Okay, here it goes. This is my attempt and placing some THOUGHT into this perk plane system.
Hans did a nice job, but did not hit all of the points that exist.
Realistically thinking, if there is a single plane perk or not and he sees a squad of 4 or 5 guys.. that plane does not magically make him superior to 5 guys. No matter what. Obviously if all of you give chase to him, he can easily rope-a-dope you if he has speed and alt. Not much different from what we currently are facing. If you fear a single con, whether it be a 262 or a Spit14 when there's a group of you, then I'd seriously be ashamed of myself and that group. You think someone who just got himself a nice perty airplane that's a little faster than yours or turns a little better or both is going to give him the balls to engage 3 or 4 cons alone? If he does that, he's an idiot and you can just as easily blow his nice perty perk plane outta the sky and he's back to square one. Just because the plane is labelled "perk" does not mean it's going to give any one pilot advantages over the other, so long as you use YOUR plane's strenghts to your advantages. Spit14, great speed, dive and SpitIX's turning abilities. Shotty roll rate at best and it's accel isn't as good as, say an La5FN's with WEP engaged. Well there ya go, you force a seperation from that there Spit14 in a chandelle with maybe a little barrel roll in there and you've got your seperation. What can ya do with it from there is up to YOU. On the deck I don't fear an N1K2 or a F4U-1C or a Spitfire or a Zero or a 190 in my La5. I can whip that baby around and throw it into some nice manuevers that gives me a little more breathing room while denying them the shot. How does the SpitIX differ from the Spit14? Speed and that's it. P51H/K, faster plane and better up high. P47N, great high alt fighter.. I'm not going up to 25K anytime soon, are you? Ta152, same as above. 190Dora9, same as a 190A8 but faster. I ain't too worried, I'm sure I can figger out how to beat one of those.... LOL.
I'm sorry guys, but what you are spewing in regards to perk planes is simply unfounded and you have nothing to prove otherwise. YOu can't tell me, "oh but in another game I fought this with that and lost.." Different game, different set of rules. Or "Well when I'm in my <insert plane here> and fight this really good <insert really good plane here>, I get my bellybutton handed to me.. it's the plane's fault!!" Eck, I don't think you knew enough about your foes plane to pronounce it's weaknesses while using your strengths. You can sit here and yap at me about your 190A8 or your pony or your P38 or your N1K2 or your Spitfire, I won't listen. When these here perk planes arrive, you can bet your butt I'm gonna be offline and learn what they can and can't do before I log in to find out on the business end of their guns. I've always liked the bottom of the barrel aircraft, and I've always learned how to become competent in them because I took the time to learn each and every other aircraft's relative performance. How can you honestly expect to beat anything if you don't know how they perform before hand? Luck? Gaming the game to force them to overshoot and break off thus giving you the advantage? C'mon, lets not be lamers here and start getting all uppity before the damn things arrive. When they get here, lets fight those buggers in their silicon perked planes.. I'm gonna do my best to make sure someone flying a perk plane that fights me goes down in flames, then I'm gonna shove it in their face that they lost it to a peon like me.
Screw the perk planes, I like the bottom of the barrel, but I still want to shoot the damned things down!!!
-SW
