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Originally Posted by David198502
im mean i know the importance of altitude adavantage, but on the small dogfight maps, i couldnt gain it before i was already chased.
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Hallo David,
You asked a rather simple question and I am afraid your thread got kidnaped
I think the best book to have and read is:
Fighter combat: tactics and maneuvering by Robert L. Shaw
as it explains the differences between maneuveurability and speed and tactics against different types of oponents.
Despite that, there are some serious "deficiencies" in the CoD aiplane models (judging by the tenacity people argue about their 87oct vs 100oct fuel (I do not belong to this club)) and "deifiencies" in the game graphics engine (low quality ground, small size representation of enemy planes, head movement restriction) which will considerably hinder your capability of applying what you will learn in this book in practice in this game.
Usualy the best solution to solve the problem is flying in pairs (with a wingman) and everybody covers each others back. This is the only technick that always work, even against massively superior opponents (e.g. the "Thatch-wave" technik American pilots used in the Pacific as the only way to defend their Wildcats against the vastly superior Zeros) but it requires in most cases that you enter a squadron and train a lot in navigation, formation flying, deflection shooting and voice communications in order to perfection the art of wingman.
Sorry I could not give a quick and simple solution.
~S~