Requesting help for evasive maneuver.

[Laurwin]

That online guide had a feisty paragraph about guns defense also. From page 61 forward.

Obviously guns defense, you want to survive from being shot at with cannon. This is first objective always. But like it says in the article, guns defense is not the key to victory yet.

Scissors battle is actually an offensive minded manouver, where YOU KILL the enemy if it works properly.

-When starting scenario is, enemy at your 6 oclock. This is clearly bad starting situation btw. Usually in these kind of situations, you are either co-Energy, or you are at enegy disadvantage. Rarely you have energy advantage when you get surprised like that.

-you must survive first attack

-you must kill the enemy

-or you must escape the battle

(or you get lucky when a teammate helps you and kills the enemy)


Sometimes, it is actually possible to simply escape from the battle. For example if you fly the faster plane. For example, hawker tempest is faster than focke wulf A9, you can sometimes simply run away.

In a situation like that, where you can run away, you can still do small "guns defenses", or "jinks" where you don't fly completely straight into one direction, but you are still flying fast enough to escape, further and further (beyond enemy's gun convergence range, range where firepower is less lethal in some cases)