I mean it’s in pretty much inferior to the Ju 87 D3 in all aspects.
Nothing. In all respects worse than the ju-87.
Isn’t the Potez more maneuverable? I actually prefer it, good tail gunners gets me kills and saves me too, max perked though.
You compare that by stats in vehicle card or by playing with both aircrafts?
For me I am not going back to Ju 87 D3 after flying some battles in Potez 633. Don’t know why, but Ju 87 D3 is by far the worst Ju 87 in entire game, this is truly a flying brick that can barely get some altitude. When you try to avoid attacks from enemy aircrafts after few maneuvers you are simply a sitting duck with no speed and can barely stay in the air.
When flying Potez 633 I was able to keep some fight with enemy fighters, it also loses speed fast after sharp meneuvers but manages to do much tighter turns, almost like a fighter.
Tail gunner in Ju 87 D3 (basically in all Ju 87s) has pretty narrow shooting angle, in Potez 633 I am not sure as I wasn’t really fighting many of them, but its tail gunner may be similarly effective, which is pretty bad, I don’t count on my gunners anyway.
Main difference some may see is bomb load, Ju 87 D3 wins here over Potez 633, but yet I am able to return faster from rearming with Potez (also gaining more altitude) than with Ju 87, and when attacked by enemy planes I can fight back or at least survive in Potez.
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There’s also the fact that, unlike the Ju, Potez isn’t locked behind access pass I believe 
I prefer the Potez as I’m a bad pilot, the Ju while having much more dangerous bomb load is not really maneuverable… and buildings kill me.
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Thanks, good to see more Potez fans, bombs are 500kg in total, just need to drop accurately and then you win.
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I’ve been trying to level up the Potez, but its proving to be hard work.
The Stuka is much more stable in a dive, which assists in bomb placement, and tolerates a much steeper angle of attack. The Potez gets massively buffeted on any dive over 45 degrees. It’s also handling like a complete potato, compared with the Bf110 or Me410 twin engine configs from the other campaigns, but that may be due to some “you haven’t finished spading the last star effect so everything else is gimped” as if the plane had no upgrades bug…
Max speed (according to the respective stat cards) for both is about the same 428.40 Km/h , the Stuka has a better climb rate 12.64 > 10.63 m/sec, but Potez has a better turn rate: 15.69 > 20.81 sec.
Given that you will not outfight any of the soviet fighters in this trash can the best you can hope for is to damage their plane with the tail gunner, who atm is massively myopic and seems to be using a pistol in preference to the MG to return fire for all that they are worth…
Potez carries 2 x 200Kg bombs vs Stuka’s 3x 250Kg .
It also seems to either run out of fuel or the engines overheat (there are no warning indicators for this), but in any case the plane falls out of the sky after a number of reloads.
Well I don’t know about Stuka being better in dives etc, the Potez can dogfight the Stuka can’t, the lift is far superior in Potez.
Are you sure you have Ju87 bomb load right, I thought it was a difference of 50kg, plus the fact Stuka is better at carpet bombing, where Potez is about precision.
As for tail Gunner, upgrade perks and peripheral or increased visibility, you will notice a difference.
Ad for engine, yeh I notice if you run too high like over 87, it overheats very quickly!
But interesting feedback, we all play this plane differently I guess.
The worst junk is still pretty fun to use
I haven’t finished upgrading the Potez, so perhaps it improves.
The fully upgraded Stuka has a broken flight model similar to the IL-2s - if you have a low enough TAS, and extend your landing flaps you can almost hang in the air and make super tight turns, most fighters will fly past you. You can then retract the flaps add max thrust and get on their tail for a few shots. The broken plane damage models and inconsistent ammunition/calibre damage models are all hopefully WIP, and they will address them as per what they have in WT.
WRT diving, climb up to about 800-1000m get over the objective and drop straight down, you’ll see all the planes other than the Stuka start to rotate and drift off target. For level bombing or shallow dives there won’t be any difference I don’t think. I also don’t have any engine failure issues with the Stuka as I do with the Potez.
Nevertheless, I tend to view the Potez with the Jeremy Clarkson level of disdain for anything French 
WRT load out, you can clearly see 3 x 250Kg bombs
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