Historically the Bf110 has not shown up well. A smart pilot can cause a lot of trouble with it in IL2 though.
When the 110 first came out in IL2 it was better performing than it is now and quite a terror, but thankfully it was patched up and made to perform more like a large, heavy and average WWII aircraft that will not hold it's own against well-flown single-engine fighters.
One of my old memories of flying the 110 in IL2 was using it for ground attack at low altitude and hoping that someone would get on my six so I could take them out with a bomb. I don't know if I was the first to do it, but very early on I was setting a few seconds delay on bombs I was carrying and dropping them when for instance an La-5 would start following. I could switch to the gunner position and watch the La5 disappear as the two 500K bombs went off close to it. It was hilarious to watch and it surely pissed them off quite a bit.
Later I can remember someone did the same thing to me, I was after a P-38 being flown by a TUSA squad member and they took my FW190 out by dragging me over a few bombs they had dropped.
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