Gambit21

Jason is creative, and has room to provide options if he so wishes. I know that he’s not going to hit us with a forced subscription though - so I’m not even a little bit concerned. 🙂 I’m far more interested in watching the product come together. 🙂

I have enough monthly bills/subscriptions, thanks. Digital download is neither here nor there frankly - it’s been like that for a long time now. A few dollars here, a few there…one can go broke. Add $10 month up for a few years, that’s quite a sum. What amount of content should I expect over 2 years for that much money? Enough of us already hate Adobe. That said I don’t see a problem with an option to subscribe…whatever that looks like. Maybe simply as an “above and beyond” financial support option with no expectation of extra content. Maybe some swag every year, like a T-shirt. 🙂 Otherwise I can’t imagine what would have to offered to make it worth the cost for most users.

Umm…no.

Essentially insert “concern X” because to that user it’s of paramount importance. Pick anything. In all cases it’s just too early for worry and frankly even mild concern - let’s see what shakes out. 🙂

I can't tell you what I'm flying today because it's in testing still...but it's an absolute beauty, set's a new standard, and you're really going to like it.

Welcome!

Lead - “You’re the first guy who’s ever stayed with me in a fight” Wingman - ”I didn’t admit to him I was just lucky” Perfect illustration of what I was saying. Further, throw in a second German fighter and that would have been the end of him staying with his lead. 🙂

Problem is that once the fur starts to fly, adrenaline and tunnel vision, SA issues etc take over. Again nothing is all the time, however the above items play into the pilots ‘ability’ you mention. Reality was that often (not always) there was little or no cohesion in these circumstances. Bud Anderson didn’t have his wingman with him in his ‘straight up’ fight for instance, everyone was scattered all over the sky. This is why you hear about the massive fight, “then suddenly I was alone” phenomenon over and over again. This is why over and over pilot’s are lost, and nobody saw what happened. I’ve track already of how many times this happened just with VMF 214 alone, Wildcats and Corsairs, not even halfway up the Solomons yet.

No doubt. I was just reading again last night in Gamble’s book on the Blacksheep “everyone separating as the fight begins”

I think it was the intention, but depending on time frame, squadron etc it usually didn’t end up shaking out that way in larger fights. I interviewed a handful of pilots from the 352nd for instance, and they all verified the “every man for himself” effect. Of course we know of places where discipline was maintained out of necessity - Jimmy Thach etc.

It simply didn’t happen that way most of the time in WWII. There exceptions, but by and large once the fight began it was every man for himself.

I’m thinking in the contexts of say a 2 night, or week long online war scenario. Each side has a given amount of resources, including pilots (available slots) If a player gets shot down, and in the dinghy, then the player exits, However that pilot resource (available slot) is lost unless rescued, thereby restoring it for use by any player. If that makes sense. @Sea Serpent maybe this is close to what you were saying.

Yeah...I'm not a fan...it just encourages certain behaviors that manifest to some degree even without a points system/stats. Stats just exacerbate the problem. In any case, I'm with you on the SAR dynamic etc...I'd fly that a lot. 🙂

H8k Emily - the dream!

I don’t give a rip about E-games points/stats. However I’d be all over this type of mission.

Read Bruce Gamble’s book on the Blacksheep. He sets the record straight. He also wrote Blacksheep One”

Yeah that sounds like what my Dad and I listened to every time Baa Baa Blacksheep was on…or the battery commercial.

My Mom used to go on about how much she couldn’t stand him…and also Robert Conrad. I think the battery commercial got her worked up.

Seemed like we could fly around almost with aplomb didn’t it? Oddly I was least comfortable/successful in the George as it was too close in performance to the Hellcat etc. I did much better flying the Zeke and sucking them down to my fight.

This behavior is a big reason why I used to clean up in the Zero back in 46, while remaining untouchable flying the Hellcat or Corsair.

It was philosophy from the get go. To the west a fighter was a gun platform, to the Japanese it was a sword. It was Japan having a foot in the 18th century still that that was among their many problems, and this is what caught up with them…along with those many other things. The Zero was designed as a Samurai sword, to be wielded by Samurai.

It’s an interesting match-up in any case that I historically ignore/brush aside due to my Guadalcanal/Solomons fixation. That’s not about to change mind you, but interesting to think on for a minute. 🙂 The Spit V has a great, visceral feel to it that makes a great possibility for future inclusion here…after the Solomons aircraft set of course. 😀

Just found it. ”…at speeds of 300 mph or more, both hands are necessary for slow roll” So the inferred progression of two hands, hard, harder, harder still would start around 300 mph. Then a map for 1 hand which would be much steeper. This is where a stick, 2 hand button map would work IMO. Or just “force” 2 hands around 300 mph if maneuvering and preclude gun use. In any case, while very early I find this whole idea very interesting. Link won’t post with my phone, just search U.S. Japanese Zero test report.

I don’t recall any. However wasn’t a report published on the test that the U.S did on a captured Zero? This might have some valuable indicators on speeds/stick forces/control surfaces deflection. I’ve either never read it myself, or it was long enough ago that I can’t recall reading it. What I’m getting at, is that if at X speed stick forces are almost unmanageable, then a linear progression can be inferred to some degree…maybe. ‘shrug’