Originally posted by Voss:
Did you ever consider that, perhaps, the Panzer or LVT hit you with the BIG gun?
I considered it, then dismissed it. Maybe I should consider it again. I heard the 7.92 MG hitting me (it goes tap tap tap tap like a .303, much different than a .50 or a 20mm), and I pretty much ignored it. Then right as I flew over him, I exploded. However, I did see his main gun while I was making my run, it was pointed to his 12 OC, and not his 6 OC. I was coming from his 6 OC.
The only thing that I can think that would have happened would be he saw me coming (which he obviously did), and swung the cupola MG around, and hit me with it a few times. Then (and this would be supposition), he switched to the main gun, which would have been aimed at me since that is where the MG was shooting. He fired a round and got lucky, or he was lagging really bad. Yes, that is a possibility. I wouldn't consider it a strong one, but it is a possibility.
Ummm...pilot kill maybe? You did say that you exploded....that usually means pilot kill.
I would think that even if our 190F8 only had pilot armor that it would protect him from rifle caliber rounds. Wouldn't part of the cockpit armor be an armored floor and windscreen?
Speaking of which, I think it is kind of silly to model the ground attack varient of a plane, but NOT to include the armor that they had to protect them. Increase the weight of the plane, decrease the performance, but make it a lot tougher for a single .30 or .50 to kill you from the front. I feel the same way about the IL-2 (I've shot them down with the single .50 in the M3 as well), that plane should be well-neigh invulnerable from the front and bottom front. The plane was supposedly a flying "tank", which is an apt description of its flight characteristics (in AH at least), but definately not in terms of durability.
