IL-2 1946: Liberator attacks Flying Boats and Ships

[@danielmocsny5066]

This makes me wonder why no one in World War II thought up the side-firing aerial gunship idea that began with the Vietnam War. A flight of B-24s could have circled an enemy convoy from a relatively safe distance, doing a large pylon turn, and picked off the soft cargo ships one by one with their side-firing 75mm or 40mm cannons. The ships' gunners would have had a harder time hitting the smaller, faster-moving airplanes from the same distance. With all the attacking aircraft spread out along the flight circle, they would have divided the defenders' fire.

[@fernarias]

They put big guns (sometimes lots of 50 cal) in the nose of some bombers and used them to attack ships in Europe. In Asia the distances were too great so they just used subs to great effect.

[@CAPDude44]

B-24 isn't wide enough, and if ships are in range, so are you.

[@DElkan]

With the paint job that the Liberator has, it looks like a Shark attacking some poor defenseless whales. Really mean looking aircraft with a mean sounding drone coming from the engines. Love it!

[@fraggerfragsolot9285]

I was thinking the same thing. Love the paint job on that liberator!

[@cromwellthesynth]

it's very similar to the one RAF Coastal Command used on their Liberators and Wellingtons

[@davidcovarubias4753]

Navy version of the B-24, called a PB4Y1 Liberator.

[@aim-9xsidewinder654]

Ohhh those engine sounds......PERFECTION!!!!

[@cromwellthesynth]

12:48 oh god, some poor bugger jumped and his 'chute didn't deploy in time!

[@PrimetimeNut]

Pesky Polecat something tells me Tojo wasn’t sending out a rescue party for those chaps anyway

[@Beethoven80]

Good to see the fuel quality requirement in the cockpit. So the pilot doesn't choose the wrong sort of fuel when landing at the petrol station! :)

[@Fishyyy]

I probably could land at a gas station, when i think about it ...

[@fraggerfragsolot9285]

Ah, the ol B-24 doesn't get enough love, awesome video :)

[@snsm6730]

Been flying this sim for years and the addition of the B-24D has been GREAT... The "D" might be better choice as this model was the first mass-produced version and entered US service in early 1942 so you can probably build a LOT of missions with this bird through the war.

[@wrblackbill]

awesome, thanks for the battle!! fascinating how technology has evolved.

[@Lockbar]

Good going. Those ships were all carrying Australian POWs.

[@CheekyM0nkeyzz]

Lockbar are you Australian

[@chasyes1]

do you get invited to many parties?....

[@robertburnston6586]

Fly along the line of ships not just broadside. Simple, easy and productive.

[@R3dp055um]

A truly excellent video! It was *most* entertaining to watch, and I do congratulate you on having the imagination to do something different. I'm guessing that flying boat was actually a Mavis (H6K) rather then an Emily (H8K), given that the latter carried a full set of 20mm cannon and would have shot your pecker off :) ***EDIT*** OK, now I see my error. Wikipedia says "5× 20 mm Type 99 cannon (one each in bow, dorsal, and tail turrets, plus one each in two waist blisters". Being a flying boat, it had no ventral (belly) turret, and thus could not defend itself from below, so you cleverly maneuvered into its blind spot. A human pilot would have put the nose down as soon as you approached, and skimmed the waves so you couldn't attack from below.

[@jonathanjames471]

The " Emily " was a very heavily armored and fast flying boat …. faster than any other axis or allied . One of the finest Japanese warplanes to see service in WW2

[@densyyy2909]

The B 25 handled the 75mm with great effect. I wonder if the B 24 could have been as effective and air worthy with a 90mm or even a 105mm? That would have been devastating!

[@PaulMcElligott]

Oops. Too much air in the fuel tanks.

[@moonshotmurray]

The Emily bushwhack was awesome.

[@oriontheraptor8119]

The liberator is my favorite American bomber XD just a bazar body style with that forked tail

[@somewhatsarcasticsticker2077]

Whyd the engines turn off? Fuel tanks shot out and leaked or what?

[@brent0935]

Gavin Sticker yea the white smoke behind the plane is the leaking fuel

[@davidcovarubias4753]

@@brent0935 If the white smoke behind the #1 engine was leaking fuel the pilots should have monitored this and RTB'd (returned to base when they were at bingo fuel) or before so they could make it back to base. Running out of fuel is inexcusable.

[@sargentshadow]

Ok this is gonna sound really dumb but how do you just drop one bomb not all from a plane?

[@EstonianShark]

How does one create a mission where the AI bombers/CAS actually strike/bomb something? (Ik you flew the B24*I think* but it's a problem)

[@search4truth616]

Nice work guys.

[@REMMc-jx7vc]

How many coop players could be in the b24 with you sir?

[@Fishyyy]

9

[@hyrazac]

That was almost just cruel - like shooting fish in a barrel! What happened at the end there? just wondering, did you not feather the propellers 'cause your were so far out anyway?

[@Fishyyy]

I did feather them, you can see the german notice "Prop. Segelstellung" in the bottom right corner. It means propellers feathered. And you're right, it wouldn't have mattered.

[@hyrazac]

Ah, word, it looks like it's just not reflected on the propeller model in game. Either way, nice job!

[@vitalsilva922]

fabuloso B24 show.parabens.

