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Originally Posted by horseback
If the AI pilots all have the ‘same’ strength AND the high stick forces were part of the A6M series’ FM, one could reasonably expect the Zeros’ high G maneuvering to drop off at higher speeds and their recovery from dives to be mainly in a straight line until their excess speed was burned off. But they don’t, just as AI gunners in some planes are much more accurate than AI gunners in other aircraft for reasons unknown. In an offline campaign, it is that much harder to use the tactics used successfully in real life when your AI wingman bugs off and the AI aircraft you are fighting don’t exhibit the sort of limitations that the aircraft that they are supposed to be modeled on had.
cheers
horseback
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Haven't flown the A6M in a long time, but against it in P-39/40/F4F as long as the fight is fast, my roll rate exceeds or is close enough to theirs. Only when closing speed is high, that is A6M very slow, then I cannot follow -but its difficult to say if its better maneuverability or the big speed gap.