Author Topic: Hail, Worthy Foe  (Read 991 times)

Offline Krusty

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Re: Hail, Worthy Foe
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2009, 03:31:46 PM »
Great pic Stampf. :lol

Nothing wrong with the 8x.303 armament, but the simplified damage model makes them less effective than they might have been.  I've said before that starting a fire with a solid burst of .303s to the wing/engine of a Ju-88 happens frequently in Il-2.

And IL-2s damage model is a step in the opposite extreme of absurdity. It's not at all realistic.

I could probably type up several BOB pilot stories where a flight of 4 Hurr1s happened upon a junkers or heinkel, and one at a time made passes on it until all were out of ammo. In one, the bomber limped off trailing a little oil, and they lost one of their hurricanes.

In AH the damage model isn't very finely detailed (with odds and ends) but the end result is, if you land enough hits, it goes down. At least in the stories I've read of BOB attacks, the planes could catch the bombers. Rarely true in AH.

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Re: Hail, Worthy Foe
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2009, 09:57:10 PM »
60 some odd Ju-88s downed in frame 3, all from 303s. 1/3 of the entire bomber fleet of 180. The 303s can sometimes be a disappointment, as they were, but overall, I would say they get the job done, keeping in mind its a 1940 time frame not 1944, and they are not supposed to be as effective as batteries of 2 and 3 cm cannons.

Btw, nice pics. Very cool. :aok
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