Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: EdXCal on September 21, 2005, 01:42:39 AM
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Hey everyone!
Well, as some of you know I've been playing 5 years, when I started in AH1 I started out in a P-51D squad called The Wildcards, okay squad mostly new guys at the time, but I learned in a BnZ style plane, then as I learned more and more about a year ago I started flying the seafire, well with as much as I knew about BnZ I found the spit to be better at that then TnB. But when I face a spit5 or seafire there is one thing it does that I don't beleave it should do in real life. When you auto climb without WEP you get between 2000-2400fpm with WEP about 3000fpm, not much at all, and it's a very light aircraft weighing in at only 5000-6000 Ibs. When I'm in a P-47 or P-38 (12,000Ibs +) and pull into the vertical a Spit will ALWAYS catch up! Now if I'm chasing a spit I can't catch up... I just don't get how the Spit hold E so well when it's so light! From what I know a P-47 in a high speed zoom should EASLY how climb most other aircraft let alone an earlier, underpowered and light weight spit. The only plane I seem to be able to easily down a spit in is a Ki-84 well using the vertical, basicly nothing can match so I've become acustom to using. But because of the amount of spits flying, I feel I almost have to fly a dedacated turner or a Ki-84 Otherwise the Spit will catch me either in the vertical, at long range with the 20mm's, or in a flat or even decending turn... Now in Il-2 and Pacifice Fighters the spit is good, but it can't outtrun a Ki-84, or even come close to a zero. It's more like a Ki-61 in this game then anything else, and in PF the P-51's and Ki-61s are a vlose match too except the P-51's have much better speed and range. So any ideas or comment on this? I'm sure this has come up before! lol Just so you all know, I don' t mind the Spit 1, 9 or 14, they all have some sort of negative, the spit 5 and seafire (basicly the same plane in the game) seem to hold E better then any plane and are among the highest turners. Thats basicly it.
Edward X Calagari
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Try the a6m, the Hurricane, the FM2 and...the 109F, - lightly loaded.
All make an interesting matchup with the Spit.
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Well as I've said I've flown for 5 years now, I landed 6 kills in a zero just the other day against spits, F4u's and P-47s. I don't care much for the hurrys, I like there preformance but it's just simply TOO slow and the lack of ammo is killer. The FM-2 is what I think is the best low speed turner, I say this because it's good at all speeds, you dive that sucker as fast as you can go and it still turns on a dime! 4x .50 cals with 400rpg are way better then the other setups on the turners to me, good ammo and firepower mixed. I have success with all those as I've said, it's just I hate HAVING to fly these simply because of the Spits. The other day I joined an h2h room with P-51s and 190Ds, I flew the 190s and kicked prettythang! It's just in the MA the Spit5 has limits (mostly range and ammo) but in real life I don't think they added the right limited, it's just the how much E it can store that truly bothers me. lol Ahh well.
Edward
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The Hurry is roughly about as fast as a Zero, and much more lethal. Just don't spray....