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Originally Posted by King Jareth
Does the BoP damage model account for death of crew (besides the pilot)?
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Not as far as I've noticed. This kind of sucks, although it's also understandable. If we would be able to kill all the gunners in a bomber this would destroy it's main defense, making it completely defenseless. You'd be able to destroy a bomber by just being on it's 6, this is not realistic either. Introducing overheating guns in the gunner position would be a good midway.
The reason any bomber with gunners works in DF/TB is because player do not know how to attack them, just like Lexandro pointed out. If there's a B17 in the opposite team in TB, I just ignore it, unless it crosses straight through my line of fire. Without anyone attacking a B17, it's fairly harmless. People don't understand this, hence a B17 gets kills.
Anyways, back to topic. I've never tried to shoot down an IL-2 in RL, hence I do not know how well it was or wasn't armored. I think I can safely assume you haven't either. Using Wikipedia as your main argument against a team of WWII sim developers might not be the way to go, no offense. If you adjust your tactics you'll see that bombers are not
that effective, and can be taken down relatively easy. Just try out what Lexandro also pointed out, practice a bit, and you won't have any troubles with IL-2's anymore.