I must have killed a numbers guy a dozen times yesterday when he kept upping Panzers. He would upp, just sit there alone, try and launch the odd shell my way, and I'd kill him with a burst from my IL-2. While I admire his stubbornness he'll probably go to his grave thinking IL-2s should be perked. Thats the mind set of the tankers in this game. They think they should be allowed to upp, motor where they want, and run up kills with no interference. Thats pretty much what they had before the IL-2. If you saw a Lone 110 pulling a suicide to take out a bases ords I guarantee you 9 out of 10 times you'd see the same guy motoring in, seconds later, in his pimped out Tiger.
But now the game is much more multi-dimensional. I was in two big time combined arms battles yesterday in LWB. We lost the first one and won the 2nd. Each time the enemy used flak and fighter support to support their armor and it was very effective. Many times our Storm birds couldn't even get close to their armor. The first battle they got their flaks into town with very good gunners in them and a couple times I lost IL-2s from the flaks trying to kill M-3s. The Storm birds are NOT dominant. They are effective but not dominant. 20mm, 37mm flak chews them up. Tanks are actually very effective against them. I even had M-3s force me to land with good 0.50 gunning. The fact of the matter is the Storm birds do take a thumping. They get shot down all the time.
But the days of Low riding into a town or base with your frilled out Sherman are also over. What do you think the odds were of a single tank surviving on the eastern front when operating alone anyways?
