Tactical Air War

[CSW_Tommy544]

@=LG=Blakhart I know you are not asking for it, but I will give you my opinion on using 2 accounts anyway.

 

I feel like allowing people to fly on two separate accounts for the same side is absolutely wrong. Doing so, some people can basically have unlimited amount of lives, as if money is of no concern to them, they can just keep making accounts and keep buying the same game all over. Why should some people need to wait through their 20 hour ban, when others don't? If this is a way you are trying to boost sales and thus improve the revenue of 1CGS, then I am sorry, but I really don't feel like this is your intention .

 

You say that you cannot detect people using multiple accounts, so you allow it. It is basically the same thing as if you would say, as long as you people can program cheats that we cannot detect, feel free to use them. Using cheats is not allowed and in case someone gets caught using some, the person gets automatically banned. You can write exactly the same thing about using multiple accounts in the rules and then it is up to the players to risk it. You might find a way how to detect it at some point in the future and they will automatically get banned.

 

In your obsession about yourself not being in a disadvantage compared to even just a couple other players, you agreed to a rule change, which allows a handful of players have double the amount of lives (or more), while the majority of the players will suffer. How does this even seem right to you with all of your ridiculous opinions about how brutal this simulated war should be and how there is absolutely NO MERCY is totally beyond me.  How in the world can profit of a few players outweigh the fair-play of the vast majority? Just suck it up! You keep saying how good you are, so why should it even be a problem to you if 2 or 3 players break this rule and will fly on a second account. Just more targets for you, am I right?

 

And to add insult to injury, just a week ago, you called us stupid to even think that you would "cheat" and that you are using your son's account just because there was a bug in the script. Well, it seems like we are not that stupid after all, since now you are doing just that... 

 

Disappointing @=LG=Blakhart, very disappointing from you....

[SvAF/F16_lassekongo]

2 hours ago, SvAF/F16_lassekongo said:

@=LG=Kathonwhy was my hangar reset when the new round began. lost all my advanced planed i had not touched. Is your whole hangar restored to zero when a new operation begins ?

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by SvAF/F16_lassekongo

[C-47A]

On 5/15/2021 at 8:45 AM, =LG=Blakhart said:

 

Balance factor  (Iron rule)

Tactical Air War missions are not fair.
TAW simulatesthe World War II conflict, operates 24/7 during a Season, and always allow people to register on prefered sides. For those reasons it is impossible to achieve a balanced number of players on every TAW mission.That is the harsh reality every player accepts upon entering the server. There is no auto-balance. Outnumbered teams must adapt and change tactics. Individual players are responsible for risk management, and should make smart decisions on behalf of themselves and their team, according to the current situation. Our responsibility as administrators is to provide oversight of all registered participants. Complaints concerning unfair fights will be ignored.

 

How to register for Axis? Rules are confusing me.

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

On 5/12/2021 at 7:00 AM, =KG76=flyus747 said:

The idea behind locking bombers far up the progression tree was to emphasize how "valuable" they are, but I think the current implementation is not the answer. It has only killed bombers in TAW and made them nonexistent. The idea of "fly more of what you want" has been thrown out the window for bombers and attackers. There is no Ju87 line, no IL2 line. It is not enough to simply tuck these roles under the "bomber lines" and call it fair.

As you point out, almost no one is flying bombers and the ones that have it are too scared to bring it out because they know if they are KILLED/CAPTURED they will have to restart all the way from the beginning. If it takes 5 hours to finally be able to unlock a bomber how many players, at any given time, you can surely expect that bombers will be nearly absent from the gameplay.

It is like War Thunder...

Rank I has millions of players because everyone has access to it.
Rank II is probably something slightly below that because it's fairly quick to get to.
Rank VI only has probably 50,000 because it takes a much longer time to get there.

Now imagine that everytime you die, you have to start back at Rank I. How then can you imagine there will possibly be any Rank VI vehicles in game?

