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Thanks for the expansive response. Haha, indeed, sometimes I feel like human players are a little bit easier than ace AIs. Maybe you just get the feeling because of the long range shots that seldom hit anything online. Against humans you definitely need the good positive attitude I think. Usually in QBs offline, I just put 16 bandits and something like 8 friendly, with us having alt advantage. It can be tough at times, so it seems. (maybe you're on to something; maybe I could learn more still, about fighting the AIs) I prob can still take on the AI ace 1v1 hopefully at least lol Probably it just has to do with like, how you "train" for online. Mostly these bnz and ambush type of tactics work quite well in big dogfight server. The idea being, train as you would fight. Don't surrender yourself into long lasting dogfights where you get target fixated, even if you are gaining advantage vs one bandit. Who's to say, online, the guy on the defense might have a friendly coming over to his rescue, from above clouds. Then the 1v1 with attacker advantage becomes 1v2 disadvantage. It was actally raelly funny because this was what happened last week with F4Fs with us vs zeke. We went something like 8v3-5, local superirity. We were just a marauding pack of wildcats there and mowing down zeke left and right with bnz and effective radio comms. Obviously it doesn't mean too much about individual skill perhaps, but it was great seeing historical tactics being used so nicely with wildcats. And after all, isn't war a team effort indeed? I say no mercy to the enemy, with these classic dogfight situations. Your own team should strive for every possible advantage |
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It also depends on the type of pilots you're flying against and what the crowd is like. I know three or four people who have the gunnery abilities that outreach what the Ace AI can do. I've seen dozens who shoot far worse than the Rookie AI. The range in humans is that much greater. I would echo the sentiment when you get a great team thing going. I've been there... I remember quite clearly a group of four of us flying on Warclouds years back with FW190D-9s. We spotted a furball ahead, lined our formation up and swept through line abreast shooting at whatever Spitfire or Mustang was in our general path. We regrouped back at our original altitude and two minutes later we swept through again. A trail of Allied fighter debris was left in our wake... devastatingly effective and completely reliant on our team tactics. Any time a Spitfire would try and lock on to the formation the rest of the team would re-position for a shot. No matter where he would try and turn away from there would always be a FW190 with a firing solution. That was awesome and it was all the more apparent what would happen where you would avoid the dogfight and instead focus on the hit and run where the other guy may not even see you and even if he did there was someone else right there to shoot at him.
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Indeed. As it often happens online, 2 average pilots can fairly easily defeat one il-2 pro player.
This brings to my mind what was said about la5fn vs focke a4-5 Why did you guys mostly agree that la5fn is best at lower alt, vs focke wulf keep in mind? What ive heard, is that la5fn is a top tier russian fighter (only worse than kingcobra and la7) Best speed for la5fn comes at medium alt 5km, this altitude focke wulf engine power also diminishes. Perhaps reason for failure with this lavochin is simly low alt turn and burn, and weaker russian team tactics usually. |
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It can't dive well enough, and it is slower at high altitude than a Fw 190. Which means if you meet a Fw and you have the altitude advantage, it enters a shallow dive and you can't follow. Essentially, it is safe. On the other hand, if you get caught at a disadvantage, you cannot run away, you'll have to fight it out. And this means some low speed turning, as at high speed, you cannot outmanoeuvre a Fw. And survival at low speed turns is pretty much depending on the skills of your opponent, and luck to some extent. There's no way skillful turning will save you every time.
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There is or at least were at least 2 good sites that gave translations of Russian Ace's accounts of the war that shed a lot of light on how things went. It was by far more than just a simple matching of performance figures like war buffs so often play with copies of Jane's books.
Find the story of the creation of USAAF Fighter Command and the change that made for USAAF fighter pilots. Germany had no Fighter Command and I don't know about Russia. Galland had stated post-war that the lack of a dedicated Fighter Command type structure is one of the reasons Germany lost the Air War. That bit of doctrine, and who had it, made a big difference. Fly low over your side's flak or low over the other side's. IRL it made a difference, in game we don't get such concentrations as there were. There were many factors that good mission design can begin to simulate. I was watching a documentary made in 1945 that told how the USAAF fighter relay system worked. On long runs only 10% of the fighters covered the bombers at any one time if they made the connection which sometimes weather did not permit. People who only go by relative numbers sortied have been telling for years how the USAAF escorts outnumbered the LW for so long, it was only true near the end when the LW became unable to achieve the local superiority which they had been used to. Even when the USAAF did get superiority their pilots were often 3+ hours flying to get to the combat while the LW pilots were fresh. Again, raw numbers and performance comparisons don't tell much of the real story. As a pilot/bombardier of that war used to say at the Delphi FSF, he didn't feel sorry because "they started it". |
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