Latrobe's Tail slide

[kilo2]

I use it as a last ditch effort to evade or escape a desperate situation. It in my eyes is a last option.

[uptown]

That's a side slip. My God haven't you reading our squad forum!?

I get bored reading if the post is more than a paragraph long. I need pictures of little planes and lines with arrows to figure out how to fly fancy 

[Butcher]

Pointless thread, I tried to do teh tail slide half a dozen times tanked and I can't do it, bullsnots.

[uptown]

People like these type of threads because they're hoping for a "one move cures all" when they get into trouble......which we all should know by now won't beat good solid ACM and SA.

[Butcher]

People like these type of threads because they're hoping for a "one move cures all" when they get into trouble......which we all should know by now won't beat good solid ACM and SA.

Good SA trumps anything, even if you forget ACM.

[Plawranc]

Tailslides only work in a situation where your enemy has truckloads of E and a superior position.

If you try to do it in a low E fight you just fall over and die.

Its a very precise maneuver and one that takes a lot of skill and dexterity to use properly.

[RedBull1]

Its a very precise maneuver and one that takes a lot of skill and dexterity to use properly.

eeehm... no.. no I would definitely say this is a more accurate description of the tail slide:

I use it as a last ditch effort to evade or escape a desperate situation. It in my eyes is a last option.

If you try to use it consistantly as an actual move in a fight I would think your ACM is lacking because there are far, faaar better maneuvers and/or reversals to be doing that will not waste all of your E.

[Fish42]

Tailslides only work in a situation where your enemy has truckloads of E and a superior position.

If you try to do it in a low E fight you just fall over and die.

Its a very precise maneuver and one that takes a lot of skill and dexterity to use properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTuFLHldWg

The F4U-4 was diving in from my tall six. I started to pull up when I seen the threat (cannot see out the back of an F6F).

But that was alot of luck, as I am not normally that lucky at shooting them on the way through.

But your right at low speed, it normally makes you a sitting duck.

[kilo2]

If you try to use it consistently as an actual move in a fight I would think your ACM is lacking because there are far, faaar better maneuvers and/or reversals to be doing that will not waste all of your E.

Well that may be true.

It is a very situational move but not one I would look down on.

[RedBull1]

Well that may be true.

It is a very situational move but not one I would look down on.

It is a situational move, I use it myself! I am just saying that if you try to overuse it all the time to make people overshoot you're going to notice you have no E left after a few passes, especially bad if you're in a multi con situation.

[Bobcat81]

Lets just call it a Waffle Cone cause its tasty. Use whatever flavor ice cream you want.

[dedalos]

Good SA trumps anything, even if you forget ACM.

What exactly is good sa?

[eeyore]

You guys call it what ya want..........I'm calling it the "Latrobe Fancy Move"  

If I join the 56th FG do I get to learn the Latrobe Fancy Move? 

[uptown]

If I join the 56th FG do I get to learn the Latrobe Fancy Move? 

Absolutely not! We encourage our squad mates to stay alive....not get themselves killed 

[Agent360]

This thread is funny.

ALL...and I mean ALL good players in this game KNOW how to win the SCISSORS...thats what it's all about fellas....fancy tail slides, flat plate, hammer heads..etc...are all BS. They work for last ditch evasion..no doubt....but conversion to guns...is another matter.