Bomber pilots do not fly fighters. Imagine if it was reversed. Force fighters to grind the bombers before they can unlock a fighter. Doesn't make sense does it? Then how does the opposite make sense? Pilots choose their careers because they want to fly a specific planes. 

At the moment, I can only imagine how betrayed the bomber pilots feel after signing up on TAW as a bomber only to spend 90% of their sorties flying fighters.

If you want to emphasize how valuable bombers are and still prevent Pe2 spamming, punish the team, not so much the player.

Make it like this: 
Every bomber lost = 5 aircraft
Every attacker lost = 2 aircraft
Every fighter lost = 1 aircraft

OR

Reimagine what "Total Aircraft" is for each team.
For example:

Reds no longer have "1500 aircraft"

Instead, make it like this. Have 800 Pe2s + 200 Yaks + 100 MiG, etc... = 1500 aircraft.

If the Reds want to be reckless with their Pe2s and spam, they will quickly run out and have no more momentum to ground attack with it. 

To prevent players from being reckless with these bombers, punish them if they lose X% of that plane. If there are 100 Pe2s allotted for your team and you are personally responsible for losing 5% of them, you will be punished in some way or form.

 

Conclusion

This is how we make TAW more diverse. I think something like this will still make players value their planes, and pilots will actually be able to "fly more of what they want", and still prevent Pe2 spams.



 

So far I have 4 flight hours in Migs and scored only 9 ground kills plus a single 109F. I still need 2 CP to unlock my first plane. I will be really upset if it's going to be a IL2. I signed up for level bombers tree not attackers one. 

[Pict]

2 hours ago, Saumbritter said:

How to register for Axis? Rules are confusing me.

 

That's easy...just wait for the BoBP campaign when most of the wanna be Hartmanns trade their 109's for ponies & lightnings  

 

That's what I do when I want fly the wulf. 

[=AD=Kap-the-head]

1 hour ago, 6./ZG26_Gielow said:

So far I have 4 flight hours in Migs and scored only 9 ground kills plus a single 109F. I still need 2 CP to unlock my first plane. I will be really upset if it's going to be a IL2. I signed up for level bombers tree not attackers one. 

 

In one Mig, you can easily get 9-10 ground kills in one mission.  Find the partisans, destroy 3 AAA, drop your bombs on two med. tanks, destroy APCs with 12.7mm. You'll easily get 18 CPs.  The problem is, nobody wants to learn how to fly new equipment.

[102nd-YU-devill]

Seems the biggest new feature in TAW is the systematic strafing of downed planes.

I guess we need to bring out the best in people, otherwise its not fun!

 

[=19GvFAB=Vlad-Executor]

1 час назад, =TH=Kap-the-head сказал:

 

In one Mig, you can easily get 9-10 ground kills in one mission.  Find the partisans, destroy 3 AAA, drop your bombs on two med. tanks, destroy APCs with 12.7mm. You'll easily get 18 CPs.  The problem is, nobody wants to learn how to fly new equipment.

And what about the fans of the horizontal bombers. They need to make 32 transports to get their plane. Would you agree to fly if you had to 32 transport missions to your fighter?

Have you seen a lot of bombers on this taw? I - none.

[Coldman]

9 hours ago, =KG76=flyus747 said:

I brought it up during early testing but there was no time.

 

Here was my proposed Career line with Basic Bombers and Advanced Bombers. 

 

Basic Bomber let's everyone fly bombers and for bomber career line it means you don't spend 90% of your time flying jabos or attackers. You can start flying bombers from the start, albeit with limited loadouts.

 

i'd rather give he111 basic a 1000kg bomb load locked than 16x50kg since it works like 250kg bomb max. but i like that idea.

6 hours ago, E69_Falke_Wolf said:

Hello. I guess there is some kind of Bug. According to the rules:

• Death penalty – 800 Exp / -10 CP / Reset of Advanced planes (Basic available)

But there are some dead pilots with their hangars full, even with advanced aircraft ...





