Give me some "holy sh... did that just happen" ideas

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

This already happens in IL-2. I've learned the hard way that it is a lot safer to strafe trains side-on than head-on, simply because of the tendency for a hit to set off a chain reaction that catches you as you over-fly the target. Side-on, the obvious attack method tends to encourage an end-to end strafing sweep, which only needs to be continued to avoid any overflight. It would be nice to see a good steam-train blowup though - I think I once saw guncam footage of half the boiler hurling skywards. Not something you'd want to run into...

I quite like straffing oil trains, you do have to break off so you don't overfly the explosions. The thing is, or maybe used to be, if you attack from the rear, the flak truck behind the tender will hit the oil waggon closest to it, and you don't get the kills for the waggons that go off after that. I haven't seen it in a while, but I don't attack oil trains from the rear any more.