Stuka D3- Great payload, rubbish guns, rubbish performance at this point
Fw190 (no bombs, broken flight model)
BF 109 trop Solid fighter (with no bombs)
Versus
IL 2 - 37, (has no issue swiping tanks or outflying BF 110s, One of the most enjoyable CAS planes for me)
IL 2 M type 3 (bit more of a brick than the above, I dont often use this one much)
Pe 2 and 3 (brick. Needs love)
La 5 (solid fighter with bombs)
Yak 9K (solid fighter that cracks tanks)
Yak 3- Solid fighter with no bombs.
I Pretty much said Germany relies on spamming this plane because its their best option. But everything thats not a Pe 2/3 dumps on this thing (or should if you know what you are doing), fighters and attackers alike. Its not a Good day when your best option is countered by nearly everything (when used properly, including lower BR options)
maybe, but I am not seeing Soviets spamming their BR3 planes as aggressively as Germans do their G2s, which really suggests to me that it alone is better than anything soviets can offer, like how Americans always abuse P-38s aganst Japan
People spam whats easy to use. Since Soviets dont have a “noob tube” (working at BR 3 anyway…Pe 2-3 could easily fill this void if given a little love), they tend not to fly and neglect these awesome planes.
Take the P-47 and 110 G 2 for example. its super easy to use because its basically a derp gun (fly straight, point and shoot)…But pretty much every plane it sees should shit on it.
People gravitate to noob tubes. (1 trick ponys…they can suck but still get kills before dying)
The broken airspawn mechanic doesnt help the matter. But really. Japanese planes shit on EVERYTHING in an air engagement. As soon as you get BR 2 Zero its no contest for air control (unless you see the rare Spitfire)
btw the gunner of the late ilyushins is very interesting. sometimes i snap the enemy in half with 1 hit.
othertimes it just damages very badly, meaning both me and the enemy go down. they might have given it the damage of the engineer HMG since the IL gunner has low ammo. the gunner is the best/basically only hope for the IL-2M
edit: also makes me sad that the pe-2 gunner can’t aim straight 6, i guess it’s just bad modelling.
edit2: nvm it has only an LMG as dorsal turret that you can control, not HMG
while i’m having fun with ussr br3 air, i miss the big bomba of the bf110C (or the strafing of the 110G)
il-2-37 only has AP ammo, makes me imagine how it would do with 2x37mm with HE against open points.
I love the payload on the IL-2M But the extra weight really takes it out on performance. Which is why I stick with the IL 2 -37 or just the BR 2 IL 2 (I use this plane at all BRs)
Maybe one day we can choose our ammo belts and change the speciality of our Aircraft. IL-2 37 is my favourite tank buster in the game, I too have wondered “what if HE belts?”
Because it is the ONLY attacker in BR1 except the Seagull… which is close!! the Hs-123 is classed as a fighter for unfathomable reasons, otherwise it would be better!
Also there are obviously a heck of a lot of people vastly better at bombing than me who prefer the Su-2 to the early Il -2 - I can barely hit the map with bombs (possibly slight exaggeration!) but find the rockets and 20mm to be much more effective than bombs and 4 machineguns - even with rear gunners.
i just don’t understand why devmans won’t fix the damn bomb drops on em (and the 110s and every other plane with multiple large bombs that they drop together for NO FUCKING REASON)
I only use it when the P-40 won’t cut it lol (which is almost never, people need to git gudder)
Is Stuka D-5 no longer available? 4x50 + 250 and THOUSAND FUCKING ROUNDS OF 20MM
Zeros are painfully slow though, P-38 can stay so fast and so high it’s not really able to touch it
For planes
BR2 every faction has amazing options
BR3 Russia kinda pops off, USA is SAJJ (unless you get the Whirlwind), Germany is kinda eh and Japan is kinda eh since now you have to contend with american UFOs using biplane-tier crap
BR4 things get interesting, since Russia has almost nothing new thats worthwhile, USA starts getting crazy crap (Corsair, Beaufighter), Germoney gets G.55 and 109 G-6 ( guess you also get an option to choose between 410 and 188 for bomberinhos), Japan gets out of WW1 and gets reasonably fast and powerful planes
BR5 is again a mixed bag since for Russia you still default to P-40 and IL type 3 anyway, but you get the option to get La-7, 185, IL-10 (crappy loadout but WAY more fasterer and climbier that the type 3 brick) USA gets the P-47-D28 where you can just live off german tears whole match, Germany once again is kinda eh, since you still will be using the G.55 most of the time anyway…or you can mald and cry and seethe and be annoyed trying to use the 190 D-12 without randomly plowing into the ground, getting ran down by soviet fighters, flakked, or just missing all of your bombs because you are coming in at 999999999 kph and with the pitiful render distance the game offers right now you are just using the force to guess where enemies might be and that fucking thing has no wings to speak of so you won’t be able to adjust anything anyway…but hey, the gun goes BOPBOPBOPBOP so it clearly is the best plane in the game. Japan gets the Ki-84 and it also is just bing chilling mobile, although thanks to endless USA air spawns it sometimes feels like you are playing They Are Billions
