Author Topic: What is the allure of the IL-2? (Read 1572 times)

Fatty · « **Reply #30 on:** May 28, 2001, 01:41:00 PM »

Yeager, that rear gunner is just for show and idiots. Why shoot a single .50 at an attacker when you have 6 guns on the front side?

The defense is the low speed handling that allows you to get that nice armor and heavy front guns on to pretty much any attacker.

eskimo · « **Reply #31 on:** May 28, 2001, 02:16:00 PM »

Last night I got about 20 GV kills in about an hour. The situation was ideal: lots of GVs with no fighter cover.

eskimo

Yeager · « **Reply #32 on:** May 28, 2001, 02:27:00 PM »

Well Im not sure what the deal is: An IL2 makes a frontal low angle attack on my PNZR and I blow up immediately. I make a rear, low angle attack on a PNZR in a IL2, getting a nice concentrated mass of hits on him and I blow up from MG hits. Thats the way its been going for me alot lately.

Im in a B26 and a P51 makes a high angle -rear top- to -front bottom- pass on me. I get a good burst of fire on his fuselage and he nsapshots me and I blow up. Im in a P51 and I make a -rear top- to -front bottom- pass on a B26, I get a good burst on his fuselage and he gets a snapshot on me and I blow up. I appreciate that this can and should happen from time to time but since 1.07 thats all thats been happening to me.

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Gunthr · « **Reply #33 on:** May 28, 2001, 02:27:00 PM »

I'm glad we got it. Seems to hold up to ground fire better than anything else we've got. That is my impression after 5 jabo sorties on airfields. I got lucky on one sortie and used all six 100k bombs and all the rockets to good effect on a mostly- intact airfield while suffering only gun and flap damage. I also killed 2 niki's there with the 23 mm. This round seems to hit pretty hard by the way. It might be my imagination, but it also seems like the rockets on the Sturmovic are more accurate than others.

This bird did not hold up well at all to (4) 20mm Hispanos from a close range 8 o'clock high attack. Blew it in half.

Still checking it out, but it seems like the Il-2 might change the dynamics of the gameplay just a bit. It's an interesting plane. It sure beats seeing Chogs everywhere you look.

Gunthr

-luny- · « **Reply #34 on:** June 05, 2001, 04:47:00 AM »

I remember that Finnish Air Force pilots had a way of dealing with Il-2's - they learned that it had a weak spot at the wing root, where relatively few hits were required to cause critical damage. I don't remember if it was by setting a fuel tank or fuel line on fire or by structural weakening...

Would be nice to have this modelled in AH

Luny

MRPLUTO · « **Reply #35 on:** June 05, 2001, 11:22:00 AM »

I read a Bf-109 pilot's statement that the way to shoot down an IL-2 was to attack from low 6 and shoot for the radiator/air scoop area under the fuselage between the wings. Any smoke or a "little blue flame" meant that IL-2 wasn't getting back home, he said.

/S/ MRPLUTO, Captain, VMF-323 "Death Rattlers"

P.S. If anyone has noticed that this is true in AH, please let us know!

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