Ju 87 Stuka Appreciation Thread.

[Kameraden]

My main purpose to get into this game was to use these old classics, and tick other people off as I blow up their stuff, and dodge their bullets.

I've gone to love the Stuka B-2 and R-2, and I can see the next two Stuka's based on their equips in general, I'm most likely going to love more.

For one, using a joystick I suck at shooting other planes, but I do not SUCK at dive bombing, something I've had a heck of a lot of practice over the years. There is a sense of thrill you get, diving into a wall of anti aircraft fire, knowing enemy fighters will stop at nothing including ramming to stop you from singing their Battle Ship.

My B-2 is now equiped with 4x 50kg bombs, and 1x 250kg Bombs, it is the Perfect close to ground air support aircraft I have at the moment, and minus the horrible 7mm machine guns, it does the job quite well. Give it other planes don't shoot me down first, which is hard, Stukas are not that agile. I'm often at the mercy of my horrible gunner in the back. Though sometimes they do shoot someone down and I jumb for glee.

Now my R-2, I refer to this as my Anti Warship Stuka, with a massive 1000kg bomb, it can destroy any ship, with a single blow, granted I don't miss, which oddly happened every time on this one battle, which is the only time I eve rmissed a ship drive bombing and I did it twice oddly, give it, once my tail got blown off by a flak gun, but I still dropped the bomb, missed, bit still caught the Battle Ship on Fire, gotta love that 1000kg bomb.

I have decided to go dedicated German Bomber, with Henschel and Junkers aircraft. My next two planes will be two more brand new shiny Stukas, being I already have two, and a HE 111.

Because personally I dont' like my two HE 112 fighters, one has a single 20mm cannon, the other ones to nose into the ground every time I fire it's 2 20mm cannons.

[Cooper Kid]

A good dive bomber can make or break the game in Full Real Battle, but I've never gotten the hang of it so stick to heavy bombers or fighters. Kudos to you for managing it, my friend :)

I've been wondering, are the dive flaps on the Stuka functional in this game? I've barely played the German tech tree so I haven't been able to test it myself.

[Bauhaus]

Is the siren only on the initial Stuka?

[Ten24-Busterking]

Love that scary siren sound. They were a mean bunch.

[Ten24-Busterking]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Sco Cooper Kid:

I've been wondering, are the dive flaps on the Stuka functional in this game? I've barely played the German tech tree so I haven't been able to test it myself.

They are indeed, the "h" key by default. Slows you down for loger targeting.

[Bauhaus]

H activate the SpeedBreak, F does the flaps.

[Yggdrasil]

Do they have the tank busting Stuka, the one with the effing big cannons hanging from the wings?

[Bauhaus]

Ursprungligen skrivet av rolfskalder:

Do they have the tank busting Stuka, the one with the effing big cannons hanging from the wings?

Yup.

There`s two of them, more ammo in later version.

The cannons are horrific, literally able to strip the wings from a plane in a single shot.

Dont get infront of them

[Yggdrasil]

Cool. Probably the only flight game around with a tank busting Stuka.

[Griaumedis]

My favourite is the G2 Stuka, the tank buster. Takes some practise, but when you've got it you can bust some tanks and have a blast doing it.

[Kameraden]

I can see myself loving the one with 20mm cannons, and bomb load. Personally I like the idea of bombing. You can even take on large battle ships. I don't see the 37mm cannons being that useful but vs mobile ground targets. 20mm I've learned on the HE 112 fighters can murder an armored car within a second, even a single one, having two woudl be lovely vs armored cars. Saving bombs for tanks/bunkers.

If you could have the 37mm cannons and carry a bomb or two then perhaps I'd like the idea. B-2 with the Bomb Rack upgrade can carry 4x 50kg bombs and 1x 250kg, this means, 1 bomb per tank... and one big one for whatever. You can ripple drop them, to double chance of hitting a target, try 1 at a time.

The Larger the Bomb the farther you can miss and still destroy a target, or the harder the target you can destroy. 500kg and 1000kg on the first two Stukas do wonders vs large ships.

Really can't see a Stuka without the ability to use a bomb.