Tactics for Cliffs of Dover.

[robtek]

@Tacoma74

if you fly the 109 always at 400+ km/h you would have to land in england without fuel

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by robtek

@Tacoma74

if you fly the 109 always at 400+ km/h you would have to land in england without fuel

Yes...even if CoD has an close to target, air start spawn, I'm sure that the fuel on board will be low. It should reflect what would have been burned during the normal trip, and I would be surprised if Oleg has this different... Fuel concerns, dictating player tactics will have to play a major role here. If not the game will be kind of a joke, for me anyway.


I should have mentioned that my thoughts are for the full switch servers only...

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Yes...even if CoD has an close to target, air start spawn, I'm sure that the fuel on board will be low.

Well Oleg will have made the 109 carry the amount of fuel it was supposed to. It's not his fault if a map maker gives you an air spawn off the cost with 100% fuel. Hopefully the map making system will allow the map maker to set your fuel, should that be wanted.

Reading this thread it seems that nearly all want about the same thing. We want to have a go with the same planes our ancestors used, but with the benefit of hindsight. But I don't think the few that think they want the scenario to be as realistic as possible really know what they're asking for. A successful RAF pilot would have flown a couple of sorties a day, for a few months - normally not making contact with the enemy, and totalling up maybe 2 kills by the end of it. Are there seriously people here who'd want to spend a few months doing that?

[Tacoma74]

Originally Posted by robtek

@Tacoma74

if you fly the 109 always at 400+ km/h you would have to land in england without fuel

Flying at 400km/h isn't that hard to do at about 45%-55% throttle in level flight (with the proper trimming of coarse). Or at least that's what I've noticed in IL-2: 1946. I'm not one of those that fly at 110% everywhere i go, that is just nonsense... But like people are saying fuel concerns are going to be the biggest limiting factor when it comes to time spent across the channel. But we'll just have to wait and see just exactly how accurately fuel consumption is modeled in CoD. The RAF will definitely have the advantage as far as fuel tho....