IL2 Birds of Prey: Hints, Tips, and FAQ's Thread

[Korsakov829]

Here are a few early unlocked easy going planes for Realistic and Sim.

Fighters:
Yak-3 (Decent turn radius, field of view, and firepower)
Hurricane (Excellent firepower, can carry a bomb, decent speed)
Bf109 series (Fair planes all around)

Bombers:
IL-4 (Outstanding turn, 4 250kg bombs, fastest firing guns in game perhaps)
A20G (almost considered by myself a Heavy Assault Fighter, but a bomber still)
He-111 H-6 (Unlocks 32 50kg bombs early, excellent in CTA)

And some advice, don't fly a American/British/Italian plane over Berlin, Stalingrad, etc. Or a IL-2 over Britain. It doesn't go right, and many players will refuse to play if this is the case. Its just wrong to see such things.

[Gilly]

Originally Posted by Korsakov829

And some advice, don't fly a American/British/Italian plane over Berlin, Stalingrad, etc. Or a IL-2 over Britain. It doesn't go right, and many players will refuse to play if this is the case. Its just wrong to see such things.

Why would you not? Britsh and American planes all flew over Berlin during the war!!! And rubbish about players refusing to play. The only time I've seen specific historical fact being followed is when we've endeavoured to organise BoB raids on Canterbury or raids on the Reichstag.
At the end if the day it's a game. It's not real life.

[Korsakov829]

Originally Posted by Gilly

Why would you not? Britsh and American planes all flew over Berlin during the war!!! And rubbish about players refusing to play. The only time I've seen specific historical fact being followed is when we've endeavoured to organise BoB raids on Canterbury or raids on the Reichstag.
At the end if the day it's a game. It's not real life.

Your right in a way, as there were long range bombing runs. But it was the Soviets who had fighter planes over the skies 24/7. A Soviet Hurricane, maybe, but I doubt it.

[bobbysocks]

there were 357th FG mustangs in russia. they escorted shuttle missions. on the way back they threw away all or most of their ammo and filled the wings with vodka and other souvenirs....luckily they didnt get bounced. they did this on a couple occasions.

[Akula]

If you have armaments missing for your IL2/M/10 and they're unlocked by destroying Strike targets you can land near them, get up close to them and let it rip with your cannons. The recoil on them will push you back to easily move to the next.

It will work with any aircraft with a cannon.

EDIT: After getting hate mail on PSN after i did this, i want to know if this is regarded as 'dishonorable, cheap'?

[McQ59]

I would say 'knock u'rself out mate'. Get the unlocks anywhich way u can. Landing and shooting up concretebunkers with your cannons, is as honourable as it can get in my view!
I unlocked quite a few bombs&stuff by simply crashing my plane into the target Kamikazestyle.

[Korsakov829]

I got my first unlock for the IL2 by crashing into stuff. Do it on arcade, 300 tickets, 3 minutes. In arcade, there is no such thing as honor since everyone is just 1 out of some 1700. In Simulator, everything is much more personal.

If you keep getting hate mail, use the grief report function.

[bobbysocks]

if you can make a good landing and shoot the crap out of a bunker more power to you. i dont know why you would get hate mail...you yourself now are a sitting target like on CTA. if they cant put you out of action they have a problem.

[JOED70]

Originally Posted by Akula

If you have armaments missing for your IL2/M/10 and they're unlocked by destroying Strike targets you can land near them, get up close to them and let it rip with your cannons. The recoil on them will push you back to easily move to the next.

It will work with any aircraft with a cannon.

EDIT: After getting hate mail on PSN after i did this, i want to know if this is regarded as 'dishonorable, cheap'?

What unlock do you get for destroying Ground tragets with a G6 ???
Must be those missing German rockets

[Korsakov829]

I've landed a Po-2 next to a bunker once and shot it with the tailgunner. Takes a whole 2 minutes to get one point down. The Po-2 in itself is a CTA aircraft for arcade. Take it to a 1vs1 on CTA, you can average 20 kills with 5 deaths. Somewhat the same for the I-16 Type 24 and the I-153. With either aircraft, its very easy to get a easy landing.