Author Topic: Tour 54 Fighter stats (Read 800 times)

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #15 on:** August 09, 2004, 05:58:05 PM »

A spit or nik often wont get you a quick kill in todays fast arena...

Karnak · « **Reply #16 on:** August 09, 2004, 05:58:26 PM »

Urchin,

There is another reason. Getting close now really matters if you want to hit. In AH2 the Spitfire and N1K2 both rely on their enemy being slower than them, an unusual circumstance, and then simply cutting their corner whereas in AH1 they could rely on the spray and pray to kill a fasgter egressing aircraft. The La-7 and other fast aircraft enables the pilot to get to close range without relying on the enemy making a mistake and can also easily egress from slower aircraft like the Spitfire and N1K2.

Speed enables killing much more in AH2 than in AH1.

MaddogJoe · « **Reply #17 on:** August 09, 2004, 06:01:20 PM »

Most La7 I see up are in it for the HO.... easy killin' with all those cannons. Very few fly with any tactics or skill.

Virage · « **Reply #18 on:** August 09, 2004, 07:55:45 PM »

didn't the la 7 have bad slow speed characteristics and a bad snap stall irl?

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2004, 12:58:36 AM »

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Originally posted by MaddogJoe
Most La7 I see up are in it for the HO.... easy killin' with all those cannons. Very few fly with any tactics or skill.

You can pretty much say that about about any cannon-armed plane it seems.

Jasta · « **Reply #20 on:** August 10, 2004, 07:42:13 AM »

If I see an LA7 anywhere else but on my tail at 400 yds, I say "easy kill"

If they are on my tail, I say "slightly harder kill"

thus is the skill level of a a majority of the La7 pilots in the MA. There are SOME good pilots, but they are a slim minority.

XtrmeJ · « **Reply #21 on:** August 10, 2004, 08:00:44 AM »

The P38 pork in auger dweebs ruin the K/D for our bird.