Mossie VI

[Tracers]

Mossie VI.. I love the cannons, I hate that it's made of of paper lol.

What plane do you both love and hate?

[Latrobe]

109K4. The plane is just a BEAST, but the gun sometimes decides it doesn't want to work. 

[MrKrabs]

I love all the planes... Just hate how those wings tend to fall off...

[McShark]

109G14

Not as much of a beast as the K4, little more sophisticated  , but same issues with the gun.

Just tends to be moody....

[SmokinLoon]

The Mossi is my favorite attack plane.  The 4/500lb bombs and quad 20's (and quad .30 cals!!!) in the nose offer a great platform. It simply **needs** to stay fast.  The 8/60 pdr rockets are a gem, too.  Many people do not realize that if they are trying to take down a single large OBJ (hanger, SB), that the 8/60 pdr rockets provide more oomph than than 2/500 lb bombs.   

[bozon]

Mossie VI.. I love the cannons, I hate that it's made of of paper lol.

You got it reversed - paper is made of recycled mossies. Fly a mossie, save Europe and the environment! True it is very fragile, especially considering its reputation for absorbing damage. Consider it a balancing factor because otherwise it would have to be perked. Look at the mossie XVI - the coolness factor alone merited a perk tag.

Speaking of perks, the VI is a crazy perk farmer. The most common fighters you engage will be worth 6 perks a pop before modifiers. Fly for a lesser populated country and land to get the 1.25 factor bonus and you can collect 8-9 perks a kill (Spit16s, La7s, P51D...). The XVI bomber easily pays for itself every 5 sorties or so, just bombing towns and hangars assisting base captures, while flying a single plane. For me XVI is totally free because to my recollection I never lost one, despite flying it in the tactical role and under 15k. Even killed some GV's with it and maneuver kills, making it the plane with the highest K/D that I fly...

The Mossi is my favorite attack plane.  The 4/500lb bombs and quad 20's (and quad .30 cals!!!) in the nose offer a great platform. It simply **needs** to stay fast.  The 8/60 pdr rockets are a gem, too.  Many people do not realize that if they are trying to take down a single large OBJ (hanger, SB), that the 8/60 pdr rockets provide more oomph than than 2/500 lb bombs.   

Rockets total more damage than the two wing bombs. However, the rocket rails leave so much drag after the rockets are launched that the mossie goes from a great fighter to a meh. They are so inaccurate (no convergence) that they are only useful against large structures. I never take rockets if there is any chance that I will go A2A during the sortie.

[TheCrazyOrange]

I hate mossies, and hunt them with the vehemence of a crusader trying to take back the holy land. Nothing that good deserves that high of an ENY, and so I try to kill them before they get even a single kill.

. 50's, hispanos, mg 151's, 30mm's, BnZ, TnB, and suicide hos in the A8, it doesn't matter. The mossie must die!!!


I also love them because they're usually pretty easy kills.

[SmokinLoon]

Rockets total more damage than the two wing bombs. However, the rocket rails leave so much drag after the rockets are launched that the mossie goes from a great fighter to a meh. They are so inaccurate (no convergence) that they are only useful against large structures. I never take rockets if there is any chance that I will go A2A during the sortie.

I can respect the view that the rocket rails slow the Mossi a wee bit, but then again I focus on the mission at hand and hope my fighter cover comes through to get me in and out of the target zone safely. Needless to say, I dont elt it stop me from taking the rockets. 

As for aiming them, it is real simple: the rockets fly straight off the wing and will have a slight trajectory if fired from a great distance out.  When I use the rockets on a hanger I don't think I've missed, have a sharp enough dive angle and they work like a charm.  If the angle of attack is too shallow, then the chance of missing is higher, but I still not seem to have an issue. Truth be told I take the 8 rockets on the Typhoon instead of the pair of bombs, I can get 4 ords without firing a shot of cannon.  That way, there is plenty to bring down the radar and hammer the convoy too.  Dont let the wee bit of drag leave a foul taste in your mouth, if the rails cause a "death" then perhaps you shouldn't be in that position in the first place.   

[Tracers]

Speaking of perks, the VI is a crazy perk farmer. The most common fighters you engage will be worth 6 perks a pop before modifiers. Fly for a lesser populated country and land to get the 1.25 factor bonus and you can collect 8-9 perks a kill (Spit16s, La7s, P51D...).



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Ahh indeed it is... Landed many 20 to 30 perk sorties in that baby 

[Karnak]

IIRC the rails take 15mph off of the top speed.  That isn't a "wee bit" in my book. It drops you back behind things like the P-38L, Spitfire Mk XVI and Ki-84.

[SmokinLoon]

IIRC the rails take 15mph off of the top speed.  That isn't a "wee bit" in my book. It drops you back behind things like the P-38L, Spitfire Mk XVI and Ki-84.

I have written in my notes a 8-9 mph penalty with empty rocket racks, and a 4-5 mph penalty with empty wing bomb racks. So when the penalty is indeed a wee bit, and especially if I have fighter cover available, it isn't worth mentioning. I don't ever take a Mossi up for fighter engagements or to hunt bombers otherwise I would leave bombs and rockets behind.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

109K4. The plane is just a BEAST, but the gun sometimes decides it doesn't want to work. 

HTC just modeled the slave workers sabotaging every few rounds.

[Tracers]

I have written in my notes a 8-9 mph penalty with empty rocket racks, and a 4-5 mph penalty with empty wing bomb racks. So when the penalty is indeed a wee bit, and especially if I have fighter cover available, it isn't worth mentioning. I don't ever take a Mossi up for fighter engagements or to hunt bombers otherwise I would leave bombs and rockets behind.

I pretty much only take it up for fighter engagements... More fun to fly it than the usual "easy mode" fighters that pollute the skies. 

[uptown]

The P-40. As a kid I always loved those shark teeth. It just always looked like a bad mofo. But in this game, being successful in it is damned near impossible especially in Late War. It's just no match for Spixteens, Doras, Brewsters, 51s, K4s ...so on and so forth. Even in the other arenas it has to contend with Hurricanes and Spitfires. In real life it's one of my all time favorites, but in this game it's only fit for scenarios where it has a fair chance. That's my opinion anyway.

If this game was any indication of it's impact in WW2, it wouldn't even get a honorable mention in the scheme of things.

[LCADolby]

I love the 109E I just hate the AcesHigh 3D model has yet to be updated.