The minimum fuel quantity for air realistic battles for the Mustang Mk IA (Great Britain) is 27 min which in my opinion is way too much and makes combat and maneuverability very difficult. Am I missing something or does this need to be changed?
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Typically its 30% of max. So if the Mustang has a large internal fuel capacity, then its correct. But if the min is greater than 30% then its wrong and needs a bug report
But there is a big request for them to lower it from 30% down to more like 15%. Most heavy fighters and bombers are also quite badly affected by this
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Sorry for the confusion, I meant that the max capacity (1 hour and 31 minutes) seem a little too much for a fighter.
Ah, yeah, no idea
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The mustang was primarily designed as a long range fighter though, it was built around having a long range, however i can check with some of my sources tommorow its currently 10pm where i am and a have work tomorrow morning
Its also worth mentioning the mustang had a combat range of around 1700 miles, which is even more than the spitfires ferry range (absolute max) at 1100 miles, so it seems reasonable
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i would have liked if it was at least 22 minutes (the minimum fuel load) for a somewhat better maneuverability but oh well…
I mean, I do agree its a little bit high when you can take the absolutely nutty Yak-3 out with 18 minutes of fuel (dont flame me, I know theyre completely different), when youre forced to bring half an hour for the Mustangs, in 15 minute games. Oddly enough while being a disatvantage in realistic, its an advantage in sim imo, because in sim I’ll usually take around 30 minutes anyway so I can leave it and know I’ve got the same performance as normal, wheras a Yak for example has an extra 12 ish minutes of fuel to account for.
That said though the Mustang ia is incredibly nutty, its the best Mustang for its BR in game, and its better than the “identical” P-51 Cannonstang in the American tree. It can already turn inside of a 109, and its already faster than the spitfires at the BR, not to mention something worse than those.
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This Mustang, was not the Top Mustang that is a legend…
Above 4 km it had problems, it is basically a fighter-bomber, for low and medium altitudes, hit and run, no maneuver battles … Just Boom and Run…
And the fuel…
Gaijin uses the minimum fuel supply as a balance, so over 20 minutes of fuel here, is a weight balance that this Mustang has placed where Gaijin wants it to be, so it’s not too powerful…
While is is possible to do this, you should turnfight with the Mustang ia unless you’re going up against Zeros or Spitfires
No, its just a 30% of the maximum across the board. Every single aircraft has a maximum of 30%. Its not because the aircraft would be too overpowered if it was less. Take a lancaster for example. It carries over an hour of fuel as its minimum, forgot the exact amount, if you only put 20 minutes in are you telling me that it would be overpowered?
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I don’t know why there is a minimum, doesn’t really make sense when some planes are forced to have 1h+ of fuel in games that end in 10m.
Better yet, make it based on minutes instead of percentage, with say 15 minute minimum.
How does that work for an aircraft with less than 15 minutes of fuel? Like the Hunter F6? That only has 13 minutes of fuel at max
We could make it 5 minute minimum, or just have things like Hunter and Me 163 be a special case
Even then tbf I’ve had luck against unskilled Zeros or Spitfires, but I do pretty much exclusively fly it out in GRB as CAP so it’s not always the most skilled pilots
Oh yeah definitely you can, but more often than not you have to pull some other maneuvers. But it’s totally a turnfighter and is better at turnfighting than the American counterpart
Against a spitfire, you don’t have any advantages, against Zeros, as undertiered as they are, you still have a slight straight line speed advantage.
If anything, many of them overtiered.
You can outdive them, and spitfires often think they don’t need to try in a dogfight. use that to your advantage, and if need be just run away.
They’re overtiered, and secondly, it’s a massive straight line advantage