11.07.2008, 11:54
Ah, ye Caldrail, that's one of my guilty pleasures off line is turning off stalls and spins. Especially trying to fly a Finnish Fighter campaign, or something. I've finally got a control set, though, it would appear that I can use with almost any plane. The default settings are really lacking, but I was a new guy and figured that if that's what they start you with that's all you need. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use a dadgummed bombsite!!!
I guess what I don't understand, and I'm in NO WAY implying cheating, just skill, but is how someone in an inferior plane or a lighter plane can outturn me without stalling, or outdive me, respectively. For instance, I had a stroke of luck in a P-40. Pearl Harbor map, I took off with a 250lb bomb and flew to 3000m. Cruised over the Red airfield and saw a Spit just sitting there; I dove in, dropped my bomb, and missed as I half expected too from 1500m. So I hung out, let the guy take off, and swooped in, not too fast to give him half a chance (not too much mind you, he was a high-scorer so I knew in an even dogfight in a P-40 against a Spit I didn't have a chance). I botched my attack, overshot him but I guess hit the cockpit and as I frantically tried to recover it gave me the "enemy plane destroyed" message. Good news, I thought- then I circled to see and saw that he had already respawned and was on his way to get revenge. Uh oh! Using the impetus of my dive I started climbing and making my way to sea to hide in a large cloud bank, and saw him gaining on me; I was doing 290kmh and he must have been doing 300-350. So using the P-40's sole advantage, I nosed over into a dive from 2,000m headed for the deck. Somehow, he out dove the P-40 (at the start of the dive i'd estimate he was ~4km from my 6) in a spitfire and before I knew it tracers were racing over my nose and then my engine was aflame. Jumping out of my plane to bail out, I saw he was now ~.15km from my 6 and flying over me at an alarming rate of speed. I was doing 540 kmh at the time, so he must have been doing almost 600!
Anyways, probably belongs in the AAR section, but just a note on how reaction with used tactics of the time don't always work. My favored tactics at this moment are to wait high and dry until the enemy comes into view hot on the 6 of an allied player, then swoop in and break him off and try to get him before his wingman gets me!
I guess what I don't understand, and I'm in NO WAY implying cheating, just skill, but is how someone in an inferior plane or a lighter plane can outturn me without stalling, or outdive me, respectively. For instance, I had a stroke of luck in a P-40. Pearl Harbor map, I took off with a 250lb bomb and flew to 3000m. Cruised over the Red airfield and saw a Spit just sitting there; I dove in, dropped my bomb, and missed as I half expected too from 1500m. So I hung out, let the guy take off, and swooped in, not too fast to give him half a chance (not too much mind you, he was a high-scorer so I knew in an even dogfight in a P-40 against a Spit I didn't have a chance). I botched my attack, overshot him but I guess hit the cockpit and as I frantically tried to recover it gave me the "enemy plane destroyed" message. Good news, I thought- then I circled to see and saw that he had already respawned and was on his way to get revenge. Uh oh! Using the impetus of my dive I started climbing and making my way to sea to hide in a large cloud bank, and saw him gaining on me; I was doing 290kmh and he must have been doing 300-350. So using the P-40's sole advantage, I nosed over into a dive from 2,000m headed for the deck. Somehow, he out dove the P-40 (at the start of the dive i'd estimate he was ~4km from my 6) in a spitfire and before I knew it tracers were racing over my nose and then my engine was aflame. Jumping out of my plane to bail out, I saw he was now ~.15km from my 6 and flying over me at an alarming rate of speed. I was doing 540 kmh at the time, so he must have been doing almost 600!
Anyways, probably belongs in the AAR section, but just a note on how reaction with used tactics of the time don't always work. My favored tactics at this moment are to wait high and dry until the enemy comes into view hot on the 6 of an allied player, then swoop in and break him off and try to get him before his wingman gets me!