Bitter Beginnings - Messerschmitt bf110- 4. Seeschlange

Hello all, today we will be flying the Messerschmitt bf110 as we head up to defend a bomber flight from enemy interceptors as they bomb a railyard in a Southern English town.
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ABOUT THIS GAME
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is the continuation of the legendary IL-2 Sturmovik series that has set the standard for PC combat flight games for more than ten years. This new entry into the series will offer virtual pilots an even more accurate simulation of the most famous air battles of World War II. Better quality of content, bigger scale, new physics, more realistic aerodynamics and new game elements set this title apart from all which came before. We have only one goal - To give you a New Higher Level of Immersion!
Key Features:
PLAY:
Robust Single-Player Campaign that features a challenging and innovative AI system. Includes an extensive in-game achievement system that allows players to unlock historically based airplane modifications and upgrades as your campaign progresses.
Realistic graphics and unique visual effects: clouds, lightning, tracers, explosions and huge smoke plumes - all of them fully realized to recreate the aerial combat scenery of war time Stalingrad.
Flexible Quick Mission mode that allows you to create your own custom combat scenario in just a couple of minutes.
Classic Multiplayer gameplay with dedicated player controlled servers with your favorite settings for team battles and dogfight duels.
FLY:
Realistic sounds and physics, detailed aircraft systems modeling, advanced aerodynamics and state-of-the-art flight modeling gives you a real sensation of flight.
Become an ace fighter pilot or try your hand at flying attack planes and bombers where you can destroy tanks, trucks, AAA batteries, artillery units and even armored trains.
Control your plane with either joystick or mouse keeping the highest level of simulation fidelity and accuracy.
For those that won’t make it back to base, each plane comes equipped with a handy parachute!
COMBAT:
Hone your skills versus AI or join multiplayer where you can fight in the air or on the ground, manning T-34-76 or Pz III Ausf L tanks.
Control a plane or tank all by yourself or have your friend aim a tank gun or a bomber turret.
Unique and detailed damage model lets you use the pros and cons of various aircraft and tanks to your advantage.
Adjust the tank aiming sights for distance and view the tank interior just as a plane cockpit!
LEARN:
Action takes place on a 358 х 230 km map - The largest and most detailed recreation of the Battle of Stalingrad theatre ever modeled in a flight simulation with unique structures, buildings and landscapes.
Single-Player Campaign scenario follows the real chronology of the battle starting with Operation Uranus on November 19th, 1942 and continues to the complete liberation of the city on February 2nd, 1943.
Ten Legendary aircraft of the era have been thoroughly re-created using original drawings and blueprints from the Central archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Precise simulation of the flight model allows everyone to learn the special character and limits of each and every plane in the game. Use each of their special abilities and performance characteristics to complete your mission and survive the brutal fight.

[@Scarletlord]

Ah just in time, gonna grab a cup of tea and watch this in my garden.

[@scarletkinkajou1]

I agree Taff, the short campaigns are great to watch and mix things up a bit it seems

[@dammitdan1662]

“Uh oh, looks like a load more fighters are attacking the formation… guess I’ll follow this guy away from the planes I’m supposed to protect!”

[@IrishAmerican17]

Herr Goering Explicitly told you to stay with the bombers, not run off chasing victories!

[@3scafl0wn3]

should have said "ho shinny!!"

[@joeaustin4472]

Oh my God.. I'm not seeing it, you gave the BF110 a swing.. that was a great treat given so thanks ever so much for that. It's a real monster is the BF110, but of course the trick to operating the BF110 is to not fly it like a single engine fighter, that's the trick I learned over the years.. if you fly a twin engine fighter.. you fly it differently to a single engine fighter.. I learned that with both the 110 and the P38 Lightning in both 1946 and the GB series. Regardless of differences I've had vast tons of fun with the 110 in cliffs of Dover and in the GB series, when you get the fighter bomber tasks in GB you get a vast amount of fun.. mind you.. you do get strong challenges. In various mods for 1946 you can get night fighter campaigns for this aircraft. I can't thank you enough for flying this aircraft, it was excellent.. truly excellent.. great treat.. the best on a Friday night. Give the 110 campaigns a try in the future, you'll get some great moments and challenges but nothing beats the fun of it. Stay safe, well done indeed and happy gaming mate 👏👍

[@timonsolus]

Absolutely. Altitude is Life for a twin engine fighter, particularly a very heavy one like the Bf 110 or the Beaufighter. The way to fly them is to 'boom and zoom' - no turn fighting.

