Vermillion,
That is exactly my point. The Mosquito will not manuever with a true fighter, but in reality it could match, or better, the speed of most of the fighters it ran into. In AH the vast majority of types will easily outrun it and will all out manuever it, thus they will easily kill it.
I'm not expecting it to do well in a pure fighter role, it will be capable of swatting a surprised or poorly flown fighter, but all things being equal it'll die quickly. In AH it will rarely have a chance to use its speed to any advantage because the planes used in the MA are not at all representative of what it was dealing with. They are nearly all faster at low altitude than the Mosquito.
In a mid-war plane-set the Mosquito would do well (by no means would it be invulnerable or devastating to aircraft), in an near unlimited late-war plane-set it'll be slaughtered.
The doom of the Mosquito is the same as the doom as every other early to mid-war aircraft. Condemned to obsolescence before they've even been added.
For my part, early war is not very interesting and late war is getting wearisome. Others will disagree, but that is entirely appropriate.
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Bring the Mosquito FB.MkVI Series 2 to Aces High!!!
Sisu
-Karnak
