Originally posted by TheDudeDVant That is an absolute fabrication at worst or a misjudgement at best.. We stayed high with a flight of yaks at around 17kish until we saw no more.. Perhaps just a few yaks already engaged.. Flying south we encountered a group of il2s around 12-14k.. 3 of us engaged while the il2s pulled evasives from us while watching our attack from external views.. We got a couple and on Fester's zoom out from an attack got 1 ping that got his vert stab I believe.. I made one more boom and zoom on a group of 2-3 il2s.. missing my attack do to poor aim and the il2's external view.. on my zoom up at around 300-350mph I see a il2 600d on my 6 closing very fast.. Obviously my turn was poor because i died, but who'd have thought I'd get bad by a il2. lol There was no ganging that killed us.. Just a set of unfortunate events.. and perhaps even a touch of swayed rules.. External views should be disabled on iL2s (and all bombers for that matter).. Its bad enough having to dodge 3-4 of them at a time all firing headon at you, but to also have the upper hand taken away (il2's 6 Oclock) where the 109 can excel is a little too much in a realistic scene...Do 110s (German's only bomber) have external views? no, I didn't think so..
Originally posted by SD67 I was one of those il2's I can say for sure I had my views internal, I'm pretty sure the rest of GIAP had theirs on internal as well. We're not the "gameing" type. Bear in mind that the il2 is pretty much one of our squads' bread and butter planes, we know how to use it's strengths well. Don't go complaining about the fact you guys followed us down to the deck where you could be ganged, that's not our problem. We were at 10k when we encountered you, and we let you come in and then dove to get our E up to be comparable, we then used that advantage once we had you down there. The il2's cannon are deadly against armour, even more so against aircraft.
Originally posted by shreck See Rule #5
Originally posted by shreck See Rule #4
Originally posted by SLED Shreck, Is there something about my above post you didn't understand?
Originally posted by Citabria its bad enough flying a 1943 109g6 vs 1944 la5fn and yak9u. both of which can run away at will. then having an artificial altitude cap that cant be crossed at all even when fighting negating the only advantage the 50mph slower g6 has... climb rate and alt performance.but when you have what are supposed to be heavy and slugish il2 ground attack aircraft doing the up down +/- g warp evasion and flying their screwed up FM with lazer guns in a dogfight killing 109s with 1 ping all immersion is lost. I wouldnt doubt it if the il2s even had external views enabled. that would be icing on the cake if that was so. they sure had no trouble seeing planes in their blindspots.this event is so screwed up its not even worth flying. hope the next one is less lopsided.
Originally posted by Citabria this event is so screwed up its not even worth flying.
and since it is clear no one is interested in a realistic 1943 scenario........