Instead, the pilots who had get the advanced Bf 109 F-4 1.3ata they have seen it disappear, back to Basic planes and have to get CPs again to fly Bf 109 F-4 1.42ata

 

what squadron those pilots represent?

7 hours ago, SV7_Zommer said:

(Kampfzerstörer)
died on Ju87
Wrote off Hs129
PS there is also a strange division of Hs129 into two lines.
 

thts probably bug because in early planeset hs 129 was an advance plane in some maps so thing to patch.

[WokeUpDead]

2 hours ago, =19GvFAB=Vlad-Executor said:

And what about the fans of the horizontal bombers. They need to make 32 transports to get their plane. Would you agree to fly if you had to 32 transport missions to your fighter?

Have you seen a lot of bombers on this taw? I - none.

 

This new system in TAW definitely favors jacks of all trades over masters of one. Personally I like it since I fly all sorts of planes, but I can see how specialists would be annoyed.

 

I fly alone most of the time and I managed to earned level bombers on both my blue and red accounts in about 7 and 9 hours respectively, despite some deaths early on. I now seem to have lost my Pe2 between maps 3 and 4 because we went from the 35 series to the 87 series, but that's another issue that I hope gets fixed next time.

 

Speaking of issues, this doesn't look right; as part of the Doppel-Blitz career I should have only one Hs 129, but I should also have a 109E7 which I'm missing now:

 

Edited May 17, 2021 by WokeUpBlue
changed "shouldn't" to "should"

[=AD=Kap-the-head]

Quote

And what about the fans of the horizontal bombers. They need to make 32 transports to get their plane. Would you agree to fly if you had to 32 transport missions to your fighter?

Have you seen a lot of bombers on this taw? I - none.

 

 

Even the real bomber pilots learn to fly lighter aircraft before upgrading to multiengine platforms.  I enjoy level bombing as well, nevertheless, I learnt to enjoy attacking using lighter aircraft.  It is never a good idea to put all the eggs in one basket 

Edited May 17, 2021 by =TH=Kap-the-head

[Real_NBD]

Bark was a naughty boy today, disconnected right before hitting the ground after getting struck by flak:

 

https://tacticalairwar.com/pilot_sortie.php?id=22764&name=Bark

 

 

[SvAF/F16_lassekongo]

I just want to ask the admins again. If you have unlicked your advanced planes and lost lost anyone of them are you really supposed to loose them all when a new operation or öap begins ? That happened to me when i unlocked the pe2 ft and il1941 advanced on the last days of moscow strategic offensive and when it rolled to stalingrad my pe2 ft and il1941 advanced was lost.

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

9 hours ago, =LG=Coldman said:

what squadron those pilots represent?

 

TH Squadron. I haven't checked all the pilots, but by chance I looked at the top rankings and found that.
It doesn't matter much (they've already done CPs to have advanced aircraft after that), but I guess it's some kind of Bug.
 

[KoN_]

11 hours ago, =TH=Kap-the-head said:

 

In one Mig, you can easily get 9-10 ground kills in one mission.  Find the partisans, destroy 3 AAA, drop your bombs on two med. tanks, destroy APCs with 12.7mm. You'll easily get 18 CPs.  The problem is, nobody wants to learn how to fly new equipment.

Also need wingmen as AAA is deadly . Flying alone on this server = death . 

[Pict]

11 hours ago, =TH=Kap-the-head said:

 

In one Mig, you can easily get 9-10 ground kills in one mission.  Find the partisans, destroy 3 AAA, drop your bombs on two med. tanks, destroy APCs with 12.7mm. You'll easily get 18 CPs.  The problem is, nobody wants to learn how to fly new equipment.

 

Agreed, when it comes together earning CP is not as hard as it first appears to be. You even get +1CP for taking hits and getting home  

 

8 minutes ago, KoN_ said:

Also need wingmen as AAA is deadly . Flying alone on this server = death . 

 

Indeed this is the key to success and I'm happy to say that today I've ironed out my communications problems and now just need to hook up with others on the server.

