Help with Ack straffing

[Dmitry]

<S> all
I have a serios problem - it seems that I cant kill morethan 3-4 acks b4r ending up dead. I generally diving from S->N or vise versa able to kill 3-4 guns in my first pass. As a rool of a tumb while on the last gun going at 400-450 mph I am recieving 1 ping that sends me down.
Please help me get better since the only other choice for me is to bring b-26 or Ju88.


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Best regards
Dmitry aka vfGhosty

[CRASH]

I generally only kill 1 per pass and I try to line up so as to fly over the fewest acks.  Lining up on multiple targets seems to make me too predictable and easy for the act to hit.  Come in hot, shoot early and jink ur way out....works fer me.  I fly pony most fer it, p38 and jug compress at the speeds I wanna be at when making my pass.  F4 does a great job at killin ack as well, although it's harder to hold ur e for multiple passes.  Large field ack will just tear ya up if ur strafing by yourself.  

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Originally posted by Dmitry:
<S> all
I have a serios problem - it seems that I cant kill morethan 3-4 acks b4r ending up dead. I generally diving from S->N or vise versa able to kill 3-4 guns in my first pass. As a rool of a tumb while on the last gun going at 400-450 mph I am recieving 1 ping that sends me down.
Please help me get better since the only other choice for me is to bring b-26 or Ju88.

[-ammo-]

You can straff down an entire field without damage if you follow a few rules.

1) never point your AC at the AAA emplacement, instead "walk" your bullet stream "through" the emplacement. It doesn't take much to take it down.

2)make fast passes and dont try to adjust if you miss an emplacement, just use your speed and recovcer otu on the other side of the field. Setup another pass.

3) I use a P-47, but most MG equiped AC will do, I start out at 10K or so and will take one side of the field (4 AAA's per side, for a small field) and then recover and take the other side, then the VH. Beware however, that I believe there is some sort of bnug with the VH AAA. MG's seem not to effect it.

I will make a film of it and post it.

[Pepe]

Pretty much what ammo says. Only that, when you are not profficient enough to wipe out one side per pass, you might try to wipe out one or two acks each one   If that is the case, I suggest to dive from the center of the base outwards. If you kill the ack some 4k AGL you can level and pull pretty safely. If you  have to go lower, just take exit low and FAST, using the common barrels to avoid ack.

Cheers,

Pepe

[Ripsnort]

Here's my method if I am a loner, for small field (note, in most cases, I have a mission or squadron all assigned to targets, so one person isn't responsible for all AA)

P47D-30 with 3x500 and rockets:

First pass, AA nearest VH:
start alt in this terrain generally 11k.
Pickle(500lber) 1st AA, pickle 2nd AA, strafe 3rd and 4th.  Results are 4 acks down.

Second pass, AA further from VH:
Again, 11k.
Pickle last bomb, rockets 2nd ack (salvo 2)3rd ack, and 4th ack.  Now I have 0 bombs left, 4 rockets left, and VH AA only standing.  Use two rockets into last ack and last 2 rockets into VH, then strafe VH to death.

Note: I use a salvo of 2 rockets with a delay of .100 for acks, for insurance.

Incidently, the best AA strafer in the game is a member of our squadron, Blitz.  He can take down all AA in a P51D mustang, with strafing only, in two passes(minus VH ack).

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[Dmitry]

Thank you all for helping me on this, would it be problem for asking for films? specially 2 pass strafe kill and Rocket ack kill...
Anyway I will try those different strategy that are suggested and who knows? maybe I will live longer  
Thanks again

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Best regards
Dmitry aka vfGhosty

[Ripsnort]

 

Originally posted by Dmitry:
Thank you all for helping me on this, would it be problem for asking for films? specially 2 pass strafe kill and Rocket ack kill...
Anyway I will try those different strategy that are suggested and who knows? maybe I will live longer  
Thanks again

You'll have to ask Blitz for film on "2-pass AA killing", he's online about 24/7 so next time you're in arena, look him up.

Next time I do a P47 sortie, I'll turn my film on.  I think Cave has one..some folks don't use rockets on AA since strafing is sufficient, but I like to use them...gives them a purpose!