observations of the damage models

[Animl-AW]

I can’t confirm about the “hit square” thing. But note, it’s a pilot wound, a head wound should be death. That said the difference between the 38 and some other fighters is the engine isn’t in front of the pilot taking the hit. You have guns but no engine there, the rounds can be easier to  pass through front of the cockpit. This may explain why the “hit square” is bigger.

[LCADolby]

From memory I never really suffered the PWs in the P38 (usually insta-towered), but did so in the A5.

The D9s fragile Rad is all but legendary as well as all the 190 series Forward Fuel Tanks.

Nose gun(s) in the 152, 262 and P39 all tragically lost so easily in fights.

[Animl-AW]

I constantly get PW in D9, but I use it for deacking 70% of the time. A5 pretty much the same when I get ENY.

I don’t fly the 38 nearly as much as I used to, certainly would not use it to deack, it’s too big of a target against too many guns.

Every plane has its high points and flaws.

I’m just guessing, if hit squares are actually used, one for PW another for head strikes. They wouldn’t be the same size but also maybe layered. Maybe hit cubes or spheres or all 3.

I was never part of plane modeling. I just did damage model settings with what I had to work with in AW.

[caldera]

Was trying to dodge a bunch of gangtards by flying through base ack, right as the base changed hands.
The turncoat ack gave me a pilot wound. 

[Vulcan]

Yak-9T : indestructible 37mm cannon
P-39Q: 37mm cannon made of very thin glass

Isn't the 9T cannon surrounded by the engine, whereas the engine in the P-39 engine is behind the cockpit and thus the cannon is 'unprotected'?

[Devil 505]

Isn't the 9T cannon surrounded by the engine, whereas the engine in the P-39 engine is behind the cockpit and thus the cannon is 'unprotected'?

Not quite surrounded. The breech was behind the engine with the barrel running between the cylinder heads.

[caldera]

Got my 2nd pilot wound in the A-5 today.  So it is repeatable.  Sort of.

Would have had a hundred in the P-38 by now.

[save]

Wingtips on the A-series FW-190 seem to fall off easily, however you can even do some fighting with one wingtip blown off at higher speed. Incredibly I've landed the A5 and A8 with both wingtips blown off, using rudder to turn, never managed to do that in any other plane, but Im a FW-oholic, as my stats I ran showed.

Engine smoke is very common attacking bombers, even at 1k range with competent crew.

Caldera - Don't get me going about Yak3 damage model