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Originally Posted by majorfailure
In general yes. There were aces that were good at setting up their encounters, never attacking without a clear plan in mind, always attacking only in favourable position. Knowing their/the enemys planes strenghts and weaknesses.
And there were others, that got into almost any fight they could pick, most of the times surprising the enemy, were good dogfighters and good marksmen - and thus sucessful. But they lacked tactical discipline. From one of those I would expect to sometimes want too much in a fight and then maybe even misjudge the distance to the ground.
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The WW1 equivalents would be Manfred von Richtofen and Werner Voss.
It would be interesting if the IL2 AI could model these different types of aces - the "tacticians" and the "dogfighters." The former were generally excellent leaders who trained other pilots to be aces. The latter were generally loners who eventually made one mistake too many.