Not necessarily. Speed in itself is a part of your strategy if you are playing energy, but you use it not to get away from the enemy and reset the fight. You are exchanging it for potential energy and vice versa using your energy retention and/or generation to bleed your opponet of their energy and downing them in the end.
Greatest example of an energy fighter would be Bf 109 G-6. You don’t have good top speed and you compress very hard so you can’t really play BnZ, you also have very heavy airframe with mediocre turn performance so you can’t play “hold S to win”. You do have powerful engine and very good retention and climb rate to use your energy and trap people.
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Well cant argue with that
Well then its a basis of any strategy then. Same calculatios can be said about turn-fighting a proper opponent, and run-and-gunning a decent maneuverable plane?
I want to say it sounds like an even more basic knowledge than those two tactics base themselves upon to
Not really imo. If you are turnfighting your only real calculation is how much you can pull or rate. And with BnZ you are basically only looking at top speed and acceleration to create a separation and reset the engagement for another pass.
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Feel free to 1v1 any decent player in a F8F in these aircraft (You will lose)
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Its not if you have similar or close characteristics tho. Of course if its Zero aganst Mustang its just aim to shoot down. But what if its Mustang against the King Cobra? Or the Bf109 against Yak-9?
Or in other spots - what if its a dogfight where you have disadvantage? then its only energy managing that can help you to, idk, hang the enemy and dive onto it for example.
how much better does it get when you finish the modifications?
Congratulations, you discovered energy fighting.
So it sure is just a part of dogfighting
It is, same as BnZ and Turnfighting. But it is a different option, like a corner of a triangle.
eeeeeeeh, i dont get it.
Its either part of dogfighting or it is a different tactic. But it cant be a different tactic if applied only when you forced to get to dogfight…
Dogfighting is dogfighting. You either do it or not. But inside of dogfighting there are usually 3 strategies that are different enough. You play turn, you play speed or you play energy. BnZ is a part of dogfighting, not an entirely different tactc.
This is not agreed upon nomenclature.
I think we speak different terms. When i say dogfight, i mean CQC with turning. Then when i say boom-zoom i mean run-and-gun with attacks on high speed.
As i can understand now you mean different thing by Dogfight
Do enlighten me about this “nomenclature”
Dogfighting is a Rouch Umbrella term for a bunch of diffrent tactics
each tactic has it’s Advantages and Disadvantages, you as the Pilot have to pick the right Tactic for fighting your specific opponent(s) with your specific Airframe at your position in space during the match
it’s a Bit like chess
it’s made up and not universally agreed upon so in the grand scheme it doesn’t matter
As i expected. Well, main discussion is about a .50 cal armed Bearcat anyways
There is nothing to elaborate on. If you know what the word means you know what I’m saying. The community does not have an agreed upon consensus on what a “dogfight” is versus what “energy fighting” is or what “BnZ” is, all relative to each other.
I take the meaning from good old Wikipedia
So anything that isn’t slinging radar missiles from dozens of kilometers or shooting down passive targets like bombers is a dogfight
Nothing to do with what I just said.