Stuka tactics

[1./KG4_OldJames]

I love the Stuka, sorry, but I do.

 

The trouble is, as soon as a stuka is spotted, he is dead.

 

Can anyone enlighten me to some tips and tricks apart from staying in the clouds?

[SCG_Slater]

I guess you're talking about PvP? if not tight turns will out turn any fighter, regarding PvP I don't know as I haven't done this yet.

[NETSCAPE]

Honestly flying any attack or bomber plane WITHOUT escort or multiple people flying in attack/bomber in formation with you gets old quick.

 

The MG on the stuka is pretty brutal if you can fly and look behind you at the same time to assure your gunner can get off rounds. Make sure to tell your gunner to fire at will and tell him short or medium engage distance. I prefer short. Seems like people recommend long range on youtube and some forum posts - I think that's pointless waste of ammo. I compared my gunner engage distance that I view as "very likely to hit" to the AI gunner distance.... yeah I don't engage at medium or long distance, so why would I have the AI do it when they tend to not be as good as my shooting? Again waste of ammo I think.

 

One of the last matches I played I shot down two yaks in a stuka, then I crash landed, but I landed! One kill was my AI gunner the other was me on the rear gun. The AI gunner kill was me at tree top level flying like a mad man weaving back and forth and pulling up just slightly as needed when the yak would try to dip beneath my gunners coverage - if I would have flown level I would have been toast and he would have barely taken hits. A smart Russian will attack you from below (dive to the deck to avoid that) or will dive at a steep angle ontop of you. If they just follow your six you have a decent chance of sending him home, like my example I just gave and make adjustments for your gunner. Everything I just said applies to after bombs are/were dropped though... personally I'd never drop alt from my comfy 4000m because I see a russian... but yeah formations and or fighter escort is needed in that sense. The handfull of times I've flow sorties with like 3-6 ju87, ju88 or he 111s together we usually killed at least 1 enemy fighter, or rather our gunners did and we were just smooth sailing :D

 

And I love the Stuka too. My first love in this game was the Stuka. And after 400 hours in game I have come full circle back to it. I'm working on a scripted campaign for the Stuka in the Battle of Stalingrad. Just mapped out the missions after a couple weeks of re-reading up on the battle, looks like 20ish missions running from the end of July through Christmas week. :D The only missions I've made so far 12 stukas taxi and take off from parking, 4 flights of 3 stuka vicc formation where the player isn't flight lead and must fly in formation! quite the sight/feeling! You never get certain things in multiplayer....like weather and turbulence lol.

 

Random side note, but the MG pods have no practical use in multiplayer really (artillery straffing perhaps) but man do those things sound awesome :D what a ridiculous weapon concept hahaha i love it.

Edited May 1, 2017 by NETSCAPE

[DerNeueMensch]

Very much looking forward to your campaign NETSCAPE, I have been waiting for a stuka campaign or at least SP missions; I don't really want to fly fighters in SP, but bombers is a different story!