Any of you consider the current paradigm of the aircraft tank relationship is by design to keep and attract subscriptions for the GV aspect of this game?
I've given up on hunting tanks with the IL2 or Ju87G2 as an entertaining part of the game. Toting bombs out to dive bomb tanks is a snore because of the time needed to get to an alt that the wirbels or the T34 skeet shooters can't pick you off while you find them and setup for your attack. The effective kill range for the NS-37 or BK3.7 starts at about 300 yards. You are dead at 600 wirbel or T34 skeet shooter. By the way on range VOX I over heard the current record holder visa rumor, single shot skeet shooting from a tank is 12 planes landed. Knowing rumors it's probably more like 3-5. Guess tanks don't need wirbel escorts anymore. Just lessons from that player.
Unlike in our planes you don't pilot wound the tank commander with a golden BB or wound\kill the machine gunner with cannon or bullet shrapnel. The exposed machineguns on the tank turrets require precision direct hits to disable them instead. I've parked a few tanks on the runway offline and made passes, then upped in the nearest manned gun on zoom to see fully entact top machineguns after blasting a light show down on the turret top with cannon rounds. My jury is out on getting rounds into the open turret on the wirbel and osti. Are we killing the gun crew or are we being required to precisely hit each gun to destroy it like with the tank turret machine guns?
My best night trying to kill a single T34 was dieing 3 times to it's main gun skeet shots first in a G2 then an IL2. Two other fighters went down to it and someone got pissed and carpet bombed the one T34 with 3 lancasters. And the T34 was spawning onto an open beach by himself killing Il2, G2 and fighters trying to mark him with rockets.
This is a tad too much arcade stinky lipstick on a pig's fishnet stocking draped hiney.
Unless the same things have been allowed in the competitors games to keep up subscriptions. Then you have to look at this from a longevity view towards the fact that hardcore GVers won't stay where they can't play against only other GVs even if the circumstances of their risk are 100% accurate when aircraft are present. At least the skeet shooting aspect of this could be done away with. The wirbels are bad enough and more historically accurate in killing me if one of the few ever produced happened to shoot at a low flying IL2.
