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Offline SkyRock

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What's better, F4U-1 or la7?
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2007, 12:18:48 AM »
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I go purely by numbers on this one, as I don't fly either of them. On paper, the Tempest is generally better.

It lacks the manuverability at high and low speeds to beat the f4u-4.  Hog4 would outroll it easily.  Add in the flaps and it is unbeatable!:aok

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Offline OOZ662

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« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2007, 12:20:11 AM »
CoAlt, yes. The Temp gets his alt and keeps it, the hog can only try and sucker him into turning.
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Offline FrodeMk3

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What's better, F4U-1 or la7?
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2007, 12:24:46 AM »
Try throwing the LA-7 into that mix.

Then consider that the LA is unperked.

Would'nt that make the LA the best prop fighter in the game???

(As much as I hate to say it....)

EDIT: on the deck, anyway. The way to beat a lala is to take the fight high, above 20k they're easy meat.
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Offline OOZ662

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« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2007, 12:27:15 AM »
Well, once again going by the paper since I don't fly them, besides one sweet spot in altitude, the LA7 is equal to or worse than the other fighters.
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Offline Widewing

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« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2007, 12:28:58 AM »
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It's perked. Of the perked prop rides many will argue the Tempest is the best for Arena fights.


Anyone interested in a "come to Jesus" experience, grab their Tempest meet my F4U-4 in the TA Tuesday thru Thursday evenings. 1v1, the Tempest can't handle the F4U-4. In the MA, the Tempest can run. In a duel, it must stay and fight.

My regards,

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Offline OOZ662

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« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2007, 12:31:56 AM »
DanoDano (whom I discovered lives in the same town I do) ripped apart most of our squad in an F4U-4 over the course of about 20 minutes in a fight, VF-31 vs the rest of the DA.
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Offline JensK

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What's better, F4U-1 or la7?
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2007, 12:37:17 AM »
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By the way, I am not trying to poke fun of you viking

Mark [/B]


How modest in a post you so minutely describes how you allegedly beat
someone so easily, save for some very common standard excuses about
trees and discoes...

Anyone can suck on this since youre not alone. There are a lot of prima donnas playing this game and Im getting soo sick and tired of hearing this chest beating rants over and over again. Like its some sort of therapy for building up or strengthening self confidence.  

bah!

im out
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Offline BaldEagl

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« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2007, 12:50:25 AM »
Between the two:  F4U-1A but I've only flown an LA-7 once and it was so long ago I can't remember it (I have flown the LA-5 a bit recently though so I assume they're at least similar).

Short Temp story;  Last night I was up in one.  I had been doing pretty well in it recently (15-16 kills and 1 death one night on repeated sorties plus several recent 4-5 kill flights) in only my second or third month of trying it or the Typhoon out.  I was at 18K climbing when 4 F4U-4's and P-51B's bounced me from ~21-23K.  I leveled, dropped tanks then dove WEP on.  The first F4U overshot but one of the P-51's saddled up and there was no way I could outrun him or outturn him.  End of story.

Temps and Typhs are good planes but you still can't get into a bad situation with them or you'll die and down low the Temp isn't that much better than a Typh.

Best perk plane in the arenas:  ME163B
Best non-perked plane:  Spit XVI
My best plane:  FW190-A8
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Offline RTR

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« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2007, 01:00:45 AM »
Boy I just gotta jump in here.

Pound for pound...Typh, tempest or LA7..I'm sorry, but I have eaten them like candy in a F4U1D!  I spend quite a bit of time in Hogs and those who know..know that the Dhog is the Red headed step child of the Hog family in AH.  

What I am saying is..If I can slap around the average Typh, Temp, LaLa driver using a Dhog, imasgine what I am gonna do to you if I am flying  a 1A ...or COD FORBID...A F4U4!....*shudder*...The Horror, the Horror!

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Offline SteveBailey

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« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2007, 01:53:10 AM »
La7's are for eunichs, until they graduate to the 262
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Offline Ball

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« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2007, 02:21:44 AM »
LA7.

It can kill more opponents, quicker than the F4U-1.

However, i think that the F4U is better in a 1 vs 1 situation.
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Offline Kweassa

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« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2007, 02:35:47 AM »
Bah.

 Eunochs are those who rely on 50cals and Hizookas.

 Real men use MG151 and MK108.
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Offline B@tfinkV

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« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2007, 02:43:12 AM »
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And here's the rest of the story.....
 He extended zoom climbed after every merge,    1st   I get overshoot get on his 6 and he augers.  2nd  I get overshoot get on his 6 and accidentally hit a magically appearing tree as I pull trigger.  3rd  I get over shoot get on his 6 in vert and go to kill him and no hits( conv set to 200 gahhh!)  so he falls down on me and kils me(rope).   3rd I get him to overshoot and get on his 6 and kill him.  4th  I go vert with him(after setting conv to 500) and blast him out of sky!   5th I get on his 6 and kill him.  

By the way, I am not trying to poke fun of you viking, I enjoyed the fights even with the disco and invisible trees! hee hee I thought you flew the fights well and I thank you for them.  I was just tired of reading arguments about what planes should be in the set, when most don't even know how to fly the ones we have!  I do believe I proved that the la7 is limited against the f4u, without cannons it would be worthless except for running!  If you look at how I fare against la7's in my 1-hog,  maybe one out of every tour is someone who gets me to go for the rope, other than that,all the kills that la7's get on me are ganger dweebs jumping into an already 1 vs multi!  I rarely ever loose to an la7 in a 1 vs 1 no matter what plane I am flying.  They are just to limited in what they can do!  

viking!

Mark




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*slap slap slap slap slap smack slap punt slap*

YOU SUCK I PWNED YOU!

salute viking

Mark


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Offline TinmanX

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« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2007, 02:56:20 AM »
I flew a U-4 tonight for kicks, to see what the fuss was about. It did fairly rocketh.
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Offline Saxman

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« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2007, 07:18:34 AM »
Btw, F4U-1A can, does and WILL zoom on the La-7. I've left more than a few ElGay's choking on my dust, and ran down quite a few (who were ESCAPING in level flight) by entering the zoom. Whether or not the -1 can do the same, with its greater climb the -4 is a lock.

If I'm popped by an La-7 more often than not it's from either being picked while dealing with another con or mobbed (like, say, the SEVEN SPIT XVIs AND ELGAYS--by ACTUAL count--that gang-raped me after the rest of my friendlies bugged out the other night :p )
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