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Old 07-03-2014, 09:45 AM
Pursuivant Pursuivant is offline
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More A-20G DM problems.

1) Pilot injury.

A) Forward Armor Plate Not Properly Modeled: In a few cases, bullets will penetrate the forward armor plate to kill the pilot - just as if the plate wasn't there. This despite the fact that most marks of A-20 had armor plate ahead of the pilot:

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/Im...otArmorDia.pdf

Unfortunately, no pictures of this one. I got three PK in quick succession and several pilot wounded results from frontal attacks which penetrated the forward armor, but didn't think to take screenshots of them. After that, I couldn't replicate the problem.

B) The armor glass in front of the pilot is mostly well modeled, with a few exceptions:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1404379563

Note the hit to the edge of the armor glass, which, rather than being stopped or deflected penetrated to hit the pilot's arm. This isn't just an artifact of the cockpit model not quite matching up to the exterior model, the hit looked just as strange from the outside.

Typically, however, the armor glass does its job except at close ranges were it can be penetrated.

C) Pilot damage modeling is a bit weird. In one instance I got a bleeding wound from a bullet which just missed the pilot. At best, it would have been a grazing wound.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1404380010


2) Gun damage. Unlike planes like the P-38 where just about any hit to the nose is a gun hit, it's quite difficult to hit the guns on the A-20G. While they can happen (unlike, say, the P-39 or P-400), I have to wonder if the ammunition runs for the guns could be a bit better modeled.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1404380214

Notice loads of hits which might damage the guns or ammo runs, including one hit that goes straight down the barrel of one of the guns, but no damage.

3) Missing Crewman. This isn't bad DM, it's just a bug. The rear gun pivots, but no gunner is visible. He's either not modeled, or he is hiding someplace inside the plane rather than manning his gun. He is visible when it's time to bail out, though!

Finally, this technical report provides lots of good cutaway drawings of various A-20 engine, fuel and control systems:

http://legendsintheirowntime.com/A20/A20_draft_2.pdf
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