Damage Model Bug Stomping - Part 2

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Originally Posted by Furio

Once, I was shot down by a couple of bullets in the nose of my plane. Tac -tac, and the engine began immediately to emit creaking and squeaking sounds, losing power and stopping after a couple of minutes… The gun was an Mg15 (Stuka gunner) and my plane an armoured Il2… Hardly realistic.

Can get even worse. PK from Bf110 rear gunner in an IL-2, that's as impossible as it gets.

Originally Posted by Furio

I think sometimes strange things happen, and are almost certainly result of random errors, having nothing to do with damage models. I think that reports about single events are of little value. What we need are consistent experiments, repeatable by others, like a sort of peer review. Pursuivant demonstrates that can be done, and that results are sometimes surprising.

Yes. Totally agree. Once is almost never. And data is always better as impressions&conjecture, I think I inadvertently proved that with my last post.

Originally Posted by Furio

I believe that further test will bring more surprises. And also think that Il2 remains a fantastic game, still a lot of fun after so many years, a monument to original developers and to the continuing work being done today.

I'll drink to that. Cheers!