Only because Pand asked...
Every time I've come across Pand it was getting shot in the tail feathers when I was fighting someone else. (sorry Pand, not a personal attack, just a testomony to your flying style)
There is nothing wrong with E-fighting. Even in a Pony.
as for the squad thing...
BUT Picking, is not e-fighting. Winging and "Team tactics" are excuses used by pickers to justify thier picking. I'll be clear in my support of Ink's position....
If you want to use team tactics, fine. Go find a team to use them against. Using them against single pilots, or a few un-coordinated noobs, is overkill. If you are there with your squad of ace pilots and one crummy Fw-190 tries to dog fight one of your P-51, for goodness sake don't all jump on the guy the minute he turns in. If the 190 wins the next hot shot can jump in and have turn. Your squaddie isn't really dead. It's a game. Show some restraint in the name of competition. If a furball develops, we all know anything goes, blah, blah.
I know for emmersion sake, it's sometime more realistic to put on your "save my buddy" hat. But war isn't fun. The more you bring real war thinking to this game, the less fun people are going to have. Imagine a football game where one side showed up with 4 guys and the other side came with 11. Would anyone think of playing 11 v 4? Who would participate in such a game? Would the side with 11 brag that they were smarter for bringing 11? How stupid would that argument be? A game thrives on sportsmanship, not on simulating the actual dispare of the lopsided conditions that we strive to create in a real war.
So show a little restraint in your picking, ganging, winging, and everyone will have more fun.
