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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #30 on: March 08, 2000, 05:14:00 PM »
Vermillion,
the Tiffie's just not my kite.  I'll fly it a bit, but like many historical Spitfire pilots it'll never replace the Spit.  Down low th Tiffie will be a problem, but mainly to kill, not so much to be killed by.

Fighter Command was looking to the Typhoon to replace the Spitfire in much the same way that the Spitfire had replaced the Hurricane.  However, the Typhoons performance was so dismal that the Spit had to continue on as the frontline fighter.  They kept the Tiffie around because of its incredible low altitude speed that allowed it to intercept low level Fw-190 nuisance raids.  It turn out to be a good thing because of the lethality of the Typhoon at ground attack.

I don't begrudge you your plane though.

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Offline Vermillion

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« Reply #31 on: March 08, 2000, 06:33:00 PM »
Karnak if its not your style, no problem, I can understand that.  

My only irritation was that several people were questioning the need for another new British fighter, ie the Spit XIV.

They had a point given that the Spit V (best pure dogfighter in game) was just introduced, we have the Spit IX (best E fighter in game), the Typhoon is in immediate production, and the Lancaster is the next bomber.

But all the Spit XIV proponents (not pointing the finger at you or any other singular person was a group thing) were ignoring the Spit V, talking about how the Spit IX was "1942 tech" (even tho it is quite popular and effective in the arena), and how the Typhoon was gonna suck so bad that it would only be good for its historical ground attack role.

My point of the whole little bet was to make you guys stop a minute and realize that the Tiffy is not a bad airplane and IMO will terrorize the arena to a point that it will make the F4U-1C seem like a WWI biplane.

[warning the next paragraph is not directed to any singular pilot, but to a group attitude as a whole]

The Tiffy might not be your, or any other pilot who posted here, style. But please don't distort facts to the point of being ludicrous to fit your own propaganda campaign for your pet aircraft   Because the Tiffy should be quite capable.

I want to eventually see every plane people here have mentioned. But when the Brits currently have (or in close production) a planeset that rivals the Germans & Americans for the largest, its kinda hard to campaign for them another plane.

Right now the Japanese, Russian, and not to even mention the Italian, planesets need much more work.

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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2000, 06:49:00 PM »
My second favorite aircraft of WWII is the A6M5c Zero.  Gimme gimme gimme gimme!!!

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Offline Vermillion

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« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2000, 06:25:00 AM »
Ok Karnak I can agree with that   After flying the Spit V in the TA the other day, I am scared to think how a Zero will perform in AH.

Oh wait, I promised Funked I'd support the "Show me the Shoki!" Ki-44 campaign too  

Oh yeah and LLBM wants the Ki-84 Frank.

Hell... just give them all to us. I bet it will only take 2 weeks.