The Stuka I was flying was the D5, the newest one, which flies like a real POS compared to the B Stuka, it is not going to turn with any Spits, and from the feel of it there must be a hell of a lot of more armor added to it's weight than the early Stuka.
Again, if anyone has not read Hans Ulrich Rudels amazing account of living through 2500 Stuka missions and WWII they are missing out. Yes he was probably a Nazi, but there are a lot of other things to get out of the book than any bias or propaganda that may be injected. He must have been hit by hundreds of rounds from AA and aircraft guns and cannons and there is no account of him having serious problems with flaming tanks. He never bailed once, crash landed a few times. He was riddled by La5 and P39 and Rata fire to name a few stories that come to memory.
If the best simulation IL2 can do right now with the P47 is to have it's tail fall off with X number of 20mm hits, then that is okay, it is just funny how you can set yourself up in the qmb behind a bunch of Friendly p47s and go down the row and get the same result on one after the other, almost like you are breaking the tails off of frozen lobsters.
Of course in real life the location and number of hits from an enemy aircraft would be so random it would take a supercomputer to model the different effects of each, I am sure no two kills in WWII looked exactly the same the way they can be reproduced in IL2.
It is a great sim and TD has never done anything but things beyond the call of duty.
Jumo
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