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Offline dedalos

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Re: Observations on 109s' revisited
« Reply #60 on: January 11, 2006, 12:42:59 PM »
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Conclusion:  How in the heck did the LW down that many good aircraft flying the washing machines like the 109, 190, and 110? The disparity in quality aircraft was huge. The LW would have no chance at all with even numbers let alone being outnumbered greatly during the last half of the war.  They must've been superb pilots.


They downed a lot of planes early in the war.  The did not duel or stall fight 10ft of the deck.  Hit and run, preferably lower targets.  Bomber kills - contrary to popular AH belief, bombers were easy targets and they could not kill you from 1.5K out :furious. And the main reason - - - -  - -- > > > >  > > > ganging the enemy and getting back home was acceptable back then :D
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« Reply #61 on: January 11, 2006, 01:15:32 PM »
one of the best things I did was turn the sound for the front slats down to zero ... it is almost like I disabled them :)
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« Reply #62 on: January 11, 2006, 02:31:53 PM »
Lol, a whole thread full of people complaining that their uber dweebfire skills don't translate to the 109.

The 109 is a beast in a knife fight if you know how to make her dance. The most important thing is to know when to cut throttle and she can keep inside of some of the best turning planes in the game. The general approach to the 109 is to come in on a BnZ course with cut throttle and try to E burn and slash attack behind em while avoiding the overshoot. If you keep that throttle cut there arn't many planes that can force you past so they will instead have to do some dweebfire sustained turn to get free, which lets you just hit WEP and climb back up. Basically, treat it like a knife fighter in scissors and E fighter in turns.

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« Reply #63 on: January 11, 2006, 05:38:45 PM »
Given equal pilots, no 109 bar the 109E can hang with any "dweebfire" in a knife fight.  Even then, the 109E would have its hands full.

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« Reply #64 on: January 11, 2006, 06:40:32 PM »
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Given equal pilots, no 109 bar the 109E can hang with any "dweebfire" in a knife fight.  Even then, the 109E would have its hands full.


But it's still fun to try :D

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« Reply #65 on: January 12, 2006, 01:18:07 AM »
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Lol, a whole thread full of people complaining that their uber dweebfire skills don't translate to the 109


Hey, I dont see ppl trying to adapt dweebfire skills to the 109 here. BTW, the 109 tactics are in another thread.
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