Forget Waldron for a minute here. Its not all or nothing i.e. avoid all fights unlesss you are sure of winning and bnz once and run in all cases. I think ive made that point already.
I can't recall where you said anything but paraphrase and insistently defend Waldron as some imaginary scapegoat here.
Again though if you bnz it works best if you are close in speed if you are charging in at 400mph+ and there at say 200mph htesr hard to set up and you need excellent markmanship.
That depends on the planes and the exact circumstances. There's no single minimalistic fits-all rule of thumb you can tell beginning players and expect them to synthesize everything else from on their own, without a ton of trial and error. Except that practice makes perfect. Perfect timid flying is still timid flying.
These debates are most valid when people dont take extreme positions.
Waldron ought to start by understanding that.
What is appartent is that there is a scism between books like "in pursuit" and the "party line" in this forum. Allot of Waldron said matches what I have read and relates to my own experiences.
Read in WWII books and experienced in a game? The argument isn't about whether you die or not, it's about the fight that happens before that. You can RTB or not, or fly fast or slow, or high or low, but that's not the point.
My k/d went form a low of 1/25 to a high earlier this week of 1/1.
Says nothing about the quality of the fights.
It improved when i started haveing meaningfull battles which I understood. If I start with the advantage and see how someone reverses I learn if they dont I kill them. The fight can end at high and low alt etc and its working for me so it might work for others. It works best at this stage where I start on equal term but ideally with the advantage.
Doesn't say anything about the quality of the fight, nor how timidly you fight, tho it does sound like you got some kick out of it.
Today i fought someone at co alt with co e who is ranked 75 and I am about 1700.
Rank is meaningless here.
He dove away after a couple of turns and I chased him down and stayed on his 6 and got him. What I learned I learned from bnz holding on in pursuit longer and longer and that has turned into kills. Its been fun.
Fun, yes, but it says nothing about the quality of the dogfighting, of the ACM and tactics and how well they were executed.
I dont have to keep upping and getting shot down over and over and over again to get better.
Strawman, and wrong even so. Higher frequency of any iteration will yield correct adaptation sooner.
I admit I have very few defensive moves against similar planes at this stage but that will develop as well.
By shying away from the fight that provides the improvement? That's the tendency we're talking about here. It's not about flying any particular variant or 'style', it's about flying that style effectively. If you need to fly timidly, the "style" is wrong or at least very ineffective and makes for a dull fight --> no fun.
Teach this to new players and you've peed in the pool.
I dont understand what the problem is with this approach it is working and I am learning and I am picking
See above. It's cheap.
I may not always do it that way but the response to Waldron sounds very narrow minded.
Because Waldron's "advice" is even more narrow: encompasses a tiny fraction of the possibilities in the game, does it incorrectly, and tries to mislead new players into believing it's right.