Each plane has its' strengths and weaknesses Lusche. I simply feel the later Spits do most everything well, and will do something better than any other aircraft they come up against. It obviously takes the pilot to figure it out, but the plane can be used to kill anything. I don't see a challenge in flying them and getting kills.
I'm sorry if you see an issue with my sweeping generalization of the late model Supermarine Spitfires. It is simply my opinion, and I feel they are easy to get kills in, hence I don't fly them.
If you, on the other hand, think it is difficult to get kills in late war spits....
(something I don't believe you feel, btw.)
Actually, a SpitXVI will literally do
everything better than most of what it can expect to fight, except top speed, where it is merely good. Although "merely good" in this case includes being as fast or faster than many planes which it greatly out-turns, out-climbs/accelerates, and out-rolls, while packing an extremely lethal gun package
But your other Spits, your IX, V, Seafire, they are much more reasonable in their speed/maneuverability ratio relative the rest of the set.
As far as "forgiving handling" goes, many fighters in AHII are about as easy to put through BFMs as Spitfires.
