Last night I ran into a 109K-4, then later a 109G-14 that showed some of the most timid flying I have ever seen.
The first one was the K-4. We met at ~16K over a contested Bish base. I was in my usual Spit XVI buff hunting. We merged and the Knight K-4 stick pulled up. I reversed and followed, somewhat behind him. He continued a lazy spiral climb barely turning at all but doing so nonetheless until we reached 30K! I could never seem to get closer than 2K from him but kept following him up as the XVI is a better extreme alt performer than any German aircraft (except maybe the 110). At about 30K he finally reversed and I picked up his six 800 back. Again he just kept flying away in his lazy spiral climb. I broke off and RTB'd for fuel in a full power dive to my base, then slipped it hard and belly landed just as he was approaching the field ack.
Later, I was chasing, and finally killed three Rook Lancs. During this I had a G-14 about 2K back. Everytime I killed a Lanc I'd pull up, roll over and make my next pass. Each time I pulled up the G-14 would back off. Finally, once all the Lancs were dead the G-14 engaged. We went 1 1/2 turns before I acquired his six and he dove to his field ack. As he did I pulled up and climbed to my cruising alt just above the cloud layer as I only had six cannon rounds left. He climbed and followed outside of icon distance. As I hit my dar ring I nosed into a steep, full throttle dive to base, hard slipped and belly landed just as the base ack started to fire at him.
Now usually, 109 sticks are pretty good. N00bs don't usually fly K-4's and G-14's. Either can E fight a Spit XVI. I've done it and had it done to me. I just had to comment because that was some of the lamest, most timid 109 flying I have ever seen and twice in a row on both sides of the map. Not only would neither of them fight, they both tried to chase me in for the vulch as I landed.
What were they thinking taking those planes up? It certainly couldn't have been fun for them the way they flew.
