Stegor - I agree, but such RL tactics are frowned upon by certain segments of the AH community, who believe you are doing it all wrong unless every engagement is an angles fight on the deck.
I personally played AH to see how various aircraft would perform in different conditions - different altitudes etc. For example, a P47D25 or D30 is very good at high altitude (15K+) so that's how I'd use it. One of the main strengths was the dive performance, and recovery using the paddle prop - described at length in Francis Gabreski's autobiography. In no way were those variants turn fiters or "weed wackers™". But if you fly a plane like that in the MA the way Gabreski flew it in RL, you're likely to be castigated as an "alt monkey".
I recently watched a documentary about Von Richtofen (Red Baron) and the technique used by him and other aces was to stay on the edge of a fight and "cherrypick", leaving the mere mortals to do the meat grinding. The RB once made the fatal mistake of getting out of position, swooping too low, and was killed by ground fire - an Australian .303 round.
