(2) Plane type HO's. I tend to avoid getting in front of 110s, N1ks, Typhoons, F4U 1-Cs. I make it a point NOT to. I don't fly straight at them hoping the pilot will wave as I pass. I play because of my interest in WWII---I don't like games online, and I play no other. Read the Osprey books on WWII AC----they are FULL OF HO ATTACKS. See the Hurri Aces book---a guy in a Hurri I Ho-ing 110s (he got 2 before bailing). The HO was part of real life P-40 and P-38 tactics vs most IJ AC.
And probably a good reason why there are more dead pilots who won the MOH then live ones.
Remember in WWII there was such a thing as acceptable loses. As is evidenced by the way some recon missions were set up.
You sent a patrol out. If they didnt come back you knew there were enemy in that area. Soldiers and pilots were expendable commodities in WWII
It was a valid tactic yes. but it was also an extremely stupid one
Course you only hear the stories of the ones that lived to tell about it. I wonder if the dead ones could talk if they still say it was a "valid tactic"
Think about it. here you get to die over and over again.
If your life were really at risk in this game would you still opt for a HO unless you were vastly outnumbered or out of other choices?
If you had to leave the game for the rest of the week every time you died even. I wonder how many would still use the HO as the shot of choice?
I can agree to a certain extent with most of the circumstances you mention and am only commenting on the one I quoted.
The vast problem here if it can be called that is so many use the HO as their shot of first choice.
I can site one classic example that happend two nights ago. I was trying to RTB bingo ammo and low fuel in a D9 when I came across a high spit. He had both alt and E on me. By most reasoning he should have been able to best me. but he kept going for the HO shot over and over again while I was going for the maneuver on the merge. Each time I ended up either dodging him or behind him. Had I had ammo thee were no less then 5 times I could have easily killed him (aint that always the case when your bingo ammo? LOL)
Eventually a couple of friendies showed up and chased him off.
This guy wasnt even trying to get a position on me the HO was his shot of first choice as that was the only set up he was trying for.
I eventually called out to him telling him "If you had spent as much time worrying about your maneuvering as you did trying to set up your HO. You probably would be landing a kill right now."
Condoning the HO in game because it was a valid tactic in WWII is bad form. Because those who consistently use the HO as their first shot of choice never get any better until they learn to abandon that tactic
