Gunnery Tips

[HollyWood750]

Hey all;

Looking for gunnery tips... I feel like I am fairly solid (or is that failry!?!) on the ACM part, but my gunnery is terrible. Sitting at a solid (haha) 1.64% at the moment, even though .50s are supposed to be laser-like).   And everyone I'm fighting seems to be 5-12%. I can usually generate a good shot somewhere in most fights, but then I blow the shot, and my opponent takes advantage of my jug's somewhat less-than-stellar turn rate.

trog had a good one of mapping the firing button to a throttle button, so that the aim is not thrown off by jerking on the joystick when firing.  I don't know if that will help but might try it.  I think my issue goes back to that huge Air Warrior hit bubble, but you'd think I would have trained that out of my muscle memory by now. Shrug.

Any tips would be appreciated. My convergance is around 600, IIRC.

 

HlyWd
 

[hazmatt]

Pretty sure this isn't what you're looking for: My gunnery sux too so I pull my conv into 300 and do like Hartmann. 

Even with my conv set a 300 it's only back to it's original gun spacing distance at 600 so I can hit bombers at that range.

[The Fugitive]

Film your fights. Check the yards to target when you fire.  That is what your  convergence should be set to. I can check your films if you like and give better tips

[HollyWood750]

Thanks, hazmatt! I was thinking of doing that. I used to set the convergence to around 275 - 300, but thought I needed a change. And taking Fugi's suggestion, I'm usually rolling around in the mud (and losing to an LA or Spitfire) and firing at ranges less than 200 all the time.

 

HW