I'm sorry Tiffy but that "one side, one style" approach is not particularly helpful.
First off, you cannot simply focus on one side, on style.
IIRC I've had no choice when starting the campaign than to fly red side first.
Not that it bothers me, but what about someone who'd like to fly german planes? He'll have to go through the soviet campaign first too.
However I might stand corrected here. At least now that I started the soviet campaign, I cannot abort it and go on with the german one...
One style:
I'm not that kind of fighter jockey, I'm a mud mover.
Problem is when I started the soviet campaign, I tried a couple of planes and found this:
Pe-2 is nice for level bombing, but BoS isn't. Bombing mission task is usually to approach at 5-6km and level-bomb something.
"Something" is the issue here: Am I blind or am I the only one who simply cannot identify the target from 5km altitude in BoS?
I couldn't find any possibility to zoom the view in bombsight mode yet and all I see in there from 5km is black ants on snow.
So I end up with the Pe-2 going low and drop bombs like a fighter-bomber. Works, but this is not what it's intended to be.
The IL-2 would be nice and it acts great as a mud mover, problem is: Whenever I choose "ground attack" missions with IL-2, I get a flight of IL-2s and an "escort" of Yaks behind us, but not belonging to our flight. They refuse to accept commands and simply intercept the very first german planes they encounter on the flight path.
This leaves me and my IL-2 flight unescorted when we approach the target area. I usually manage to complete the mission task, but only to be shot like turkeys by the german fighters patroling the target area afterwards.
So since BoS fails to provide escorts for the Sturmovik, I fail to successfully use it in the campaign.
La-5 would be a nice fighter-bomber, but regardless possible loadout options (including bombs) I only get intercept or escort missions offered for the La-5.
Yak-1 is the same: Could be a nice FB, but only fighter missions offered.
Leaves me with the Lagg-3, the only plane available which gets ground attack missions offered and with limited capabilities to act as a fighter.
No particular problem here, but it's boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring like hell.
As I wrote elsewhere, the Lagg-3 damage model is absolutely porked. The player plane is made of glass, your AI fellows fly the concrete edition.
The bombs seem to be equipped with a small invisible nuclear device, while the ruskies apparently forgot to put any explosives in the rockets at all.
You will usually easily be able to complete the ground attack mission task and you even get enemy 109 G-2 planes with it, the latter only because AI is so damn stupid.
But keep yourself from attacking anything with gunners, they kill you glass engine even when using just their duty pistol.
One side, one style?
Lucky me my side of choice is russian, I would have been in trouble otherwise from the very beginning.
Since I'm not a fighter jockey and since BoS can't deal with escorts nor provides a useful bombsight yet, I'm forced to fly the Lagg which otherwise would have been the least choice I would have made.
Best regards - Mike
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