Stuka, the funniest plane ever !!!

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

I hope you guys are doing a great job on the Stuka. It's a great responsability to build a classical bird like that

 

If you think that a Ju87 is dead meat, take a look:

 

 

Great glory days !!!

 

 

 

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

Some bombs are misplaced because I made the video from a track and sometimes it loses some data. It's a great example how a Stuka group can be destructive and fun.

 

 

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

Mister developer !!! Dont forget to put lots of ships in the Volga river !!! We love to sink them

 

http://vimeo.com/10854281

[Uufflakke]

I hope the Stuka will be included in BoS!

After reading a review back in 2007 about IL2:1946 the decision what made me buy the game was the fact that the Stuka was included.

 

A real footage of a Ju-87 attacking a railyard in Poland.

Look at the low altitude before the pilot pulls up .

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfKTd1OQzCU&list=FLAavseDL_f4WobjDyJUnysQ&index=7

[Sim]

I hope the Stuka will be included in BoS!

After reading a review back in 2007 about IL2:1946 the decision what made me buy the game was the fact that the Stuka was included.

 

Ju 87 D-3 is already confirmed for BoS.

 

 

A real footage of a Ju-87 attacking a railyard in Poland.

Look at the low altitude before the pilot pulls up .

 

Nice, but basically Poland and the early western front was where the Stuka was effective. After the Germany lost the air superiority Ju 87s became somewhat irrelevant.

[BlackSix]

Mister developer !!! Dont forget to put lots of ships in the Volga river !!! We love to sink them

 

We are making winter season (November -February) and you will see solid ice in Volga. I'm afraid that we'll not have time to make ice drifting.

 

I hope the Stuka will be included in BoS!

After reading a review back in 2007 about IL2:1946 the decision what made me buy the game was the fact that the Stuka was included.

 

Stuka will be included in BoS and you will see it soon.

[TJT]

Ju 87 D-3 is already confirmed for BoS.

 

 

 

Nice, but basically Poland and the early western front was where the Stuka was effective. After the Germany lost the air superiority Ju 87s became somewhat irrelevant.

The Stuka had a bit of a resurgance during the 1941 to 1942 period on the Eastern Front. After that the VVS started to wise up.

[hiro]

The stuka was fun in Il-2. I remember right after take off, speeding up and touching the ground, and knocking the wheels off, and its handling got better (sans bomb you can really tell)

 

The tank killer version was cool. I remember getting some dude in a B-17 after he'd done a shallow bomb pass. He was berating his team mates for not keeping off the fighters, to which they replied, "We did." Lol. 

 

Another thing was sinking a small ship (destroyer?) with the cannons. Or hitting the glass jaw on the IL-2. But the Il-2's blasters usually won out. 

 

Also for some reason when I flew a stuka I was ignored, until I'd hit the ground target and people were like "uh . . ." It's fun watching the surprise of dive bombing an airfield and taking out 5 planes readying for take off. 

Edited April 26, 2013 by hiro

[BlackSix]

Stuka!

[Uufflakke]

Stuka will be included in BoS and you will see it soon.

 

 

Stuka!

 

[69th_chuter]

The stuka was fun in Il-2. I remember right after take off, speeding up and touching the ground, and knocking the wheels off, and its handling got better (sans bomb you can really tell)

 

 ...

 

 

Like the C the D-5 Stuka's gear was jettisonable for just such a last ditch gain in performance.

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

Stuka!

The plane looks awesome !!! 

 

One last thing !!! Don't forget the diving SIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[BlitzPig_EL]

I do hope the Stuka is more realistically portrayed in BoS than it was in IL2.

 

In real life the Stuka was meat on the table for fighters.  In IL2 it's Uber tailgunner, with it's totally unrealistic field of fire made them far too

survivable.

[Sim]

One last thing !!! Don't forget the diving SIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

 

Based on the released sreenshots - the D-3 BoS model won't have the "Jericho Trumpet" siren

But we could get "whistling" bombs as an alternative.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Sim

[OBT-Psycho]

Based on the released sreenshots - the D-3 BoS model won't have the "Jericho Trumpet" siren

But we could get "whistling" bombs as an alternative.

 

yep, IIRC the siren were suppressed on the D version. The fixing plot were stil presents on the gear but no more whizz when diving. 

 

BTW at this point of the conflict they had made their time. And their reputation gained from the spanish war was more than enough to provoque fear in the enemy's ranks.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Psychopoak

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

It Does not matter !!! We want the siren kit to be optional

 

Edited May 9, 2013 by JG62Gielow

[JtD]

We are making winter season (November -February) and you will see solid ice in Volga. I'm afraid that we'll not have time to make ice drifting.

So the title should not be called "battle of Stalingrad", but rather "2nd half of battle of Stalingrad"...bad news as far as I'm concerned. Good news is we won't have to worry about overheating engines.

[Guest deleted@1562]

I hated the winter maps in IL2 - even the very well done winter map of Murmansk. I'm curious, what this one will look like. Add the historical bad winter weather and I'll stay on the ground.

[US95th_Vampire]

S! to all....

 

    Old saying, " It's not the crate you fly, it's how you fly the crate".......V.......

[Uufflakke]

I hated the winter maps in IL2 - even the very well done winter map of Murmansk. I'm curious, what this one will look like. Add the historical bad winter weather and I'll stay on the ground.

