This wasn’t my first kill of a fighter plane with a bomber, but my first where I actually stalked a fighter plane and it ended with one Destroyed Allied fighter. Apparently he didn’t know I had Manfred von Richthofen in the cockpit. This is my first shot down fighter in a bomber, but I have had a couple in my Stuka dive bomber.
yea ju188 front gunner is surprisingly very good i got a couple of plane kill already with him
didnt know you can set it to shoot manually tho i got it with ai gunner
Nice,I always had difficulty combatting planes in the JU188.Good sir,could you please explain how to manually control the guns like that? (it looks like that was how that happened anyways)
You can switch to the gunner, however the front gunner will always shoot if a plane passes in his field of fire, so I knew if I could get close enough and get the nose of the plane on the fighter he would automatically shoot. I wouldn’t have had a chance had the fighter not slowed and looped in front of me trying to get behind the bombers he had not shot down before. So, a little skill, but more luck.
Good job.
I love chasing enemies with the 188.
It’s great when the AI starts blasting the 20mm cannon and rips them apart.
They can be very deadly forwards but not so much towards the back.
I was confused there,because it showed all the guns being able to fire in the corner,but i guess that was just maybe part of the replay thing you used to get the screenshots lol,thanks anyways.
been using it to hunt down enemy fighter and bomber planes for years.
For real?
idk in his picture he have the button idk how he got it
You can control 1 top/rear gunner in every plane that has at least 1 gunner.
Only 1 gunner can be used currently, more in the future is planned.
I’ve hunted and shot down quite a few bombers with my Stuka, but I hadn’t tried with the Ju188. I only went after the fighter because it was in the closing minutes of the game.
I have only switched plane operator positions once, just to see if I could do it, but I never leave the pilot, I have just learned when the front gunner will fire so I know what positions to get in if I want him to fire. When I am diving to bomb and see an enemy plane below, sometimes I will alter the decent to get him to fire. I love the Ju188. With the 6 x 250 lbs bombs and an outdoor map, I can get a ton of kills with just one bombing run. I’m not sure the map name, but Allies vs Germans level 5, you start with a trench complex and the second cap point is basically in a valley. Every bomb run the least amount of kills I had was 8, and one run I killed 21 along with a tank. If it’s an outside map and no enemy is up in a fighter, I can usually get over 50 kills dropping bombs. However if an enemy has fighters up, I get one bombing run max, sometimes I get shot down before I can even get a run. Unlike Tanks, no safe space for planes. I love it more since I can bail out and have a five man paratroooper squad as well, so each person carries two Kiraly smg’s along with AP mines and grenades.
once you get used to “the chases” (turns and so on) the Ju188 is really strong at chasing, also if you have some Cönders or MP-717(r) and equip that on your Ju188 crew you will get a really strong assault squad when you leave your plane
I have a Conders squad I use all the time.
Oh i thought he meant he was shooting as the pilot. I have not used this plane since the tail gunner update. So is that the one you jump to? The front gun? No access to the rear guns?
SB-2 is just as good at it’s tier, with 2 MG’s to the front and much better manoeuvrability than the Ju-188 - but it doesn’t get much love because the IL-2 and Su-2 are just much better overall.
Yeah i know, been using that as well, also in War Thunder (its insane with upgraded gunners in WT).
In Enlisted i like the Su-2 (M-82) better tho.
Was fun trolling other planes once or twice.
Much better to have guns yourself though. I dont really fly the Ju188 anymore, its no good for my needs.
When I play Russians it is usually level 1-3 and I pretty much always use the Su 2. I get good kills with it.