The Ju 87, also known as the Stuka, is one of the most recognizable German airplanes in World War 2. Unfortunately, they are basically extinct at high BR due to the presence of superior airplanes.
My proposal is to add a regular variant of the Ju 87 Stuka with a massive bomb payload, such as a single 1000kg bomb. While that seems like overkill, consider the fact it is still a BR2 plane all the way up at BR5, making them extremely vulnerable. Let’s call it the Ju 87 D-5 (1000kg) to make it distinct from the average stuka planes at low BR.
###Battle Rating (BR)
The Ju 87 D-5 (1000kg) should be BR5 due to its obscene bomb payload.
###Type
The Ju 87 D-5 (1000kg) should be an event plane to equip to an attacker pilot squad. There might be too much explosions if it was in the tech tree.
###Availability
If it was event (or premium could work too) it would reduce the overall availability of 1000kg bombs so not every single player can use them.
###Gameplay Purpose & Role
It would be an attacker plane on steroids, but be extremely vulnerable to enemy planes since it would be a low BR vehicle in a high BR environment with a massive bomb payload. It would help historical immersion by adding the iconic Stuka jericho horns at BR5 which are otherwise kind of rare to hear in this game.
The whole reason why I wrote this suggestion is that the Stuka is such an iconic WW2 vehicle with its jericho horn. I want a cranked up version of it to be used at high BR.
In practicality, it would probably be easily farmed by enemy fighters due to how much slower it would be. There should be no concern from USA/USSR players because a stuka is going to get obliterated from BR5 jets and fighters
There is also a 1800kg bomb available, but I didn’t want to go too overkill.
Historicly accurate, whilst the plane by all means was (and still is) very iconic, it was a outdated plane and its use and production continually declined since the Battle of France (production ending in 1944, continued is service for the rest of the war but more out of nessesity). The Fw 190 mostly took over because the slow-flying Ju 87 was increasingly becoming more and more vulnerable to more modern aircraft and AA systems, the style of warfare meant for the Ju 87 only really worked when Germany had complete air superiority (a wet-dream from 1943). The Ju 87 survived to the end of the war (in limited numbers) because Germany lacked the resources and time to replace it.
I voted yes by the way, because this aircraft would still be funny, I might even consider it for BR IV rather than V (and maybe as a Event vehicle depicting a late war variant, with a damaged paint-scheme). It just needs to be understood that if (or hopefully, when) this thing is added, it’s added as a meme weapon, because that’s what it should be in high BRs.
This plane doesn’t belong to high BRs. It’s simply too slow. No matter how big payload it’s going to have, its time to replenishment is simply way too long for high BRs - in comparison to other planes.
while stukas were outdated, were still used even in 1945, even though, mostly on the eastern front.
and even on the western front, on day broadlight, a stuka was still used to strife the americans approaching carentain.
old, but gold as one might say.
so, sure. as br IV with the huge cannons, or bigger payloads, i don’t see why not…
but yeah, there are many options suitable for event vehicles.
without unnecessarily increase the grind for germany. ( or sub folders )
I mean anything new is welcome but, I don’t think its gonna be fresh air even if it gets 3000kg bombs, wouldn’t be better if we get stuka with cannons to blow targets rather than pure bombs? just to make it niche rather than completely being overshadowed by ju188 or me262 because of its speed and maneuver
Ju-87-D3 is BR III and its bad cant imagine stuka at BR IV or BR V xD The only good stuka is D5 and its BR II. The rest must be reduced in BR to be honest.
I think that a Stuka like that will only end up getting downtiered to BR3 because its “slow and bad”.
Which kinda beats the whole point since we already have Ju87 D-3 on BR3.
How would a 1000kg bomb really be diffrent to a 500 kg bomb?
The 500 kg bomb already is overkill if it comes to kill infantry and since bombs cant kill behind cover/ a wall/roof the increased payload is useless funcionally useless 90% of the time.
As for tank the 500 kg already can kill all the tanks with no problem .
So at most I would say that plane should be BR 3. ( But mostly because of the 20mm gun not the bomb.)
If you really want a BR 5 version then you could give it 3 500kg bombs instead.
Since 2 500 kg bombs on a fast jet is fine apparently so 3 500 kg on a slow Ju 87 should be fine.
