Originally posted by Bruv119
Lusche I would find your research very interesting if you could eliminate bomber kills in the hit% category.
Going after buffs in 50cal planes is the easiest way to raise your hit %
If we had stats from pure fighter to fighter kills im confident the %'s would be even lower.
I agree. Sadly, we don't have any way to examine hit percentages seperately. That's why I said we have to be careful with interpretations, especially regarding to individual pilots.
One can, however, watch his own hit% over time. I do examine my own stats carefully (but still just for fun). And I have found that my hit% vs fighters is varying between 8% and 12% when flying standard late war rides like Tempest, D9, P51. My overall hit% is gretly boosted by killing buffs.
When I was flying the 109F exculsively for two weeks, then hit% went up to >20%, a result of going close & personal, instead of taking long range high deflection shots in a high speed monster like the Tempest.
I almost regret putting in the second graphic. It was meant a bit tongue-in-cheeck. As I have stated before I made those categories up, but some people seem to take that a tad too serious. My focus was lying on providing some statistical data, not providing reasons for some "mine is bigger than yours" like banter.
