Still Soooo Porked

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Originally Posted by GraveyardJimmy

One thing I would say is that you cant expect to destroy aircraft easily. Looking at wikipedia (not the best source I realise) I saw this on "disaster" for Stukas:



So when 18 hurricanes attacked without fighter opposition, they downed 3 aircraft. One on one, especially from behind, possibly shouldn't see a destroyed aircraft, despite the hits you managed.

I beg to differ!

Have a good read through the many, many combat reports around and you will see that the 8x .303 was ferocious at close range in real life... a incredible amount of rounds tearing through planes with authority and more often than not resulting in belching thick clouds of smoke, fires or even severing tail sections!!

Given this evidence it is quite ridiculous in the current porked state to get over 200 solid hits at deflection on a 109 only to have him glide back to base with a stuttering engine. You can even put 1000 solid hits into an he111 and have it cruise back to france with little difficulty, quite absurd seeing as the most notable record of bomber survival for this period was the Do17z that took over 200 hits. Let's

One other thing to add is that the differences in ammo loadout can yield very strange results... try loading every gun with dewilde and watch as you blow the wings off an He111 with a split second burst- everytime. Il2 1946 is still far more well rounded in the damage model as is but this has good potential should these glaring bugs be attended to.