Krazy Canuck Posted October 14, 2002 Share Posted October 14, 2002 Has anyone actually shot one of these buggers down in CMBB/CMBO. I've had no luck playing from either side.....ever!! I find them(the other guys) deadly in CMBB. KC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParaBellum Posted October 14, 2002 Share Posted October 14, 2002 In CMBO I've shot down planes using quad 20mm or a 37mm Flak. A single 20mm or two is not enough but it may scare them away. In BB I've not yet killed a plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinz Eugen Posted October 14, 2002 Share Posted October 14, 2002 I haven't , but the AI has. I did a little test, where a single IL-2 was pitted against some 6 flak 37 halftracks. Yes, the aircraft was shot down, but not until it had destroyed all the halftracks except for the one that shot it down. Sweet ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullethead Posted October 14, 2002 Share Posted October 14, 2002 Situation 1: Russian village surrounded by 2 x 4-gun batteries of 25mm, 1 x 4-gun battery of 37mm, and 8 M17s. A full squadron of 14 x HS-129B2s attacked. Results: All 14 planes shot down, 1 Russian M17 crewman wounded. Every plane was shot down on its 1st pass. Only 4 planes lived long enough to get any strafing done. No bombs dropped. Scores: M17s: 6 kills, each by a different vehicle. 37mm: 6 kills, 4 by 1 gun and 2 by another. 25mm: 2 kills by separate guns. ******************* Situation 2: Deleted all Russians except the M17s. Results: 5 planes shot down, 7 M17s destroyed. Scores: 1 M17 (the survivor) got 3, 2 others got 1 each. The survivor was never attacked. Many passes put in on previously destroyed vehicles. ************************* The guns seem similar to those in CMBO. The 25mm don't seem any more effective than the German single 20mm. Even having a ton of them doesn't accomplish much. Meanwhile, the Russian 37mm, like the German, kicks ass. The German quad 20mm has similar performance in terms of kills per gun. The M17s seem fairly deadly but suffer from very short range. While the bigger guns start shooting when the plane is still like 1500m out, the M17s only open fire when it's within about 300-500m. This is about the same time when the planes start shooting, so the M17 usually dies because it can't do enough damage quickly enough. This is why, I think, the M17s did so well when they were backing up the other guns. These damaged the plane at long range and the M17s finished them off. Without this prior damage, planes could overfly the whole M17 position and live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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