LOL Kweassa, have you ever flown one of those birds in any flight sim?
Is this a trick question, or an insult? I've been here since AH1.05, and subscribed every single month since then.
I've seen what the 'groundwar' was like in those days.
Did you see what the groundwar was like in those days?
I have, and hitting a tank even with guns blazing is not that easy to do.
It's only difficult when you care about actually surviving an attempt. When you don't really care you die or not, every thing is easy.
Think about that.
If your gunnery is not that good, your going to burn up your full clip on the first pass, and not do any damage to the tank.
Exactly.
If your gunnery is not that good, you cannot hold a steady point of concentrated fire against such a small target as a tank - especially if it is moving or actively manuevering to not expose his weaker armour.
That's why the Il2 or the Hurri2D needs a certain amount of skill. Anyone can aim and land a few hits on a tank. The real trick is to keep the aim steady, and keep ramming in those bullets at that same teensey weensey spot to really blow up a tank - and this is something average guys find difficult to do.
However, the Stuka 37mm cannon is in a league of its own. You don't need a steady stream or fire, or precision to pick a spot on a tank and hit it. All you need to do is connect just one round - and the tank will be heavily damaged at least.
Are you really trying to say a certain clandestine n00b, who just flies straight toward a tank he sees, and pulls the trigger down 2 seconds before crashing to the ground, can't even connect one single round on that tank before he dies?
Think about why people hate kamikaze suckers running in a suicidal bomb run against a CV.
Those dorks don't care if they die or not. All they want to do is sink the CV, and they don't evade, they don't maneuver, they don't pull out from a dive. All they do is just maneuver straight into a CV and release the bombs a few seconds before they crash into it.
Divebombing a heavily defended CV with precision quality is difficult. Going suicidal to land a bomb on a CV is not. It's basically the same thing with the Stuka. The only difference is, the G-Stuka is like a suicidal jabo plane heading to a CV with a bomb that can take out the flattop with a single hit.
It really doesn't matter if you have the balls to attack the tank, because the guns are not that accurate to begin with.
You keep confusing 'accuracy', as if its a given thing, a pre-requirement.
Accuracy is only a requirement when you intend to survive a strafing pass without crashing into a target. When you don't bother about pulling up, your rounds will always hit where you intended - moments before you plane hits it by crashing into it.
I just don't feel that it would be any worse then the IL2 or the Hurri gun platforms. If you perked the Ju-87 then you would have to perk the IL2 and the Hurri.
The Hurri2D or the Il2 doesn't have the 37mm AP round. Is this really so hard to understand?
No disrespect to you Kweassa but I just don't agree with your prophecy of doom and gloom.
Prophecy?
When guns are powerful enough to cut through tank armour like knife through a butter, tanks go extinct. It's all happened before. It may seem like a 'prophecy' to those who haven't seen it, but to those who've actually experienced it before, it's merely common sense.
In the right hands yes it will be a killer, but the average player will not do that great in one.
The gun is powerful enough, so that it doesn't need a 'right hand' to keep a steady target to kill a tank. That's why it needs a perk in the first place.
Imagine a jabo plane that has weird bomb that kills the entire town with just one hit. Any bozo can up a jabo, strap on the weird bomb, and obliterate a whole town with just one lame kamikaze attack.
Then imagine the Stuka 37mm shell as a 'weird bullet', and you'll get the picture.