[@Otokichi786]

Skip bombing in the Pacific theater was handled by B-25s and "single tail Liberators," the Navy PB4Y-2 with great success against anchored and moving targets. Air crews might prefer to sink warships, but bulk war materiel and food was carried on freighters and tankers. Without fuel, ships and aircraft can't move or defend the nation. Was the first Kawanishi H8K flying boat the sole defender/escort for this merchant fleet? You were lucky to take it out when you did; armed with multiple 20mm cannon, it should have outranged your .50" machine guns.;) Although bombers can take quite a lot of damage and still fly, a hit to the oil or fuel systems can make things stop suddenly, and the crew will be floating on the ocean, wondering if the enemy or friendly forces will find them before the sharks or the elements get to them.

[@Fishyyy]

The escort consisted of the two H8Ks and a destroyer.

[@consolidatedliberator385]

The Liberator was a hell of a war plane with great history until the war was over in 45 with Germany and of course 46 with Japan. In a lot of ways the 17 holds no candle to the 24 24 in even more ways put the Boing 17 f f to shame. That is why they stopped building the 17 and for Japan started on the Super Fortress to drop the bomb on Heroshema and knagaki. But I diegressed . More than 18000 b-24 were built between 1942 and 1946. Starting with model 32 that flew in December 1939. In san diago California. Ford Moter Company at Willow Run built the most of all the other plants. My name sake tells any body with Common science the Liberator is a better plane .

[@brettlloyd4446]

B24 liberators carried out attacks on axis ships and submarines during ww2 in the Atlantic and later in pacific against the Japanese, ideally suited for this role with its armament, payload and range

[@s2korpionic]

How long did the mission took?

[@jakubbuszko3089]

By the way , i wish play H5 Mawis a whole campaign & carrier mode ...

[@zkvtch]

I love this game, I'm just upset there's no mouse feature

[@DElkan]

Man you could run this game on an old laptop at medium settings, no need for a super expensive rig. On the flip side, you'll be able to play IL2 Battle of Stalingrad (a new and very intensive flight sim) and run it pretty well if you end up liking simulators!

[@zkvtch]

I heard Battle of Stalingrad uses mouse feature, but that games like 30-40 dollars!

[@s2korpionic]

Dude, I'm running this game from a basic 2013 laptop that only has an Intel GPU. I can run it fine on most maps at excellent settings. Gotta drop it down to medium or low when there's a lot of 3D trees and buildings (e.g. Slovakia)

[@s2korpionic]

Ok, this is amusing. The point of my comment was that your rig's totally fine in running 1946. If you somehow find offense in my original comment... well I can't help you there buddy.

[@ChristianRB89]

Why would anyone want a mouse feature? You use your mouse to look around with.

[@BoopSnoot]

Is skip bombing always so successful in the game? In reality it didn't always work since the bombs would go off too soon or late and you're a sitting duck for AA flying nice and level from great distance all the way up to the ship. From the documentaries I watched, they also usually had to combine plane attacks from multiple angles at once or the defenses would know where to aim their guns and take out the planes easily. Here we see a plane attacking again and again and yet the AA seems incompetent.

[@chasyes1]

B-25's skip bombed VERY successfully, with heavy forward firing armaments,but yes, much better to have several planes attacking at once from different points of the compass...

[@R3dp055um]

AA seems incompetent? Say fucking what? Did you not see the #1 (port outboard) engine smoking after the very first attack, which was *not* terribly successful? Comments like this make me wonder if the commenter even watched the video first...

[@briandamage5677]

I have read that many allied air crews were surprised at how inaccurate Japanese flak was, in that the often failed to give sufficient lead to their targets.

[@jakubbuszko3089]

Now try something similar with h5 Kawanishi Mawis & F1 Mitsubishi Pete !!!

[@paulwilliams331]

Can this game be downloaded for free

[@Javier_Garcia_Ab]

No fuel?

[@JamLeGull]

Please do more commentary fishyyy!

[@niemand-]

Immer auf die Tankanzeige achten

[@deadendfriends1975]

No AA fire ?

[@Fishyyy]

I sank the AA. There are no armed transports in this version, only with mods.

[@tonibadajoz4754]

An transport within AA protection

[@dockmasterted]

Me thinks you messed up in the end my friend......SHOULD HAVE USED THE RADIO! to report "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY .....your position, and that you were out of fuel and ditching."

[@Fishyyy]

Okay. Now programm the game to include that feature.

[@dockmasterted]

Sorry I don't fly I just in the peanut gallery..... good work though my friend!

[@spikelowry5112]

Take out those fucking PT Boats

[@AGRO_SIKIRICA]

the b 24 is really unferated...

[@danielkemper9302]

wie heits das Spiel bei PLAY STOR??????

[@justinnewcomb2279]

Nice RTB btw 😜😜

[@bearnicholas3830]

...seems like more of a mission for a B-25 or a PBY, not s heavy bomber.....and altitude is way to low for this heavy hitter

[@dangerfloof7711]

Ya but for the lols

[@kg_sroberth2238]

Such an old, ugly and unrealistic game... Nobody wants to play this game anymore!

[@Fishyyy]

He's trolling, don't worry. We're friends^^

[@kg_sroberth2238]

:D