BTW - did I mention I LOVE the gunnery in AH2?

[Adogg]

I think you might see La7s remaining favourites for base defence where climbing like a monkey and cannon make mince meat out of Jabo attacks - since range isn't an issue.

Spits can fight low so they'll probably be useful there too.

But if you're looking to range out and actually attack an enemy airfield you'll need something with longer legs.

so P38s, 51s, anything with drop tanks, get used in a manner closer to their historical intent: as long range fighter/attack aircraft.

my two cents.

[TweetyBird]

>>After change in the gunnery, AH2 is now more or less simular to FB/AEP, and I distinctively feel a change in plane usage - it would need actual confirmation with statistics after AH2 is officially in service.. but empirically, the Spitfires and N1K2s do seem to be much less popular and abundant than it was. So I would expect that despite cannon armament, Spitfires and N1K2s will be less popular than it was in AH1. <<

I agree with you. I was in two different type battles tonight. Furball and base defense. In both instances, the spit 9 is looking weak. Planes just accelerate out of range (which is pretty short now). I got in a few scissors with 51's and they just split s and pull away. I love the fun of a spit, but I know I will be switching to a late model (fast late model) plane. I kind of hate to though - Etch is the handle of a spit pilot not a 51 or 190 pilot .  Guess I'll have to think of a new handle to wax philisophical while alting and surveying the lesser life forms beneath me

"Master Strous, do you see that spit woddling below us?"
"Why yes, Demi, why do they allow those vagabonds in here?"

I dunno, maybe it was just a bad golf night, but the spit really impressed me as inferior tonight - not by the losing, but by the only kills I got was when someone made extremely gross errors.
It was much more usual to see someone just pull away when things got hairy. Kinda felt like a minibike in a Harley race.

[brendo]

On the weekend, I went for a bit of a blirt around in the old Hurricane 1 with Viyking.

My previous tactic was to close to 300-200 yards and just unload a big burst of 8x303s.

In AH2 I was sitting right behind the enemy and couldnt hit SQUAT.

Hehehehe

I like.

I havnt figured out how to hit anything with the .303s yet. I like that

[Flyboy]

i have no idea what you all are talking about, i have no problem hitting planes, infact it feels exactly like AH1

in my first sortie after i finished twicking with my video settings i nailed 4 cons then had to rtb cause of gas.

[mrniel]

Another thing is, that you can not set your gun convergence
to long distances and expect to get much result.
I found myself readjusting all my settings back to
short distances. Time will show if its better.

mrniel

[AKFokerFoder+]

I think the new gunnery system rocks.

About time they did away with 1000 yard shooting.

Now you have to close to within reasonable guns range. Like under D300.

For all the things I don't like about AH2, the gunnery model more than makes up for the down side.

Yep you can actually fight and not get cherry picked from D800.

BTW, the 6 50s on the Pony still seem like a very potent guns package, although not as mean as they were in AH1.

I'll stick with the Pony D, it has great views, adequate guns, fastern just about any prop plane at 12K, lots of fuel, and the abilty to deploy maneuvering flaps at over 400 mph, all make it a very competative package. Plus it looks so cool