I-153: cheap or not?

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by InfiniteStates

I didn't say anything about speed, I said lift. The two things are not the same, although one is a function of the other. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you understand the physics of a wing, but your paragraph makes me think maybe not.

And I don't care about how it compares to other real world bi-planes. We're talking about the game, and specifically online battles.


Then you think wrong. As I've stated, dealing with them is a no-brainer. But all the counter-arguments in this thread seem to assume a one on one battle. That is no problem - I will eat them up and spit out the tail fin. My issue is with a big online dogfight, where the majority of people are in spits, 109s or whatever, and one or two guys will exploit the cheapness of the 153 (in this situation) to rack up kills.


Well, 153 pilots don't have the plane forced on them, so of course it's their fault they're flying one. And they fly one because they know they can get a lot of cheap kills, exactly because the majority of players will not implement counter-153 tactics and will instead just go about their usual turning battles.


I do ignore them for the most part and that is when they are a nuisance. The roll and turning advantage are exactly what makes them so cheap because of the nature of online battles.

I think the problem is you are coming at this from a real world view point, and I am coming at it purely from the view point of the game. Unless Erick Hartmann plays on a console with a controller, I don't care about him.

And please stop being so patronising.

I'm not trying to patronize you, just telling you that your complaining about a plane which in REAL LIFE had this advantage over all other planes of the time, and I think that since it's the ONLY advantage this plane has, it's fine they exploit it. If they're dumb, then they're going to chase you but learn pretty quickly that they can't. And also, they had weaker guns than the other planes so their damage isn't as great because of the increased armor on the later planes. I mean do you really think, that fighter pilots back in WW2 actually didn't use their planes advantages over their opponent? That's just what you have to do with the I-153 and going against it.

Now, Seraph is correct. If you are going at 230mph in some plane, and you try and turn with a plane which is just going 150mph. Then the plane going 150mph is going to have the turning advantage because of it's slower speed. This doesn't just have to do with the I-153, but the I-16 as well. Try it sometime, fly against a I-16 and fly something like a Spitfire both planes must be at 100% throttle. Then you'll see which plane out turns the other. Turning radius has NOTHING to do with lift. Speed does because you need a certain amount of speed going over the wings (ie the amount of air being brought a crossed) so your plane doesn't stall and drop out of the air into some spin. The reason the I-153 has a better chance of staying in the air is because of its amount of wings; and the little air needed to actually keep it in the air unlike mono-planes which only have two wings, and stall much more than any biplane would.