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Mk2
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Well I finally achieved my first campaign victory (after 3 pilot deaths and some QC tune up).
First the good news: I shot down a Fokker DVII with a Spad XIII using Boom and Zoom tactics (or a slightly different version of it...I'll explain later).
Now the bad news : I was shot down short time after and cracked up the old bird ,as well as myself, in the insuing crash landing.
I was able to fill out a claim form after the death and did it to the best of my ability (the number was 40...not sure what this means...percentage of confirmation possibility?)
But since I am dead I guess I will never know if it would have been confirmed correct?
Here are some quick details for the Spad XIII pilots struggling late in the war.
Do not attack without altitude advantage. If you absolutely have to attack this way, extend from the fight, come back, make one pass, and extend again. If you turn more than a few times with the Fokker DVIIs you will be shot down.
If you have altitude advantage (and time) position the sun behind you. I did this and the enemy flight was caught completely by surprise. This might have no effect in the sim for all I know but I had never seen an enemy flight not maneuver at all until the machine guns started barking (if anythying it was more realistic to do it this way).
I made the first diving pass (and botched it) but one of my flight smoked an enemy fighter (first pass pictured below). You will see how far I actually extended before I zoomed. Perhaps I should have zoomed right away but it worked anyway.
I got back into the fight using all of the energy built up from my second dive and was able to turn inside a Fokker DVII and give him the business. I extended again, looked back and saw him going down OOC , eventually crashing.
I did this a few more times but had no effect on enemy aircraft and of course I kept losing energy , until I found myself doing what I did not want to do and that was stay in a slow turning fight. You can guess how it ended.
I'll do better next time. (and please save the labels speech when seeing the pics , I would never have spotted the enemy flight without them, I believe it's actually more realistic to have them on to make up for situational awareness lost on a computer screen).
First Pass , one enemy fighter seen smoking.
Fokker DVII about to be shot down during second pass.
Rickenbacker's flight arrives after this and I get cocky and make the fatal mistake of just turning in instead of getting altitude advantage again.
Dead and claim form filled out.
First the good news: I shot down a Fokker DVII with a Spad XIII using Boom and Zoom tactics (or a slightly different version of it...I'll explain later).
Now the bad news : I was shot down short time after and cracked up the old bird ,as well as myself, in the insuing crash landing.
I was able to fill out a claim form after the death and did it to the best of my ability (the number was 40...not sure what this means...percentage of confirmation possibility?)
But since I am dead I guess I will never know if it would have been confirmed correct?
Here are some quick details for the Spad XIII pilots struggling late in the war.
Do not attack without altitude advantage. If you absolutely have to attack this way, extend from the fight, come back, make one pass, and extend again. If you turn more than a few times with the Fokker DVIIs you will be shot down.
If you have altitude advantage (and time) position the sun behind you. I did this and the enemy flight was caught completely by surprise. This might have no effect in the sim for all I know but I had never seen an enemy flight not maneuver at all until the machine guns started barking (if anythying it was more realistic to do it this way).
I made the first diving pass (and botched it) but one of my flight smoked an enemy fighter (first pass pictured below). You will see how far I actually extended before I zoomed. Perhaps I should have zoomed right away but it worked anyway.
I got back into the fight using all of the energy built up from my second dive and was able to turn inside a Fokker DVII and give him the business. I extended again, looked back and saw him going down OOC , eventually crashing.
I did this a few more times but had no effect on enemy aircraft and of course I kept losing energy , until I found myself doing what I did not want to do and that was stay in a slow turning fight. You can guess how it ended.
I'll do better next time. (and please save the labels speech when seeing the pics , I would never have spotted the enemy flight without them, I believe it's actually more realistic to have them on to make up for situational awareness lost on a computer screen).
First Pass , one enemy fighter seen smoking.
Fokker DVII about to be shot down during second pass.
Rickenbacker's flight arrives after this and I get cocky and make the fatal mistake of just turning in instead of getting altitude advantage again.
Dead and claim form filled out.
