Didn't Germans themselves state somewhere that 1 hit from Mk108 usually brought down anything single engined and most likely twins too? Three Mk108 hits were on average needed for a viermot. Anyone help me with a link?
Frankly, it is indeed hard to achieve this in IL-2 unless you are hair-splittingly (literally!) pedantic at where you hit your enemy. Which I doubt German pilots in 43-45 were. They were more than happy already to hit their targets.
Not to give wrong impression - Mk 108s are fine IMO. It's the utterly buggy and rudimentary damage modelling that's the culprit. Some planes for example don't even have fuel tanks modelled, other ones start burning at wrong places (you're hitting left wing fuel tank and right one starts burning...), next - the tin-foil skin acts like a superb anti-7,62mm and splinter armour (try killing a Zeke/Nate/Oscar... pilot through fuselage with LMG...), you can't hit and explode oxygen bottles, ammo storages...
Damage modelling would really need extensive fixing and upgrading. But then again - it would probably only open yet another can of worms and we all know why.
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