So What's Your Style?

[Muzzy]

As a follow-on to the "what's your style in a 109?" topic, I thought I'd make the question more generalized.

Can you describe your style of fighting in point form?

Here's the two examples from the original post by Perinne

Hartmann style   

- stalk-and-ambush tactics
- hold fire until extremely close
- If it's dangerous to dogfight further,  break off and be content with one victory

Marseille style   

- prefers high-angle deflection shooting attack and shooting at the target's front from the side
- attacked under conditions many considered unfavorable (diving into enemy formations and risking damage for example), but make an approach fast enough to escape the return fire
- would commit to dogfight to the point of lowering throttle and flaps


So how would you describe your own style?

I'll post mine soon...have to think about it. 

[warhed]

Why does anyone have to only fly one style?

[Guppy35]

Wade in and fly until I die, preferably as low and slow in a turn fight as I can get.

[stealth]

I shoot at red things guys who shoot me.

[Crythos]

Fly towards the black dots, when they turn red switch to reactive panic mode, prefer low slow turn fights.

Cant break out of perma-newb mode

[Bronk]

Wade in and fly until I die, preferably as low and slow in a turn fight as I can get.

You forgot spray and pray...

[Dichotomy]

I try to die with style and humor

[infowars]

I will wait until I'm less than 200 out (usually) before I fire off one of my 32 rounds.

I let people think I don't know they're on my 6 then at last moment break into barrel roll scissors type action..  Gets them almost every time.

Only take fuel I plan on using.

[CAP1]

continuously changing, and evolving.

[Ghastly]

I fly, I die, I wonder why...
but still I try.

<S>

[Tordon22]

Flying circles. Around everyone.

[Slash27]

I don't think about it. If you think...

[Muzzy]

Muzzy Style Combat [MSC]

Style A: "Rocket Muzz"  

-Up in a bleached plane  
-Read a book while climbing out
-Find furball.
-Dive down with way too much speed.  Fire. Miss. Overshoot  
-Reverse. Fire, hit, get showered with airplane parts  
-Repeat process until I run out of E
-Hear voice inside head telling me to bug out. Ignore.  
-Get shot down while firing BB's at a P47
-Realize Rudboi got me again. Curse.  

Style B: "Leaf on the Wind"  

-Up from capped field in Brewster.
-Read book while turning in circles to avoid mustangs  
-Find Spitfires. Turn. Barrel Roll. Loop. Kill. Laugh.  
-Fly til Brew is smoking ruin. Flop onto runway. Collect kills. 

Style C: "Bombers? MINE!MINE!MINE!"  

-While flying Style A, hear report about incoming bombers.  
-Drop everything and start to climb.  
-Read book while chasing down bombers. (Three chapters usually.)  
-Promise self that this time I will climb above and not fly into tail guns.  
-Break Promise to self.  
-If lucky, kill 1 bomber (the left one) before plane is smoking ruin. Ditch. If missing wing, bail.  

Style D: While doing any of the above, get shot down while reading a book.  

[maddafinga]

IMO the real secret to doing well is to be able to switch between various styles of fighting/attack as the situation demands at any one time.  You can find yourself alone with a fairly similar plane and fly like a duelist for a bit, but then as enemy planes get near  you've got to be able to shift gears on the fly.  If you can switch between knife fighting and e fighting and bnz and run and gun and such back and forth as needed, you'll be deadly all the time.  The trick is that it's a mental shift that doesn't seem to be really easy to make.  Fight in all the styles!

[CAP1]

actually, the real secret to doing well, is to just do what you have fun at. as long as you're not grieving someone else.

have fun.....the rest comes naturally.