Best plane vs B17G

[vdomini]

Originally Posted by iamcow

I was playing against a B17G in a dogfight today in a K-4. I won convincingly (12 kills to 1 death from the bomber), but it took ages for the b17 to go down, even vs good long bursts from my 3 cannons and 2 mgs.

So I was wondering if you folks reckon there's better planes/tactics/guns to bring down 17s. My tactic was to come from straight above or 12oclock high where his gunners can't cover. (Apart from rockets of course.)

100% agree.
K4, booming and zooming from above, aiming at 1 of its four motors, and b17 down at each passage.

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by Gilly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XZloouskdc

[The_Stapler]

Not quite a B-17, but i had great success in a 1 on 1 with an il-10. I chose the me-163, climbed to maximum altitude and pottered along at high speed.
My thinking was, 'if I attack, all that will happen is they'll fly straight and level and use the turret.' This really bores me, so I decided to bore them instead.
They got so tired of me wandering around that they landed at Manston. Big mistake. I swooped down and strafed them, and when they respawned again, I rinsed and repeated. Sure, it doesn't get as many kills as other methods, but I didn't die once. Just remember to bring a book or in-flight meal, a fair bit of waiting is required!

[Dementia_Seven]

first of all...

the b17 was fixed with the patsh! and i mean it was fixwd! bevore the patsh came out i had no problems with the b17 to shoot it down with 3 or less more wounds of wolfram mk108 wounds but that times are rarely gone.

after fix

the b17 takes a lot more demage!

my startegy i had developed at many fights with brankos b17. i have to mention that all bombers could spot you anywhere and anytime even in sim when ur eyes never would see. at all range! the cpu will find you if u switch to reargunner sight. eventhough its automaticly aiming. all a b17 player had to do was to switch to reargunner and point the crosshair in a near possition to the enemy which is automaticly don for the first time like i said. at 0.80 km u could hold the crosshair over or under ur target and the reargunner will make defenetly hits without genious aiming. that i have to say cause some players with b17 or even il10 give to much about thier skills. the cpu is doing more than half the work! ok go on with the bombershootoutstrategy.

startegy 1

take a rubust plane. a la wont even stand a few hits. take a well armed plane. 109 g6 k4 me 262 and so on. raise altetude and take a long way down towards the b17 from all above. raise speed that give ur bullets the needet power to destroy the fueltanks or motors. try to place a lot of wounds without corrigating on the stick. then u shall have succes. but its hard to aim. u shall know the ballistik of ur weaponary.

startegy 2 (well theres no dev possible ^^)

try to make speed. underfly the enemy slighly from behind to avoid reargunnery. alle the reargunners of every plane even the b17 couldnt aim below. thats one fatal mistake of the russian programmers kids. the b17 for real could shoot down 90 degrees. this game is a fake for all non russian things i guess by the way ^^. so u shall be feel free to underfly the b17 and take some wounds in the underside ore the motors that are unprotected now from wings and give a better target than from upper side. also u dont have to be so enormous fast than in srategy 1! ur opponent the b17 will ahve NO CHANCE TO AVOID THE ENGAGEMENT because of the programmers fail. it cant shoot u if u are flying directly below. the only thing the b17 can do is to manouver but a fighter should follow this easyly. the disadvantage of this 100%victory strategy is that ur opponent might get anoid of ur wins and leave the gameingroom. thats what branko done and he got right. why shall some players take those fatal bugs.

and at least. the b17 had 4 motors. it will lose altetude if there was demage on 2 motors. so is you recognised smoke ore demege on the powersupplies of the big mama wait for the unavoidable crash of that thing.

MOEP

[scottyvt4]

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