BF109's and Stukas too hard to shoot down? Anyone else finding this?

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Originally Posted by ElAurens

You must remember that the .303" British cartridge was adopted in 1888 as the standard infantry rifle round. It was designed to kill unarmoured, soft skinned human beings, not shoot down machines that had not been invented yet.

Rifle caliber machine guns, while still in use in most air forces at the start of WW2 were inadequate at best in the air to air role. It was not uncommon for German bombers to get back to their bases in France with hundreds of bullet holes in them.

To take down a fighter you must hit something vital. Hard to do from astern with what amounts to a fast firing deer rifle.

This is true and modeled well imo.


For example... It took me multiple bursts to take down or cause significant amounts of damage to a BF110 whereas the next BF110 I encountered it took one small, less than a second, burst to completely destroy the aircraft.. Difference was that the first plane I was putting rounds into the control surfaces whereas that second 110 got the rounds directly into its right engine and the thing went up in a ball of flame. Was kinda cool actually beause it was flying a tight wedge with it's wing leader and due to their proximity to each other the damage to the wingman also took out the wing leader.. very cool and I wish I had saved the track... It basically took me maybe 3 bullets to bring down two BF110's.