Keeping the FW 190F-8 stats positive

[Chris79]

The F8’s made their presence felt back in October. It’s the premier de-acker in the game.

[icepac]

F-8 is tough and fast. 

Better odds then flying a D3A1, TBM, B5N2, SBD-5, any sort of Stuka, IL-2, B-25H. 

The F-8 suffers from planes that can lift more and, in general, can do more (P-51D, P-47N, P-38L, Hellcat, Mossie, Typhoon, Tempest, ugh!).

But we fly it not because it's an easy ride.  We fly it because it's an overweight teutonic death trap with more style then steering.   

Fly THUD airlines.

The plane is fine.      It's just too good at it's mission so it attracts the guys who fly it "one way" with zero intent to RTB.

It takes a lot of RTB missions to balance out the one way guys.

[Vraciu]

The F8’s made their presence felt back in October. It’s the premier de-acker in the game.

Meh. I can de-ack a small field solo in my Mustang.   

[Chris79]

Can you de-ack a medium plus a town, 2 spits and fly away with a stang?

[Vraciu]

Can you de-ack a medium plus a town, 2 spits and fly away with a stang?

Yes.

(How many re-arms do I get?)   

[save]

What a F8 can do is de-ack outside of auto ack range 11-7k AGL.
It's basically an A8 with 2 guns removed, and have replaced that weight with armor.
Rockets slows the plane down so pretty much all planes in MA can dispatch you easy.
You have to get really close to kill a GV, and the Wirby battalion at each field kill you easy.

I keep my bomb for Wirby's. There is always someone who try to kill you outside of their range.

Not that it helps with 2-4 at each field, but it feels good and keep the grudge between planes and vehicles up

[Flavel]

The only problem I have with the F-8 is the need to be very careful maneuvering with ordnance.   I'll be trying to jockey my ride around to rocket some good will at a tank and the next thing I know I'm showing off my upside down pancake technique. 

I actually prefer using the F-8 against bombers as it's wings seem resistant to .50 cal return fire.

The A-8 will kill a bomber faster but the F-8 will survive the encounter more often.

In pure air-to-air engagements the most important skill to have is knowing when to run. 
Not exactly glorious, but engaging N1K2s or Yak-3s with an F-8 puts you on a very short leash.   

Using rockets force the F-8 into return-fire-range from ground forces and the armor a F-8 has doesn't
help worth a hill of beans against 20mm, and 40mm fire.  Also, there are too many tankers that know
how to "main gun" quite well.

 

[save]

The extra armor protects the lower part of the engine and all the way back to the pilot. you can sustain more hits from autoacks than the A8.

[Max]

What a F8 can do is de-ack outside of auto ack range 11-7k AGL.
It's basically an A8 with 2 guns removed, and have replaced that weight with armor.
Rockets slows the plane down so pretty much all planes in MA can dispatch you easy.
You have to get really close to kill a GV, and the Wirby battalion at each field kill you easy.

I keep my bomb for Wirby's. There is always someone who try to kill you outside of their range.

Not that it helps with 2-4 at each field, but it feels good and keep the grudge between planes and vehicles up

Can you share some tips as per using the F8's rockets at long range? And a good gun sight for that purpose?
Thanks !

[atlau]

Can you share some tips as per using the F8's rockets at long range? And a good gun sight for that purpose?
Thanks !

Use ofine mode and enable the bombsights. You'll see roughly where they go. Faster, steeper, closer help. I aim about 2-3 Mark's above the target using the default.gunsight.

For deacking you only need to be close.to kill the guns. Can usually fire off 3 rockets and then switch to cannon to kill.off a few more guns close range in 1 pass.

[save]

I use Revi 16  gunsight and like Atlau say, you need to practice,  I normally start at 11k and point nose slightly down, I aim and shoot 3 or 4 rockets, and pull up at 7k AGL to avoid pesky acks.
Everyone have to learn what is best for them, I like to stay as fast as I possible can.

Can you share some tips as per using the F8's rockets at long range? And a good gun sight for that purpose?
Thanks !

[Flavel]

422 kills to 416 losses. kd of 1.01  It's going to be close!

[Shuffler]

Did you say hunt the 190f8?

[SmokinLoon]

The 190F-8 is an awesome tank/gv killer. Remember the rockets fire in pairs off the wing AND they they fly straight away from the launch point on the wing. So... for the 190F-8, always fire two and only two rockets per attack run on a gv, and aim to the left/right of the vehicle slightly for the rockets to hit their mark. If your rockets are firing from the right wing then aim to the left of target slightly. Film it, or at the least be sure and look at your impact points.

The best I've score is 5 enemy tanks, yes tanks, in a single sorte without a rearm/refuel. I dropped the 250 kg bomb and then used the PB1 rockets, in pairs of course, to get the other 4. Tank town is a target rich environment.  

[Flavel]

12/30/2019 @8:14PM PST 590 kills to 589 deaths.