Strangest way you scored a victory?

[Cybermat47]

What’s the strangest way you’ve scored a victory in the game, multiplayer or singleplayer?

 

My strangest multiplayer victory happened today. Someone reported a large dogfight in the chat, so I headed to the specified location in a Bf-109 F-4. Sure enough, smoking aircraft are already dropping out of the sky. I spot a Yak (at the time I thought it was a Spitfire) down low, but I lose sight of him while trying to get into a better position. Moving on, I spot a Spitfire in a turn. I make a shallow dive at him, and fire a long deflection burst. The MGs ding his elevators, and, knowing that he’s under attack, he instinctively inverts the Spit and dives.

 

The only problem is that he was 50m above the ground at the time. He was so close to not hitting the ground, but he did. 

 

I get no credit in-game, but the IL-2 stats website credits me with a victory. And then some Yaks spotted me, and, being in a low-flying Bf-109, they of course made quick work of me.

 

http://il2stat.aviaskins.com:8008/en/sortie/log/2850171/?tour=33

 

 

 

 

[Wolfram-Harms]

My strangest-ever 3 victories were, when I flew a Finnish Bf 109.
Though it looks terrible after my first kill, I was the only survivor.

But my touchdown hurt on the bum - and parachute silk's softness is MUCH overrated, believe me!

 

 

[Wolfram-Harms]

PS: By the way - the first aircraft you were after WAS a Spitfire. After that there are three more guys around with Yaks.
You can see that in your link you sent.

[Finkeren]

The strangest victory I ever scored happened several years ago - unfortunately I don't have footage of it.

 

I was flying on a full real server and my situational awareness was absolute crap (I didn't own TrackIR back then). 

 

I was flying a Yak-1 and had finally spotted what I believed to be an enemy fighter slightly below me and began stalking him. I closed to about 150m and had him right in my sight from a slightly low six position, I was completely convinced, that I he hadn't seen me. Just as I was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly pulled up and I noticed, that "oh **** that's not a 109, it's a LaGG!". Completely perplexed I took my sight off the target but still somehow managed to press the trigger. At that same moment a Bf 109 swoops into sight, overshooting me at what must've been 800km/h and flies right into my bullet stream, his fuselage breaking in half. Apparently the German pilot had spotted the two of us down low, thinking we were flying in formation, and decided to go for me first as the rearmost one. His shot must've landed short and gone behind my aircraft (I never noticed any tracers). The LaGG pilot I was stalking then spotted the attacking German (apparently he had better SA than me at least), pulled up to avoid him and thus by pure luck dragged my sight right into the path of the 109. 

 

That poor 109 pilot must've thought that I was the greatest marksman in the world. In fact, if he had attacked 2 seconds later, I would probably have shot down the LaGG and he could easily have finished me off.

Edited March 12, 2018 by Finkeren

[Cybermat47]

11 minutes ago, Finkeren said:

-snip-

 

 

I... wow. I don’t think it’s going to get much stranger than that...

[ATA_Vasilij]

its not strange... its awesome.

longer time in a battle, most ammo already out and enemy in He111 trying to drop those HUGE German OVERSIZED 1000 milion tons BIG bomb (why the hell russia dosnt have these???) to our positions. Only 6, perharps 7 bullets were going out of my guns, when empty.  Throttle to the max, and with fire in my eyes, cutting his tails by my propeller, clapping his fuselage by my right wing, and to be exact: I landed on his body :D :D

 

He was going down, me of course as well, but the nuclear weapon didnt reach its destiantion. For my Motherland !

 

[rolikiraly]

Ok, Fink killed this thread quickly .

(OFF: do you think your SA was crap BECAUSE you didn't have TIR? I'd like to hear your thoughts on that?)

[-TBC-AeroAce]

The one I aspire to is PTABing a 111 in mid air!

 

The best one I have had to date is when I was landing I was bounced by two 190 when I was on final with flaps and gear down. I said nuts to it and went full power, shot ones wing off, it the span into the other bringing it down. I put it down before the end of the runway without group looping. Xd

 

I wish I could be bothered to use shadow play for these moments 

Edited March 12, 2018 by AeroAce

[56RAF_Roblex]

Best I can do is 'Got my engine shot out attacking a tank base and crash landed in the middle of the base then my AI gunner destroyed two of the bases guns while I was waiting to despawn.'

