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Offline bloom25

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What is the allure of the IL-2?
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2001, 11:01:00 AM »
I was attacking an ostie and m16 last night in an Il2.  One one pass the ostie hit me with 1 37mm and I heard at least 10 50 cal hits.  I got the m16 and then looked at my damage:  right Mg and right cannon  

I guess it's pretty tough.  

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Offline Zippatuh

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« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2001, 11:39:00 AM »
I was at A15 last night with the onslaught of IL2’s and Tony’s.  I have only flown the IL2 once but have shot at it many times  .  What do I have to say about it?

<Best Night of the Living Dead Voice>  “Sennndd morrrree ILlllll 2-ooossss”

Nice big slow target  

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Offline Vosper

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« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2001, 02:43:00 PM »
Seconded Zippatuh - bagged two, got multiple assists, and only using the M16  

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Offline 715

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« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2001, 06:24:00 PM »
The real IL-2 had thick armor and could withstand many hits- some Me109 pilots said IL-2s could take their entire ammo load at short range and fly away.  Some people here say their AH IL-2s show similar surviability traits- my experience is diametrically opposite- my AH IL-2s have fallen apart if I sneeze too hard (well, OK, they fall apart on the first hit from any plane, mgs included).  I tried to defend a field using IL-2s and died something like 20 times, each instantly.  In my experience the AH IL-2 is useless.
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2001, 07:04:00 PM »
Used it for a couple of sorties....

Attacks on all PNZRs have thus far been unsuccessfull even with side,top and rear attacks and I usually fell to the 30 cal pintel MG.

The rear gunner is absolutely worthless.

As much as I enjoy AH, I cant help but feel its becoming more and more a childish dweebish AW'ish game and less and less any sort of halfway decent representation of ww2 air/land/sea combat.

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« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2001, 01:34:00 AM »
I used the Il-2 for base defence and killed in a row 4 gv. Was pinged by a 190 and made it home. True the rear gunner isn't something that you can depend on, but then the Il-2 is empty there is a chance to survive in a turn fight.
A good  bird with good and bad sides. I like it.

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« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2001, 05:01:00 AM »
Wisk - the 37mm version wasn't very popular - it was very detrimental to the handling of the aircraft and had too much recoil. AFAIK, the 23mm version is more representative.
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« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2001, 07:32:00 AM »
Its biggest downfall is it is not a NIki.

A Niki outclimbs a LA7, has more punch than a 190A8 with .30mm, and can exstend before you can say P51. So I heard anyways....

Othwise, the IL2 is slow and stable when so...with a big punch in the face cannon load, and decent protection fwd to boot.

Get out of it what you can... if it did well here, people would squeak it into 70 point perk oblivion, so maybe its modelled accordingly..dunno.

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« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2001, 11:27:00 AM »
Yeagar - I used it for the first time today. I took out one panzer with rockts, 2 with the 23mm and an m16 with the machine guns. I also bombed an ostwind. I attacked the two panzers from the rear, and it only took maybe a 2 second on-target burst to kill them.

Perhaps it was your (or their) connection?
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Offline Trell

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« Reply #24 on: May 28, 2001, 02:32:00 AM »
I have only flown it a coupe times online but it seems very durable.  i was ditched next to a knight airfield and was strafed a number of times and still lived.
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Offline Gie

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« Reply #25 on: May 28, 2001, 02:51:00 AM »
Well, IL-2 armor is modeled .... strange.
I survived 3 (three) 37mm Ostwind hits without any damage,

but m3, m16 or other .5 equipped GV's ALWAYS kill my engine ....

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« Reply #26 on: May 28, 2001, 04:49:00 AM »
"I survived a 37mm ost hit.
The second one tor me up though.
eskimo"

Ostwind is 40mm right??


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« Reply #27 on: May 28, 2001, 04:52:00 AM »
No, ostwind is a 37mm shell.
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Offline Asmodan PL

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« Reply #28 on: May 28, 2001, 07:33:00 AM »
in 1945 there whare special version`s of il2
2x 37mm and 2x 13mm MG or 4x 23mm
after that they made il-10 with the same armament.

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« Reply #29 on: May 28, 2001, 01:01:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by Yeager:
Used it for a couple of sorties....

The rear gunner is absolutely worthless.

Yeager

I attacked a well caped enmy field, passed throught the courtain of ballets of some spits and la7, fired rockets and got a kill of an Il2 on rwy, passed throught the courtain of bullets of acks running the field along its runway, undamaged.
A Niki got on my low six and scored several 20mm pings on me, no damage, the Niki made a bad move and put himself into de field of my tail gunner, a long burst and the Niki blown up.  
Run out of fuel and ditched at sea, UNDAMAGED.
The rear gunner worth something as well as the armour.

Next sortie I took a Ki61. Spotted an enmy Il2 low, dived on him and fired a close burst from his hi 12 on the cockpit, boom, the Il2 destroyed with very few rounds.
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