I had my best round ever last night. I killed 97 in a successful Soviet defense. I was able to do it by getting a lone machine gunner into a rubbled building and constantly moving from loophole to loophole to pop unsuspecting Germans as they ran past me. He killed 50 in that one spawn before running out of ammo.
But I typically see rounds where people will get 140-160 kills with very low deaths (4-6 squads lost).
How in the world are they doing that?
they’re most likely playing vechicles, if you camp in a sweet spot with a tank or you’re excellent pilot you can manage to do it, infantry is doomed to die a lot no matter how good you are.
when people brag about their KD they’re most likely main vechicles, I do not playing vechicles at all so my KD is pretty bad compared to them but it doesn’t matter so much since what matters the most is how much you’ve capped objectives which is not shown anywhere in stat tab, ironic.
I’m a pretty good pilot, but ground kills are usually luck of the draw with whether or not your teammates will accurately and consistently mark targets for rocket attacks. Without it, it’s just luck and intuition that as you are passing while loaded up that enemy troops will be massed.
Clearly others are doing better - if you know the map you know where the respawn points are, you know where the approaches are to the cap points, you know where squads get “hidden” in cover on cap points.
And rockets are better than bombs for accuracy
Flamethrowers, smg squads, tanks, snipers, engineers with mgs
speed → knowing the map and knowing what to do, so you dont need to invest time in thinking and just do fighting all the time without breaks in between.
some weapons give more kills than others: strong full autos, flamethrowers, grenade launchers
vehicle noobing (tanking easy, planing actually requires thinking)
not the must fun way to play, but very good to do from time to time to passively stay on a high level
Comrade Dragonslayer deserves the Order of Individual Valor, URA!
That’s where you are wrong. Do not waste time on team marks, they are almost universally misleading garbage. Grab a plane like the 1941 IL2 and just loiter over the battlefield. Look where your team is, where the objective is, where tracers are coming from, remember all the good rally point spots. Feel the battle. The IL2 is also slow enough that you can often literally see the infantry render. DO NOT JUST SHIT OUT ALL AMMO IN ONE GO. You can just pepper them with the cannons, drop a pair or two of missiles or a pair of bombs one by one as you repeatedly make passes. Even if you “only” get a few kills per pass, you can do several of them per reload and you’d be surprised how quickly the kills can rack up.
But it obviously takes practice and lots of focus, you gotta keep “moving” (constantly turning slightly) and looking around for enemy fighters or fresh targets on the ground. Even still, sometimes the enemies are either camping so hard or steamlollering your team so hard you won’t really get anywhere. Who cares, just keep trying. Sometimes they will do anti fun stuff like spawning a fighter right behind you and kill you. Just keep trying anyway. So many people just get shot down once or twice and they just no longer try to fight back till the end of the match - how else are you going to try and get better?
I don’t have the IL2 yet. I just started playing Soviets from scratch after the Big Merge. Before merge, I exclusively played Western Allies.