HO a C202 in a 38 Voss. You will lose half the times if the C202 is shooting at you aiming for your nose. The darts it shoots hit the tail stab and whack it off.
The problem is AH's all or nothing damage model. If you think about it, the 38's stab is BIG..but its also ATTACHED to both tails. You can punch big holes or even CUT the stab at any point, the Stab will STILL be there. In AH, any kind of damage rips off the ENTIRE thing (and the irony of it is that once that happens, the 38 flips on itself, giving the pissed off pilot a nice view of his own stab, the WHOLE stab flapping and falling over him!).
I'm more inclined to say that the P-38 TAIL BOOMS were the real weak point of the plane, and it would take a DAMN good hit from MG fire or a CANNON hit to rip it off... and hey, cutting ONE of the tails in half did not guarantee that the entire tail would blow out. There was a P-38 in the Med. that collided with a 109 and had its left tail boom snapped..but the plane made it home because the OTHER tail held in place.
I would ask HTC to MODEL the 38's damage so that EACH tail has its own damage model and the STAB have 2 separate damage models.
Thus, if one tail is hit, depending on how serious it is, it would either break that ONE tail (and make the 38 as hard to keep control of as when you lose a wingtip) or lose control of that tail's rudder (and quite possibly LOSE control of the stab?). The stab should be broken into 2 areas for the damage model.. half of it tied to 1 tail, the other tied to the other tail. Thus, if I get hit on the left side of the stab and it gets shot out, the other half of the stab will still be there (and of course, the associated severe loss of control on the plane because you lost half a stab).
But heck, regardless, im sure everyone agrees the all-or-nothing damage model royally SUCKS.