IL-2 Great Battles | Heinkel HE-111 | 3rd Time Lucky???

[@odonovan]

Hint: If you can add extra guns for no speed loss, ADD THE GUNS. And, when you're bombing, you want the largest coverage, so take the most bombs you can, even if they're smaller. Unless you're trying to kill tanks, you don't need large bombs.

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

Top tip: If you shoot down your fellow bombers en route, you get prime choice of targets :)

[@careyamos485]

Bruh

[@Xiones11]

The way you record the missions and the external views are awesome. You show all the action people wanna see. Like view from the gunner seat and then view of the plane while its taking fire. Keep doing this its really cool to see campaigns like this!

[@JDKempton]

Your external views never disappoint!

[@stuartvickers982]

If I where in taffs shoes, I would do the cannons, who doesn’t love eviscerating planes with way to much fire power

[@conmcgrath7502]

Might I suggest 16 x 50 kg bombs might be more suitable for an 'area attack'? I love the detail though, there's even a blackening around the engine exhaust ports, superb. Pax dude.

[@TakahashiRyosuke13137]

Love the He-111 series , I dont know if there is one, but I would LOVE a Wellington or Lancaster series, man even a Sparviero would be even more awesome.

[@robertdubois3448]

I think your bombing calculation was a little off. The briefing said you would be bombing from 2500 but it looked like you were calculating for 1500.

[@careyamos485]

10:01 was awesome !

[@lostsoul4680]

I think the reasoning for that 20mm there was it could be used against surface targets ie ships.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Not movable enough. AA defense only. If I should attack a He 111I would choose 12 o´clock high: nearly no defense, no armor and a good chance to kill the pilot.

[@sztypettto]

My understanding on forward heavy weapon placement on the Heinkel 111s is that they were installed for close air support strafing soft targets. The 111 was a mid-30s design. The Flying Fortress bomber concept was likely popularised by US and RAF bombers. Which is why you can see the Ju-88, Ju-188 and later designs carrying rearward facing 20 mm cannons. Although ball turrets were never fully incorporated because of the Führer's preferences.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

@@sztypettto Again: the movement range of the gun is too small to do ground attacks; you can move the gun only a few degrees, so the pilot has to do a dive attack for strafing ground targets. Göring was obsessed by dive attacks but I don´t think the 111 was able to perform so. In later war the Germans preferred higher calibers as 13 , 15 and 20 mm because the impact of 7,92 mm wasn´t good enough anymore due to better armor of the enemy. They didn´t use ball turrets because of the idea of a Kampfkopf: all or most of the crew and the weapons concentrated in a quite small area. I don´t know whose brain was behind that but you see it on most German bombers except the He 111 and He 177.

[@sztypettto]

@@foreverpinkf.7603 , you make a reasonable argument there. I don't have a source to back up my claims, and it's likely I heard or read about the 111's 20 mm ff cannons for low level strafing when I used to play IL-1946. From what I can remember, the bomber would swoop down below, maintain level flight while the belly/nose gunner would strafe targets. I found it challenging to replicate the same in IL-1946 because of the limitations in the simulator's mechanics back then and I haven't ever found the tactic that I'm referring to as being used in any high frequency. But my foggy memory apart, it begs asking Military Aviation History channel this question. That guy does some solid research.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

@@sztypettto Ok go on and tell me what you´ve found. Never too late to learn. I can imagine that they used their belly guns at low level bombing to have fun with troops and AA. But we´ll see.

[@XxJay71xX]

Great vidéo For those kind of attack tho, I would suggest to take the 50kg bombs. Think of it this way, during ww2, only 10% of all bomb dropped during an high altitude bombing fell in the targeted area. So bigger is not necessarly the answer, think like a shotgun: if you drop a lot of bombs in the area, you have more chances to hit something from altitude. The big bombs and guns are more suited for more specific task like tactical bombing or anti ship missions Also it would make your plane quite a bit lighter and make your take off easier ;)

[@ebusitanus]

Question. I have not noticed the rest of defense MG positions firing aside of yours. Is this by design or do you need to activate them?

