Originally posted by CurtissP-6EHawk
Grits you missed the point.
No, with due respect Hawk, you missed the point. Pilot tactics are an individual thing, about which each one of us as persons living in 2004, have differing views as to what is fun. I dont fly like you, or Storch, or Arlo, or Oldman, or anybody else, much less a real pilot. We are not all trying to stay alive, because we dont really die, we can do things that a real WWII pilot would never have done. You choose to fly as though you life depends on it, and I respect that because not many do, but you can not force others to do the same thing. Nothing can be done to change that, by you or me or anyone else, its a result of this being a GAME.
CV and Ack hardness are arena settings which can be changed to simulate WWII and cause us to react as pilots then would. Individual pilot tactics are not arena settings, and can not regulated.
YOU can not make
ME fear the F4U when I am in a Zeke, because I do no fear it and there is nothing you can do to make me fear it. Most (not all) F4U's are poorly flown and with such timidity that they are not a real threat unless they are 3 to 1 because of lack of aggressiveness. Ask Storch if I know how to fly the F4U agressively.
You can however, with proper arena settings, make me fear 2-3 TBM's/SBD's heading unopposed to my CV, knowing that there are not 4-6 manned acks waiting to knock them down. This will cause a person in 2004 to react as a pilot in WWII would knowing if they dont intercept, the CV will be doomed as it would have been then.
As a side note, your hero Chris Magee was well known for attacking any odds, even when lower and far outnumbered so dont act like all "real" pilots flew like you do.