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Old 12-05-2010, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by zaelu View Post
The bias of IL2 is like this:

Say you want to "represent" 2 sniper teams from a historic battle. You can model the accuracy of gunners, the quality of weapons they used in a degree... but you can't mimic the fact that one of the team was starving all that time. That's why it lost... but in your simulation... it will win.
The mission builder would set the AI level of the starving team lower.

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Originally Posted by Chivas
We can't compare the WW2 aircraft now, but have to rely on data written by people who may have had a bias one way or another, or more likely even they could not do a comprehensive assessment.
Partially true. It's possible to have an aircraft simulated these days. I'm not saying it would be to the NASA number crunching level, but you would get very close to real numbers of drag, Mach-number on compression and other numbers that are needed for an aircraft's flight envelope. If only to confirm the numbers someone is using are close enough.