 

In my previous sortie yesterday I managed to get myself shot down and killed for nothing by being on my own and not keeping an eye on time and sky...so the slate was wiped clean...again.

 

In my latest sortie today I was just on the server to test my comms/sounds but couldn't raise anyone on TS. Just as I was about to disconnect I saw a MiG spawn and take off next to me, so I followed it and that turned out to be a good idea

 

Here is today's brief sortie where there were a few Reds that I managed to join over a tank column. AA was easy to knock out as it was tracking more than just me so I got two of them, plus a Pz4 on my initial bomb run and a few damaged wagons.

 

https://tacticalairwar.com/pilot_sortie.php?id=22845&name=Pict

 

 

All this without even using my now up and running comms...I'm looking forward to getting involved with a group action where things are well organised  Then I shouldn't be long before I dust down the Pe-2 and cause some real damage  

[FTC_Nerfection]

I couldn't find anything in the manual about this, so I thought I'd raise it here:

Is it a bug or a feature that a player must earn both their advanced attackers (in my case the IL2-1942) before they earn their bomber? It seems off that I need both il2s before I can unlock my peshka. I wonder if anyone else had come across this?

 

It was a bit disheartening to find this out when I thought I was about to have my lovely Pe2, but instead got another awful IL2-1942 XD

 

It also doesn't match up with the 'Boston' planeset, as there's only 1 IL2-1942 in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R4axJddxODztnAeYVHbSVk-HiL9eoSUcLtMGoYdLyjo/edit#gid=323397564 

Pls. Hlp.

Edited May 17, 2021 by Nerfection

[E69_Zelar]

22 hours ago, =KG76=flyus747 said:

I brought it up during early testing but there was no time.

 

Here was my proposed Career line with Basic Bombers and Advanced Bombers. 

 

Basic Bomber let's everyone fly bombers and for bomber career line it means you don't spend 90% of your time flying jabos or attackers. You can start flying bombers from the start, albeit with limited loadouts.

 

To all of you (me too) that want to have a new bomber career line, I think we ought to follow the rules of taw manual for RCP.

So we had to create a pool in the forum and have more than 200 likes.

 

Edited May 17, 2021 by E69_Gote

[Coldman]

5 hours ago, SvAF/F16_lassekongo said:

I just want to ask the admins again. If you have unlicked your advanced planes and lost lost anyone of them are you really supposed to loose them all when a new operation or öap begins ? That happened to me when i unlocked the pe2 ft and il1941 advanced on the last days of moscow strategic offensive and when it rolled to stalingrad my pe2 ft and il1941 advanced was lost.

that was answered by todeskvlt few pages earlier. 

3 hours ago, E69_Falke_Wolf said:

TH Squadron. I haven't checked all the pilots, but by chance I looked at the top rankings and found that.
It doesn't matter much (they've already done CPs to have advanced aircraft after that), but I guess it's some kind of Bug.
 

Squadrons with achivements got extra slots or extra adv planes, TH is that squadron. it should gave them extra slot for adv plane at 1st level. 0/4 but it looks like little bug  because it gives an extra adv plane too. We will polish this next campaing, Now it is very rewarding to get those squadron rewards so i encourage all to get there.

Edited May 17, 2021 by =LG=Coldman

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

18 minutes ago, =LG=Coldman said:

 

Squadrons with achivements got extra slots or extra adv planes, TH is that squadron. it should gave them extra slot for adv plane at 1st level. 0/4 but it looks like little bug  because it gives an extra adv plane too. We will polish this next campaing, Now it is very rewarding to get those squadron rewards so i encourage all to get there.

 

Yeah, but the Bug is not to give an extra planeor not  in this case. The issue is that both pilots died and they have still ALL their advanced planes (despite of the number).
But don't worry, this is not a criticism, just a bug report. I understand that with ALL the things that have to be programmed in the script it is almost a miracle that there are hardly any bugs.
Regards!

