I-153: cheap or not?

[kozzm0]

but that's the whole point, online dogfight isn't a real-life situation. In real life you don't have the objective of competing with several other planes to shoot down as many i-153's as possible in 20 minutes. In real life you just ignore them and fly away because they're tactically useless. Same with the I-16. The Stalingrad campain mission where you have to fight bf109's and then he-111's with an I-16 is a great example of how weak a slow fighter really is.

In dogfight mode, the player who stays in the furball will invariably rack up more kills over time, compared to the boom and zoomer, simply because they get more opportunities to shoot. They get more deaths too, but that doesn't stop them from winning the round and getting the points.