OOOO A NEW PLANE TO PERK!!!

[R4M]

Well I keep on seeing fair numbers of Chogs flying around. I've fought a couple of em just tonight, and both fights were VERY good. Used to the HO crap that those planes used to pull all day long is a quite welcome change  .

of three fights I had against them today I won two and was killed the third. All three -while not antological  - good and well fought fights.

The plane is there, in good numbers. Now it pulls ACM.

I definitely like the change  

[AKDejaVu]

 

AKdejaVu now its the LW who run?
I really hope in your stats it shows you to have been a p51d flyer but i cant check them can i AKDejaVu doesnt exist in scores

Check under AKDjV.

No need to check on P-51 flying, I don't do much of it.  Can't have more than 20 kills since I started playing AH in a P-51.

BTW.. nice to point out the ONE allied plane that was faster than your LW stuff.  The G-10 and 190's have been running since I can remember.  Wasn't until the Dora came out that they could catch the one US plane that could out-run them... and added one plane that nobody could catch without a perk.

Strange thing is.. I don't hear nearly as much complaining about this.  Its not that it doesn't happen.  A usual engagement with a Dora involves "get jumped, he misses (usually a HO attempt) and runs away".  A G-10 engagement usually involves a G-10 way above you diving down then running back to alt.  If you come on one co-alt, its gone.

I'm not knocking these styles... its a matter of patience.  Just don't pretend that the P-51 seemingly has the running market cornered.  Its a distant second at best.. barely holding on to that spot.

 

Do you realise ALL LW flyers could not catch a p51d for over a YEAR of playing and did they run ? YOU BET YOUR bellybutton THEY DID.

Now that they can catch a P-51, they spend more time running from it than catching it.

People want the fastest plane so they can get away from things, not so they can catch them.  LW always brought this up when P-51 was fastest.  LW has selective memory in regards to this now that the Dora beats it.

BTW, the use of "LW" is a generic term to describe the vocal LW enthusiasts and doesn't include everyone that flies these planes.  Only those that are more than happy to point it out to you.

AKDejaVu

[R4M]

 

Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
BTW, the use of "LW" is a generic term to describe the vocal LW enthusiasts and doesn't include everyone that flies these planes.  Only those that are more than happy to point it out to you.

AKDejaVu

I am a vocal LW enthusiast and I think I am well known because, if humanly possible I --ALWAYS-- stay in the fight.  

Tho sometimes I wish I didnt because that way I'd live more  

[StSanta]

Bah Djv, ask yer friend AKNimitz how the LW fights. I've been engaged by him and engaged him more than once. On one occasion I had alt, and believe me I dinnae run when I lost the advantage; I attempted to saddle up.

In the end, I overshot, tried to rope him, he shot my engine ou and as I came over the top I shot HIS engine out.

Both started to rtb thankful to be alive and wondering why the other stupid arse 190 dinnae finish one off  .

The G10 does very well against 90% of the pplanes in AH. It has problems with the YAK and LA-7, but other than that I'm usually not very concerned when facing a co alt con (that is, I think offensively rather than defensively).

It's not a very good plane on the defensive. Poor hi speed handling, poor roll rate makes it easy to hit. Its advantages wouldbe speed, climb rate and acceleration. Against a faster N1K or Spit that's saddled up, surviving gives you a "wow" feeling.

Gotta agree with the Hunstang comment though. But you must remember that these people are InstaLW converts, just as I predicted. LW gained following when the D9 came, just as they did when the A5 was SNAFU'd.

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Staffelkapitän 9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"If you return from a mission with a victory, but without your Rottenflieger, you have lost your battle."
- D. Hrabak, JG 54 "Grünherz"

[AKDejaVu]

LOL! LW pilots always remember the time they stayed and faught

AKDejaVu

[Jebo44]

I gotta question? Again

I hear alot of statistics as far as how many kills a certain plane has at the end of a tour or what have you. Has anyone noticed a great increase in the number of players that come aboard? Or is the number of players always roughly the same because of turnover as pilots leave the community? Whether there is a difference or not, is that factored into the number of kills a certain AC gets? Or is that data difficult to model due to it's complexity. AKDejaVu you would probably be the best person to answer this question. So I guess I am asking you.

[MrSiD]

IMO, if some players are dweeb enough to quit because chog was perked, let them.

Maybe Hitech can build a chog only game for them.. TEH CHOG ARENNA!

[Staga]

 

Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
...is having less F4u-1Cs in the arena worth the sacrifice caused by having less pilots in the arena?

Did you meant some people quit because of perking of C-Hog?

[MANDOBLE]

DejaVu, IMO, a good pilot should know his plane and the enemy plane characteristics and suppose, always, the other guy is at least as good as him.
In the case of P51 vs D9, the 51 is almost as fast, outrolls the D9 at hi speeds and outturns and outguns the D9 at any speed. If D9 is on defensive, the logical move is to run away looking for a better chance to get on ofensive (perfect defensive move).
In the case of D9 vs SpitV with the D9 on ofensive pos, the logical evasive move of the spit will be to keep turning on a dime and negating the D9 shots ans waiting for a good chance to get on ofensive. Both moves, Spit turning or D9 extending have the same effect, but some of you call the turning a "combatant "and the extending plane a "runner".

Suppose D9 pilots will stop taking advantage of their top speed when SpitV pilots stop taking advantage of their turning radius.

[AKDejaVu]

 

Did you meant some people quit because of perking of C-Hog?

I don't know if people quit or not.  If they did, they did so quietly... in a manner much different that most complaining about the plane.  

I do believe many people aren't flying as much.  Take that for what its worth.

 

In the case of P51 vs D9, the 51 is almost as fast, outrolls the D9 at hi speeds and outturns and outguns the D9 at any speed. If D9 is on defensive, the logical move is to run away looking for a better chance to get on ofensive (perfect defensive move).

LOL Mandoble, I don't have any problem with using a planes strengths and weaknesses.  I notice planes separating mainly because I can't catch them.  The part I find incredibly ironic is that Mustang pilots have been criticized for using that planes strengths for quite some time.  Then the LW gets the Dora and its all right.

Jebo44,

Most of the turnover I've seen has come from boredom of some kind.  If we go over a month, people start to grumble about how horrible something is and then find an excuse to quit.  We get a new release (especially a major release like 1.06) and people come flooding back.. for a month or two (this time 3)... then the cycle starts all over again.

Some are just more vocal about doing it than others.

AKDejaVu

[Jebo44]

Thanks AKDejaVU <S>