Originally posted by apcampbell
I don't remember when I saw the post about using rudder while gunning the the 26, but last night some poor shmuck got the suprise of his life while trying to get me. He thought he was safe in that blind spot on my six until I hit a little left rudder and lit him up at D600 with the waist gun. He nearly made me miss my bomb run! I ended up dragging 15+ fighters away from that furball at A4, until that 262 got me. Talk about fun!
Thats another thing. The Marauder turns quite well too. There have been a few times when Ive run out of tail ammo, one I recollect very well, when a Pony had me dead to rights with 0 left in my tail.
I turned him hard a few times, hit Alt/X, and forced an overshoot and he made the mistake of turning into me instead of just starting from scratch again. I was able to roll the 26 and put him right in my waist gun.
The Marauder is a great furball bomber. As long as you go in high enough you can control much of the enemies energy and when you get 3,4,5 fighters climbing over each other to get "easy" Buff kills they will make mistakes. Its a far different scenario then say 3 or 4 squad mates setting up on your bombers as a team.
You can get some really good looks out of the Marauders waist guns. A lot of fighters will come under you thinking they are safe when in reality you are rolling the waist guns at them. Even better, with a somewhat level side attack, when the fighter is within range you turn rudder hard into the side hes coming and not only can you prolong your waist look but hes going to turn hard back into you and hang up into your 6.
In other words a fighter coming from your left turn hard left into him, hit him with the waist gun, and then pop back into the tail while still turning rudder hard left. "Most" fighters will try and do to much with the pass turning hard left back into you which will cause them to hang up while they are trying to get a fire solution. Its far easier to move a joystick tail gun then to straighten out a fighter banking hard.