[@joeaustin4472]

@@timonsolus Absolutely 💯 correct my friend, that's how I learned the trade when in both 1946 before going to GB. What I came to love about the 110 is the hitting power, the combination of cannon and gun with well aimed shot is devastating to a target, the fighter bomber operations are fun.. real fun.. but in 1946 with the night fighter mod campaigns.. you get a truly fantastic interceptor. You hit the nail on the head there my friend, that's exactly correct 👍👍

[@mikemontgomery2654]

It’d be nice to see more missions come with these campaigns. They’re great ideas, they just don’t seem to last long enough.

[@HarryandNeela]

I have resigned myself to commenting on every video. I will haunt you until a satisfactory response is achieved. Please post on your setup! I enjoy IL2 and would like to be better at it and would love to know how it is you play.

[@Justin_Kipper]

Despite it's limitations, the beautiful 110 is one of my favorite planes. I bought the Kuban DLC just for it. Now, if I could only figure out how to fly it properly...

[@eaglei28]

you bombed the chip shop ! how very dare you !

[@alexspicer5089]

I'd love a whole 110 series Taff

[@Thiago_C.P]

A series using the IAR-80 would be cool too.

[@eggy68]

This was a great demonstration of the shortcomings of the 110. I really enjoyed this series, Taff. Nicely done!

[@timonsolus]

Taff demonstrated how NOT to fly the Messerschmitt 110. To be competitive with single engine enemy fighters, it is VITAL that the 110 starts the fight with a considerable altitude advantage (at least 1,000 metres, preferably 2,000 m). Then the 110 can convert that height into speed by diving, and protect itself by zoom climbing after a high speed attack run. So Taff should have taken his flight much higher than the bombers - flying the high escort position instead of the close escort position. (Close escort should be left to the 109's.) Then Taff would have been able to manage his Bf 110's energy state far better, maintaining high speed, and enabling him to keep up with the bombers as they withdrew.

[@eggy68]

@@timonsolus - While I agree with the energy management piece, the 110 was still outmatched. He could have swooped in and taken out a few fighters. But then he would've been as useless as goose with a cannon. The 110 was puffed up garbage.

[@timonsolus]

@@eggy68 : If your speed is low in the Bf 110, and you’re in the middle of enemy fighters, the right thing to do is disengage. The 110 is fantastic at diving, so just dive away from the fight and run for home at sea level. But ideally, you shouldn’t let your speed get low in the first place. At high speed, be very gentle with the stick, and avoid hard turns at all costs. (Turning hard or pulling back hard on the stick bleeds off massive amounts of speed in the 110, and it’s very hard to get that speed back since the 110 has low acceleration). If an enemy fighter breaks hard and slips out of your gunsight, don’t attempt to turn with him, just let him go, and convert your speed back into altitude by climbing. Then you can gently roll over at the top of the climb and reassess the situation for another attack run.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

All those planes look fantastic in 4K ! :D And still Taff flys his plane like a Sopwith Pup .. STOP tight turns left or right ! Use boom-n-zoom tactics., no wonder you're losing height and speed... Great video BTW, love the 110.

[@raaritsgozilla]

Very tough going up against Spitfire Vbs in that model of 110!

[@vaerenbergh]

the 110 is a beast, but you need to sit higher up on the bombers, you got out of position alot and to easy, i would not have turned with the hurrican, still glad you survived it, at the end of the battle of britain only 4 operational 110's where left. i fly alot of 110's in War Thunder sim, and it is a great jabo, but need to find clear skies to climb back up after losing the bombs

[@baddream9668]

The 110s should have been climbing while circling and waiting for the 88s. THe 110s should have stayed with the n88s, instead of chasing smoking Hurricanes'

[@roberts1938]

Cool movie episode.

