great thread.. wh'yd I have to find it at 3:00am??
Outstanding stuff there jochen.. There are many amongst us that on any given sortie can be found flying their AC in keeping with the appropriate tactics for the type. With appropriate results.
I love flyin against LW A/C flown the way ther're supposed to fly 'em (That damn G-10 just climbed away!!!...).. And lest ye forget, there's some good pony teams riding around, too.
Notably; for the bish, Rude and Yeager when teamed up are awe inspiring to watch.
As for the .50's on the allied A/C .. IMHO, they about right.. I can inflict severe damage with the icons on at 600 yards.. ping 'em reliably at 400 or less. (icons!)I think that they are doin a fair job at HTC with the guns at least. The various cannon types are all felt on my pony with similar effect. It flys apart.
Even little spit BB's tear me apart just fine; thank you.
Getting good .50 cal fire performance takes patience and skill and appropriate convergence settings and it ain't easy gettin it all worked out for a good shot, and you know it! Sniping a guy outta the sky at 700 or more yards may sound outrageous, but truth be told I've never done it more than 3 or 4 times and it always cost me at least 1/2 my ammo to inflict enuff damage to count..
Who here routinely snaps up targets at 700 yards with .50 cal fire?? Anybody got more than a handful of these 'uber' kills? I've been punched outta the sky plenty of times by kannonen at 700 yards.
Spray and pray just don't work with the .50's... I've found that short 1 to 2 second (TOPS) bursts for effective fire can be delivered very accuratly.. long sustained bursts are wildly dispersed no matter how stable the sight picture and deflection being applied.
Finally, I think we're all shootin one hell of a lot better than out historical counterparts all things considered.. Icons most definitly have a big impact here.
(yawn) my 2 cents..
Hang