With practice and a target sitting still, the 50 kg bombs work wonders. The rockets work well against infantry. The main guns have lots of ammo and can shoot down anything fairly quickly. The pilot is most likely going to outlive the plane unless you give your opponent your top and sides. It can do a 180 in roughly 5 seconds. Its turn time gets better the more damaged its flight surfaces get.
Only weaknesses are that once more than a couple surfaces turn yellow, the thing can no longer gain altitude, that and the wings tend to be the weak point but few shoot there. Pretty much to counter, get behind and strafe its wings, then fly the f outa there because it can whip around and nae nae on your hs-123 dog butts.
TLDR: IL-2 is a tanky balloon that will fall after poking enough holes in it.
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I recommend trying them on tanks as well. Your opinion of the IL will just grow even more.
To be frank, the plane is broken. Devs gave it way too good stats… it shouldn’t turn so easily.
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It’s a good CAS, probably My favorite
But i can destroy them whit bf110, it’s not so hard to be destroyer
as i like to use it i like to destroy it with the second bf 109 f2 it really does a good job of destroying the il2
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fw 189 a-1 and pe-2-31 work better for me
so the bias come from the fact that they re russians and they made soviets op?
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I can’t say exactly because they don’t like that, but something along the lines of that.
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The IL-2 flies unrealistically when it it’s at stall speed wnd has perfect control when it should stall and crash.
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yes.
IL 2 is a beast. Absolutely wrecks and maneuvers so well, amazing for such a heavy plane…
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…Buuuuut Im still a BF110 guy.
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I’m a bf110 gentleman as well.
I can tell you I was dispirited when devs tried to ruin it. It MUST keep it’s 250kg, and remain a wonderful plane as is.
Although… having the OPTION to select 8x 50kg could be neat too. Hopefully we get loadout choices someday for even more gentlemanly pilot sportsmanship.
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I wasn’t a fan of the changes over all, But regarding the BF110 I wasn’t as upset about. Because 8 50s would have been some mean carpet bombing coverage. I means id still rather the 250s, but I could still see it being useful
but yes. Loadout options please!
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It’s why I’d love the option to choose so. I was upset because devs ALSO wanted to ruin the stuka by removing It’s 1000kg.
I didn’t want them to remove BOTH best axis (bomber) planes tank hunting abilities at the same time…
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It had a 1000kg!!???!!! I feel ripped off!, mine only had 500 kg 
can you imagine!!
*the part that did it for me, was trying to balance loadouts by lowering what they carried, 4 Rockets down from 10 p-47, 2 50KG on 109s down from 4, 2 rockets on bf110 down from 4…Its feels wrong to do that to their loadouts.
Stuka I still prefer the 500, but going to 250KG and 4x 50s wasnt too bad, because you could do 2 effective strikes per reload…but then all the stukas become the same. reeeeeally need custom loadouts (Ju-87 D-5 my favourite stuka, G series with 37mm gunpods would be fun too)
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Woops, yes it’s 500kg. Mistook it for the 1000lb (which is equivalent) I’m tired
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those are antitank rockets, so as mentioned above you should check them against tanks.
IL-2 is so tanky against what it faces that even if an enemy gets the drop on you, you still have a chance of winning. even against AAA.
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