My Impressions to this Point

[juz1]

Home truths...

1) in online Deathmatches your kills get taken...true of all dagdagdag games...
(if its a teammate then "go team!"...)
2) in arcade on il2 you'll get chewed up by regulars in a small selection of the available planes that turn well...get used to it...
3) In realistic/sim you'll need to use the spit or La or you'll get out turned when numbers are small or 1 on 1.
I try to use the 109 and get bfd! everytime I face a spit. Yet last night faced a k4 in a g2 and hey presto 7:1 to me.

now suck it up all of you and flame me till I fart!

[Gilly]

+1 Shadowcorp
+1 Winney
+1 dkwookie

I think winney sums it up nicely. I play in all 3 modes yet have come to choose arcade as my preference for exactly that 'crash bang' effect. As shadow also states cta, strike and teambattle are 'team' games and therefore I don't care who gets a kill and in whatever way either. Come play with me hauptman as there's not a hope of me 'stealing your kill' as i can't hit a cows arse with a banjo in a fighter but I'll fly and bomb the backside of any target in a
bomber. I know what I'm good at and just make sure I have team mates who can fly fighters. Do I care if I've spent 5 minutes shooting at someone from the rear turret only to have someone fly up behind and take him down, do I care if i spend time dropping bombs on bunkers to have someone fly over in a po2 and steal the 'kill'? No not at all, it's a game at the end of the day and an f'ing good one at that. Get to know some people, learn from them and their respective expertise and build a 'squadron' of friends you can rely on and play with, maybe then you won't get so upset when a 'friend' steals 'your kill'. The community and it's spirit is what really stands this game out from others so use it.

[f1rebrand]

+1 Shadowcorp
+1 Winny
+1 dkwookie
+1 Gilly

Well said, Gilly. Always a pleasure to fly with you in my mach 1.3 Hurricane.

I've every intention of trying out sim mode when I feel confident enough to keep my plane in the air but this Sim 'holier than thou' snobbery (from a minority of simmers) puts me right off.