[@Periapsis_]

Personally I'd love to see more Rise of Flight or Flying Circus content! I don't know if they have shorter campaign or single mission options but definitely would love to see more WW1 stuff, perhaps with some of the lesser known aircraft from the period? As always, great vid Taff! 🫡

[@89volvowithlazers]

its a turkey shoot going down in flames over the channel

[@OMG.HopsGnue]

Watched and Liked 👍

[@thomashiggins9320]

I guess playing both sides would allow a nice variety of missions. Single-seater fighters for the British; and twin-engine aircraft for the Germans. (Or did you accidentally upload the wrong video? 😁)

[@MrLBPug]

And how would the Ju-87 video in this 'Bitter Beginnings' series fit into that meta, hm? 😏

[@michaelbourgeault9409]

On a more serious note - an altitude of zero means the same thin in Metric as it does in Imperial

[@cmsxcb]

08:55 Hurricanes flying in a finger-four formation instead of a "Vic" formation? In 1940? Fighter Command didn't change the training manual until 1942 although some squadrons were using it in 1941 having learned to respect it during the Battle of Britain.

[@MrLBPug]

Definitely a 'Vic' and a fourth trailing Hurricane. In the previous videos in this series, the RAF AI flew in clear 'Vics' as well so it's doubtful that has changed in the meantime. What _is_ anachronistic is the defensive armament of the Ju 88's in the video: single MG 81 and double MG 81Z 7,92mm machine guns. They would have been armed with single 7,92mm MG 17s around the time of the Battle of Britain. The Heinkel 111s in previous videos had later-war defensive armament configurations as well. That's likely due to the aircraft available in the game. edit: The Spitfire Mk Vb wasn't developed during the Battle of Britain either yet. This was the first series-produced Spitfire with 20mm Hispano cannons.

[@cyberfutur5000]

Maybe do a Il21946 Java campaign, to accommodate the other series.

[@copee2960]

Shake n Bake baby...i mean Boom and Zoom.

[@astrafaan]

Both sides? Well it's interesting :)

[@edwardbrophy9749]

Where do you go to, to download these short campaigns?? 👍

[@stephenreynolds1643]

Are you playing both sides?

[@jaydeister9305]

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Great cinematography but you need to read up on ops and tactics for the aircraft you're flying.

[@generalkriszavosky6441]

An absolute shameful display. Smh.

[@3scafl0wn3]

hum...was that a bombing of a civilian target aka residential area ? aint that a war crime ;)...so are we the baddies?

[@bigmac60]

Poor fighter absolutely

[@daniellucas1494]

Nicely done - shame that you can no longer show the way the planes really looked. What is with those four lines on the tail? What have we become when you can not show history?!?!

[@michaelbourgeault9409]

Those four lines on the vertical tail surfaces are the same as they always have been, just with the colours reversed from the original scheme.

[@dammitdan1662]

Yeah, where are my fascist Nazi symbols that are still very much revered by idiots around the world?!

[@dammitdan1662]

I always question the intentions of someone so desperate for reality that they insist on displaying fascist symbols…

[@MrLBPug]

In some countries, the swastika is forbidden to be used for other than educational purposes - i.e in museums, documentaries, books and the like. That's why there is only a suggestion of it on the tail surfaces of German aircraft in this game, which is meant for entertainment and not for education. The game can thus be legally sold in those countries as well. But if you so wish, you can download skins for your aircraft that are fully historically correct, swastikas and all.

[@MrLBPug]

@@michaelbourgeault9409 They're not referring to the _Balkenkreuz_ on the fuselage and the wings, but to the swastika on the vertical tail surfaces. The black-and-white _Balkenkreuzen_ are actually depicted historically correct for the time period. The 'low visibility' _Balkenkreuz_ was introduced later in the war.