A solution to Lavochkin La-7 (wheter you like it or not)

[dedalos]

Originally posted by SuperDud
I h@t3 teh L33T LaLa. It needs perked, and perked now! A LaLa can get 5 bizzilion miles with 10 mins of fuel as it screams along on the deck. Then it HOes you and runs when it misses in a horde of other LaLa's. Why don't the LaLa guys learn to fly a more challenging plane? All you people saying it's no big deal and how much skill u have are wrong and/or dillusional. Anyone with a clue can out fly you b/c the machine gives them so many adv. IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!

hehe, definetly faster than a 5" gun.

[Ghosth]

Yesterday afternoon a buddy of mine was up in a 38, so rather than take my ussuall la5 I jumped into a 38.

We then proceeded to run into a couple of guys in la7's.

Over the course of the next our our 2 p38s shot down that pair of la7's at least 3 times. Generally speaking they were all good 1x1 or 2x2 fights. Yes they got me a time or 2, but generally speaking when the fight was over there would be a 38 left up when the la7's were dead.

Frankly I didn't have much trouble shooting them down at all. And I'm no great stick in the P38, I suck in it.

If your having a problem with la7's maybe you need to change your style?

Wing up with a few guys and go lala hunting. Whatever it takes.

But for pete's sake quit whining about it.

[gatt]

Originally posted by Despair
if this game becomes too skill oriented, HTC is gonna lose half player base at least.

Exactly ...

[dedalos]

I think complaining about the LA7 has become the thing to do.  YOU can't really want to be considered good, and not complain about the LA7.  Its like a fashion statement.  We even had people that have been in 5" guns for 3 months complain about the LALA.

An other 2 hours last night deffending caped bases (thats were you will find the lala, vulching and running).  If I remember correctly I did see 1 LALA fly under me but it could have been an LA5.  Yeah, the skys are foul of them.

[SuperDud]

What's wrong with the 5"?????? It's where I rack up my killz

[onions4u]

I like the lalas and use it. Just saying instead of perking it thats what we use to do. Porking fuel also stopped alot of other planes including 163.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by SuperDud
What's wrong with the 5"?????? It's where I rack up my killz

Well, the lala is faster and it can out turn them

[bj229r]

The thing is the fastest non-perk thing in AH under 10k (where 90% the action occurs)--tho its made of plywood, does 550 in dive without serious compression (I tried to rip wings on pullout but couldnt), and take 20mm hits with poofing..WHY make planes outta $#@%% metal of ya can get this performance out of plywood?
(Dedalos, ya right about A8--flew it most all of last camp, had bad time against nimble things....ended up staying high where I could choose targets....tend to see lotsa buffs at 15ish....now I fly F8 mostly, much more a fighter plane than A8--fun ride)

[pug]

/sorry for my english/

I fly La7 becouse i was teached to fly it and how to fly it
It's a plane to "hit and run" or to finish the wounded when they try to escape , maybe you don't like it but there will be always a plane people don't like.

To perk it? Don't know.

And one thing more , la 7 rare goes above 6-7 k, you allways can fly 12k  and dive.
 and HO - there won't be la 7 people will fly N1K or Typhoon HO
you can't change it. Time must pass , they will learn to avoid HO as iam learning now.


Pug
/315 RAF /

[dedalos]

Originally posted by bj229r
The thing is the fastest non-perk thing in AH under 10k (where 90% the action occurs)--

And there always will be a fastest non-perk plane

tho its made of plywood, does 550 in dive without serious compression (I tried to rip wings on pullout but couldnt),

Compression and riping wings off, two different things.  You could not rip the wings off because the LALA is not manuverable enough to allow you to rip the wings off

 and take 20mm hits with poofing..WHY make planes outta $#@%% metal of ya can get this performance out of plywood?

Well, thank the game for that.  Sometimes I kill with a single ping, some times (most) I empty the whole clip and they fly away.  Wounded, but fly away.  Thats something HT will have to fix one day once they are done working on the importand aspects of the game

[bj229r]

Originally posted by dedalos


Compression and riping wings off, two different things.  You could not rip the wings off because the LALA is not manuverable enough to allow you to rip the wings off

 

I dont THINK I said that they were the same---its just that any number of METAL planes here will eject their wings under similar situation--yanking back on stick  and applyin up-trim 550+---or just hitting the ol X button

[dedalos]

Originally posted by bj229r
I dont THINK I said that they were the same---its just that any number of METAL planes here will eject their wings under similar situation--yanking back on stick  and applyin up-trim 550+---or just hitting the ol X button

They will, if they are manueverable enough.  For example, you can pull back on the stick on diving G10 but the wings wont come off till you hit the grownd. LALA not as manueverable as some people would like to think.

[Kazaa]

Hommies, I have so much faith in HTC, they know there s**t. If the La7 should of been perked at the start then they would of done so. All I have to say on the matter is I cannot wait for the La9

BTW, I bet my next post will be PERK THEM, PERK THEM lol.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by 1K3
Model the La-7 based on 1944 productions/figues


La 7 in August 1944:

http://www.btinternet.com/~fulltilt...ml#No.452101-39

La 7 in April of 1945 (a week before the war ends)

http://www.btinternet.com/~fulltilt...No.%20452132-76

HTC, please implement these "figures".  I'll still kill plenty of them in it whilst turnfighting.  After all, do this, the whining should stop.

Karaya