Whats the best plane for Dog fights?

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Erkki

Die Würger for evil Fritzies, P-51 for allies, its the best prop fighter the game has too.

EDIT: that BOP plane guide - almost none of it applies to IL2, and the armament is not much important at all. Either its insufficient, ok or good, at least to me. BOP has afaik unlimited ammunition even with "full realism", I suppose they just spray and pray.

EDIT2: Imho the aircraft guide coming with the game is much more useful.

- Which is the best prop plane?
(actually there is no such thing as a best, only to to your taste...)

- BOP?

- Which aircraft guide? The internal one, with weakness and strength?

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by swiss

- Which is the best prop plane?
(actually there is no such thing as a best, only to to your taste...)

- BOP?

- Which aircraft guide? The internal one, with weakness and strength?

With best, I meant generally best. P-51 is not the best in everything, but it is the best in a few things, and one of the very best in a few other, important factors.

BOP. Your second link is to BOP forums. And yeah, the aircraft guide pdf that comes with 1946 DVD.

[swiss]

Ooops - I just googled the second link and failed to check it.
Thx for pointing this out, link removed.

PS: The ingame .pdf does contains lots of info, unfortunately they have little tactical value(imho)

[hiro]

the NEW one. New best plane . . .






It depends on you.

Annoyance factor, choose something like the chaika or the oscar. If you like doing turn n burn, zero, or spit/seafire

if you like boom n zoom p-47 or p-38, or the raiden

Gunnery wise, do like chipping away with .50 cals or you can land 30mm cannons and one hit wonder something with the p-39?


Also depends on the quirks of certain planes. For example, the Corsair is great but if you go below a certain speed, it handles funny and your gun accuracy drops . . .


I'm more of a cannon person, so most uS inventory I can hang and fly with but . . .

[mazex]

Why not start with the 109 like the ones here from the il2 demo days... No other plane has that "big brute plane hanging in the prop" feeling like the 109 with the slats out and the stall warning screaming...

After mastering the 109 - the Ki-84 or the La-7 are nice all round late war dog fighters like mentioned earlier here...

[bf-110]

The best fighter I flew is the Tempest (altought not being a pure fighter).
Great speed,good handling,nice armament.I like the Ki-61 too.