Mossie speed

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

My guess why we do not have a decent Mossie is simple, lack of community interest, pure and simple.

Remember its pretty difficult to judge what is of genuine interest.

In particular the forums attract a lot of new players who are excited about online play and have just discovered the game lacks a late war prototype spit/P51/Dora with 50 lbs extra boost and nitro-etho-benzo-uber injection that they are convinced will make them invincible on hyperlobby.

3 years later what the same guy really wants is a swordfish for torpedo bombing in the Mediterranean and a flyable Wellington but he is not spamming the forums with plane requests by that stage.

[*Buzzsaw*]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

the forums attract a lot of new players who are excited about online play and have just discovered the game lacks a late war prototype spit/P51/Dora with 50 lbs extra boost and nitro-etho-benzo-uber injection that they are convinced will make them invincible on hyperlobby.

The Mosquito is hardly a plane which a noob will select on Hyperlobby if he wants to become 'invincible'.

It is a specialists plane, focused on the ground attack role, something which a person obsessed with their kill/ratio is never going to fly.

It was never designed to mix it up with single engined fighters.

What it was designed to do was to get in to the target so quickly and with such speed, that interceptors are unable to react.

And that speed issue is exactly the point the original poster raised, ie. why is it comparatively slow?

The answer of course, is that the version we have in the game does not represent the later '44 and '45 models, where performance was upgraded so that it remained competitive.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by *Buzzsaw*

The Mosquito is hardly a plane which a noob will select on Hyperlobby if he wants to become 'invincible'.

It is a specialists plane, focused on the ground attack role, something which a person obsessed with their kill/ratio is never going to fly.

It was never designed to mix it up with single engined fighters.

What it was designed to do was to get in to the target so quickly and with such speed, that interceptors are unable to react.

And that speed issue is exactly the point the original poster raised, ie. why is it comparatively slow?

The answer of course, is that the version we have in the game does not represent the later '44 and '45 models, where performance was upgraded so that it remained competitive.

Indeed which is why you rarely see requests for Mosquitos in the various forums. I was merely pointing out that "plane requests" tend to be biased towards late war single seat fighters and jets which can give a false impression of what the actual demand is for.

The late war mossies were faster but still relied a lot on surprise and/or altitude advantage to get in and out safely.

[choctaw111]

I didn't read this whole thread so forgive me if this was already mentioned.
I didn't think the Germans had a plane that could catch the Mossie until they built the 262. I read that somewhere (I know it doesn't make it true, but is it?)

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

I didn't read this whole thread so forgive me if this was already mentioned.
I didn't think the Germans had a plane that could catch the Mossie until they built the 262. I read that somewhere (I know it doesn't make it true, but is it?)

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