Read what you wrote. Your job is to stop the bombers yet there you are hanging high staying safe trying to pick off fighters while the bombers make your home a smoking hole in the ground. You flew safe and your family died. Where are you going to hang your Knights Cross and who you going to show it to with no family and no mantle to hang it on?
Please point out once where I referenced "picking off fighters" or "hanging high." In my example, I clearly stated the scenario of engaging superior fighter numbers. "Picking" is an AH term, and is something that wouldn't even be questioned in any real air combat scenario; "hanging high" has nothing to do with roping.
If your job is to kill the bombers, you hit the bombers as fast as possible (historically using slashing energy tactics) and then rtb. There's no difference.
I'm not even sure that you're aware of what we're discussing. We're talking about tactics, not mission profiles. You use the best tactic for the mission that's available to you. That is what ACM is about.
TO ADD:
Play however you want - there's nothing wrong with that. However, questioning the use of historical tactics is backwards. The tactics themselves have stood the test of time and are logically the correct response in such situations. If you want to deviate from that, by all means, you have that right. However, questioning players who choose to not deviate isn't a flaw in their style of play, it's a deviation of
your own playstyle. If you cannot objectively and tangibly quantify your reasons for doing so, and show them as better, then you cannot fault someone else for not adopting them. And just so that we're clear: "fun," "honor," "respect," and other concepts are neither objective or tangible - they're subjective intangibles.