 

[SCG_happy_meal]

maneuver kill on a yak 1B with my trused Ju-52.

Let them slot in on your six, fly towards the nearest  tree then PULL UP!

 

"you cant see the forest for the tante JU" 

Edited March 12, 2018 by SCG_happy_meal

[Finkeren]

1 hour ago, rolikiraly said:

(OFF: do you think your SA was crap BECAUSE you didn't have TIR? I'd like to hear your thoughts on that?)

 

TrackIR has been the greatest flight sim investment since getting my first joystick back i the mid 90s.

 

After just a few days of getting adjusted to it my SA immediately went from being absolute crap to being just plain old crap, and it has stayed at that level ever since 

[No601_Swallow]

3 hours ago, 3.IAP_Vasilij said:

its not strange... its awesome.

longer time in a battle, most ammo already out and enemy in He111 trying to drop those HUGE German OVERSIZED 1000 milion tons BIG bomb (why the hell russia dosnt have these???) to our positions. Only 6, perharps 7 bullets were going out of my guns, when empty.  Throttle to the max, and with fire in my eyes, cutting his tails by my propeller, clapping his fuselage by my right wing, and to be exact: I landed on his body :D :D

 

He was going down, me of course as well, but the nuclear weapon didnt reach its destiantion. For my Motherland !

 

 

Crazy Czech...! 

 

My own offering (seared into my memory): IL2 '46, coop against AI... Most of the surviving squadron has gone back to base, including me, and we're watching stragglers limping back on externals. One squadron-mate is heading back to base with no ammo left. The problem is he's being pursued by a distant but tenacious... CR42? Can't remember (I hated those things piloted by the AI). Actually I think it was a 109. Anyway, with all of us watching on externals, he turns back towards the pursuing 109, with a nonchalant "Let's see if I can get him to go in" [lawn-dart]. A couple of loops and pirouettes later, this AI scourge flew into the ground like a hypnotised hippopotamus. This squadron-mate, whose ego enters a room a good minute and a half before he gets to the doorway, shall - of course - remain nameless.

 

Still annoys me, all these years later. 

Edited March 12, 2018 by No601_Swallow

[No601_Swallow]

1 hour ago, SCG_happy_meal said:

maneuver kill on a yak 1B with my trused Ju-52.

Let them slot in on your six, fly towards the nearest  tree then PULL UP!

 

"you cant see the forest for the tante JU" 

 

So cool! 

[VBF-12_Snake9]

1946/War Birds of Prey/Zekes vs Wildcats

 

There was a early war map where the allies had wild cats and B17s.  The japs had A6M2s and some other bomber.  It was so, so difficult to take down a B17 with a A6M2.  I mean only 7 secs of cannon and then 7.7 mguns.  It was hard.  So hard I developed a strategy of taking off with a (A6M2) 250kg bomb and going B17 hunting.    Yeap, I dropped the 250 on several B17s air to air.  The key was to dive from high 12 and place that sucker right in the cockpit.    It wouldn't explode but the bomb would rip right through the 17 and take it right out of the sky.  There was rules against air to air rockets but not air to air bombs.      

Edited March 12, 2018 by VBF-12_Snake9

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Aerial ramming with fin or gear, followed by a successful landing at base (possibly on the belly). 

 

I've noticed that the effectiveness of this tactic varies from sim to sim. 

[ATAG_Headshot]

IL-2 1946, on Zeke's vs Wildcats. I'm in a corsair and flying a high cover on the expected incoming route for our already very damaged last remaining carrier. I see a Betty bomber heading to the carrier thousands of feet below me and push the nose down while slamming the throttle forward. I pull out of the dive behind him at extreme speed and put the crosshair on target. I begin squeezing the trigger at the same time as the Betty's tail gunner, and within a few seconds I am about to overtake due to the speed I picked up in the dive. I've fired .50 cal rounds all across his plane, and he has returned the favor across mine from his tail gun. I realize that if I pull up and try to go around and line up for another attack that it will be too late for our carrier.

