Steve,
I don't know whether I should be talking to a probationer, but as Lazs hasn't replied, I'll talk to you. Please understand one thing. This is an interesting thread, and I don't want to see it locked because you've run your mouth. So be careful what you say.
Well, you disagree w/ Rude's opinion on the pizza map... I disagree w/ you on the smaller maps. w/ fields closer together , the fights are easier to get to, ergo easier to find in early war planes.
Oh sure.
So convincing, coming from someone whose ride of choice is the P51D.
Why wouldn't you want enemies to find you sooner as opposed to later? If it only takes five minutes to find an enemy, one can only surmise that one can get in more fights. More fights means more furballs.
I think you know well enough the reason. When a battle is taking place between two fields, and someone is aggrieved at being shot down, he goes and gets an überplane from a field which, on the children's maps might be 5 minutes away from the action, but is not the field from which the battle is being fought. Then he'll come in with a 10K alt advantage, quite possibly in an LA7, and use the fact that the E state of the guy who shot him might be worn down after minutes in the combat area. The pizza map discourages that dweebery in two ways. First, the fields are more than 5 minutes apart which is as it should be. The kidz and the wanktardz don't have the attention span to fly more than 5 minutes to reach the "action". And second, LA7's don't like the high alt conditions to be found on the pizza. Muhahaha!
Beet1e, I have no doubt you can find films with good fights on the pizza map. Wuld you like me to start posting an equal number of films where I can't find a good fight?
I can't provide negative proof. But I can show that there's plenty of action on the pizza, if you know where to look and don't mind flying there to find it. I think your problem might be the children's map induced attention span deficit syndrome.
You're right about the k/d stuff. It does not belong in this thread. I had to include mine as a rebuttal to Lazs's horse crap.
As for my statement
"You come out with statements that are patently false", that was addressed to Lazs, not Rude. But OK, if anyone has difficulty finding fights on the pizza map, he should say that. But instead, some folks state, quite categorically, that
"there are no fights on the pizza map". And as my films amply demonstrate, that is patently false.
This is an interesting quote Beet1e. A g10 is faster than a pony where most fights take place, climbs better, and had more lethal guns. Explain to me why you will fly a g10 but not a pony.
It's an individuality thing. The person who could explain that to you best can be seen driving the Lotus 7 in my avatar pic. The hordz fly the P51D. I won't insult you by saying what I think the D stands for as it's your favourite plane. But it's not much of a challenge IMO. I
used to fly it in AH, but it made me feel like I was clubbing seals. The 109G10 is much more of a challenge - doesn't roll or turn as well as the pony, and has a sluggish elevator which stops responding altogether if you do much more than 400mph. It's much harder to get results in the G10, especially with the spud cannon. You have to close to less than 300 yards, and not spray from 800 yards. I don't want to turn this into a Lazs-style k/d-k/t pissing contest, but I notice you have an excellent k/d of better than 20/1 in the P51D. But in other planes you don't do nearly as well. Indeed, the only other plane in which you get better than 4/1 is the F6F at 7½/1. I think that proves my point. QED, I should say.
But the G10 armament is only more lethal than the P51 if the spud cannon is used (very difficult weapon to master) or gondolas, which impair performance and might make the G10 perform
less well than the P51.
The gun question was directed at Lazs, not Rude, and I think you know this.
