HeadMMoid wrote:
BlackSheep wrote: I'm a fighter pilot in World War I, I sight the enemy as he made. We are in even position on each other. I know to have much more fuel. What I do? I rush in since HeadMMoid says that fuel has no tactical value or I try to use my fuel to gain a better tactical position? What should you do? Attack immediately! You obviously have the gift of omniscience and should have no difficulty knowing where he is going. Your proposed encounter is a work of meaningless fiction. Except in a very few special cases, it is not possible for a pilot to know the fuel state of an enemy aircraft. I grant that in World War II a Spitfire pilot who has been hovering over London for twenty minutes may safely guess that he has more fuel than the Me.109 pilot in the distance. A SPAD XIII pilot patrolling over the front who meets an Albatross has no such assurance. Fortunately, however, as the SPAD pilot you do know that if you are still within the planned parameters of your patrol you have sufficient fuel to engage in combat and return home -- and you would expect that your opponent has planned correctly and is smart enough to be in a similar situation.
You are amusing!
You sent me  !
From your statement I must think that to a S.E.5A pilot that has just arrived to his patrol position and sights an Albatros is forbidden to be aware that his plane has an endurance advantage of at least half an hour over its opponent, a opponent that, at his best, has just arrived to his patrolling position an airfield that mile more mile less is as far away from the patrol line as the one of our S.E.5A pilot. And waht's about if the pilot was a French on a SPAD VII/XIII.
As I told above, you sent me !
And now let's go on to the heart of your other message in which you say:
HeadMMoid wrote:
My point is simple, and I restate it here to make it clear:
Fuel is an inadequate and non-historical method for determining the length of tactical engagements by World War I aircraft.
At last you present it as you should have been from the start, as a your own opinion. And, from it, let's go to the lesson that you should have already learned from the previous discussions on the matter. May be you are the best informed on WW1 aerial combat in the group of Fort Wayne's players, but this doesn't mean that you must be considered a reference point here.
Further on, a lot of players have shown to like the system as it is, and with a ratio several to one if compared with the one that agree with you, and here the word agree is generous in your favour. Here in Italy we have the espression "In poor words", well, in poor words they voted for the system as it is and they, like me, showed to be bored by your way of acting. Face this fact and learn that, if you want to have contacts with the world, you must stopping to want that the people of the world says what you want and in your Texan's dialect.
You want a evidence on this? Go to Firefox add-ons page concerning "Dictionaries & Language Packs", you will find that for English you have 5 different dictionaries: Australian, British, Canadian, South African and US.
Do you dare to continue to tell me that I should use you as a reference on English?
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