Originally posted by Krusty
The LA5 has its own problems, and while it can turn well, it is not as easy to pull tight turns as the 109F-4 (most numerous 109 I saw in the short time I was on) and the g-2. It's very close in radius to the G-2 but the G-2 does it with much more ease.
....er....you'd rather be in one of the 109s than an La5?
Seriously, it's always seemed to me that, with the La5, the Bolsheviks have the edge in this plane set. But the nice thing about FinRus is that there really isn't the lop-sidedness you get in some (most?) of the other historical matches. One guy might think the 109s have the edge, another guy thinks that the La5s do, but they're close enough in performance that the pilots are going to be the deciding factors.
As for the P-40Es...they provide a lot of fun, and the guys who are really good in them don't seem to mind that the 109s are higher-performance planes.
What the removal of the Hurri IIC has accomplished is to eliminate much (if not most) of the Hizooka Madness that has often detracted from FinRus. In the process, a lot of the historical flavor is back - we fly German planes against Russian planes now, instead of US Navy planes against British fighters.
- oldman