[Coldman]

16 minutes ago, E69_Falke_Wolf said:

Yeah, but the Bug is not to give an extra planeor not  in this case. The issue is that both pilots died and they have still ALL their advanced planes (despite of the number).
But don't worry, this is not a criticism, just a bug report. I understand that with ALL the things that have to be programmed in the script it is almost a miracle that there are hardly any bugs.
Regards!

i mean that it should work like that if they achieve 2nd level of squadron progres. +1 adv plane after every mission or after reset of hangar due to death. 

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

@Nerfection @WokeUpDead @=19GvFAB=Vlad-Executor @6./ZG26_Gielow @SV7_Zommer  @ALA13_Antiguo @Fritz_Faber
  @=KG76=flyus747

And anyone else to want to ask for a Basic Bomber Line, please, visit:
 

 

[CSW_Hot_Dog]

1 hour ago, =LG=Coldman said:

In this should be somehow implemented number of pilots in squadron... this again disadvantages small squadrons over large ones. So something like 10*N Airkils or 100*N Groundkills, where "N" is number of pilots in squad would be much more fair...

[Coldman]

50 minutes ago, CSW_Hot_Dog said:

In this should be somehow implemented number of pilots in squadron... this again disadvantages small squadrons over large ones. So something like 10*N Airkils or 100*N Groundkills, where "N" is number of pilots in squad would be much more fair...

IT is intended. We want favor bigger squadrons. We want as big squadrons as possibile.

[Operatsiya_Ivy]

I guess we have to create more accounts to make our squad bigger and being able to fly more :^)

Edited May 17, 2021 by Operatsiya_Ivy

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

23 hours ago, =TH=Kap-the-head said:

 

In one Mig, you can easily get 9-10 ground kills in one mission.  Find the partisans, destroy 3 AAA, drop your bombs on two med. tanks, destroy APCs with 12.7mm. You'll easily get 18 CPs.  The problem is, nobody wants to learn how to fly new equipment.

The problem is it makes no sense flying fighters if you are a bomber crew on server trying to simulate the war.  Everyone knows it, it will be fixed for the next season and you don't need to play the fanboy. Besides your suggestion sounds like look for the goblins in magic forest to farm your gold and XP and not feasible flight ops.

 

I will haul some cargo to help my team while I hope not to unlock two IL2s before getting a bomber Pe2.

Edited May 17, 2021 by 6./ZG26_Gielow

[6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann]

TAW is as fighter centric as it has ever been, nothing has changed. Defensive flying is meaningless because Flak does most of the killing, flying Offensive Missions is meaningless Russian Roulette with a Double Barreled Shotgun against the Flak.

 

So as always the Server serves the Hartmanns and Stat-Padders who meet far away from the Objectives to peacefully furball amongst themselves and some Prometheii like us who enjoy being gutted on a daily basis.

 

Unlike we Prometheus we mostly don't even get to bring fire down to Earth first.

Edited May 17, 2021 by 6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann

[=BES=Wolf-1]

I fly ground attack almost exclusively. I have done pretty good in this role in prior campaigns. I picked the zerstrorer line, because I’m capable and confident in the 110 and because the blues were outnumbered in my time zone. . This campaign seemed like it was set up to value ground pounders. I haven’t been able to fly much due to my work schedule, yet here I am having to fly a Stuka in map four against advanced planes on the red side that provide slim chance of my survival. My experience in a 109 is minimal, and since I never considered it for ground attack I haven’t spent much time flying it. My old squad mate would provide cover. When I get a chance, I will keep plugging away, but my chances of flying a 110 seem to get slimmer every map. So bottom line, i love TAW, but with this round “not happy, but I’ll do what I can, when I can”

[Pict]

11 hours ago, 6./ZG26_Gielow said:

I will haul some cargo to help my team while I hope not to unlock two IL2s before getting a bomber Pe2.

 

It's looking very much that both IL-2's need to be unlocked prior to unlocking the Pe-2 and this is also my dilemma as it feels like I'm never going to get there. I seem to get halfway to one and then get wiped out by flak mostly and once a Hartmann. But I'm not giving up and got back up to 7 points last night flying a mix of ground attack in the LaGG and supply in the Peshka.

