Karnak, when I talk about Spit or D9 I talk about them in our MA, not in a 1944 theatre. Germans and Americans designed adecuate planes for their purposes: intercept buffs/ protect buffs. The main target for the germans where to kill these buffs and to protect the main attack aircrafts (190A8). In the case of americans, the target was to protect the buffs along all the way to his target. Also, neither americans nor germans had inflight radar nor range icons preventing them from being attacked by surprise using real boom&Zoom tactics. Really different missions and really different environment than our MA. In the other hand, the CT is a very different place where Boom&Zoom planes shine over TurnnBurn ones.
Why I fly german iron instead N1KJ, Zeke or Spit? Well, I simply have no interest into them, I dont like the turn'til puke fighting way. Why I fly mainly 190 instead 109, being 109 much more adecuate for our MA? Why to fly 190 instead P51/P47? Basically because, IMO, 190 is more challenging, more interesting. It has nothing to do with a byasing about the nationality of each plane.
AKDejaVu, the 12 victories where achieved in four assaults to A22, go-rearm-go. In one of these incursions there was a hi 190 unable to protect his lower mates. What I said is that a hi spit would had been more effective deffending them than the 190. The pilot of that 190 followed the B&Z rules, trying to keep safe all the time. And he was success at this until he decides to enter in close fight. While he was using B&Z we knew all the time where he was, his range and relative speed. We simply keep much slower than him sending check six each time he dives and negating with no effort at all a firing solution. In the meanwhile his mates were being shot down one by one.
Basically he did well for some minutes, then realized that he must risk his alt and speed to have a chance to fire at us, and he did. At this point he was vulnerable to two of us while trying to track the third A8. When the nikki arrived he was low and not very fast and was easily HOed by the nikki, end of story. Probably a more agressive 190 pilot would have dead much earlier. In the other hand, a single spit with E advantage could manage to defend itself from 3 A8 in a much more agressive way, forcing all of us to engange him instead targeting and killing the lower cons.
[ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: MANDOBLE ]
