Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Pigslilspaz on September 16, 2010, 01:15:31 PM
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Yes I know alt and speed are the best defense, but tooling around in offline mode, I discovered that once you are at a good speed (~300+) in formation, you can pull a full turn, and turn full around and even get on your own drone's 6 o'clock position through turning, and not lose the drones. Basically, it's a HIGHLY manuverable formation and if you do encounter someone who set up a perfect intercept run, this is probably your best bet.
Also, tried some other things as well that worked.
P.S. I tested everything with 50% fuel and full 5000 lb load out at ~7.5k
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I would still stick to alt and speed, even if you do manuver onto there six then what? I do a loop and shoot you when you are slow from all the manuvering you did? it was a good thought, but I cant see this defense tactic in the mossie ever being usefull at the alt you tested at
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I fly her lone gunman. Keep your moves short, keep your alt, keep your E. I did see those drones stick to the enemy I was trying to nail, on the deck, in a K4 though.
I would NOT fly her anywhere below 15k, and the only reason I say 15k is cause that was that alt kvuo75 tried to keel me at. Quite honestly, 20k is where I call the hard deck now.
BTW.... I just flew the same MossieB, single "sortie" for 24 hours with few enemy contacts.
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If you're in a position where someone is that close, you've already lost. At that point, your best bet is good old fashioned dumb luck.
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In a Mossie, your best defense is a damned good offense. The Mossi can out turn a good amount of aircraft, but it has such poor acceleration (unless u can nose down and use WEP) that once you've used a tight turn to shake your trailer you has best be doing everything in your power to get as much E back as you can.
The quad 20mm's are you best defense: make sure they are pointing at your enemy as much as possible. ;)
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In a Mossie, your best defense is a damned good offense. The Mossi can out turn a good amount of aircraft, but it has such poor acceleration (unless u can nose down and use WEP) that once you've used a tight turn to shake your trailer you has best be doing everything in your power to get as much E back as you can.
The quad 20mm's are you best defense: make sure they are pointing at your enemy as much as possible. ;)
Yeah, you're completely lost.
We're talking about the new Mossie B.XVI bomber, which has no guns.
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We're talking about the new Mossie B.XVI bomber, which has no guns.
What was De-havilland smoking?! He should have added defensive turrets and two more engines to compensate for the weight.
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In a Mossie, your best defense is a damned good offense. The Mossi can out turn a good amount of aircraft, but it has such poor acceleration (unless u can nose down and use WEP) that once you've used a tight turn to shake your trailer you has best be doing everything in your power to get as much E back as you can.
The quad 20mm's are you best defense: make sure they are pointing at your enemy as much as possible. ;)
I have found that flying the Mossie like I do in the 38, I have had quite a bit of success with it. Trick is to stay skinny in the fight. If you can do that, you shouldn't have too much trouble mixing it up in the furballs.
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:headscratch:
I have found that flying the Mossie like I do in the 38, I have had quite a bit of success with it. Trick is to stay skinny in the fight. If you can do that, you shouldn't have too much trouble mixing it up in the furballs.
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:headscratch:
Well, rumor has it that both are bombers so it seems to make sense... :noid
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This is a case of, "I don't wanna read the whole read". :banana:
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Here is a film about how a sucsessful defense in a Mossie16 can look like:
Defense in Mossie (http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-vreckova/mossiedefense.ahf)
As you can see, the combination of speed and agility gives the Mossie a lot of different options to get out of an engagement unharmed, just dont fly it like a bomber,
meaning leave your drones home, and do some ACM when needed.
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If you'd been in a Mossie VI that P-47D-25 wouldn't have had a prayer. Even if you had been out of the 20mm ammo.
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What was De-havilland smoking?! He should have added defensive turrets and two more engines to compensate for the weight.
:lol :aok