Best German Ground Attack Plane?

[kiro the avenger!]

I play realistic tanks almost entirely now, arcade is silly and im rusty as balls in planes, but ive unlocked quite a few
i currently play 5.7 Tiger 1H
I often like hopping in a ground attack plane once i killed. But whats the best for me at that tier?
Ive tried the Ju88, but the new 5s minimum bomb delay i find makes it quite hard to get kills, at least with the 250lbs
I've tried Fw190s with the 210mm rockets, which im okay at killing with. these also allow me some hope if im not alone in the skies. But its only one ground kill- if i hit
I've tried Hs129 B-2, but the 30mm seems to lack penetration at this tier, and the 37mm is short on ammo and doesnt seem to do much damage. plus I've gotta be lucky to deal with enemy fighters
the Hs129 B-3, I've still not got the aiming down but when i do hit the damage seems rather low, and although i cant see what I've done, i can see that after a criticle hit to the turret theyre stilling looking around :/ and if there's enemy fighters im pretty much buggered
I've almost unlocked the first Me410 with the 50mm, it any good?

you guys got any better ideas? Am i just using what we have wrong? Or do i just leave it to the P47s, P51s and IL-2s?

[Foxtrot39]

I moslty use the canon equiped aircraft for ground attacks so here some tips I have :

HS-129 series

B3 : use the virtual cockpit, you see how much you accuracy will increase with it, and use AP, HVAP will moslty overpen dealing small damage

B2 : the 30mm HVAP correctly aimed can kill all tank in game, make sure you dive in a steep angle on target (70° and more) so about all your rounds penetrate the tank top

Me 410 50mm, its better than the HS series because better mobility and extra gun for air to air fight (yet its hard to stay on target because of your high turn time but has airbreaks)


Me 262 A-1/U4, has twice the fire rate of the Me 410 and has more 50mm ammo, yet only has the 50mm and no airbreaks, if the runnaway looks short, don't hesitate to drive way at the end of it before starting to take off
(EX: on tunisia you never take off until you crash if you don't do it)

Tip : with all the 50mm try to aim the engine compartement to set on fire the target, after a few shots he run out of FPE and burn down, the larger the tank the easier to kill it ith

But because of lower caliber gun you need to attack in a similar way the the B2 with 30mm HVAP, still only use AP or you deal minimal damage

And I guess you know it but try to aim the flat part you can hit on the tank

[kiro the avenger!]

guess ive got to practive my vertical dives then :)
i felt like aiming for the engine block was my best bet with the B-3's 75mm
i'll grind the last few point on the Me410 and see how that goes then
thanks

[MichaelV]

I like using me 410 a1, cause it has 2x500kg bombs + 2x20mm minengeshoss loaded canons, so sometimes its better than 50mm versions.
You should use ju-88 with 1000kg+500kg bomb loadout, 250s are trash. The next step is using do-217 with 4x1000kg bombs, but its difficult to take off in this plane.

[Scheneighnay]

Strike fighters are always my preference due to their versitility.

Therefore, the Me 410 is great. Shoot down enemy bombers while also performing ground attack.
Obviously you have to get the hang of shallow-dive bombing, but it's fairly easy.

[Ichigo]

Any stuka with the tonner, great fun especially with that siren

[Chinchilla]

HO-229 :P

[Dr. Marmalade]

Me-410 B6/R3

[Parminio]

Dr. Marmalade eredeti hozzászólása:

Me-410 B6/R3

That. It is far and away the best there is. Easily kills Heavy Tanks and everything else with just a simple, short blast of the guns.

I've won the game single handed in Spain in two flyouts with that plane more times than I can count. I take out the entire right hand line of tanks in one pass, fly back, reload, and take out the other in one pass the next time.

Game over. 15 minutes, tops.

[Dr. Marmalade]

^
Well I think I can top that.

Me and that other guy, killed both lines with 2 runs each.

5 min flying. 1 min shooting.

[Parminio]

Not possible. It takes 3 minutes at 310 mph to reach the line of tanks one way. Round trip is 6 minutes at least if all goes perfect. Landing, rearming, repairing and takoff is another 1 minute 30 seconds average.

Absolute minimum time run to perfection: 13 minutes, 30 seconds for two trips.

Besides, you're saying it took two of you two trips. That's a combined 27 minutes game time minimum for the two of you.

I did it alone in just short of 15.

[Dr. Marmalade]

Well we flew over the tanks once. Then turned around and cleaned the last 3 or 4 up.
Right after that we headed for the other tanks.
One strave from each of us and all the tanks were gone.

I don't know why you would rearm when there are 24 targets and you have 480 shots.

[Parminio]

Dr. Marmalade eredeti hozzászólása:

I don't know why you would rearm when there are 24 targets and you have 480 shots.

You really need to get your story straight first. Once you do that, get your facts straight. You only have 240 rounds of 30mm, which is what it takes to wipe the tanks out. Your 20mm rounds simply wont do it.

Again, I did it ALONE. It's better to return after the first run while the fighters are busy with each other than to risk going across the lake alone.