Originally posted by freeze
Very nice thread wtg.
but Lephturn are u sure that u can outturn a Spit with ur P47 ?
I want to see it.
So i am onlin nearly every day. It would be cool to have a duel against u. Call me dweeb but i love my SpitV and i never got shot down by a brick plane(p47).
So if u have time a duel wopuld be cool.
bets Freeze
I never said a P-47 would out turn a Spit.
I said I'd turn with a Spit, but that is a different thing entirely. And I am referring mainly to the Spit IX, the Spit V is a much better turner. Under the right circumstances though, almost any plane can "out turn" any other plane. For example, althought he Spit V has very good sustained turning abilities, at speeds above about 300 Mph or so, the Jug will have a better initial turn performance due to it's ability to bleed E while the Spit V will be far above it's best corner speed.
The whole point here is that it's all about energy and how you use it. The Jug is very good at burning E to get a very fast turn rate for a short period of time, while the Spits are very good at maintaining their energy to get a good sustained turn rate and a tight turn radius. If I'm the P-47 pilot, I simply must use my plane to it's best advantage to win.
As for a duel in a Spit V vs. a P-47... well that's almost silly. No Jug driver in his right mind would engage co-E with a Spit V. The Jug needs an E advantage to win fights, and a head to head duel isn't one of those situations. What the Jug driver has though is speed, so he can escape from the Spit V easily and return only with an energy advantage. When the Jug has an E advantage though, the tables turn, and he can control the fight and make attacks on the Spit from a superior position using a fast initial turn rate to tag the breaking Spit. It's a fun battle, and one that the P-47 is quite capable of winning and the Spit doesn't have the option of escape. In a 1v1 duel the Spit V would easily win, but put both planes in the arena and I'll take the Jug every time thank you. From a position of advantage, the Jug is quite capable of killing a Spit V, and even better, the Jug can extend or escape at any time.
Lets just look at our stats. Hmmm, in tour 24 you had 228 kills in the Spit V and have died in it 131 times. You got killed by Jugs 8 or 9 times, but not necessarily flying the Spit V. I on the other hand, had 34 kills in the P-47-D30 and died only 5 times in it. Oh, and I pegged a couple of Spit V's in it as well. Now the stats really don't mean much honestly, but I'm trying to illustrate why I like the Jug... it's a good killer and very survivable. Although it doesn't excell 1v1 from equal E states like the Spit V does, it certainly does work well for arena combat.
