User blog comment:LB&SCR/GWM Episode 5: Rene Fonck vs. Manfred von Richtofen/@comment-27043000-20190205040901

Pygmy Hippo's "Three Richtofen Fights in Less Than a Month?" Edges

Fighter:The SPAD S.XIII almost completely dominates the Fokker Dr. I Triplane with a better engine that gives it a faster speed and greater service ceiling with far more damaging guns. The Fokker does climb faster and a triplane is better than the SPAD biplane but the latter still holds most of the advantages. Edge:Fonck

X-Factors:Experience vs. Perception is actually quite tricky. Manfred Von Richtofen is more used to this scenario but Rene Fonck is able to sense danger before it's visible to most pilots. In the end, being more capable of dealing with threats is better than knowing that they're coming sooner. Edge;Richtofen

Tactics:Rene Fonck's tactics have the obvious disadvantage that many a stealth fighter has faced in the typical DF head-on fight, they take time and an unknowing opponent to work. In fact, Manfred Von Richtofen'ssixth point has a direct counter for this and functions much better in a head-on fight as it was designed for that. Edge:Richtofen

Final Verdict:Is someone's name being Richtofen just the key to victory now?! Anyways despite Rene Fonck having a better fighter, he's just not as good a pilot as Manfred Von Richtofen, at least in a head-on fight. The latter's far more used to that style of dogfighting and his tactics provide several points on it. Even worse is Richtofen's tactics involve a point on how to counter Fonck's tactics meaning that they're not only nearly impossible to use in this scenario, they're also countered by the Dicta Boelcke.

Winner:Manfred Von Richtofen