True, Zazen.
In that lies the irony: people don't complain when they manage the latter case, and actually shoot the BnZer down. As a matter of fact, they are generally even pleased with themselves when they manage to do that. But when they meet someone in the former case, or not be able to kill someone despite dragging the fight to the latter, then they start complaining.
Hence, people do not complain about BnZ. They complain about not being able to kill someone.
Simply put, just like any other whine you see on the boards, its simply nothing but a sore expression of;
"If you had fought the way I'd liked you to have fought, I would have won. But since you don't fight the way I like, and you fight the way you like, I hate you for it."
What amazes me is most of these same people, give out advices in other posts like, "fly what you want" or "I fly the way I like - it's my 15 bucks".
Funny, eh?
Yea, it has always been this way. Not everyone appreciates how disciplined you must be to pull it off properly. There is always the diametrically opposed factors of getting kills and not getting killed tugging at you. The former requires you to be very aggressive and the latter requires prudent discretion...For example...
Yesterday, Hand had some altitude with an F4U-D and he was doing a great job BnZ'ing. I am not sure how many he got before I killed him. But, he showed great discipline and for a while was engaging multiple cons in rapid succession with effective passes without giving up his E advantage. At one point, for a few minutes, he had five of us scrambling and ducking unable to gain any alt/E all by himself. I find it very impressive when someone does that and Hand and I chatted about it for a few minutes on 200 afterward. To me that is more what air combat is/was really about, using your advantages to maximum effect. I find what Hand did much more impressive than a Zeke pilot using his advantages by heaving around on his stick. It requires much more thought, discipline and SA to be a truly good BnZ'er.
The problem is, and the reason for this thread is that some ere too far on the side of caution so as to not get killed. You never hear about the countless others that ere the other way to attempt to get more kills and the BnZing predator becomes the victim of his prey. It is really true that everyone loves a pelt dispenser and no one likes a pelt miser, it's always been this way.
