of the japanese pilot who didn't get home cause of TnB is missing that perspective- you won't even leave your home if TnB-ning, nothing to say about getting killed.
Risking to get shot down virtually versus yawning while climbing and target practising afterwards in BnZ leaves me vith a clear choice, and you certainly have yours.
Please look for the plane data link in a following post.