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Originally Posted by philip.ed
The thing is this; if a simulator was bloody enough to make you feel bad, then that is good. I will explain. You see, in il-2 I always try and aim for the cockpit when I can and I don't feel bad about seeing a cartoonish character get killed. If, in SoW, the effect of shooting an enemy gunner/pilot was realistic and gruesome enough to make me feel bad about taking someone's life like that, I may be more chivalrous in my fighting in the game. So by this i mean that I may think twice about aiming for the pilot to at least give him a chance to bail-out.
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I don't understand this idea that combat pilots should be chivalrous. They're not up there for fun and games, they're there to defend their country from the invader! (Or, to help conquer another country to get the resources needed to defend the fatherland from the big country that's about to become the invader.) (Or, to bomb the other country so they can't defeat your country and destroy it.) If you're fighting for your national survival, which I think the pilots of all nations thought they were, then you don't deal in niceties. You shoot to bring the other plane down, you don't try to aim to avoid harming the other crew and reduce your chance of a kill, that'd be ludicrous, possibly even traitorous! Are you a traitor, Philip??
