Originally posted by Xargos
The H2H players are too use to being able to see from outside their planes. Also, they're not use to having to save their ammo and making every shot count. I doubt they love AH so much they would spend time reading things by Robert L. Shaw or Johan Kylander. So do I really need to say who I think would win?
Hiya Xargos,
I started scouring the net for ACM information and different aircraft performances and comparisions starting when I first came to AH and have learned what I have learned from what I have studied and put into practice.
I will order Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert L. Shaw and In Pursuit: A Pilot's Guide to Online Air Combat by Johan Kylander. It's a $40 (plus shipping) investment of money but I think it's worth it.
On external view and massive ammo loadouts, I agree with you on this with regards to many, but not all, in h2h. I allowed extended ammo and external views because many would not fly in the arena otherwise. I would have perferred internal only and realistic ammo.
I am guilty as charged with regards to external view. It was a serious mistake and I should have never allowed myself to get sucked into using it. My bad. I admit it and am now suffering for it. But suffering is good for the soul... I am still adjusting to internal but am also making and landing kills in the MA against MA pilots.
I am seeing steady improvement in that regards. I also started flying a new plane that frankly, I am not yet ready to fly. I need to finish internal view acclimation first; too many variables to handle at once. Setting up and adjusting and saving head positions when looking from different angles helps a lot.
After a short while flying in h2h I found that using the cockpit view was a serious limitation due to shots that, typically, can only be made using external view... such as extreme deflection shots with wings heavily G-loaded where the bandit's lift vector is 90 degrees from the attacker's lift vector and the range was around D300 at the closest point of convergence.
There are useful things to be learned flying external view when learning about bullet deflection when G-loaded so that one can predict bullet deflection when flying internal view.
Also, there were a high percentage in h2h, but not all, who were playing an arcade game... not real flying and not real ACM. Those that did that who were not newbies were easily defeated inspite of how long they had been flying in AH. There are MA pilots who don't know what ACM stands for and can't read an EM chart or even know what EM stands for.
This doesn't apply to everyone who flew in h2h and there were many MA pilots who also flew in h2h who were fully up to speed and cleaned house whenever they flew there. I came up against many of them.
It was with them I gained the most valuable experience.
On the unlimited ammo... it was quite obvious who the sprayers-n-prayers were... just as it is obvious in the MA. I worked hard to keep as good a ratio as possible on minimal bullets per kill. I wasn't the only one with this goal.
It's difficult to generalize about h2h or MA without running into exceptions.
Today, there is no h2h, that is history...
The only baby seals to be found in AH are MA pilots.
The only Aces to be found in AH are MA pilots.
Every pilot flying in AH is an MA pilot.
I am open to fly in the DA with any Ace... the better they are the more I want to fly one on one with them. PM me to set up a date and time and come shoot me down!
But I will record it and learn from it if I get owned. I wont brag about it if I should own and will delete the film once I understand what happened.
I am not concerned with ownage; I am concerned with getting better and better and better.
TIGERESS
