31.03.2009, 13:42
ojcar Wrote:Well, I'm not asking for "energy fighters" to do "turn and burn". The planes climb now until their operative ceiling. It's too much for me. Energy fighting means to mantain an altitude advantage to trade potential energy for kinetical energy.
If you are hunting Mustangs in a Zero or Oscar, the Mustang gains plenty of energy advantage very early and could counter attack earlier (making an Immelman WWI style and doing a head on, for example, and then climbing again), but in the game, if you are pointing your nose at its tail, it keeps climbing until it can't climbing more, or you are turning to base. I'm saying that the energy advantage for diving and fight is too high in the game.
I see your point. I agree that sometimes the energy fighters are too conservative. Sometimes I find myself following below a high climbing AI fighter thinking "come on down and take a shot at me you coward!!"
Probably the energy fighters should be more aggressive too (with their own style of tactics), as well as the angles fighters.