Tonight, I flew the A-20 in a furball again. Was great fun until the Knits decided to horde it up. Nonetheless, I went 15/1 air to air, and four T-34s earlier as well. The one lose being the result of clipping a tree, while evading an HOing spit, a K-4 and some dweeb in a P-38. The HOing Spit pinged me up a bit and got the kill. I immediately re-upped another A-20, found him and shot his backside down.
Another character loses two P-40Cs to my A-20. He writes on 200: "TredLite, I'm filming this..."
LOLOL. I wrote back, "good, you need to learn why you suck!"
This guy (firebal6), was incredulous. I explained that the A-20 is nearly 20 mph faster on the deck and with just 25% fuel (actually, about half that at the time), easily out-climbs the P-40C (3k per minute vs about 2.2k per minute). He replied, "Yeah, but can the A-20 out-turn the P-40C?"
"Yes." In a manner of speaking... The P-40C cannot sustain a turn on the deck with the A-20, which has a significant power advantage.
His problem was more along the line that he had no ACM skills of note... Fighting a Co-E, Co-alt A-20 in the vertical is a bad idea in most fighters, much more so when you're flying a P-40C. Our second fight was the same, with the same result, despite dodging a picking P-51D flown by some guy named Heavy... I shot down Heavy's P-51 too, and three Lancasters, which those other two were trying to protect. It's hard to protect bombers when you can't protect yourself... So, firebal6, if you read the BBS, go and watch that film. You'll see why you fared so poorly.
Anyway... Three Spits, 3 P-40s, 3 Lancs, a P-51D, La-7, B-25H, Niki, 109G-14 and an IL-2.