How to perform Lag Displacement Roll Attack?

[MaxGunz]

Lag roll sets you up for side attacks.
Telling why not to turn fight is not mixing turn fighting in.
Yes, you can lag roll with high closing speed. Where is a rule that a lag roll does not end in a gun pass and switch to other tactic.

Here is a strategy: don't be predictable.

[Masi67]

Originally Posted by MaxGunz

Lag roll sets you up for side attacks.
Telling why not to turn fight is not mixing turn fighting in.
Yes, you can lag roll with high closing speed. Where is a rule that a lag roll does not end in a gun pass and switch to other tactic.

Here is a strategy: don't be predictable.

Again this is discussion about Lag Roll, not about HOW TO BE UNPREDICTABLE LOL

[jameson]

Lag roll sets you up for side attacks.
Sorry Gunz, you'll have to explain that one! Assuming I'm incomming on his six.....

[Masi67]

If you coming on his six with more E and he turns you can setup attack with lag roll. Key thing is that you need to do it on right time not too late.MAXGUNZ is right that if you see that you will overshoot then you need to do something else. No single attack will make the difference if target is aware of you. Lag Roll is usable on some situations but not for all.

[MaxGunz]

I still have my copy of Shaw's book. IIRC the lag roll attack diagram only has so many steps.

But you can use the tactic to stay behind a plane that is moving enough slower that you can zoom significantly higher, sorry for the lame grammar there.

Yes about THE difference though sometimes you get lucky. You might go from one ACM to another and back to the first in a single engagement.

How many of you use BCM's and ACM's just to get in position to start an attack as opposed to going straight in and then figuring your angles and energy?

If anyone can find the old Air Warrior player Bullethead, he had the whole energy fighting bag wrapped up very well. His tactics pages used to be up on Delphi and wow, distilled know-how. Once you learn his way, you won't ever want to turn fight again! The community lost a lot when those pages went down.

[jameson]

Found this: http://www.electraforge.com/brooke/f...or/awtaman.txt
which is HOW TO FLY AND FIGHT IN AIR WARRIOR, v3/21/1997
From wikipedia, it states that it cost $10 an hour to play, hmmm....Article referenced is some kind of manual, lots of it. Several mentions of "sissy like" behaviour which are not to be encouraged online. Didn't see anything about lag rolls tho....

[MaxGunz]

Bullethead's pages covered energy fighting far more and better. Most all of the same material can be found in Shaw's book but in Shaw the pieces are more spread out and a harder read. Reading Shaw is a bit like chewing a brick, it takes longer to swallow and longer still to digest.

Bullethead outlined such energy tactics as "Rope-a-Dope" and "Dancing on his head".