A beginner's guide to the planes

[BRIGGBOY]

Originally Posted by Crosshair14

The spitfire xvi uses .50 mg

i know it did in the war iam on about in the game

[Crosshair14]

Originally Posted by BRIGGBOY

i know it did in the war iam on about in the game

it has .50 cal. mg in the game

[winny]

In the Hanger when you select weapons for the XVI it says 2 x 7.7mm cannon and 2 x Hispano. I think the game is wrong. Should be .50cals.

So the IX has better armament than the XVI.. ?

[winny]

As I understand it they standardised wings for spitfires from Mk V onwards so the armament variations came with the wing. (Regardless of whether the wing tips were clipped)

Original wings had one 20mm Hispano at the inner position and 2 .303 MGs in the machine gun bays (the outer MG stubs were not used and were filled in) so that's the only 2 cannon 4mg config I know (This is the C wing)

Later they changed it to 20mm Hispano in the outer position and fitted 1 .50cal Browning MG instead of the 2 .303 MGs (2 cannon 2 mg) An XVIe should have this config.(E wing)

The first ever XVI MJ556 had the C wing fitted. However the vast majority of XVI's were fitted with the E wing (nearly all of them) Some IX's were converted to this too.

What does the game say an XVI has?

[Jihad_Joe]

In arcade, the I-153 maybe the slowest but it can kill any fighter models given players similar skills. Just keep looking at your six though and make sure any enemy is nowhere less than a kilometer from you.

[dkwookie]

If I get an I153 on my tail in arcade I pull out to about 1.2 km then spin around and blast them head on with my spit. Works every time in my Spit due to the superior fire power. There is no point trying to out turn them. They are pretty fragile, a couple of decent bursts wit most real planes will take them down

[bobbysocks]

same here. got into a game 1 on 1 with this jabroonie...in the lobby we both had G6s (1 vs 1 i like to play the same ac). once the game started within a minute he's on my tail out turning me like crazy. i thought this guy really knows his $#!T. after i respawned i see where he switched over to a 153 and started the game in a sneaky manner without me seeing the switch. so i simply dove away until i put sufficent distance between us and smoked him repeately in head ons. i refused to get into a dogfight where he could use his plane to its best ability. the only way he was able to take me out ( and, mind you, i am not that good ) was to taran ( ram ) me head on. the only time i like the 153 is CTA (or if its a biplane game). you can land that puppy on a dime and if you have good top cover...its an easy game.

[Jihad_Joe]

Perhaps your opponent does not know his tactics. Basically when flying an I-153, you surely lose if you fight head on and you can't definitely chase other planes. The tactic to kill a 105 or spit is to avoid head on, do a quick turn and use the 3-sec window to blast 'em out of the virtual sky.