AA GUN in conquest work against plane ?

[THE DOOM GUY]

I was wondering if the AA gun in conquest mode can take care of ennemy's air strike ?

[Graf Erik]

Absolutly.
If you use them right.

First of all, the 8.8 flak is useless against planes in this game. Its build to fight high flying bombers, and there aren't any in game. Its turn to slow to work on the short distances we find in game.

So I use the 20 and the 36mm flak. Mostly the 20mm. No idea about the russian ones.

To place them you need to first realize that enemy planes in conquest start from the hostile side of the map, make one flyover over the whole map, then turn around and attack from your side of the map.

So place the flaks behind your units. A line close to your spawning point from 3x20mm flaks works almost always.

Make sure to keep the flaks far enough back to keep them out of enemy range. Not to protect them from hostile fire (well... not only at least) but to make sure that they actuall target the plane when it comes.
If your flak has a single enemy infantrist in range it will target him and ingnore the plane. I tried giving manual aim-at-target orders but with no success. View range is to short.
So just make sure your flak is idle and they will open fire as soon as a plane comes in range.

With this method I shot down all but 2 planes in my last 60 or so battles.
Once the plane flew by too far on the left side around my flak line, and once it actually managed to destroy my flak with its guns first.

[THE DOOM GUY]

thank you so much, iso i have to make them go far away fromm the frontline in order to aim for the bomber ! thank you again

[Egro]

Flak 88 can totally shoot down planes. CAS in this game fly super low and super slow, I clip dozen planes in manual mode with my Acht-acht... AI is super dumb and almost never shoot at planes.

[198xAD]

I noticed that truck mounted AA doesn't seem engage aircraft as well. But towed AA definitely engages aircraft.

If you do decide to manually use truck mounted AA, pay attention to the gun orientation. You can't fire directly forward on Opel Blitz. GAZ trucks have smaller clips and reload more often. I've never used the big flak but I can tell you for sure that 20mm is pretty good and 37mm is really devastating. Keep shooting until the plane goes down. I've seen them bomb a target with a missing wing and even when they crash land they can knock out a Tiger.

HE ammo seems to be most effective. But AP rounds can break parts and kill crew. Kind of like a higher crit chance.

[Jagdpanther-88]

just drag the 3.7 around and keep it close to your main force/tanks it always takes care of the plane.

[gmanfly6]

How do I use .50cals mounted on Shermans? (Key 4) Anti-aircraft MG. Dude won’t pop out to use it

[Heartbreakhero]

Originally posted by gmanfly6:

How do I use .50cals mounted on Shermans? (Key 4) Anti-aircraft MG. Dude won’t pop out to use it

You have to add an infantry man to the tank to use it, the inner crew won’t get on the aa .50s

[Dirge]

Sight them in clearings to give them the most time to engage the planes.