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Originally Posted by philip.ed
This footage is simply amazing.
definately lots of features worth bearing in mind for SoW, whether it comes in release or later patches. |
Simply
the footage you posted suggest me a reflection:
recently I dedicated some time to create coop mission in Il2 based on historical events. One of my preferred sources was 'The big show' of legendary Clostemann. In my life I read it at least 25 time, each time it results more and more fascinating and evocative. I try to imagine movie sequences at every page I read.
The mission I managed to recreate was the attack to the cargo ship Munsterland in Cherbourg. The description Pierre Clost makes is so vivid. He describes the approach to the harbour in the mist, and the violent flak reaction from several flak-boats that were the primary target of his squadron (silence them to permit typhoon squadron to sunk the cargo). here is the live words from author
1015 hours. The fog thickened and it started to pelt with rain. instinctively the sections closed up to preserve visual contact.
Suddenly Yule's calm voice broke the strict RT silence :
"All Bob aircraft drop your babies, open up flat out, target straight ahead in sixty seconds !"
Freed of its tank and drawn by the 1,600 h.p. of its engine, my Spitfire leapt forward and I took up my position fifty yards on Jacques' left and slightly behind him, straining my eyes to see anything in the blasted fog.
"Look out, yellow section, Flak-ship, one o'clock !"
And immediately after Frank Wooley, it was Ken Charney who saw a Flak-ship, straight in front of us !
"Max blue attacking twelve o'clock !"
A grey mass rolling in the mist, a squat funnel, raised platforms, a mast bristling with radar aerials - Then rapid staccato flashes all along the superstructure. Christ ! I released the safety catch, lowered my head, and nestled down to be protected by armour plating. Clusters of green and red tracer bullets started up in every direction. flowing Jacques, I went slap through the spray of a 37 mm. charger which only just missed me - the salt water blurred my windshield. I was fifty yards from the Flak-ship. Jacques in front of me was firing ; I could see the flashes from his guns and his empties cascading from his wings.
I aimed at the bridge, between the damaged funnel and the mast, and fired a long, furious continuous burst, my finger hard on the button. My shells exploded in the water, rose toward the water line, exploded on the grey black-stripped hull, rose higher to the handrails, the sandbags.
A wind-scoop crashed down, a jet of stream sputtered from somewhere. twenty yards - two men in navy-blue jerseys hurled themselves flat on their faces. - ten yards - the four barrels of multiple pom-pom were pointing straight between my eyes - quick - my shells exploded around it. A loader carrying two full clips capsized into the sea, his legs mown from under him, then the four barrels fired, I could feel the vibration as I passed a bare yard above - then the smack of the steel wire of the aerial wrenched off by my wing as I passed. my wing tip had just about scraped the mast !...etc etc'
in short...my mission resulted much less involving, the german patrol boats I used were top killers. The only way to break the wall of their return fire was to sunk them, but with the on board armament of Spit there was not story.
I would like SOW will be implemented with such feature like the possibility of scare away the servants of flak or any other vehicle or smal ship or at least to reduce their effectiveness if generously spayed with bullets.
I'd like also the possibility, in aerial combat, for AI to accept or not the engagement if in disadvantaged tactic position, or disengage when in difficulty.
During 'circus' missions the RAF conducted heavy sweeps to induce Luftwaffe to take off and sustain combat. LW soon understood this trick and often rejected to be involved in combat.
That's all...Too many words to set out an opinion?
Ciao