LF mk9 has more speed bleed but i do believe it can pull harder due to being a spitfire so its trade depends on your play style which is better
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That was well written.
As for the G-10, I’m still not entirely sure whether I’ll be happy with it or not. When you go from a K4 back to a G-10, the difference in performance is immediately noticeable.
However, you also notice small differences that I personally appreciate. For example, in dives, the G-10 doesn’t drop quite as quickly, and speed is easy to manage. The extra power seems to be available continuously, and the engine overheats the slowest of all the Bf 109s. Last but not least, there’s the lighter weight, which makes it feel more agile, even though it’s still one of the heaviest 109s.
But as I said, I don’t yet know whether the advantages or disadvantages will outweigh each other in the long run. Maybe I’m just not good enough.
But ultimately, this doesn’t really help us with the Yak. I don’t even think that a higher BR would really be the right solution. What would be more crucial is a revision of the flight model, and we all know that will never happen.
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This is imho leading to the right direction - a lot of planes have a busted flight model whilst others are severely hampered by instructor limitations. If you dig deep enough you find a lot of examples that mainly mouse aim players (imho 99% of Air RB pilots) of certain nations have to deal with that.
So whilst i agree that gaijin won’t nerf USSR flight models it would be great if they would consider a de-nerf of their opponents.
Example:
My Swiss C-3604 (flown with a Hotas, SFC and disabled instructor) kills any Yak in the BR range and can dogfight and win vs Spitfires (and the even better turning Hurricanes) whilst i have severe issues with the JP Bf 109 -7 or the also broken MB 157. 😂
There is a reason why 1 vs 1 duel specialists use FR controls in their tournaments.
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from my experience you can just use MEC 40% radiators (all of them) in later 109s (everyting higher than the G-2) and use WEP continuously the only problem is youll burn through your fuel very fast when using WEP
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I’m not entirely convinced. I remember G6 doing OK with 40% rads on colder maps and overheating (although much slower) at moderate and hot maps even with 60-80% rads. Will have to test it again.
On test map (I think it’s moderate?) it goes into yellow with 100% rads at 330IAS, but at higher speed it’s OK.
But yellow means a few minutes later you’ll be in the orange.
40% will get you overheating pretty badly.
Dunno if there’s opportunities in ARB for such, but I’ve found running my engine at ~85% throttle (or rather: whatever throttle gives me 1.15 ATA on my instruments) in all my 109s (F, G, K) when not in immediate danger has given me some pretty significant margins before the engine kills itself from over-heating in actual emergencies. I’ll grant that this is viable and possible in ASB where you get to pick your engagements and have time to let your engine relax but might be useless for ARB. It even lets me WEP for combat with the F-4 (alongside ~65% or 75% rads which I toggle on when I start turning).
I mostly started doing it after seeing the engine management cheat sheets for Il2:GB for continuous vs combat power (30 minute max) out of curiousity if I can avoid my engine temps turning yellow after 20 minutes of flying (it indeed stops my engine temps turning yellow after ~20 minutes of flying).
Basically, 100% throttle for take off and climb to 3 km altitude, throttle down to 85% (or even 60%) when flying to objective or patrolling above objective once at my target altitude. 100% if I see unknown plane or confirmed hostile. WEP if emergency (say: a dogfight).
For non 109s, the equivalent is running 85 or 92% prop pitch (or specific RPM if I know them like 2700 for P-51C) and slamming to 100% in a pinch.
and lf9 is also undertiered
I mean, I just adjust prop pitch constantly when not in combat, although this doesn’t work for some planes. F.e. in Do-335 B2 you may be down 25% of power and still be overheating.
But this is non-viable for actual combat and I guess one doesn’t play sim to cheese it :D
i remember even the G-6 doing fine with it
(ill test it ig)