[@arthurcrego8297]

Great as always, loved it.

[@arnoboers8278]

Very good vid, i hope to see more fast, i realy like this career.

[@mdjones4]

just started an He-111 campaign myself. which difficulty are you using in options? frontline density?

[@bergloff_3410]

Hi taff if you haven't heard b17 the mighty eighth is getting remastered

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

The weather report says 19 m/s you read 17 m/s. Time for new glasses? But good bomb run and perfect parking.

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

He think he took the average between 15 and 19, as if he was flying at 1500m, but he said he was at 2500 so maybe a brain-fade moment?!

[@kieranjordan2655]

I so wish my laptop can play this but its too high demand, I shall enjoy watching you play instead

[@TheLeonhamm]

Yeah! Our favourite flying Greenhouse. Take plenty of dry-peas .. for the pea shooters. Allll-a-rrmmmm! Dive! Dive! Dive! ;o)

[@lucaendres9210]

Do you play in VR and with joystick or with mouse and keyboard? Love your videos :)

[@hummerltheOh]

Taff doesn't have VR as far as I know, he uses Track IR

[@Echo_4609]

@@hummerltheOh yeah he uses track ir like a lot of other people do. vr is just expensive and a struggle to set up and since the game still requires mnk for other things like menus it would be a hassle with a headset preventing you from seeing things. VR would only work well and be immersive if you had a 1:1 cockpit of the plane youre flying. otherwise you wouldnt know what buttons youre pressing i definitely do not recommend VR unless you have that. but to answer the other part of your question i think he does use a joystick

[@hummerltheOh]

Yeah I use TrackHat and it works really well. I fully agree with your statements about VR, you need cockpit-like buttons for EVERYTHING, otherwise you can't really use them.

[@bluestorm3628]

A perfect text book mission good job 👍

[@davinwrachford2641]

Keep this serious up love the serious man! One of my favs behind Uboat of course!

[@craigthompson8629]

Is this game just Eastern Front combat or can you fight other battles such as the Battle Of Britain & Pacific theatre such as Pearl harbour etc?

[@RM97800]

This game: IL-2 great battles at this time consists of: -Battle of Stalingrad '42-'43 (base game, rest of modules are dlcs) -Battle of Moscow '41-'42 -Battle of Kuban (russian steppes) '43 -Battle of Bodenplatte (late war, the Netherlands and Ardennes) '44-'45 -Flying Circus vol.1 (WW1 module) -[upcoming] Battle of Normandy '44 -[upcoming] Clash at Prokhorovka (tank module) There are no Pacific&Britain in the game currently (you can find battle of britain in other IL-2 game: IL-2 Cliffs of Dover BLITZ. When it comes to pacific, I think IL-2:1946 has pacific airplanes, but the game hasn't aged well)

[@matthewwagner47]

Maybe taking a many small diameter bombs might give greater effect. Having x15 25lbs. bomblettes will be more effective against unfortified positions then dropping 1x 250lbs bomb.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Good mission, quite but good. Pity a dorsal 20mm cannon isn't available. I was thinking you should drift behind the lead bomber (diamond formation) to better chance of hitting something ..but then I thought of strong winds might help you on the flank .

[@sergeantboy3072]

I bougth the game (normaly 46,99 euro's) does it not start up, It is not my pc (its a msi computer) it just says it is not reacting. tried multipul things and it still does not work. if anybody can help me. (plz)

[@spartanofrome5945]

I don't really get it but I really like the change from a fighter to a dedicated bomber, it's just a nice change of pace

[@lordvader3766]

Hi Taff,loving your series on this IL2 and your Atlantic Royal Navy that I’ve just started watching. Quick question, is there an RAF bombing/fighter career game or even Pacific games? I’d love to play something like spitfire or Hurricaine or the big daddy of them all, the Avro Lancaster. Is there any like this?

