28.01.2010, 23:13
suppose with my screen name this wont be a hard sell but my favorite of the three is....(drum roll please)..... the Ki-84b!!!!!
I fly online and the Ki84 is my mount of choice on dogfight servers. It climbs well, maneuvers well, turns well, and great guns (almost a match for the 190 with four 20mm cannons). The butterfly flaps allow me to make very tight high speed turns. This plays well into one of my favored attack positions, diving on my enemy with the throttle cut back from a beam angle (9 or 3'o'clock) and make a sweet deflection shot. I know this goes against all WWII dictum but this approach I practice over and over again offline. That and if i'm expected to attack from dead astern or dead ahead, I dont want to do what is expected.
As has been mentioned before, the pilot more then the plane determines the outcome of the fight. Both the 51 and 190 are excellent aircraft, I just prefer the Ki84!
I fly online and the Ki84 is my mount of choice on dogfight servers. It climbs well, maneuvers well, turns well, and great guns (almost a match for the 190 with four 20mm cannons). The butterfly flaps allow me to make very tight high speed turns. This plays well into one of my favored attack positions, diving on my enemy with the throttle cut back from a beam angle (9 or 3'o'clock) and make a sweet deflection shot. I know this goes against all WWII dictum but this approach I practice over and over again offline. That and if i'm expected to attack from dead astern or dead ahead, I dont want to do what is expected.
As has been mentioned before, the pilot more then the plane determines the outcome of the fight. Both the 51 and 190 are excellent aircraft, I just prefer the Ki84!