So, I was looking through some new decks I got to do some Pacific theater fights, and I came across a weird thing in the E maneuver deck.
The E deck has fours sideslips -- 2 left and 2 right, but one in each direction is a Steep (diamond) and the other is not. Other than the diamond, they are the exact same card.
I can't figure this out in my head, because with programming two cards, you can always pick the non-steep sideslip if the next or previous card is a steep maneuver... and you can always do two sideslips in a row because one is not steep. So how does the second steep sideslip impact the maneuverability of this plane at all?
It seems to me the steep sideslips would have almost zero impact on any programmed maneuver because you can always use the non-steep preferentially. The only rare circumstance it prevents is Steep -> Side Slip -> Side Slip -> Steep. As long as either the first or the last card of that 4-card combo is not steep, you can perform 2 legally. Would that really come up that often?
Slightly unrelated, but it occurred the E deck also appears to be a reasonably good proxy deck for most fighters because you can remove one set of the side-slips (either steep or non-steep) and you have something "close enough" to all the other fast fighters (if you don't have a particular deck).
Bookmarks