Animl, Im not trying to dismiss you or anything, Im iust providing my argument on why I do think its a top plane especially for being unperked. I am a #s guy. I stare and #s and excel spreadsheets every day until im crosseyed (fun I know) but I have somewhat of a inclination on visualizing #s and their metrics. You can check all of the plane stats by player and plane, just check the score stats by pilot, plane, or squad. You can see the top plane kills, top plane K/D, top killers in those planes, and top K/D in those planes once the tour is over. This gives me a lot of understanding of trends in the game and how pilots play the game from a #s perspective and how they can manipulate those #s by flying certain planes.
I know you have 37 years in the game but you play to have a lot more fun than I do. Im extremely competitive and cant help it. Its a gift and a curse. That means from day 1 of starting AH, I wanted to learn how to be the best because air combat was one of my favorite things on the planet. Learning the Art of ACM in every plane was the #1 goal for me. Yes, Im a 109 jocky 
but I fly so many other planes, just check the score stats. I do think the K4 is a top plane but its much harder to secure kills. If it wasn't it would simply get more kills every month than the 190. The 109s actually provide the arena with a much better fight. The 190s are designed in a way that they should only fight if absolutely needed and normally most planes can out turn it. That makes the plane overall more boring to actually fight against as it must fly straight to survive and 95% of players dont know defensive techniques to counterpunch being BnZed for 5 minutes by an E demon. Many planes can still outurn a K4. A K4 cannot dive past 475, and its a cage thats hard to see out of which makes aiming with 65 30s very tough. I love the K4s because of their fighting style and you really have to get down n dirty to get most of the kills if you are being jumped by higher planes. I still dont get 25% of the kills I should because of the damn 30 missing.
Im not saying you that you dont fight. I know you like to try to fight it out, but you are flying a plane thats designed to fly straight most of the time. Its designed to be fast and escape fights. Its not designed to have fights with another stick in hopes you can outurn them. Thats why its a more boring plane for many to fight against overall than a 109k. Its nothing about you, Im talking about from an overall perspective of the plane and why so many choose to fly it making it one of the games top killers. Believe me, when I first started the MA I flew the 190D because it was fast, had cannons, and made the far flights feel not so far, but for me, I realized that the style of gameplay was very boring to me since I couldn't turn fight against the great sticks of the time with it so I learned the 109s and many other planes like the F4U so I could have the best of both worlds. The game is a lot more fun when everyone is 
rather than just chasing and dodging. 
Violator, I understand your position. I’m not knocking it. But I fly the D9 exclusively, it has draw backs. That’s all. It may fit in an uber category, but it’s not as uber as projected
There are some good people here, over-shadowed by complete protected derelicts because yrs ago they did something but spit on it since.
I can’t even joke on the bbs without some troubled little twit creating a psssing contest.
Hell I thought after what I’ve been through I might be the troubled one, these “guys” make me feel like I survived with epic success.
I’m not kidding, its not a rage quit, its a prolonged studied thought. Look in a nut shell, my middle finger isn’t big enough for bbs. Maybe some mentally disturbed grown nan who hasn’t matured in 40 yrs can figure it out.
It’s not this thread at all. Been talking to others about it. There is a sickness here. Hell I even offend some because I try tech help, that Fin ego crap. Not respected at all, looked diwn on here and game. F him. I’m not part of their elitist mentality.
Its not the 1st, its the 1001st. I may be around bbs, May not.
The respect I HAD for some found the bottom of the barrel.
Have fun in the psych ward, leave me out of it
