Your favourite WW2 guns

[mondo]

Originally Posted by juz1

I didn't think camping/spawn kill was possible in il2....I was wrong....

Think of it differently. Its a valid tactic and was used extensivly. The 2nd TAF and 9th AF specialised in this sort of thing.

What it boils down to is the defending airforce should protect its airstrip.

[Flanker15]

Originally Posted by mondo

Think of it differently. Its a valid tactic and was used extensivly. The 2nd TAF and 9th AF specialised in this sort of thing.

What it boils down to is the defending airforce should protect its airstrip.

It's ok in some missions where everyone agrees to it and it's a special mission circumstance (a historic recreation for example)

On almost all servers there's a gentleman's agreement not to, as people play to dogfight each other and getting shot up when you can't fight back yet over and over isn't going to be a good experience for anyone.
Most of the time when it happens you can't rely on other planes to protect the airfield as they'll be miles away in an engagement or stuck on the ground with you (as your allies get shot down they end up stuck with you until the whole team is getting shot to pieces by vulchers).
You are allowed to attack planes on the ground with bombs and rockets if it's your mission to attack the airfield however.

If you end up getting vulched repeatedly a last resort tactic is:
Change to a bomber of some sort and outfit the largest bombs available (you know where this is going). Sit on the ground and wait for the offending aircraft to come in for a pass and as he moves over you, drop the bombs. The wonderful shrapnel system in Il-2 will swiss cheese his plane and send him into the ground (netting you a kill). Then you just change back and take off.

[haitch40]

or u can get a bomber with tones of guns and use it as an AA site

[Soviet Ace]

If I meet any of you online, and you try to BnZ me (David ) you better make sure I get shot down, or I'm coming for you

[David603]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

If I meet any of you online, and you try to BnZ me (David ) you better make sure I get shot down, or I'm coming for you

What with? You have to catch me to kill me, or be pretty good at snap shots, and the closest even a La-7 comes to matching performance with a 109K4 is below 5000ft where it is slightly faster in a straight line and only slightly worse at climbing. Above this the gap grows quite rapidly, with the K4 having 40mph top speed and over 1000ft climb per min over a La-7 at 20,000ft. The gap in performance to a Yak 3 is even bigger.

Tell you what though, if you want a TnB fight I'll fly a Spitfire XVI and you can fly a Yak-3. Pretty good match up, I think you would agree.

[Soviet Ace]

Between a MkXIV and Yak-3? That could be interesting, but I think a MkIX Spit would be a better match.

[David603]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Between a MkXIV and Yak-3? That could be interesting, but I think a MkIX Spit would be a better match.

I said Spitfire XVI, not XIV, which is a bigger difference than the numbers make it look. You're right though, a XIV is an even better energy fighter than the 109K, so that wouldn't really be evening out anything

The XVI is basically a Packard Merlin engined IX, and I want it because the Birds of Prey version has a cutdown rear fuselage and bubble canopy that the BoP version of the IX doesn't have. Not really anything else to pick between them, because the Rolls Royce and Packard versions of the Merlin are pretty much the same and a real life IX can have all the same features as a XVI.

[mondo]

Originally Posted by Flanker15

It's ok in some missions where everyone agrees to it and it's a special mission circumstance (a historic recreation for example)

On almost all servers there's a gentleman's agreement not to, as people play to dogfight each other and getting shot up when you can't fight back yet over and over isn't going to be a good experience for anyone.

It usually in the server rules and I don't go on those servers I tend to fly on full switch servers (zeke vs wildcat for instance) with maps that have decent AA emplacements so you have to work with others to take them out first.