IL-2 1946: Mediterranean Convoy Battle (Multiplayer Mission) 

I imagine the Stukas on a normal mission would have had fighters assigned to provide top cover. Attack the Stukas and a 109 would be on your tail. Tactic for a Stuka was to turn a tight circle at near ground level that no fighter could follow. The rear gunner then could attack the fighter. When this was a twin MG81Z there could be 2700 rounds coming back out.

they still lost the Battle of the Mediterranean though and failed to win in Malta.

@@LordGeorgeRodney Really?

@@hanspalzberger4649 yes.

losses still happen without escorts

German Bombers had terrible defenses, so an approach from behind is not as suicidal as against allied bombers. What puzzles me is: He 111 had only light machine guns for defense, as had Ju 87. How is the pilot snipes where so easy? Did the allied fighters have no armoured windscreen?

Stukas can out turn a Spitfire. Great rear MG kills!

The KG 81Z is the WW2 M61

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The Beaufighter also had 4 20mm Hispano Mk II cannons in the nose

Actually, the Stukas should not have been using the sirens. All they do is warn the ship below to start evasive maneuvers. Also, the siren imposes drag, and makes the Stuka even slower.

@@timonsolus good luck with evading a dive bomber with a cargo ship

@@Squee7e : A near miss is preferable to a direct hit, and at 15 knots, a tight turn can throw off a Stuka's aim just enough to make the difference. (The ship AI in IL-2 1946 doesn't take any evasive action at all, or even speed up.)

Jo, seit 4.11 wird die Abwurfhöhe und Geschwindigkeit bei Torpedos berücksichtigt. Diese LT F5W Torpedos sind relativ späte Modelle und sollen bei 300 km/h in 100 Metern Höhe abgeworfen werden. Die älteren LT F5b z.B. müssen aus 40 Metern Höhe, bei 250 km/h abgeworfen werden. Wenn man das versaut kommt eine Nachricht: "Torpedo falsch eingetaucht" und die gehen dann auch kaputt.

Rühmen ist

Hi, you can get that game in Steam. IL2 1946. I play that game in my notebook.

Better late, then never. Even 18 years late! :-)

The bombs would have a direct impact fuse with a short delay and a long delay of a few seconds for water impacts. In the “turnip planting method” used typically by Ju 88 or Me 109 the Bomb was aimed ahead of the waterline. The time delay was about 5.3 seconds and would ensure the bomb sank about 60ft and detonated directly under the ship. This would often break the ship in two if not burst plates so much the ship sank. With the Stuvi 5B bombsight and the BZA Computer the Pilot got a reticle moving as a continuous impact point. A good crew could enter a dive at 8000ft, pullout by 5000ft at 400mph and get consistently within a few meters of target. Fighters had a second adjustable reticle on the revi. You aimed at the ship, then pulled up till the second pre adjusted reticle crossed and then released the bomb. The planed attack profile had to be calculated from tables and entered into the sight. German fighters were supposed to get the TSA2D toss bombing sight. You dived onto the target lined up with the gunsight. The sight had data from airspeed, cross wind, altimeter, variometer and FuG 101a radar altimeter if available and an pull-up accelerometer. When you pulled up the bombsight released the bomb in the correct arc. Was used on some KG7 and KG51 Me 262A2 bomber jets. This sight was also meant to be used for the BT series bombs eg BT400, BT1000 that tunneled the water and detonated by a twin coil metal detector proximity fuse.

Contact info is always in the descriptions :)

Has a list of the servers on internet. The missions that Fishyy play is Lan with friends. But the serves are a good option to multiplayer.

Yes actually

Or you can create your own mission as well

yeah

Yea

The Ju-87 had an automatic system in that case.

No, It had automatic airbrakes if the pilot were to pass out in high-G moves. Not autopilot. That stuff was still far away.

@@somewhatsarcasticsticker2077 Nope not automatic airbrake, airbrakes were on already when the pilot entered the dive, it had automatic pull up mechanism if the pilot wouldn't pull up after dropping bombs (pilot unconscious)

No it isn't, I simply put a bunch of ships. I think it does not really matter if I use Beaufighters, Seafires and Hurricanes or Fulmars and Sea Hurricanes. The Flak is light because of two reasons: A lot of it isn't displayed in replays and it's lighter in HSFX anyway. As always in IL-2, you can either have a lot of different ship types with HSFX OR impressive AA fire. Also, the game sucks at displaying AA fire, it quickly degrades the FPS.

@@Fishyyy The simultaneous Operation Harpoon and Operation Vigorous convoys of June 1942 might be good subject matter for a future video or several videos. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZGJZJ6ldYMw.html

Good video with useful information, I might very well use it!

I think those german turrets have way to much RoF here than in RL like every shot in game was a tracer like round while in RL every 5 rounds was a tracer

@@aurorathearcticwolf4243 The MG-81 rate of fire was 1400-1600 rounds per minute, so it would be 2800-3200 rpm for this double mount. That's a lot of firepower (even if the projectiles are only rifle-calibre). Much better to avoid the effects of such a weapon by ducking under the tail of a Stuka to fire up into its unprotected underside.

game title *facepalm*

That missions is not server my friend. They play in Lan.

All the Spitfires are the same guy.

No. A sunk merchant ship is worth considerably more than a lost Ju 87. And a sunk battleship is worth tremendously more than half a dozen lost He 111's.

@@timonsolus It takes 20+ years to "grow" a pilot. While your analysis is true in cold numbers, it's the same mistake the Japanese made where they sacrificed many SKILLED pilots on such short term thinking, leading to a shortage of SKILLED pilots later in the war. When those unskilled pilots of Japan were later employed in the aircraft they were ineffective (got lost, got shot down, missed targets) and mission accomplishment was severely degraded. I hope you take my point.

@@StevenMRA : The best way to avoid losing SKILLED pilots is to avoid going to war in the first place. I hope you take my point.

@@timonsolus That's an interesting philosophical point. Meanwhile - when nations are at war, you want to not lose your experienced war fighters. It takes a LONG time to train a pilot - the US program is almost 3 years before the raw recruit is a basic qualified pilot.

@@StevenMRA : Well, to the Japanese in WW2, honour was more important than victory, and fighting was more important than winning. With that mindset, taking an experienced pilot away from his unit and away from the fighting, denying him future glory, was considered dishonourable, so it wasn’t done without a good medical reason. The Japanese did send experienced pilots home to train new replacements - but usually after they had been seriously wounded, or become ill enough to require a long break from the front. Or, more rarely, after they had been promoted, and there wasn’t a space for them in their current unit at their new rank.

What are you talking about?

It should have escort fighters Like Fw-190 or BF-109