why is gunnery so much more difficult in clod than in 1946?

[raaaid]

thats got to be one of the things to love form clod but why is it?

[ATAG_Doc]

Do you mean your aim isn't as good?

[raaaid]

no there are several things:

have you ever ripped a wing off?

also the rudder doesn work smoothas in 1946

i think having to put one thousand bullets in your foe is sadistic but hell its fun

[David198502]

its true...only a few times i managed to rip a wing off.and also to get planes to explode seems to happen only on very rare occasion.but its really nice to make planes look like swiss cheese until they are going down.besides it seems that im more dangerous without my cannons on my bf and only use the mgs.dont know why.

[Winger]

Originally Posted by raaaid

no there are several things:

have you ever ripped a wing off?

also the rudder doesn work smoothas in 1946

i think having to put one thousand bullets in your foe is sadistic but hell its fun

So you rather mean that the planes are stronger than in IL2?
I have no clue on IL2 since i didnt play it. But i agree. Downing a spitfire can be really hard. And vice versa downing a BF flaing a Spit can be even harder if your aim isnt that well. Spits ammo doesnt last very long and does not do that much of damage.

Winger

[White Owl]

I'm finding it a little bit easier to get bullets on the target than I ever did in 1946. You're right that the planes are a little bit harder to kill, though. This is an improvement, IMO. I always felt the wings popped off way too easily in the original game.

[Daniël]

Find the weak spots of enemy planes. Practise makes perfect

[JG14_Jagr]

Originally Posted by raaaid

have you ever ripped a wing off?

Given the AC types and the weapons they are firing you are not going to rip too many wings off period. Wings coming off are the result of secondary explosions on the aircraft being hit. Unfortunately people are programmed by the 10 minutes of WWII Gun Cam they see on TV..they don't see the thousands of hours where a plane gets hit and you see all sorts of indications of hits then the plane slowly loses altitude and crashes.. or rolls over and dives and the first time you know you killed the pilot was when it augers..

30mm class cannons were the first airborne gun platform that could sever a wing without a secondary...and they did that because they damaged through rapid gas expansion in a wings confined space. The 20mm shells simply don't carry enough explosive charge to create that large a blast wave..

[carguy_]

He is right. In the old game my aim was something of 12% accuracy. Now, I can`t hit anything, supposedly I can manage like 3% acc. The thing I noticed first is that the wings shake much harder than in IL2 while using the cannons.

Now, 20mm shakes like MK103 wingpods.
The good thing is once the cannon hits, it tears the plane apart. Huge holes in the Hurricane aswell as Spitfire.

[raaaid]

hey of course im not complaining but praising this feature

yesterday i tried the old il2 and the easyness of shooting put me off quite soon