Sorry to punt the thread, but I was just thinking about this and a different but sort of related thread.
Are heavy machine guns overmodeled? The planes being referred to here are armed with a half dozen or more of them, which are generally grouped together closer than the weapons on cannon armed planes.
Consider the thread about the Macci 202's guns being UNDER-modeled. In that thread the general idea was it lacked the firepower it was supposed to have, yet it carried only 2 heavy MG's and a pair of semi-useless light MG's.
Ponder this: If the 202's weapons were sufficiently able to kill enemy planes to a greater extent than it can in AH, wouldn't aircraft armed with roughly 3 or 4 times the weapons do a LOT more damage?
Just something else to think about. Personally I think AH is about right, at least in a practical sense if not graphically.
J_A_B
