I./NJG6_HeTzeR писал(а):Why can they do it? Why?
Why is it not hard for them?
Maybe it's because most of the time we're... Ekhmm.... Well... Hunted? At the beginning of the war of course
If you want to survive you simply has to search for help of your mates. I mean, if your plane is fast enough to escape (if you're not taken by surprise), who needs to cooperate anyway? You're attacking alone, ineffectively and then you're running away with one kill scored. In the same moment you're loosing tanks, but who cares? Surely not the ace with another kill scored - "I have my job done".
Anyway... There is some squad on blue side, and they truly are "eksperten". I saw them once, 8 Bf-109F4 on Stalingrad summer. They came in formation 4xBf on 4-5k, 2xBf on 7k, 1-2xBf hunting on ground. No chasing single contact, formation kept together, perfect team-fight from beginning to the end. They were so damn effective, that they seem to appear everywhere. I was feeling their breath from take off to tgt. Very quickly we lost tanks, supply columns and AF next to them. We couldn't defend. And it was only one fighter squad and 3~5 bombers (usually only 1~2 of them appears in the same time)!
Hopefully I didn't met them for a long time. Usually I can easily hunt down a bomber before blue escort dives down to hunt me
(what they usually do a 1-2 minutes after). They were only exception.
Next day someone called "Attack is our only chance!" So I expected high losses cause we couldn't stand your Bf-109 over our own territory, fighting behind enemy lines seems hopeless to me but... "Order is an order"
, so I took off heading to AF F8. When I came there I discovered that everyone did same as me
. In result from 3-4km alt to the ground there were so many Yak-9/7A fighters, and Il-2 buthers, that I felt like home there
. 109'rs burning on ground, hunted just after take off, IL-2s doing massacre on ground. Flak killed, priceless fuel and ammunition supply wasted... Where were bf's? 6 of them I saw peacefully flying high over our head on 7-8km altitude. Everyone of us who wanted to stay safe and came on 6k became their victim. Almost everyone who came lower as IL-2 escort scored a kill and survived to tell about it!
They allowed us to make our job and simply ignore every contact below 4-5km, single Bf's attacking us on our altitude never reach our Sturmovicks. After that most squads retreat to B5 AF and never came closer to F8 AF.
Why I'm writing all of this?
1. Quorum was 23/25 so equal number of players.
2. Every time such discussion appears on forum, it ends in whining about immortal Russian fighters, and too weak armament of Bf-109.
Sincerely yours
Green Ugly Fellow.
Run, live to fly, fly to live. Aces high.