D + Fence!

[Chalenge]

P51D with 25% fuel. 

[Mak333]

I'm loving the tactics fellas!  Very nice selections and reasoning in your replies.  Some I've never really tried out so I may have to give them ago, specifically the IL2 and spitfires/hurricanes.

+1 to all the A-20 drivers.  One of the most underestimated attack planes in a co-altitude situation.  Beware of the back turret for the stragglers trying to catch up!

[Xasthur]

190 A5 or A8 or a 109 G6.

Tactics wise.... well, I don't really see much need to stick to a plan for CV attacks... usually they're just a bunch of dumb seals to be clubbed, so I just fly head-long into the fight, pick the biggest threat and try to take that out first (high zeke before the low Spit, for example), then just stay fast and avoid getting settled in on someone's six. That's why, despite what one may think, the 190A8 is a good anti-CV attack aircraft, it only takes a half second snap from 600 yards if you're on your game and you'll have kills aplenty.

Fly straight through the engagement, avoid turning, get in the clear, flat turn around gently ( I try to stay under ack-height) and repeat.

[ColKLink]

I gotta be a smart a**,.......110 with full cannon pkg,....line up 3000 mtrs off their 12,....and HO like theres no tomorrow.?p.s. start hosin at about 1500 .

[JimmyC]

spit VIII..... (ilove that plane , so versitile) 75% & droppy
take off away from attack, get a little alt. turn in, look for heavies heading to town
then yank & bank till i die or outta ammo..

[Nilsen]

Scramble Scramble!  Enemies inbound!  Your base is just starting to be shelled by a near by CV.  You can see in the distance low-level enemy raid coming in your direction from your airfield's tower, but you are unsure what the enemy is flying (7+ enemies).  You have only a couple friendlies starting to take off from the airfield.  You hit "Hanger", what plane/vehicle do you select?

State the specific plane and model, with reasoning, and additional arguments if you so choose.

Certain gun packages?  Which ones and why?

G14 or G2 to get up and grab some alt fast. If they are too close i take the A5, and if they are on top of the base i dont feed the vulchers so a wirble would be my choise.

[SD67]

Yak or Il-2
La7 if they are already establishing a CAP.
Ideally I'd take a group of 110's with the guns package WEP it all the way out at low level and strafe the CV down first and hit the cruiser second.
Then deal with the raid.

[evenhaim]

109g14 50 fuelbecause A. Its my plane of choice in any circumstance and B. It climbs quick accels quick and turns well with a hard hittung gums package,I personally would fly over to the group at around 2k if they are low and then tear through them from below/above.

[gpwurzel]

Spit VIII if I get the chance to up before they are too close - if right on the base, Hurri2d - them big guns give em fits when u hit. If FH are down, il2 - tough bird, lots of firepower. If I cant get up, get a flak up and go to town/runway - if runway, I use a wirble, if town, tend to prefer the osti - longer range and more hitting power.


Wurzel

[Overlag]

La7 50% (take off, stay under 500AGL, get speed up then fight)
190a8 25% (good vs LVT's and easy out turn heavy seabourne fighters)
Nik 25% + DT (drop the DT soon after take off, that way i can turn and burn and IF the fight thins out you can use rearm and get more fuel)

Jug 50% 2000lbs 1068 rounds of ammo. (take off oposite direction, get to 10k turn around, bomb cruiser... no more big guns for you!)
Ar234 (same as jug, although no need for alt.)

[yanksfan]

LA7, in the right hands the LA's unstoppable on the deck. And because i'm uber-gay. 

*Fixed* 

[Anaxogoras]

109K-4 75%.  I engage WEP on the runway and leave it on for the next 5-7 minutes.

[BnZ]

Isn't the ratio of an aircraft's mass to its total drag the operative factor here, instead of pure mass?

Although, when I've tried a little experimentation with various fighters. 109, P-51, La7, F4u, Corsair, P-47, P-38. Dive to the deck, let speed bleed down to 400, pull straight up for the zoom, use shift-X to hold them there 'till they stall out. Invariably I regained six thousand feet and some change. I would have expected more variability, with the 10,000 lbs+ fighters seriously edging the 109 and La7, but no, apparently not.

I usually grab an A-20 or an IL-2. Why? Because it's guaranteed that the average dweebenheimer will figure either is an easy kill. They'll be confident one second and dead the next.

The other evening, I was chasing a 190D-9 with my A-20. Its pilot figured he could go vertical and rope the bomber. He figured wrong. I chased him down going straight up. Welcome to your first course in applied physics, Newton's second law of motion. F=M*A, paying close attention to M (mass)... No fighter can out-zoom a Co-E A-20.

Fly the clunkers and hanger queens, it'll make you a better pilot.


My regards,

Widewing

[Solar10]

There is nothing more satifying upping a Mossie to counter a CV raid.  As long as you can get either fast on the deck or co alt with the navy planes you will have 700 beautiful cannon rounds to pop the heavy fighters inbound.  That soon thins the herd.

For defending the NOE 110 raid either the 109K4 or Nikki get my vote.  K4 for goon hunting and Nikki for 110 killing.

[Motherland]

109K-4 75%.  I engage WEP on the runway and leave it on for the next 5-7 minutes.

That's what I was going to say
That 30mm is perfect for killing jabo mission lemmings