I-153: cheap or not?

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

Of course you can bnz a biplane and an I-16 too... that's why they had to be replaced with faster planes.

The issue is that in DOGFIGHT mode, they end up with an unfair advantage, because

) it takes longer for bnz kills to add up than kills for whoever happens to be behind the i-153 behind its target.
Well when your not chasing a target, of course it will take longer. But it will pay off more, when you do get the kill.

) the polikarpov's don't blow up very often, they get winged and then they crash for no credit.
Just shoot at the engine. They burst into little balls of flame when I shoot them there.

I just finished a match against an I-16 that crashed 6 times, then got credit for a kill for crashing into me, and won the match. It didn't hit me with one gunshot, and I died only the one time it crashed into me. It's hard to get credit for killing those things.