How AHII has conditioned my understanding of history...

[Noir]

if someone can prove that the real life F6F had better view movement than the ingame one, I'm sure that HTC will not look at it 

[Scherf]

I've learned that trees were made of flubber, and frequently tossed tanks weighing many tens of tons back and forth to one another, before finally depositing them upside down on the ground.

[Vinkman]

Compressibility was never considered a major issue with the P-38, once pilots were trained on how to deal with it. No, it could not easily follow a 109 or 190 to the deck from 27,000 feet. However, that didn't matter as they were supposed to stay with the bombers anyway. All J models were eventually fitted with dive recovery flaps, and all new L models had them when delivered. The three big issues with P-38s in the ETO were engine failures due to fuel incompatibility, lack of cockpit heat and complexity of the aircraft to fly and maintain. P-38s were doing fine in the MTO, flying from Italy to Germany, Austria and the like without engine failures. Likewise, the P-38 completely dominated the Japanese, flying at medium altitudes (usually under 25k).

At the heights we fly in AHII, compressibility is not much of a problem. In point of fact, if you have any idea how to fly the P-38, it's no problem whatsoever.

I'd suggest that you do some research on the P-38 before telling us what you perceive as "the big" fault.

wing,
Go to 20K in a P-38 and get vis on a 20K Dora. Then chase him as he dives on a 15K bomber formation. Tell me how you do. 
  

 

[Widewing]

wing,
Go to 20K in a P-38 and get vis on a 20K Dora. Then chase him as he dives on a 15K bomber formation. Tell me how you do.  

Vink, you couldn't prevent that regardless of what you were flying.... Besides, at 20k the Dora is about 30 mph faster than the P-38J/L.

Could I follow the Dora? Sure, since I'm flying with manual trim, I'd deploy the dive recovery flaps and head on down. The P-38 will begin to shake at Mach .66, and be into full compression not much past Mach .70, but it's controllable. The problem is that the Dora pilot may make one pass and then just skedaddle. The P-38 won't catch him anyway.