You all know how easy it is to rip a panzer to shreads with a M16 right? Imagine how easy it would be to kill a panzer with a quartet of much more efective 2cm Vierling cannons, the Wilber wind turet had 16mm turet armor angled at from 25 degreas to 36 degreas.
The Osty Turet had 25mm of armor angled at a similar degree. Now If I am doning my Grade school math Corectly that's abot an inch thick.
I have spent a considerable amount of time in an osty and I have spent a considerable amout of time killing them. MY impreshion is that if alone Get a bomb and come in from on high and drop it on them, this almost always works since the higher the angle of aproach the harder it is for the osty gunner to hit you.
I think that for the most part the Grass is always greaner, I got my osty gun knocked out three times yester day by low angle fighter's armed with 50 cal mg's in one pass! This is not a freak thing it hapes at least half the time to me i get strafed.
If we pause for a moment and think of the impact that limiting the Osty will have on ground warfare in AH, even a low perk value can drasticaly impact unit usage. That is the point we should be considering folks what if their were no ostys, or far fewer of them....
And judging by thier usage leval they seam to be very popular.