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Offline oboe

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Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« on: April 20, 2017, 11:31:56 AM »
In the thread for the upcoming "Big Week" scenario a comment was made (a seconded) about the great matchup between the P-47D11 and the FW-190A5, two very-well matched airframes in AH.

Started me wondering about other Allies-Axis matchups.  What do you guys think are the other very well matched opponents in AH?

Spit I vs 109E, and Spit V vs 109F?

F4U-1A vs Ki.84?

P-40N vs Ki.61?

F6F-5 vs A6M5?

Brewster vs Rata or Ki.43?

P-51D vs 109G14?

Yak 3 vs K4?

Actually its sortof hard finding Axis/Allies airframes that have similiar performance, since during the War design considerations started to diverge quite a bit.  Is there any Axis airframe that had as low a rollrate as the P-38G?

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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2017, 11:52:40 AM »

Brewster vs Rata


I was testing a Winter War setup Perdweeb was making a few years ago. The Brew eats up I-16's.
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2017, 12:08:12 PM »
P-47D-11/25 vs FW190A-5
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2017, 12:22:09 PM »
190s vs jugs in general are fun matchups

My favorite is a 23-25K fight TA152 vs P51D
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2017, 12:34:44 PM »

I don't know what the rollrate is on the P-38G but I'd guess the bf 110 would have the slow roll rate, speaking strictly of slow roll rate axis planes.

  Is there any Axis airframe that had as low a rollrate as the P-38G?
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2017, 12:41:53 PM »
I remember me and a friend(creton) did fights in the old Dueling arena a while back. We tested German planes against Russian planes. We found there was a very close accuracy with the historical data that was available. I-16 vs 109E, La5 vs 109f, la7 vs G series, Yak vs k4.

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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2017, 02:38:36 PM »
Spit I vs 109E,


I've always thought this was the very best AvA fight.

38G v 202 is also a good one, but not as good as Spit I v Emil.

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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2017, 02:55:25 PM »
38G vs Ki61 good match up also....

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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2017, 02:57:27 PM »
I was testing a Winter War setup Perdweeb was making a few years ago. The Brew eats up I-16's.

And the Ki-43 eats the Brewster.

F4F vs A6M2 is surprisingly a pretty even match in a scenario.
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2017, 03:09:43 PM »
And the Ki-43 eats the Brewster.

F4F vs A6M2 is surprisingly a pretty even match in a scenario.
depends on altitude
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2017, 03:30:50 PM »
A Brewster can dive away yes, but it pretty much the only advantage it has against the Ki. As soon as you start to turn the Ki will win.
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2017, 03:35:48 PM »
depends on altitude
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2017, 03:54:11 PM »
Tempest vs Ta152 maybe?

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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2017, 04:40:23 PM »
The plane I just jumped into and the first red icon plane I find!  :aok  Though nothing beats the early war British/German matchups.  Spits/109's are  great stuff. 
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Re: Best aircraft matchups in Aces High?
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2017, 06:35:54 PM »
Hurri 1 v Emil, 110 G2 v Mossie 6. I think the Hurri 1 is one of the most fun to fly planes in the game.
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