 

To everybody's taste of course but I prefered Winter maps and Desert maps in IL-2.

Personally I hardly played Pacific maps and Western European maps. No matter how well they were made by modders.

 

I like to fly with bad weather conditions which makes your crate shake and it is nice to see the snow fall when ready for take off.

Hopefully they create something like a kind of snowstorm that runs over the fields.

(I created something like a moving desert storm for IL-2 by sacrifycing one of the smoke objects. Looks nice but because of the game engine limitations it did have its flaws.)

 

But back on topic about the Ju-87:

Just like ElAurens says, hopefully they make the Stuka tailgunner more realistic.

Now they all are supersnipers who shoot you between the eyes in a split second.

[01Wingchaps]

I'm an ROF flyer, but I'm starting to really get jazzed up over BOS.

 

I have the disk for IL2/Forgotten Battles/ACE expansion Pack/Pacific Fighters. Is there a Stuka campaign in that set?

 

I feel like my best preparation for BOS is to continue playing ROF, and I'm purely looking forward to the FE-2. But I'm starting to get a Stuka jones pretty bad, so I wonder if it would be worth my time to install the IL2 games mentioned above to fly a Stuka...

[Lord_Haw-Haw]

If we get to see anything like this, that I would be more than happy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6OK1zSxKg

It Does not matter !!! We want the siren kit to be optional

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCS8WRNHeg

Who is we? I would wish for correctly modeled Ju87s and nothing else.

[01Wingchaps]

The answer to my question evidently is that there IS a Stuka campaign. Now to learn how to play the sim, lol!

[Fearmeister]

The answer to my question evidently is that there IS a Stuka campaign. Now to learn how to play the sim, lol!

 

Not just one, but two! One of the campaigns has you play as a Romanian Stuka :D

Edited August 3, 2013 by Fearmeister

[Finkeren]

theres got to be a big flaw with mobil shooting platforms, probably the intrincated deflections of being offset of the flying path, which makes them flying coffins, the instant karma of being a bommber

 

as andy pointed out a  FIXED back gun should be more effective, i would suggest adding it a mirror with a refelctive gunsight

http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/converted2seaters/transition.htm

 

This was actually the way they first tried to add rear armament to the IL-2. It didn't work out too well for somewhat obvious reasons. In addition to flying the plane the pilot, who had no air-to-air gunnery training suddenly had to aim the gun and do so with a very limited field of vision (that of the rear view mirror) and do so with controls reversed. If someone actually shot down a German fighter with that gun, it was either sheer luck or he was James Bigglesworth, Bartholemew Bandy and Porco Rosso rolled into one.

[avlSteve]

I'm trying out the Stuka and I don't know where the control mapping for the view window in the floor is.  What is it called, and under what section, if you know.  Thanks!

 

EDIT: Found it, 'Bombay doors toggle'

Edited October 15, 2014 by avlSteve

[Finkeren]

I'm trying out the Stuka and I don't know where the control mapping for the view window in the floor is.  What is it called, and under what section, if you know.  Thanks!

 

It's the same key you press to open bomb bay doors.

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

It's the same key you press to open bomb bay doors.

yes the "N" key.

[LLv34_Flanker]

S!

 

 Stuka was maybe slow, but it proved it's worth even as late as in 1944. Was not called "Flying artillery" without a reason, when it struck with proper cover, it hurt. Kuhlmey's Stukas and Fw190 JaBos gave striking blows on Russian advance in Tali-Ihantala during the critical moments in summer 1944 by dropping over 70% of the bombs during that battle. The advance and attack on Finnish defence lines was halted on it's tracks. They lost some planes yes, but the destruction they caused was a lot bigger in terms of tanks, artillery and manpower. My grandfather witnessed one such attack and said it was like the world turned over when the Stukas came in and pounded the target area. It toppled tanks, killed and stunned infantry, destroyed equipment en masse. Stuka saved the day, literally. Never underestimate that bird

[6./ZG26_Gielow]

I always have a lot of fun joining as stuka gunner when I dont have time to fly a complete mission. Flying low, maneuverable and belt fed twin MGs really rocks !!!! The ruskies need to get very close to score some hits and always got their noses flamed by live gunners   

[downedpilot]

S!

 

 Stuka was maybe slow, but it proved it's worth even as late as in 1944. Was not called "Flying artillery" without a reason, when it struck with proper cover, it hurt. Kuhlmey's Stukas and Fw190 JaBos gave striking blows on Russian advance in Tali-Ihantala during the critical moments in summer 1944 by dropping over 70% of the bombs during that battle. The advance and attack on Finnish defence lines was halted on it's tracks. They lost some planes yes, but the destruction they caused was a lot bigger in terms of tanks, artillery and manpower. My grandfather witnessed one such attack and said it was like the world turned over when the Stukas came in and pounded the target area. It toppled tanks, killed and stunned infantry, destroyed equipment en masse. Stuka saved the day, literally. Never underestimate that bird

yes both grandads felt the stuka at dunkirk both made it home,

[avlSteve]

yes both grandads felt the stuka at dunkirk both made it home,

 

Sobering.  I hope they didn't feel it too intensely.

 

I do wonder, did they hear the Stuka?

[1./KG4_Blackwolf]

The funniest!   For real's?