IL-2 Sturmovik Strafing Run

yunusozgul

Greetings,
I'm here in order to discuss the IL-2 Sturmovik Strafing Run ability in-game.

The IL-2 Sturmovik Strafing Run ability is one of the most useless commander abilities in-game. It costs 90 Munitions, and it barerly kills a single unit. It only suppresss the nearby infantry units and penetrates the enemy armor if you're lucky. This ability used to be only available for the Advanced Warfare Tactics commander until the notorious 2020/21 Winter Balance Patch ruined entire the game. It's now available for more 2 commanders: Mechanized Support Tactics and Shock Motor Heavy Tactics. These both commanders used to have an awesome ability so-called IL-2 Precision Bombing Strike that costs 200 Munitions. However, the developers decided to replace it with this awful ability for some reason. In order to solve this situation, you can either replace it with the IL-2 Sturmovik Attacks ability that is available for Armored Assault Tactics, Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics and Soviet Shock Army or develop the ability itself and allow it to strafe and pin the enemy infantry units just like the Stuka Strafing Run ability that is available for Assault Support Doctrine.

Thanks for reading.

Yappir

it is there to pin the infantry not kill them, that's why its damage will be even further reduced next patch.

yunusozgul

@Yappir said:
it is there to pin the infantry not kill them, that's why its damage will be even further reduced next patch.

It currently doesn't immediately pin the enemy infantry units like the Stuka JU-87D Anti-Infantry Strafe ability that is available for the Close Air Support Doctrine doctrine, instead just puts some pressure on them and somehow manages to kill a few models.