The *Very* start of the war, perhaps; the F-86 was first deployed in February '49, a whole year before the Norks started getting uppity. (And the US prop-drivers scored a few kills on the MiGs, for that matter.)
The MiG-15 was designed for high-altitude work; it was rubbish at low and medium altitudes; the Sabre, OTOH, was designed exactly the opposite. Battles between the two usually involved the MiGs diving from on-high, making a firing pass, then hightailing it back to altitude; if the -15 got into a proper dogfight with the -86, the Sabre could turn more sharply. Scratch one MiG. (It didn't help that the US pilots had G-suits which worked, whereas the ComBloc types either didn't have working ones, or did not have them *at all*.)
I wonder how one represents GLOC in _WoW_.
It didn't help the migs either that the migs in the south were flown by unexperienced korean pilots. Over "mig valley" however they were piloted by russian veterans and the american Sabres did took a good beating there.
Rules gor blackouts and red outs are interesting even in WW2, particulary for the pilots of the Me 163 Comets if they ever add the plane. The G-belt (a very prmitive G.suit) was made for the Mustang pilots first BTW (or at least used in battle by them).
The F-86 did first reach Korea in december 1950 ( just a bit after a month after the Mig-15). And here is a quote from Wikipedia:
Early variants of the F-86 could not out-turn, but could out-dive the MiG-15, and the MiG-15 was superior to the early F-86 models in ceiling, acceleration, rate of climb, and zoom. With the introduction of the F-86F in 1953, the two aircraft were more closely matched, with many combat-experienced pilots claiming a marginal superiority for the F-86F. MiGs flown from bases in Manchuria by Red Chinese, North Korean, and Soviet VVS pilots were pitted against two squadrons of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing forward-based at K-14, Kimpo, Korea.
Many of the American pilots were experienced World War II veterans, while the North Koreans and the Chinese lacked combat experience, thus accounting for much of the F-86's success. However, whatever the actual results may have been, it is clear that the F-86 pilots did not experience definitive superiority over the World-War-II-experienced, Soviet-piloted MiG-15s in Korean airspace. According to former communist sources, Soviets initially piloted the majority of MiG-15s that fought in Korea. Later in the war, North Korean and Chinese pilots increased their activity. The North Koreans and their allies periodically contested air superiority in MiG Alley, an area near the mouth of the Yalu River (the boundary between Korea and China) over which the most intense air-to-air combat took place.
Anyways, a "Wings of war: Mig alley box would be awesome