Author Topic: Il-2 good for anything? (Read 666 times)

28sweep · « **on:** March 11, 2002, 07:57:27 AM »

Is this aircraft good for anything?

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #1 on:** March 11, 2002, 08:07:43 AM »

its guns are good for antitank ops. Personaly, I'm unable to hit a sht with the rockets.

keyapaha · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2002, 08:14:14 AM »

i like leveling towns and de acking feilds with it and is also good on those pesky gv's

popeye · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2002, 08:18:37 AM »

It can take a face full of .50 cal, and keep on going. Works well on all GV's except the Ostie.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2002, 08:24:30 AM »

I was shot down by one from D1.2 and he was using rockets. One shot kill.. You must be doing something wrong mandoble

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2002, 08:43:31 AM »

mrsid2, u were shot down?? In a plane? By IL2 rockets??? at 1200 yards???? Yep, I should be doing something definitively wrong cause cant hit a panzer at 500 yards ...

HeLLcAt · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2002, 09:31:17 AM »

You guys are all wrong! I use the IL-2 as a fighter, it's a GREAT fighter when the FH's are down. I killed 3 nikis in it and came back to land 5 times. I have 5 kills in it and 0 deaths! The 23mm guns are great to blow up the pilot, just like I did on the niki's. It's climb is actually pretty good for being a "bomber!" It good dive speed, which means you need altitude!

~~~BlueiceJ~~~

mrsid2 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2002, 10:12:44 AM »

No mandoble, I was in M-16 and he came to the edge of my range (actually I pinged him quite a lot as he flew low and level)

Next to my surprise I was sent to tower (never saw rockets or smoke trails) and he said he shot me using his custom built rocket sight from D1.2..

Edit: looks like he maybe at 1.0 when launching..

Hit dead center, none missed AFAIK.

SKurj · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2002, 10:16:45 AM »

Damn thing has a paper tail +(

SKurj

Staga · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2002, 10:42:50 AM »

Yep, after reading how hard Il-2 was to shoot down the glass-tail in AH doesn't seem to be right. AFAIR pilots usually tried to shoot the oil-cooler or straight to the cockpit from sides.

mrsid2 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2002, 11:18:45 AM »

It was known that IL-2 had only 1x1 meter vulnerable spot at the wing root + cockpit that could be shot with .50 in order to disable the plane. Very few finnish fighters had cannons though and I haven't seen 109 vs il-2 reports that would give light to the durability against cannons.

Probably they aimed for the vulnerable parts in any case.

DarkglamJG52 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 11, 2002, 11:31:03 AM »

Mandoble, the Russian rockets were famous to be effective from very long distances. I have used the IL-2 twice and I destroyed gv's with the rockets, but it was me impossible to explode a tank with the canyons. The biggest problem in the IL-2 of AH it is that very fragile, comparative with the reality.

superpug · « **Reply #12 on:** March 11, 2002, 01:39:34 PM »

usually when i use sturmovik its to take revenge on GVs. And it always works:D . As for the fighter part, it could dog fight with very old 109s. But that never went well.

But it is a really good deflacker.

Tony Williams · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2002, 01:55:02 PM »

In RL the Soviet rockets were originally designed for air-to-air use, but turned out to be too inaccurate so were relegated to ground attack. They weren't accurate enough to hit a tank with any reliability, either, so they generally used them for attacking area targets.

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salem · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2002, 02:36:11 PM »

It works a treat for building up those bomber perks. Knocked out two Ostwinds with rockets, and a panzer with guns last night; total of about 8.4 points for a 10 minute sortie. Some practice and persistence with those rockets pays off.

Also had a MC205 try to HO me.

All it needs is the 2 x 37mm cannon option.

regards,
Salem