So few IL2's online, why?

[Ursyne]

Im curious why this plane sees no love online and is almost always overshadowed by the other bomber?

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

You sure? Usually they're just flying at 300m trying to avoid detection, but you can always see them at airfields.

[Gambit21]

It's a mystery.

It's my preference.

[TXSailor_1]

I use it, but then I also use the I-16 a lot, and Bf-109E...

[DickDong]

It gets plenty, you have bad timing

[ShamrockOneFive]

Whenever I'm on I'm usually in one. Or I see a whole bunch of them.

 

One of the most versatile and effective attack planes around.

[Boaty-McBoatface]

The 1943 model with the .50 Cal rear gun is definitely a go to.

Edited August 6, 2017 by temujin

[[CPT]CptJackSparrow]

The 1943 model with the .50 Cal rear gun is definitely a go to.

This

[Feathered_IV]

You sure? Usually they're just flying at 300m trying to avoid detection, but you can always see them at airfields.

That's what I do.

[7.GShAP/Silas]

The Il-2 is what my group flies, but you'd only see us at base since we fly with the treetops the rest of the way.  I see a healthy number of them at airbases, which is nice.

[-SF-Disarray]

It might also depend on what targets you are observing too. IL-2s are great for killing armor, vics, ships and other light  or distributed targets. Blasting train stations, warehouses, and factory complexes on the other hand, is where the PE-2 shines. In truth, either bomber can take on both types of targets with some competence, it all comes down to weapon load outs. The cannon and rockets options of the IL-2 make killing dispersed targets easier, while the heavy bomb options on the PE make leveling groups of buildings fun and easy.

[CanadaOne]

Nothing beats flying an IL2 at ground level, keeping up the speed, and when some lovely 109 flies way overhead, just lift your nose and take a sniper shot with the 37mm.

 

I've done that online in IL2-46, and you can just hear the "WTF!" coming from the 109 pilot as he hurtles to the ground in a shredded 'Shmidt, wondering what just happened.

 

It's so sweet.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Every mission i play on WoL about 1/3 to 1/5th of the vvs forces are always IL2's
with a few players known to use them as bomber hunters and Suedo Fighters.
 

[Herne]

On WoL earlier this evening I took an IL2 to attack a tank column. when I got there, I was the last of about 7 IL2's that made quick work of not just the tanks, but the artillery, a train station and an enemy warehouse as well. I could not believe the carnage, these birds made without even having to return to re arm. Its not often i get back to base entirely empty of ordnance. I did tonight.

[Pharoah]

I love the IL2. On the next TAW campaign I'm going to fly the IL2 solely. Its the original SU-25T! lol. But yes, whenever I'm flying the IL2 you won't see me higher than 500m (and even then thats on the pop up just before the target). 

[CUJO_1970]

You sure? Usually they're just flying at 300m trying to avoid detection, but you can always see them at airfields.

 

300m Seems a little high to me...

 

[Pharoah]

lol and that FW is even lower

[Feathered_IV]

lol and that FW is even lower

 

Quite right. There is nothing lower. 

[216th_Lucas_From_Hell]

Nice of you to help the Il-2 trim its garden, CUJO

[CanadaOne]

300m Seems a little high to me...

 

IL2 BOS 15.jpg

If you're not seeing the tops of trees when you look up, you're too high.

[19//Moach]

if you don't come back with squirrels lodged in the wheel wells, you're flying too high

 

 

it's not that there aren't IL2's flying around, it's that when they do, they don't really wanna be seen

[CUJO_1970]

Nice of you to help the Il-2 trim its garden, CUJO

 

I'm pretty helpful that way

[ZachariasX]

I'm pretty helpful that way

Using the gras as we use the trees in CloD ^^

[=WH=PangolinWranglin]

I actually unmounted my prop and replaced it with a drill. This way I can fly so low, I'm underground. No one ever expects the underground IL2. 

[ZachariasX]

I actually unmounted my prop and replaced it with a drill. This way I can fly so low, I'm underground. No one ever expects the underground IL2. 

Russian inquisition?

[19//Moach]

Russian inquisition?

 

not even the spanish inquisition expects the russian inquisition! 

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

300m Seems a little high to me...

 

IL2 BOS 15.jpg

Well, you will get a medal from Stalin for harvesting hay! Although that may be tempered by the fact you killed one of his pilots in the process. Edited August 11, 2017 by II/JG17_HerrMurf