Decisions in the making - Why I did what I did - Il2: Battle of Stalingrad 

kwloy don't forget the RU-vid compression etc.

+First Second 400 for the most part

Was around 600-700m If i remember correcty. Not a distance where u expect any damage with german cannons

Not yet, is on the list.

IL2: Cliffs of Dover [make sure you get the Team Fusion patches. it makes the game stable, and what it should have been.]

for sim, hands down IL2

Really? BoS! As a simulator.

Claramente el BoS ;)

it startet 20:2 then we switched, then others switched and yesterday we had equal numbers

If you focus while being outnumbered or while losing you can really learn a lot more, than just winning everytime. When people give up on fighting, cuz they don't wanna lose, they only wanna win, they just keep losing, because they lack the experience, the losing gives you, like disengaging, paying more attention, looking around more and just overall you have to be careful about your positioning more, than your aiming, while losing. (Am I right? I don't play simulators, except for War Thunder, but this rule is mostly everywhere where some fighting is) That being said, equal numbers and equal skill of players is better game for *everybody*, but when you are in disadvantage and you can get the most out of it, you will learn a lot more. Well there's also the disadvantage of stress, frustration and depression, but after a while u can get used to it. I just felt like I wanted to say something to your reply, I really like your videos and even though I don't play some dogfighting games very often I learn a lot from your decision making, plus your vids are quite a good cinematic experience. c:

Thank you and yes you are right. And at the moment I enjoy the underdog role quite a bit especially those surprise attacks. they dont expect to see anybody...

I had plenty of MG Ammo

With practice u get used to navigation

I too wondered what he was looking at. Sometimes I pause the video and search and cannot find him on the map heh

It helps if you have a plan before you takeoff. Just know where you start and where you are going and you shouldn't have too much trouble. Albeit, the Moscow map is not the easiest to navigate.

It is not as easy as it may appear. I have flown a lot without GPS in this game. Also, as Sheriff's wingman. To keep track of your locations you need to pay a lot of attention to your heading as well as ground features. Especially ground features! Towns, forests, roads, rivers, lakes and airfields are good to keep an eye out for. A good examination of the map before the flight also works miracles. Once you understand these things and know how to use them, you will have to do a lot of practice. After years, I still get lost quite often. (and so does sheriff). To finish it off, it is important to fly to very recognisable points. For instance, If you want to fly to the enemy defences. First, you have to look for 1 or 2 recognisable points that you will fly to in order to get there. Let's say you see an airfield not too far from you that is nicely between you and the objective. Guess the heading you have to fly and then look for a recognisable point on your flight path. A long but narrow town as an example. Now fly towards the airfield and look for the town on the way. Do you see it on your left, then you have to go a little left to keep on track. Ultimately, it is nearly impossible to explain how to navigate. The best way to learn it is to simply do it. It won't take long to get used to the basics. Learning to do this intuitively takes years!

400m usually

Thanx, Check out the story of George Beurling "The Falcon of Malta" , he was a Spitfire Ace whose guns were set to 100m.

+FN's House I read a book about him. 100m would be a little close for me

A great story!

I set the convergence lower on wing mounted guns. For the spitfire I use the much lower convergence of 250m

no its not free. If u want to save I recommend for the next sale on steam. Yes the costs are relatively high but the quality of content is much higher in comparison to other projects. Especially AAA Projects. The devs earn every cent of those 70 Dollar per Gameversion. If u don't want to purchase them all at once that's of course understandable, you can buy them piece by piece. They are modular.

Okay thanks. I know that battle of moscow is 40% off on their website so I wasn't sure if I should jump on it now. I wasn't sure if ten days of autumn came with BOM. Is it worth getting?

its a SP Campain. I play 99% MP. So not fore me. But some guys enjoy Sp alot.

Okay thank you very much. I'm very new to the IL-2 games so I haven't tried MP yet. Heck I've barely used anything besides the BF-109 F-4. Do you guys ever do flights to help people learn how to play? I know thats kind of an odd question but you don't know unless you ask.

Then its maybe anyway too early to purchase everything. No training sorties so far. However i recommend to join my discord witch is linked in the description. We have pilots there fore every skilllevel and a good place for questions.

Don't I know that (or anyone who flies Luftwaffe...maybe even the Reds too...oh and the game designers, they know....and some old Bolshevik pilot who also knows laughing after he watched the vid, "lol, wish we were that hard to shoot down and them so easy back then ...) The game is skewed but it's the only game in town...that will end soon with DCS.

BTW - great vid.

+Fuct Airlines cya

Fuct Airlines and nothing of value was lost...

LOL enjoy your thriving community of 100 players and declining ;-)

enjoy your winning personality

Social life. You will understand what it is one day ;-)