Requesting help for evasive maneuver.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by majorfailure

What about the guys that knew what hit them? I'd say if this gives us anything then it is: Defensive maneuvres CAN work. But there is a counter to any defensive maneuvre, and if the attacker guesses right you are toast anyway. You can sit in the best rolling plane in this game and get the timings of your rolling scissors absolutely brilliantly right - and the enemy makes a no-nonsense cut across your manuvre and you're dead anyway.

The guys that knew what hit them were a small minority. I'm not finding a quote unfortuntely, but I think it was something like 85% or so who first knew anything was wrong when bullets started arriving. The reports were from interviews with survivors.

The enemy can get lucky with guessing which way you're turning and rolling, but if you're evasive with no counter attack, then they're not that close, the turn means they have to lead, and the roll means they need to lead the roll and maintain their distance, altogether it's just not doable without a lot of luck. Of course, two attackers against one is not half so easy for the defender.

Originally Posted by Flanker1985

It's just since the 4.11, the developing team upgraded the AI, and now the AI planes are not stupid anymore

I'm still using 4.07 (I have 4.08 somewhere, but there's a reason for not using it, I forget what it is, but there was something). However, theories about flight don't depend on IL*2 version number.