28.03.2009, 20:05
I had a very interesting mission.
2 P-47D25's Normandy Map, Bombing a railyard at 9AM. My AI wingie and I.
Loadout of 2x 500 lb bombs and 8 in. rockets
1 Pesky BF 109G that materialized near the target
The enemy Ai surprised me by diving in front of me then tried to come up under the nose of my plane. I rolled my P-47 and we passed in a head on attack. No strikes in the initial pass, but the 109 circled around and performed the same manoeuvre from which I made contact that time around. I knocked out his engine and he ended up crashing some time later. I had what looked like a glycol leak and some starboard MG strikes. These were making my craft difficult to control.
Meanwhile, the Ai wingman went on and bombed the railyard through no further instruction from me, scoring a direct hit. I augured in and dropped my ordnance after dealing with the 109, and started limping back to base.
Not long later I realized I was losing alt and had better decide to go for broke or bail. I instructed my Ai wingman to RTB, then rolled over my smoking crate and bailed.
The Ai wingman instead of RTB'g, circled the area where I parachuted. I thought hey this'd be cool if he just went around a few times looking for his flight leader and went home. But after waiting for 10 minutes for that to happen, I escaped out of IL-2, concluding that he'd likely keep going around in circles until he ran out of fuel.
I hope this gives you some useful info.
~S~
Triad
2 P-47D25's Normandy Map, Bombing a railyard at 9AM. My AI wingie and I.
Loadout of 2x 500 lb bombs and 8 in. rockets
1 Pesky BF 109G that materialized near the target
The enemy Ai surprised me by diving in front of me then tried to come up under the nose of my plane. I rolled my P-47 and we passed in a head on attack. No strikes in the initial pass, but the 109 circled around and performed the same manoeuvre from which I made contact that time around. I knocked out his engine and he ended up crashing some time later. I had what looked like a glycol leak and some starboard MG strikes. These were making my craft difficult to control.
Meanwhile, the Ai wingman went on and bombed the railyard through no further instruction from me, scoring a direct hit. I augured in and dropped my ordnance after dealing with the 109, and started limping back to base.
Not long later I realized I was losing alt and had better decide to go for broke or bail. I instructed my Ai wingman to RTB, then rolled over my smoking crate and bailed.
The Ai wingman instead of RTB'g, circled the area where I parachuted. I thought hey this'd be cool if he just went around a few times looking for his flight leader and went home. But after waiting for 10 minutes for that to happen, I escaped out of IL-2, concluding that he'd likely keep going around in circles until he ran out of fuel.
I hope this gives you some useful info.
~S~
Triad