stalingrad mission

[Me-263]

Originally Posted by Doktorwzzerd

1. Because there are Flak batteries on the ground firing at you, you will notice they are rectangles, not dots, which tells you they are on the ground.

2. You need to get the transports in the air so don't worry about ground targets at all.

3. Shoot them all, don't take chances.

4. Don't know, keep killing until its over.

5. You're just having a hard time, its really not that hard once you follow a few tips:

1. Get to within 200 yds before firing, throttle down and use combat flaps to avoid overshoot, approach from slightly below to avoid the top rear gunner and put *all of your fire on the engines*. Thats the most important thing to finishing the transports off quickly, if you aim for the fuselage, it will take you forever whereas one good burst to the engines can bring down a JU-57 in an instant.

2. Use your map ALOT. Once you bring down one group, look on your map to see where the next is and open up your throttle and raise flaps to zoom over there.

3. Ignore everything else, just kill the transports as efficiently as you can and you should be fine.

check out this IL-2 vid for some anti-bomber tips:

HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY - VICTORY AT LAST.

After my approx 20th try I finally beat this god-forsaken level. The 2 key advices I followed and which helped me beat Hornet's Nest were these (found on a different forum):

1. Don't use the outside view, stick to cockpit or virtual cockpit, as they give you a much better idea of where your plane is aiming.

2.Remember to order your wingmen to attack the objectives as well. You do this by pressing first Down (to get their attention) and then Right (to order them to attack the main objectives) on the D-Pad. The Right press also will put the target indicators on the enemy planes (little red circle). NOTE: If you press down it orders the whole flight; if you just press the right direction it only orders half of them'

In the end, it took me 12 min 30 sec to beat the level with a player score of 481. I am so freakin' happy that I beat this level, I want to scream out loud - THANK YOU LORD!!!