This cant be realistic - 500+ hits, plane still flying??

[ReconNZ]

OK - I know HE111's are big planes, but i sat dead astern one, and put over 500 rounds into him, he was just slightly smoking!

C'mon Luthier and the team, surely this can not be accurate??? Ive seen what a .303 round can do - most if not all of my hits were to the wings, in line with the engines. I could have sawed a wing off i hit it that many times!!



Lets keep a scorecard - what's your record - most hits without downing a plane???

[Eklund89]

Try hitting the engines then and not the "wings in line with the engine". I bet you can empty your whole planes ammunition in a HE111 with 100% hits and not bring it down if you don't hit anything important. Learn to shoot better and stop complaining.

[pupo162]

around 40 20 mm on a hurri once....

and you complain about 303 fired from dead six

[Fjordmonkey]

I've completely stopped doing Tail-shots on bogeys when I'm flying british fighters, to be honest. I always try to do either deflection-shots where I can rake the cockpit with my 303's either from above or from the side, or I aim specifically for one engine.

Directly astern-shots on most german aircraft does nothing, with the exception of the 109's, and then ONLY if I hit the radiators.

[Doc_uk]

Try that on a stuka, and you'll proberly, wont never shot it down
Them things are invinsible

[Tiger27]

Lots of history to show that there is nothing wrong with this, must have missed all the critical parts, happened often in the war, do you set your convergence etc on the sight, that can help a lot, Im sure there have been other times where you have brought down planes easily, and thankfully unlike fps games its not just adding your hits up until you reach a required amount to kill.

Also did you fly the whole mission out you never know, that may have been enough damage to stop the bomber getting back to base, just pretend you are Sailor Malan, he used to like to send them back full of wounded, he thought it would help to break the Germans moral.

[GnigruH]

Originally Posted by ReconNZ

OK - I know HE111's are big planes, but i sat dead astern one, and put over 500 rounds into him, he was just slightly smoking!

You be noob. Das game ist flawless!

[Fjordmonkey]

Originally Posted by Doc_uk

Try that on a stuka, and you'll proberly, wont never shot it down
Them things are invinsible

Aircraft, yes Pilot....well, not so much

Of course, that does mean getting into a position where the gunner has a good angle on you, but hey! No pain, no gain.

[ElAurens]

There are plenty of historical references to He 111s returning to base with hundreds of .303 rounds in them.

Why do you think the RAF went to 20mm Hispanos as soon as they could get them reliable?

The.303 British cartridge, like all .30+/- inch rifle caliber machine guns were totally out dated relics of the WW1 era, as far as aerial combat goes.

[LoBiSoMeM]

I can shoot down everything in this sim with Spits and Hurricanes.

Aim right. In Cliffs Of Dover you can shoot at heavy bomber precisely, in engines, pilots, gunners... The AI gunners aren't snipers.

Just train a little bit.