Soda's Aircraft Evaluations

[hblair]

 A squaddie of mine has spent a lot of his spare time writing up a webpage to help newbies or anyone else become more familiar with the different planes in the game. I think he lacks a little bit but it looks done to me so I'm posting the link.
Just go to the Assassins page (click on the link on my signature below) and follow the link on the left side of the page to Soda's Aircraft Evaluations.

 Looks to me like he spent a lot of time on it. He prolly won't have a chance to spend any more time on it for a while seeings how his wife just had a baby last week. Anyway, read through it and tell us what you think.

[Samm]

The 202 is best used as BnZ and doesn't turn very well ?
 I don't think so.  Folgore is one of the best turners in the game .

[Samm]

The TBM also turns very well .

[J_A_B]

I wouldn't want to turnfight a 202 against hordes of N1K's and Spits      

J_A_B

[Samm]

I wouldn't want to turnfight anything against hordes of n1k2s and spits .

[Mitsu]

Hey, Soda...you're wrong...Ki-61 is uber...

great job.

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[AKcurly]

Soda's Aircraft Evaluations.

 Looks to me like he spent a lot of time on it. He prolly won't have a chance to spend any more time on it for a while seeings how his wife just had a baby last week. Anyway, read through it and tell us what you think. [/B]

Nice work, Soda and congrats on the baby.

curly

[Hajo]

Evaluations nicely done.  Thanks for posting the link.  Well  worth the point and click to read.

[Witless]

Hi,
Haven't read them all yet but they seem accurate compared to my experiences Nice work Soda, wtg
Cheers..........Trikky

[DSDUDE]

Great Job! One nitpick, I absolutely LOVE the Yak-9T and Soda doesn't seem to have much of an appreciation for it. I can kill 3-5 panzers in one flight pretty regularly. You just need to attack from the rear and don't fire until you're lined up perfectly. Also great fun when you encounter a buff

[Soda]

Samm: The 202 is best used as BnZ and doesn't turn very well ?

It just doesn't have the HP to sustain a turn and has bad energy bleeding, or so it seems.  You really need to maintain energy in a BnZ fight as much as possible.  Too many guys are going to turn you into the ground if you don't.

The TBM also turns very well

For a big plane, yep, but I've nailed dozens of TBM's who tried to turn-fight with average turners.... they can't be that good.  The Val is another story though..

Hey, Soda...you're wrong...Ki-61 is uber...

Only in very experienced hands.... I've had some success in it and I know you do, but you're not average

AKCurly: Nice work, Soda and congrats on the baby

Thanks, it was a lot of work and is really still a work in progress.  Lots of the information is rather "soft" with a lot of opinion, but it should help some people and I've been around a while and flown just about everything.

I wish the baby would give me more than 2 hours of sleep a night.

DSDUDE: I absolutely LOVE the Yak-9T

The Yak9T is a fair anti-GV plane, though the ranges you need to get to are just too close.  Against Panzers you are good, against anything else (read in Ostwind) it is suicidal.  It's actually a decent anti-air plane if you can manage the big gun.  Unfortunately it takes someone with a dead-eye aim to land 37mm rounds on air targets.  Against GV's you can do much better in almost anything with US .50's or hispanos which offer more flexibility and longer ranges.

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Anyway, it is a work in progress and if I can find some time I have a lot of other information I could plug in.  Time is at a premium though and I won't be back to any real AH time for a while.

-Soda
The Assassins.

[Lizard3]

Ah, our son makes us sooo proud.

[Gixer]

hblair,

Please thank squaddie for me, obvious that alot of work has gone into this and is greatly appreciated. HTC Site should have a link to it.

Excellent work, well done!



...-Gixer
The Horse Soldiers

[Samm]

I have to disagree Soda I find that a 202 has a sustained turn much like a spit9. It's one of those planes that can outrun whatever it can't out turn . And a light TBM will out turn f6f's and seafires as long as they don't go vertical . As for the flakyak, when attacking GV's it's great, much better than the flakhurri, it's almost as if you have 32 rockets. But what it really accells at is killing buffs . Because of the range of it's ns37mm you can hit buffs from beyond the range of their tail gunners as long as the buffs are flying on autopilot. You just clean up your trim and zoom in on your custom flakyak gunsight . The dispersion of the flakyaks gun at 2000m is very bad though, so may endup using all your ammo killing a buff at those ranges .

Never the less I appreciate the effort you put into this and I think it was time spent worthwhile, and I'll instruct anyone who has plane questions online to checkout the assassins webpage.

[Imp]

Hello Soda
I would just like to point out a few mistakes.

Ki67: 20mm is in upper (300 rounds)
turret Tail has 2 12.7mm (800 rounds)

Metric sytem: You really need to learn it

1 kg= 2.2 pounds
Ju88 bombload: 3000 kg = 6600 lbs more than B17(6000)
Ki67: 800 kg = 1760 lbs

Why dont the us convert to the metric system is beyond me,
its a much smarter system using only factors of 10 so you can just
add zeros to convert instead of having to remember how many
yards there is in a mile.

England doesnt even use it anymore even tho they made it