some AI issues flying single player last night.

[Romilis]

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Last night I was just doing a quick mission as a spitfire vs he 111. Spawned in and radioed team to attack bombers. The bombers seemed invinsible, i was unloading into them and there jst kept flying in astraight line formation. then all of the sudden they broke formation and were vulnerable. I have no Idea what that was about. Anyone have any insight>?

[trademe900]

Yes the bombers can be just about invincible at times. Often takes the whole ammo loadout from 3 planes to bring one down. There is much debate on whether this is accurate or not, especially since the RAF bombers go down in a mere couple of hits.

[Untamo]

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Originally Posted by Romilis

Last night I was just doing a quick mission as a spitfire vs he 111. Spawned in and radioed team to attack bombers. The bombers seemed invinsible, i was unloading into them and there jst kept flying in astraight line formation. then all of the sudden they broke formation and were vulnerable. I have no Idea what that was about. Anyone have any insight>?

I am mostly a blue flier, but have flown a few times with Spit and Hurri on the ATAG server, and there are few of observations I have made:
First: Spit is a awful gun platform, Hurri is an excellent one. Spit is a better fighter yes, but the longitudal stability is so terrible that I cannot make the bullets go into one bomber in a formation but to all of them

Hurri is much more stable, so I can hit specific parts of the bomber, go for the wing root btw, the fuel tanks are there.

Second: Convergence. Select the convergence for the guns in the loadout screen, then calibrate the gunsight in the plane for this range and select the wingspan selector for example for the He111, so 74ft. Just before the wing tips hit the side markings you are at the correct distance and it is time to open fire, if you wait until they hit the markings, you are already too late and too close.

Third: Loadout, may be a bit gaming the game, but using just armor piercing and de wilde ammo seems to be quite explosive

Originally Posted by trademe900

Yes the bombers can be just about invincible at times. Often takes the whole ammo loadout from 3 planes to bring one down. There is much debate on whether this is accurate or not, especially since the RAF bombers go down in a mere couple of hits.

IMHO more of an Cannon vs. Machine gun issue. The second time I flew with the Hurri on ATAG, I ran into a formation of He111s. I shot down 3 before my ammo ran out.

[von Brühl]

You could just try ramming with the Spitfire, it's pretty impervious to contact in the latest patch.