Either I'm impressively bad, or the statement that the 109 is a great beginner's plane is a lie.

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20 minutes ago, Zooropa_Fly said:

When I fancy a change from ground pounding, I'll often get in a fighter and circle one of our targets to defend against enemy ground pounders.

I hope this is what you mean by 'vulching'.

If you're hanging around enemy bases then that's a bit lame imo !

 

Anyway, a 190 is obviously good for this, and I have a strange fetish for the Mig in this role.

Sometimes you can wait long enough for some action, but a wait tends to focus the mind when the situation arises.

 

I think the Tempest is the uber plane at the moment.

Almost God mode.

But it might be getting a tweak soon.. ?

 

S!

It wasn't, it was honestly more a case of a poor choice of words overall and an inability to find a proper animal simile for a ground pounder, considering above Kodiak was discussing lions. I was aware that vulching as is traditionally considered is both bad form and not something I was doing either. Honestly I haven't thrown my weight around in Air to Air on the Combat Box yet, mostly sticking to what I know moreso than what I don't, especially with the fact that I know myself well enough to know I'll be less than amused if I spend some 15-20 minutes getting on station, spend a couple more and when turning back after finding nothing do I get jumped, as has happened more than once on WoL, bonus if it's immediately when I decide 'ykw? I'm not seeing any planes over the OBJ, might as well strafe it a bit and get some ground kills' which in retrospect isn't a great call, but still.

And yes. The tempest is broken as hell, as I said before whoever thought of putting 4 20mms on a plane as maneuverable as that one knew their engineering. Also I'm taking a liking to the RAF sight now. Sure it's a bit more basic in looks than the Revi I was used to, but the adjustable ranging has allowed me to reliably sight at a convergence of 400m instead of the 300 I used to.

Now to make sense of the P-51 in more than a more pleasant to fly P-47...