Tactics
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Uberplane Mythology
There are none in this sim. There
are some darn good pilots who know how to use their heads though, and
this makes them a cut above most.
IN every patch and incarnation of this sim since day one there have
been planes called uber, but there have also been virtual pilots who
these planes were not a problem for because they had the smarts and
natural ability to find solutions to the puzzle.
If you know the performance characteristics of the different planes,
you can find something they cannot do and alter your tactics and plane
choice and use it to your advantage. Whether the server settings are
cockpit on or off this is what you have to do.
The Supermarine Spitfire is surely a good and competent aircraft with
an all around potential equal to anything. But it is not unbeatable
and not uber. It just happens to be popular to fly and there are a lot
of good pilots flying it. If these pilots switched to the Hurricane
MkI they would do very well in it too and there would be talk about
how uber it was too.
A case in point:
I recently went on a cockpit-on server with icons enabled. The plane
set was unlimited so there were lots of La-7s, P-51s, Ki-84s and
Spits. My plane of choice was the 1940 109E4. I shot down Ki-84s,
Spits, La-7s,Zeros and Mustangs with this craft. I probably shot down
a dozen of these craft anyway and was only shot down twice myself. I
was able to do this by using my crafts strengths against the other
crafts and pilots weaknesses. The other craft were faster, and their
pilots flew them around fast of course. Whenever one got on my tail
all I had to do was turn out of the way and let them go by then turn
back on them. Then when they saw a tracer or two go by they would
panic, forget they were in a much faster plane and try and
outmanoeuvre me at low speed. They wasted their planes advantages and
lowered themselves to my level. They wasted away their alt advantages
and speed advantages and the advantage they had in machinery and got
shot down. The Emil was slow, so I would take time to climb to alt and
then zoom down on the fast late planes thus taking away their speed
advantage too. The Emil also has great all around visibility that can
be used to better advantage in a slow dogfight than the late 109s, and
on and on.....
I was so successful, someone else jumped into the same model 109E on
the other team and they shot a fast plane with a dumb pilot down right
off the bat, and someone typed over the chat "Emil Power!".
I shot down tons of Spits while they were trying to climb away from
the Japanese Zero, once again a matter of misusing the abilities of
their aircraft.
On another server I got on the tail of a YP-80 at over 6000 meters alt
in a 109E and hit it with my cannons. Nothing to do with the aircraft
at all.
So it is not any particular plane that ensures success with its speed
or turning ability, what insures success is knowing what the different
types of planes will and will not do, and what you as a virtual pilot
can and cannot do and putting them together and having some fun with
it.
I have spent most of my time over the last three+ years flying this
sim in the virtual seat of the 109 series of German fighters. I am not
by any stretch the best 109 pilot out there at all, but I know how to
do a few things and make a few shots in these planes and I am
comfortable in them. I can probably do as well or better in the
crummiest 109 than I could do in the best Spit just because I would be
sticking with what I know.
So that is my two cents. You can dominate any server in any craft if
you know what to do with it and yourself. There are no uber planes,
just uber pilots. S!
Jumoschwanz
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