Author Topic: La-7s and Spitfire Mk.16s (Read 2659 times)

MIShill · « **Reply #60 on:** August 10, 2006, 11:35:43 PM »

So in most months do the La7 & Spit 16 have high k/d ratios? Good sticks & bad sticks fly every model, so most of the time I see La7s & Spits die just as fast as anything else. If you wanna HO, use an A8. BTW, if 7 nme " HO" you & all miss those were probably "passing shots" & not true HOs.
-MI-

Platano · « **Reply #61 on:** August 11, 2006, 05:04:19 AM »

spit 16's and La7's become AMAZINGLY courteous when you fly a jug for a living:lol

Lemoo · « **Reply #62 on:** October 16, 2006, 11:59:21 AM »

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PERK THE SPIT 16!

I couldn't agree more.

The performance of this plane just exceeds the unperked class imho.

If not, then how about leveling the playing field a bit by unperking something like the F4U-4? It has no 5k/min climb or ungodly acceleration, so why not?.

Frankly, the criteria for perking makes no sense to me at all, but then niether does a cow flying a plane, so there you go.

SlapShot · « **Reply #63 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:20:54 PM »

SkyRock · « **Reply #64 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:34:10 PM »

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Originally posted by 68Hawk
Well of course, but a pass from the front would still leave a fighter exposed to the defensive fire for far less than an approach from the rear.

Also, the B17G entered service in late 1943, about the time that escort fighters were becoming more and more frequent companions to the bombers. As time went on, between the escort fighters and the bombers effects on the German production industries, the Luftwaffe became evermore incapable of effectively intercepting the large raids on their homeland. Within 9-12 months of the B17Gs deployment, fighter opposition to the bomber fleets would have been practically reduced to a state of innefectiveness.

Too bad for the Luftwaffe that Galland's reccomendations weren't acted upon until 1944, when it was too late to really make a difference in the stategic air war. Good for us though!

Head on shots are going faster and there fore hit with more velocity.........right?? Someone who knows please elaborate.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #65 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:39:32 PM »

you dont need a yak-3 you need a tempest or a p51D.

skyrock yes youre correct.

at 400yrds theoretically you will a do far more damage to your opponent in a head on closing shot than you would if you were chasing them.

this is partly to do with the speeds of approach, like with any type of collision in physics, and it is also to do with the fact that the rounds you fire at 400yrds most likely will only travel 200 or so yards before hitting the target, whereas in a trailing shot they must travel the full range apon being fired, or more.

Lemoo · « **Reply #66 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:40:39 PM »

Dear God! That' s hard to watch.

If you want to tenderize the meat, try reading sad cow interest stories to the cow prior to killing it, i.e.....

the cow ran for home in his 109 K4 when alas, a mean rancher in Spit 16 dived on him from above, He was butchered, packaged unceremoniously and distributed to the evil rook and nit chow halls.

He should have been able to get away, but HTC hates cows and other living things, and so they make the Spit 16 available upon request to the cow killing hordes.

Lazerr · « **Reply #67 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:47:33 PM »

Shane sucks, let your boyfriend rest in peace.

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #68 on:** October 16, 2006, 12:48:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Lemoo
, but HTC hates cows and other living things, .

most certainly not true! HT owned a flock of sheep in AH1 that, numerically, was second to none in the universe.

FX1 · « **Reply #69 on:** October 16, 2006, 01:43:23 PM »

Dam the spit 16.. Only newbs fly such a killing machine with its great guns along with a climb rate that would give you a nose bleed. Such a plane is not worth the time it takes to master our landing 10 kills per sortie out numbered. I guess that my ego and skills will have the best of me so i fly 38's, f4u, and yes the great p40..

Please don't take this wrong but anyone that fly's a 16 has no skills. Their are only a hand full of guys that use the 16 to it's potential. To bad its part of the late war so people that complain about 16 don't fly in mid our early war. That would be tooooo easy....

Skill es dweebs

Kuhn · « **Reply #70 on:** October 16, 2006, 01:51:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Platano
spit 16's and La7's become AMAZINGLY courteous when you fly a jug for a living:lol

I have been flying a jug lately and it seems hos happen less. Maybe the ones that dont ho a 47 dont want 6000 rounds per minute in their face.

Squire · « **Reply #71 on:** October 16, 2006, 02:00:52 PM »

Whats to know? they are two of the best turn fighters in the game, and can catch most other fighters if they run, why would you have to HO?

Is it a trick question?

chaingun · « **Reply #72 on:** October 16, 2006, 02:09:17 PM »

las and spits are tasty in my ponyb i have more kills of those airplnes each tour than any other, `they fall for the rope more often than not, thnking they have to e to catch me, ~~Pawned:)~~

Warspawn · « **Reply #73 on:** October 16, 2006, 03:19:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Chalenge
From what Ive been reading Ive got the impression that the La7 is faster in this game than it was in real life but I have not found solid data yet.

Much of the data supplied by the Stalinist era USSR is suspect. Numbers for performance were wildly exagerated in order to prove the superiority of Communist design and production.

Apar · « **Reply #74 on:** October 16, 2006, 03:36:21 PM »

I turn fight anything in a K4 including la7's and spit16's, but if i end up frontal in a rev I WILL take the shot. I'm done trying to avoid HO's finding myself fluttering down wingless 1 sec later, and wondering why the other plane couldn't return the favour of not taking the frontal shot. And if people accuse me of HO then, I don't care anymore.

The only time I will not take the frontal shot is in the DA, in the MA ur dead!