So…I get behind an American bomber in my pure fighter, unload my plane’s entire ammo complement into it…and it banks away to go get more bombs, while I run back to my resupply point for more bullets.
This scenario happens to me again and again. What am I doing wrong?
shoot engines lol
All twin engine Attackers are fairly easy to destroy if you actually aim for the engine/s. When you destroy one engine it won’t fly long, but still can do a run or two to resupply, but very slowly, that is why you should try to take them both (engines) and if you are lucky, you can set them on fire then they are pretty much done.
Fighters on the other hand are much harder to destroy, sometimes you can hit them with many cannon shells and they are pretty much unharmed. Other times you will just hit them few times and they are unable to continue fighting. Taking out engine in enemy fighter is very hard from behind, so good luck.
Tbh, the ammunition we’ve got is just not very effective against aircrafts, for me it’s like equivalent of “Default ammo belt” in War Thunder and that ammunition is just… bad.
I call BS. The US P-38 can sponge several reloadings and fly away unscathed. Most p38s dont even bother to evade. They just fly straight and aponge until I run out of ammo on miltiple attempts. Any German plane is a paper airplane to be shot down quickly.
I can take down US P51s with ease or any other US plane.
Didn’t I say all twin “Attackers”… oh I did, in this game P-38 is Fighter, twin engine, but these engines are not that exposed like in A-20 / Ju-188 / Bf-110.
Trying to shoot engines in P-38 from behind is like trying to shoot engine in P-51 / Bf-109 / FW-190, you have whole tail section, much more stuff to shoot through on the way to engines.
Anyway, I usually don’t have much problem with enemy US fighters when I get on their 6, even P-38 is going down easily, but… there are times that even I am wondering what is going on when I’ve hit enemy aircraft so many times with all kind of weapons and it’s not going down. Hit register sometimes is not working properly.
not always working, sometimes seems engines auto repair (black smoke suddenly stops)
There are videos about it.
And I call BS on that - utter nonsense - I’ll get OHK-ed by 110’s, and ripped a new one by 109’s all the time. Dont’ see many 190’s so not sure about them - but htey certainly have the guns to put out a heap of firepower.
P38’s also get engines set afire fairly often.
So if you are “hitting” them and not killing htem then it’s because you are a crap shot abd bot hitting them with much at all 
More complete BS - I can empty a P-47 into a Ju-188 or Me-110 and unless I hit the engines (which I certainly try to do!) it is a crap shoot (sic) whether it just smokes a bit or I manage to kill the pilot.
Even a little 109 can take a beating and keep flying - often I’ll get the kill 2 or 3 minutes later if I’ve shot away enough flight controls and he finally has to give up trying to fly it.
Not really - there’s no armour for the pilot in the nacelles like there is in the single-engined fighters. My P38J engines catch fire pretty regularly when I’m hit from behind.
They are way too tanky. On some planes I’ve had several confirmed hits with the AA gun without them going down, this ruins the balance since what is supposed to be the counter to bombers (fighters, AA guns) don’t work as well as one would expect.
Might simply be that we players assume that, like in too many other games, a plane kill = the plane going “boom” with alot of special effects and fire etc. Here it’s not the case. You effectively CRIPPLE planes (bombers especially, fighters fall down very quickly once hit). They still fly, but can’t maintain altitude, turn well, etc. and slowly plunge to their doom. You did your job. In fact it’s better like this, because a crippled plane still trying to fly and bomb run will prevent another player from quickly taking his place with a fresh, fast and maneuverable undamaged plane wich would bomb your team better and faster.
BS friend of my moms used aimbot and still it took 7 resupplys to get the murrican plane down.
100% accuracy
BS you just cant aim and besides my moms friend died by 1hit even he had iddqd godmode.
never happened.
Memories
totally agree the bombers are tigers with wings, I go the straight line without even bothering to evade and can bomb and reload at least 3 times before my plane goes down
It does not matter if you get shot in the engines these rarely fail, you can fly about 40 seconds with the plane on fire enough to drop the bombs, you never ever suffer damage like a cut wing or the like that knocks you out instantly (except for may your pilot die)
totally unbalanced and ridiculous aircraft damage should be like warthunder
I primarly fly the JU 188 and it can be somewhat tanky although it SHOULD be since it has NO way to defend itself eveb though it CLEARLY shows a machine gun stucking out of the cockpit.
I get strafed down in 1 full ammo load about 80% of the time though with little maneuverability unlike the US A20 that has 500lb bombs AND 6 browning mgs… wtf.
It’ll take me multiple resupplies to shoot down p38s in my bf 109 g10. That plane has ONLY mgs and no bombs that include 3 20mm cannons. Call ut bad hit placement but no plane should have any frame left after a full ammo dump. It’s gross.
Yes - it is pretty bad - but it is not 1 sided - it cuts both ways. Last night I shot up a Me-109 of some sort with 2 refills of La-5 20mm in Berlin - no kill.
In Moscow the SB-2M has the same problem as the Ju-188 - no guns at all. But it only gets 6 x 100kg bombs - and you think you’re hard done by??
The A-20 guns are pretty marginal - the a/c itself is neither maneuverable nor fast, so if someone flies in front of you and doesn’t evade yes you can shoot them down (but it’s .50’s are no better than the P-51 or the P-47…) - but if you try to go hunting other a/c then you deprive your team of its bombs, plus you aren’t actually good at it!