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MIG Alley: F86 Sabre vs. MIG-15

As a child I spent a lot of hours playing flight sims. Mostly US Navy Fighters ’97 and European Air War, but also some others like F-22 Lightning 3 and Commanche 3. A few months back I picked up my joystick again - so to speak - and bought DCS on Steam. While those old games had a bit of an arcade element to them, DCS distinctly does not. After quite a few hours of practice I can now - when realism is turned all the way down - just about land my F-16 without ending up a massive fireball. But only if the runway is long enough. Damn, does that plane have awful wheel brakes... Anyway, I thought it might be fun to do some tabletop aerial combat. I already own both the World War 1 and 2 versions of Wings of War, but I thought having some jet fighters would be cool. The Korean War would be ideal, because the jets used during that conflict did not have complicated radars and guided missiles yet and aerial combat was still pretty much guns only. I settled on 1/144 scale, because at that ...