Author Topic: is the stuka slow or what! (Read 1156 times)

KG45 · « **on:** December 18, 2002, 11:45:14 AM »

loaded a stuka up, and watch the gooneys pass ya on the left on thier way capture the base you're try to kill....

if i fly the stuka much, i'm gonna have to take up smoking again...

NOD2000 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 18, 2002, 11:49:48 AM »

Yah, but there is no feeling like taking out a spitfire with those twin 7.92 mm guns in the back.

KG45 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 18, 2002, 11:54:58 AM »

twin guns (only .30s), good field of fire to the rear, tons of ammo, and doesn't seem to have much of the arc interuppted by the rudder.

i would think a well flown stuka with a gunner could give a fighter a big headache.

SLO · « **Reply #3 on:** December 18, 2002, 01:04:04 PM »

first time I tried stuka...I got HO'd cause the dweeb couldn't out turn me in his la5:D

Kronos · « **Reply #4 on:** December 18, 2002, 02:24:15 PM »

a 109g2 tried to turnfight me... I pinged it with about 500 rnds of MG.. it finally just crashed into the ground. Was a wonderful fight.

udet · « **Reply #5 on:** December 18, 2002, 02:29:23 PM »

I haven't played AH since the update, but from what I read about the Battle of Britain, the Stuka was quite vulnerable to fighters. I guess real life British pilots didn't try to turn with it

MrLars · « **Reply #6 on:** December 18, 2002, 02:32:47 PM »

took off in one w/ the 4k bomb from an 11k field in AKDesert and hit the nearest field. I managed to climb to 14k before getting there. Droped the bomb, killed a BH and when I leveled I had only lost 2k in alt. Flew straight back to my starting base and the round trip took 30mins.

She's slow but man, what a stable divebombing platform, it's sweet

zarkov · « **Reply #7 on:** December 18, 2002, 02:58:07 PM »

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Originally posted by udet
I haven't played AH since the update, but from what I read about the Battle of Britain, the Stuka was quite vulnerable to fighters. I guess real life British pilots didn't try to turn with it

You should read the complaints over in the WWIIOL forum...you have a bunch of guys who've read the Stuka was a sitting duck to the Hurricane and Spitfire and they promptly try to TURN with the Stuka, get shot down, and they begin whining.

In the Battle of Britain:

1) The RAF pilots did not try to turn with the Stukas - they boom and zoomed the Stuka formations

2) The Stukas didn't scatter and dogfight with the Hurricanes and Spitfires - they attempted to hold formation and let the massed gunfire of their rear guns ward off the RAF attacks.

Dowding · « **Reply #8 on:** December 18, 2002, 04:19:59 PM »

I think the WW2OL thing was that the stukas were fully loaded and could still turn fight

zarkov · « **Reply #9 on:** December 18, 2002, 04:23:13 PM »

That was part of it - unfortunately, the WWIIOL FM doesn't account for the drag and weight incurred by external ordinance.

However, people still complain about Stukas dropping their ordinance (which moots the issue of the drag/weight of their bombs) and then pwning Hurricanes and Hawk 75s in turn fights.

hardcase · « **Reply #10 on:** December 18, 2002, 04:46:12 PM »

Early on the drag of the weapons wasn't modeled. It is now, I assume the weight is modeled cause they do fly differently when you dump ord. Being slow they do have a tight turning radius and if you want to dog one, have at it. I need the rank:D Who was that stuka ace that shoot down lots of fighters?

HC

zarkov · « **Reply #11 on:** December 18, 2002, 04:49:45 PM »

Rudel - but I believe a lot of the planes he shot down were actually downed after he had converted to the 190.

However, with that being said, I believe Rudel in some instances attemped to engage IL-2's with his cannon armed Ju-87G. And the a/c responsible for the first LW kill of the war was a Ju-87 during the Battle of Poland.

Kanth · « **Reply #12 on:** December 18, 2002, 06:38:30 PM »

The only problem I"ve had is that you try to go bomb a base and it's captured before you even get there

other than that it's a blast!!

really wish it had the siren tho.

GScholz · « **Reply #13 on:** December 18, 2002, 07:13:45 PM »

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Originally posted by udet
I haven't played AH since the update, but from what I read about the Battle of Britain, the Stuka was quite vulnerable to fighters. I guess real life British pilots didn't try to turn with it

Our Stuka is up-armored compared to the BoB Stukas.

Puke · « **Reply #14 on:** December 18, 2002, 08:33:12 PM »

Watch out for bird strikes from the rear.