Things that will make me think someone is timid.....
1. primary way of fighting is BNZ
2. running
3. going for an injured palne that is RTB
4.(this is for people on same side) Seeing a con higher then you and turning back around to get alt on them
5. HOing
6. Most every person in a F4U or P38
Only one of the points you listed (#2) is only really relevent to being timid. Some planes are condusive to fight a certain way. A FW 190D-9 is suited for BnZ and Energy Fighting and not Angles Fighting. So, you're basically saying that if you don't turn, you're timid and that is a rather broad and inaccurate statement. I would suggest the problem with most that BnZ is that they don't know how to do it properly, which leads to cries of being timid. Someone that knows how to properly BnZ can easily manage and triumph in a multi-vs. one engagement. I would hardly call someone like that timid. YMMV.
Going for plane that is injured or RTB isn't timid, the attack has no way to know if the guy is bingo or not and if the guy that is damaged or trying to RTB is caught in the area of battle, he's fair game.
If you see a con that is higher and you're able to grab long enough to get coalt, how is this being timid? Or are you trying to say that anyone that does not fight at a disadvantage is timid? No offense but I've seen you many times grab outside of a furball so you can be either co-alt or higher than the attackers.
Someone that HO's isn't an indicator that someone is timid, it's just an indicator that you may be facing someone that doesn't know how to fight or have a good grasp of ACM.
Your last point is really funny. The same could be said of anyone that flies a Bf 109K-4, P-51D or any other number of aircraft in the game. Your last point is just another of those idiotic "I fly a man's plane, you don't, so you're timid" comments, like giving someone crap for flying a Spitfire.
As I mentioned in my previous post, it's since time immortal, timid has usually been reserved for someone that doesn't fight at all and will only engage if there is absolutely zero risk of danger when they do. It's not from how someone fights, you can be an E fighter and still be very aggressive and the opposite is true, you can be an Angles fighter and be extremely timid.
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