Tactics for Cliffs of Dover.

[robtek]

@Tacoma74

if you fly the 109 always at 400+ km/h you would have to land in england without fuel

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by robtek

@Tacoma74

if you fly the 109 always at 400+ km/h you would have to land in england without fuel

Yes...even if CoD has an close to target, air start spawn, I'm sure that the fuel on board will be low. It should reflect what would have been burned during the normal trip, and I would be surprised if Oleg has this different... Fuel concerns, dictating player tactics will have to play a major role here. If not the game will be kind of a joke, for me anyway.


I should have mentioned that my thoughts are for the full switch servers only...

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Yes...even if CoD has an close to target, air start spawn, I'm sure that the fuel on board will be low.

Well Oleg will have made the 109 carry the amount of fuel it was supposed to. It's not his fault if a map maker gives you an air spawn off the cost with 100% fuel. Hopefully the map making system will allow the map maker to set your fuel, should that be wanted.

Reading this thread it seems that nearly all want about the same thing. We want to have a go with the same planes our ancestors used, but with the benefit of hindsight. But I don't think the few that think they want the scenario to be as realistic as possible really know what they're asking for. A successful RAF pilot would have flown a couple of sorties a day, for a few months - normally not making contact with the enemy, and totalling up maybe 2 kills by the end of it. Are there seriously people here who'd want to spend a few months doing that?

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Tacoma74

I'll be flying German kites mostly... more specifically the Bf-109E3. They have several key advantages over that of the Hurricane and the Spit: A direct injection system, better dive, better climb, and far superior armament.

Your points on the fuel system and superior diving match what I've read, but I'm not so sure about climb rates. Where are you getting the data from? According to wwiiaircraftperformance.org (and I have no idea how accurate it is, but a few here have pointed to it) the BoB Spits are faster than the 109s and climb at least as well:
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit1vrs109e.html
on that page the climb rate is shown as about the same for the standard MkI Spit, and I assume the 12lb boost model would be a lot better. Speed wise the standard Spit is slower at many altitudes, but at it's optimal altitude the Spit is faster. The 12lb boost Spit is faster than the 109s at all altitudes.

I'm not suggesting that information is definitive, feel free to post any other relevant information.

[kimosabi]

Ta.

[Xilon_x]

Germany had a quantity 'number of aircraft far superior to the British.
Germany in those conditions, the winning ratio was 60 to 40 will
.
british for my opinion have good luck in battle of brittain and germany not use massive and total 100% powers.

[Xilon_x]

German bombing tactics and strategy in the battle of brittain is = to examples italian GENERAL Giulio Douhet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Douhet

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

Germany had a quantity 'number of aircraft far superior to the British.
Germany in those conditions, the winning ratio was 60 to 40 will
.
british for my opinion have good luck in battle of brittain and germany not use massive and total 100% powers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11029903

[Abbeville-Boy]

german loses were high because of radar
in game will be same

[Xilon_x]

english tactics is use radar instruments patrol area 24h to 24h and escort england convoy german have the 1 canche for destroy ENGALND massive surprise attak to LONDON but this attak failed because German use only areal force if germany use areal force+navy force+earth force the course of war for my opinon is different.