With mere seconds to decide what to do I line up my canopy between his left engine and fuselage and put the level of my glass inches below his wing. As the canopy comes under the wing I push the stick forward as hard as I can which raises the tail just enough to slam my vertical stabilizer into the root of the wing. BANG. My plane starts swaying terribly and I prepare to bail out even while trying to pull back up. I kick my rudder a few times to absolutely no effect and the plane is washing back and forth horribly. As I pull up to lose speed to bail out I look behind me and am surprised and awed at what I see.

I can clearly see part of the Betty with a view that is not obstructed by my vertical stabilizer. The fuselage and right wing of the Betty are spinning off in one direction while the left wing tumbles away the other way. My vertical stabilizer and rudder are nowhere to be seen but I assume they are part of the cloud of wreckage falling below. As my speed drains off I begin to wrestle control of the plane back. I see huge holes down my wings and my engine is running really rough. The Betty tail gunner had definitely hit its mark and my plane is soon doomed.

Thankfully I am also very near my carrier. With the plane dancing left and right beyond my control and my engine slowly losing power I line up on the carrier as quick as I can and drop my flaps. I'm ready to bail at the first sign of trouble... but in the exhilaration of downing the Betty in that manner and surviving I decide that it is time to be cocky and try for a landing. I line up on the carrier, flaps gear and tailhook down and ready, and watch it bounce around my gunsight. Left right left right left right... Have to time it perfectly. At the last moment I fully cut my throttle and drop the corsair HARD on the deck. My landing gear collapses on the impact but the hook snags and drags my plane to a violent stop on the deck. Pulling my head off the dash I look around and see that the world is still again. I can see the waves moving beyond the deck of the carrier that I just saved as my plane sits in a heap but I am alive, and I am dry!

[Freycinet]

Great stories!

 

This is mine:

 

 

[Wolfram-Harms]

Soren, all your vids I knew were tutorials - nice to see that even you can get surprised!

 

By the way: the link below your post brings up a call for me: "If you are the owner of this website... etc."
Maybe someting must be repaired there?

[CrazyDuck]

1. Hitting (and killing) a plane behind the plane I was shooting at. (luckily it was also an enemy)

2. Shooting down a fighter with the tank main gun online (might be nothing special - I'm not often in a tank - but I felt very olympic :D)

 

 

On 12. 3. 2018 at 11:35 PM, VBF-12_Snake9 said:

1946/War Birds of Prey/Zekes vs Wildcats

 

It was so, so difficult to take down a B17 with a A6M2.

 

I'm currently reading Sakai's Samurai - the B-17 was the plane that they considered the hardest plane to shoot down - sometimes as many as five or six zekes failed to shoot down a single B-17. Also, they were usually flying at about 6000 m, which is about 1.5 km higher than Zekes optimal altitude, so B-17s were, besides being incredibly tough and armed to the teeth, also almost as fast as Zeke at that alt. Seems this is well represented in the IL-2 1946.

Edited March 14, 2018 by CrazyDuck

[Y-29.Silky]

On 3/12/2018 at 6:05 PM, Mitthrawnuruodo said:

Aerial ramming with fin or gear, followed by a successful landing at base (possibly on the belly). 

 

I've noticed that the effectiveness of this tactic varies from sim to sim. 

 

 

I was in a P-40 and this La-5 dove on me, collided with my tail and exploded, completely disintegrating. Not a scratch on me.

 

From that moment on, I never forget ShadowPlay.

[BeastyBaiter]

Funniest kill I've ever had in a flight sim was actually in WT (yeah, yeah, I know). What happened is I chased down an La-7 in a P-51 (Korea) in simulator mode and we entered a near vertical climb. He stalled out as I peppered him with MG and on the way down, he collided with his wingman who was trying to swat me. Video below:

 

 

[D3adCZE]

Forcing low flying reds(both Yaks and Lalas) to do negative G maneuvers into the forrest by peppering 8mms above their canopies. It never ceases to amuse me :D