 

Transport missions are crucial to the campaign, so you are contributing, I think more than most appreciate by doing them. I think of it  as using my bomber to cancel out the work of their bomber or fighter-bomber and that makes it more bearable.

 

The U-2, if you have access to it, is a very good alternative to the Pe-2 for transport missions, as it can supply at a greater rate, from the manual,

 

Quote

The Ju-52 and U-2 can resupply an airfield by approximately 7% per sortie.
The Pe-2, He-111, and A-20B can resupply airfields by approximately 4% per sortie.

 

and is available from all usable airbases. so even although it's slow, it can be closer to the airbase needing supply than the Pe-2. It also reveals para drop zones on the map to Red players if you happen to fly near one, which I did a few days ago, while navigating on the deck on a winter Moscow map, which is an added challenge.  

Edited May 18, 2021 by Pict

[=[W-H]=dziki]

Hi !

 

Could you please explain me how the random weather works at TAW ?

Now we have August on map #4, Stalingrad area. Statistically this month, there, should be about 20 days of very hot days (30 deg. C, small clouds), 3 days of rain, others 7 days medium clouds, about 25 deg. C.

But what I see on map, this is at least 50 % days of overcast / heavy clouds and maybe 10 % small clouds.

I fly on red side and this weather is good for me but IMO this is not correct.

Edited May 18, 2021 by =[W-H]=dziki

[E69_Falke_Wolf]

Please, all pilots interested in the Bomber Line, go through this thread, read LG_Blackhart post and vote AGAIN.
 

In addition to that, I have proposed a solution that I think could be a simple way to have bombers without changing the whole script.
Although that is up to Kathon and the LGs, it is only a suggestion.

Thanks!!

[RedKestrel]

Does anyone know what the upper level ping limit is on this server? I tried to connect to fly over the weekend and got disconnected quite often. My ping was showing in the 120 range but I know that it sometimes spikes due to connection quality. 

When you are booted for not having the right plane or for another reason, do you see a 10009 error, or another server message? I didn't have the HUD on when signed in so I didn't see anything from the server beforehand warning me.

[KoN_]

21 minutes ago, RedKestrel said:

Does anyone know what the upper level ping limit is on this server? I tried to connect to fly over the weekend and got disconnected quite often. My ping was showing in the 120 range but I know that it sometimes spikes due to connection quality. 

When you are booted for not having the right plane or for another reason, do you see a 10009 error, or another server message? I didn't have the HUD on when signed in so I didn't see anything from the server beforehand warning me.

I've time out a few times ping wise i see no green number when entering online . But 90% I'm ok online and don't loose connection . 

Do a modem reset power off on for 10 seconds clear the data . 

Edited May 18, 2021 by KoN_

[Pict]

1 hour ago, RedKestrel said:

Does anyone know what the upper level ping limit is on this server? I tried to connect to fly over the weekend and got disconnected quite often. My ping was showing in the 120 range but I know that it sometimes spikes due to connection quality. 

When you are booted for not having the right plane or for another reason, do you see a 10009 error, or another server message? I didn't have the HUD on when signed in so I didn't see anything from the server beforehand warning me.

 

No idea, however when they were testing recently I was occasionally seeing a massive ping when trying to enter the server and getting booted regularly.

 

=LG=Coldman posted the following advice on page 257 of this thread;

 

  

On 4/26/2021 at 11:28 PM, =LG=Coldman said:

Possible fix to those who has ping issues with our server. it is sartup.cfg file

 

[KEY = network]
      available_ip = ""
      client_download_traflimit = 100000
      client_ip = ""
      client_upload_traflimit = 100000
      downloader_port = 28100
      server_download_traflimit = 1000
      server_upload_traflimit = 1000
      tcp_port = 28000
      udp_port = 28000
[END]

 

I tried this and I haven't had and issue with ping since, at least that I'm aware of for as Kon_ says above, the ping doesn't always show, in fact from what I've seen, more often than not that's the case.

