Kweassa,
Just for the heck of it I have been trying out the Stuka against tanks a few times lately. Last night I upped a Stuka with the bunker buster 1800 Kg bomb to fight panzers attacking 135. It was a relatively safe air attack because the Panzers were spawning from 144 (Ozkansas) which is a ways away and they had no air cover.
CapnMike was there in a Panzer on the ground trying to intercept the Nit panzers otw our town.
I upped and climbed to 1000 agl which took about the same time as an IL-2. I spotted a panzer's shell fire on our town. He was buried so deep in the trees no icon was visible. I circled a couple of times to let CapnMike know where he was, then began an attack run. As I closed under D1000 I was surprised to see two panzer icons, side by side. I dropped my bomb into the trees, result, both panzers died. Yipee Skippy, never killed two panzers with one bomb before!
Went back to base and rearmed. The panzers respawned and were headed to town again, but this time I saw them in the open. One in front, the second maybe 6 vehicle lengths back, running full speed across desert type moonscape terrain. CapnMike was close in his panzer, but couldn't fire because of the rough terrain hiding them.
I dropped in from 1500 agl, taking a bead on the lead panzer and dropped just behind him. Much to my amazement, and everyone else's, both panzers blew up! Whoa Baby! 2 x bombs = 4 x dead Panzers! I would have loved to have heard the conversation in the tower back at 144 between the two US squad victims!
CapnMike couldn't stand by and watch this anymore. He landed and upped a Stuka too.
Another panzer upped and made it to the trees before CapnMike got there. He dropped a couple of times too low, his bomb failing to explode while I kept an eye on the panzer's movements. The panzer was very careful to stay in the trees, but to no avail. Capnmike dropped his blockbuster in the clear opening next to the tree line, another dead Panzer!
Besdes being great fun, it was enlightening. I don't think I could have done one bit better with the 37 mm gun pods than I did with the bunker buster.
The ONLY reason I was successful was the panzers had no air cover, and failed to bring an Osty with them. An Osty would have taken me out before my drop each time.
I had no problem climbing high enough to make my attacks. It seemed to take about as much time as in an IL-2 to take off and setup for an attack run.
I don't think the G model will be anymore imbalancing than the current D model is with the 1800 KG bomb.
I now have 10% of all the JU-87D kills on Panzers this tour. I hope to finish with a lot more.
PS Edit: I was on the other night when 616FUBAR upped a formation of Lancasters to defend one of our bases from a massive GV attack. In one pass he took out NINE GVs. Nine!
It was great he was able to stop a GV attack on our base. But it's lame as heck that one player can kill nine panzers, ostys, M-16s and Tigers at one time.
High altitude strategic bombers being used as low level tactical anti-GV bombers is the threat to the ground war you are concerned about. They are a way bigger threat to the ground war than a JU87-G is.
