Improve your aiming/marksman skills

[hegykc]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Great thread, Hegykc. Time for me to practice some offline deflection shooting.

Does anyone know if ballistic energy depletion over distance is modelled in Cliffs of Dover? ie. An AP round is far more effective in penetration power at 100 yards vs 1000 yards (accuracy notwithstanding).

I think I can confirm that.

If you set your convergence at say 300 meters and shoot at 100 meters or even less, you still inflict massive damage even though the bullet patterns are spread out. More damage than if you had shot at 300 meters even though you'd get perfect bullet concentration.

This might also be in large due to the fact that at 300 meters the big He-111 is just a dot in the sights and your firing more or less blindly at the whole aircraft and hope you hit something vital.
While at 100 meters you can actually aim at an engine, wing fuel tank or the pilot.

Seems to me the .303 caliber (at least in game) is pretty much useless at more than 200 meters, and takes a lot of hits to do significant damage at more than 130 meters.

This is all tested on bombers.