[WokeUpDead]

Hi LG,

 

If I'm reading the plane-set chart correctly, I should have to earn only one advanced IL-2 in my Peshka career before I can start earning my Pe-2 on map 4:

 

 

However, my stats page shows that I need to earn 2 advanced IL-2s before I can start earning my Peshka:

 

Am I not understanding something correctly, or is this a bug?

[FTC_Nerfection]

12 hours ago, WokeUpBlue said:

Hi LG,

 

If I'm reading the plane-set chart correctly, I should have to earn only one advanced IL-2 in my Peshka career before I can start earning my Pe-2 on map 4:

 

 

However, my stats page shows that I need to earn 2 advanced IL-2s before I can start earning my Peshka:

 

Am I not understanding something correctly, or is this a bug?

I posted the exact same question but never got a response :( It seems that unless you message =LG=Todes directly (who is really good at responding quickly and helpfully) you're on your own, especially with the discord down indefinitely.

 

It's a shame that the Il2 you get two of is the downgraded 1942 version. I'd prefer 2 1941s :)

[Pict]

4 hours ago, Nerfection said:

the downgraded 1942 version

 

Interesting, was that when they stopped using Duralumin™ for the wings? Was the motor downgraded too? I need to bone up on the Il-2 and start flying it more.

 

Edit; I'm sure you need to get both IL-2 42's before you get a Pe-2. I just took 2 screens from a guys statistics that appears to prove this theory. One shot of his hangar where he as everything but the Pe-2 and one shot of his current life that give some idea of how much you need to do without getting shot down by AA or Bubbi™ to be 4 point from getting a Pe-2...it's a lot.

 

Spoiler

 

====================

 

In other news, the Blues have lost both depots and the border bases next to them, so I guess the end is nigh for the big push Axis push at Stalingrad...They only have two bases left and a small yet target rich territory.

 

Spoiler

 

I flew a fair bit in the last couple of missions and had the pleasure to fly alongside some of the =TPE3BOE HE6O= squadron, which was fun even although I had no way of communicating with them. Time to learn some basic Russian and add that to the other languages I have a go at. откройте радиатор (open your radiator) would have been useful if I'd known how to say that. But for now I'll just say thanks for letting me fly alongside you all, спасибо 

 

I racked up a fair few +CP and was close to getting my first Il-2 42 for the second time even though I got tagged by the AA a bit, I mostly RTB'd. Needless to say it didn't last and I got shot down by a 109 and killed, so lost all the +CP again.

 

I soon built it back up, but getting a bit overconfident, target fixation some call it, I clipped something, with my tail when I pulled out pretty had I think, and lawn darted the LaGG killing my guy and most of the +CP with him 

 

It's a lot of fun and I'm happy with flying the fighter-bombers and if I can be sure of flying with others would be keen to fly the IL-2 as well. This round of TAW certainly has put the vik back into Sturmovik and I don't just mean the IL-2. All up I think that's a good thing. No doubt they will tweak it in the longer run, but for now it's no bad thing as far as I'm concerned and I think they do a great job the LG guys 

Edited May 19, 2021 by Pict

[Blakhart]

5 hours ago, Nerfection said:

 

 

Hi Nerf! This and issue with rockets is under progress. 

[KoN_]

Great AAA even shoots its own pilots down .. ? one hit one Kill .

Great AAA . I give up . ?

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by KoN_

[Pict]

1 hour ago, KoN_ said:

Great AAA even shoots its own down .. ? one hit one Kill . Great AAA . I give up . ?

 

 Don't give up KoN_...

 

If you're on sometime that I'm around I'll fly flak bait for you if you like...not that I don't get hit, but I'm getting better at getting them home  

 

 

Wish I'd gotten a screenshot of the one where about 1 third of my wing was shot off...the plane flipped on it's back just as I was about to pull out after the attack. Somehow I got it upright without hitting the deck and after wrestling with it for a while manged to get it down only to realize what had happened. Tough old bird the LaGG-3