[@Okfairenough]

Ik I’m two years late, but il2 has hurricanes and spitfires, not sure bout Lancaster, il2 1946 has pacific I think

[@wideyxyz2271]

And no crash landing double bonus!

[@RM97800]

Is there any way taff could disable bomb drop on flight lead signal? I thought if he had bomb drop in manual he would be independent from FL

[@SnowyNI]

The wind in the bombsight view blows my mind when it says "from 301 to 307", you would think that means it's blowing in from the NW instead of being relative to the planes direction, that's crazy! :(

[@ColonelVermel]

The wind is blowing from 301 but it is important for the bomb whether the wind is relatively blowing from aft, left or right. Therefore Taff has to calculate the relative wind direction in regards to his flying plane. This is done via the upper compass ( 9:13 ). The calculated angle is then put in in the lower „relative angle“ compass, 180 degree to the left or right. You can compare this with the AoB (Angle of the bow) in the uboat series (or SH5, etc.)

[@_Braised]

What happened to that last Russian fighter pilot? Did his chute open in time? Didn't really get to see the outcome there.

[@kimbonzky]

Joseph 'trefft nicht' Meier

[@Zinmar]

I enjoyed playing this game when it first came out. I always flew the HE-111 or the Stuka. Is this the newest version or are you still running with the old CD version of the game?

[@killerbee5884]

one of these raids you should use the 2 1000 kg bombs

[@ChattytumblerTCW]

Since patch 4.005 the bomb blast damage algorithm has been changed. Any bomb bigger than 250kg has been severely nerfed :( In the ‘old days’ a 1000kg bomb would easily get 40-60 ground kills if dropped correctly. Now the same bombs will do 10-20 damage.

[@timonsolus]

@@ChattytumblerTCW : So, 8 small 250 kg bombs is the way to go? Or, can you carry 32 tiny 50 kg bombs?

[@ChattytumblerTCW]

@@timonsolus the honest answer is not to level bomb in a 111 but rather go in with a ju88 (6x250 and 28x50) or a Bf110 (2x250, 4x50 and a lot of cannon rounds). If you are sticking with the 111 then any that contains bombs up to 250kg in size works best. Dropping 50kgs in clusters of 4 with a slight time delay also works quite well from altitude but you need to do a few passes to be the most efficient which may not be possible if the AA is active or enemy fighters are in the region. Currently not a great time to be a 111 pilot :(

[@timonsolus]

@@ChattytumblerTCW : Thanks for the reply. Of course, the easy answer to the question 'how best to fly the He 111' is 'don't fly it in the first place' - but I respect Taff a lot for not taking the easy option and simply flying the best machine available for the campaign. After all, that option wasn't on offer to Luftwaffe crews at the time - they had to fly whatever machine they were given, and if it was outdated, tough luck, sucks to be you.

[@noneofyourbusiness2107]

What is the tail wheel lock for?

[@__qux4705]

So that it doesn’t make the plane spin around on the ground, especially the take off run. If it was loose it might spin around and cause the tail end of the plane to swing about which is dangerous

[@noneofyourbusiness2107]

@@__qux4705 thank you

[@jameslanning8405]

Aain... Lack of training and practice has you plowing fields with explosives...

[@RemmyC4]

Taff, always enjoy your videos. Any chance to promote yourself so you can be the lead and they all drop on your signal? Would much rather watch your plan make the call vs the AI. Take care.

[@liquidopl6492]

Hmm Klaus and Claus

[@anthonylitten9504]

It's been a long minute since I've played il2 but can't you call out targets

[@ОсличекОсл]

Merkel caput ! 🙃

[@peterotto8779]

Beginning to think that bombardier of yours is a Russian sympathizer

[@FJF119]

LUFFWAFFE SHOULD HAVE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOY FOUR HEAVY ENGINE BOMBERS ; THAT COULD BE USED IN RUSSIA ............

[@willsimpson3783]

Me264 lol imagine