Who says Mosquitoes aren't tough

[nrshida]

But at the same time since the skin on a monocoque structure takes the load any compromise to the skin would weaken the structure.

Aha! But it's the whole surface of the monocoque which takes the load, not specific points on it. You'd have to do a cartoon dot stitch or take out a vast section to have it fail.

They could, but that then makes the big plane's ridiculously tough to anything that isn't concentrated.  I suspect this may the the case with at least certain sub-components of the A-20.  It is a balancing act and I think HTC might need to error a little bit more in favor of toughening up the big fighters, Bf110C-4b, Bf110G-2, Me410, Mosquito Mk VI, P-38G, P-38J, P-38L, P-47D-11, P-47D-25, P-47D-40, P-47M and P-47N.

Bah. That's frustrating.

[BnZs]

They could, but that then makes the big plane's ridiculously tough to anything that isn't concentrated.  I suspect this may the the case with at least certain sub-components of the A-20.  It is a balancing act and I think HTC might need to error a little bit more in favor of toughening up the big fighters, Bf110C-4b, Bf110G-2, Me410, Mosquito Mk VI, P-38G, P-38J, P-38L, P-47D-11, P-47D-25, P-47D-40, P-47M and P-47N.

I'd say more in the direction of softening up the little fighters myself.

[BnZs]

What I mean to say is that the big fighters already take plenty hits, so don't harden them. Reduce the tank-like hardness of some of the smaller ones instead.

[save]

I have always thought the P47 should be harder to kill than they are in AH.
OTOH I find the extra armoured birds, FW190A8, does not take one extra hit from a Wirbie compared with any other single engined fighter without the extra armour it carry.
The extra extra armoured FW190F8, the extra armour only do good against auto-acks and buffs.

Since there is very little action weekdays Euro time lately, more effort to kill grounds has become more intense than before.