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Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss
I disagree. The battle of hawkinge as you put it, is because most reds, not all, spawn at the front line bases. That makes easy pickings for a cannon equipped 109 hovering above. The reason this accumulates and turns into the hawkinge show is because more reds spawn in at hawkinge to try to get the low flying 109 that was already there because of the decision of the red pilot to spawn at hawkinge in the 1st place. People's bad decisions shouldn't be blamed on mission design. Every single red pilot could take off and get to 20K without ever a thought of a 109 in the vicinity during the entire climb if they really wanted to. There's more than enough airfields spread out all over England to do just that.
The same can be applied for the 109 fields. I generally take off quite a bit inland so by the time I reach the coast of France I'm already at 4-5km at altitude. Actually most of the 109's I fly with on coms generally take off inland as well.
I do agree that the FMs are not the greatest, but at altitude, real altitude, the spit performs much better than it does on the deck, where as the 109 starts performing a lot worse. The higher the engagement the more even (not saying it's even) the better for a spitfire.
Altitude also takes flak/AAA completely out of the picture. So my suggestion is to simply not spawn anywhere near the front lines. When everyone on red figures this out, there won't be anyone at hawkinge for the blues to shoot at.
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+1 I have really been enjoying the high level flying with the new maps , The 71st squad an others we fly with go high !! ( even at 20,000 seems low ,them bad guys ) It is great fun to see a large bomber formation come into view. (then when you can make them out we start counting 109s above them ) Then ts erupts with the number 4 5 6 I SEE 6 (Was doggles an his crew i believe ) Then the jockying for position ( we should have been 22,000) Any way , then it starts (bombers already forgotten about ) Then the call out HE IS ROLLING DOWN ON ME !!!! AND I'M ON HIM HE MISSED ME . And the dance has begun ( i'm thinking i wonder if AN squad is on) While a 109 is trying to hammer head me !! Again, but last pass i got hits on him. ( wow those 88mm cannon rounds almost got me ) It's my story! After what seemed to be for ever. The Dance is almost over, sixes being cleared , Guys saying i;m all red .And many a good pilots being lost from both sides. We land respawn (those that died giggle giggle ) Then it's time to do it again , to repeat the whole thing again (this time at 24,000) Them bad guys!! As we climb up laughing and joking about the carnage ,We just incountered!!! Plain fun
It just puts a big smile on your face when you get your special kill!!!! ( normally the guy that pked you) YEAH!! Any who , THANKS ATAG!! BIG SALUTE!! Dawg PS I like lots of flak hell you can even add some to my plane!! (those bad guys lol)