What is energy fighting / how do I do it?

[AC137]

I'm asking because i've never tried, i've never understod and will never understand it. And don't come here just to comment "muh, don't ask and learn on your own". If you don't know, i'm asking as a clueless 109 pilot (use the G-2 as an example).

[yo no (bkn)]

baiscally, dont dogfight, or turnfight or whatever...

[yo no (bkn)]

What you are trying to do is draining down the speed of your opponent by using maneuvers to drain his energy without losing energy yourself and than... well shoot him down :)

[AC137]

Originally posted by bkn.:

What you are trying to do is draining down the speed of your opponent by using maneuvers to drain his energy without losing energy yourself and than... well shoot him down :)

Well then, what manouvers do I use? And how do i fight against those Spacefires?

[Shimozukachi]

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Originally posted by bkn.:

What you are trying to do is draining down the speed of your opponent by using maneuvers to drain his energy without losing energy yourself and than... well shoot him down :)

Well then, what manouvers do I use? And how do i fight against those Spacefires?

fly high and dive on spits. the more times they turn the slower they get.

[AC137]

Originally posted by Shimozukachi:

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Well then, what manouvers do I use? And how do i fight against those Spacefires?

fly high and dive on spits. the more times they turn the slower they get.

DUH, i'm talking about encounters where they either dive on me or we're at the same altitude and i'm asking how to win in such encounters

[-NODER-_Novastorm_]

Its using tactics and air manuvers that aloud you to conserve engine power in a way that well performed you always have good acceleration rates on your plane and maintaining good speeds.

[yo no (bkn)]

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Originally posted by bkn.:

What you are trying to do is draining down the speed of your opponent by using maneuvers to drain his energy without losing energy yourself and than... well shoot him down :)

Well then, what manouvers do I use? And how do i fight against those Spacefires?

Energy fighting is a huge topic and I am not sure if somebody is able to explain this in a way that is understandable in a compact answer that fits in in here to explain it in a few words (and i am not somebody that is qualified to answer that question either).

Basically, to energy fight you have to consider several things...

1. What is my plane capable of (climbing, turning, potential energy into speed and so on...)?
2. What is the enemys plane capable of?
3. What is my altitude?
4. What is the enemys altitude?
5. My speed?
6. His speed?
7. And probably 1 million things more...

A maneuveur for example...

You are in a plane that is good in climbing and transfering potential energy (altitude) into a lot of speed

Your enemy is in a plane that is good in turning, but not so good at climbing and making use of their altitude (altitude to speed).

What you can do now is to fly in a way to force him into climbing to follow you... You are better at climbing and also better at gaining more speed. So after he lost a lot of speed folowing you can go into a dive for example and transfer you potential energy into speed. His plance will struggle to keep up and afterwards, when he is low on speed you could fly a manoveur like a looping (where you make use of your gained speed now), to get behind him, while he is probably in a state where he can´t do anything about you now.

It´s not about certain maneuvers you do, its basically abusing physics and the strenghts and weaknesses of planes to mess with your opponent.

[yo no (bkn)]

But the best thing is to go into arcade mode and ram your opponents off the sky.

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Fiire2k17:

Originally posted by Shimozukachi:

fly high and dive on spits. the more times they turn the slower they get.

DUH, i'm talking about encounters where they either dive on me or we're at the same altitude and i'm asking how to win in such encounters

Don't get in those encounters.

Good tactics doesn't mean a get-out-of-any-stupid-position-you-get-in-to card. Sometimes the only way out was to not get in in the first place. If you're disadvantaged in maneuvering and in energy, you're set up to lose.

Against some highly maneuverable planes, diving to get a speed advantage and then just outrunning them in level flight until they give up the pursuit or lose you works. That's energy fighting of a degenerate sort. Don't know how it works in whatever you're flying against 'spacefires'.