Back to abusing fighters by flying them badly against bombers. This time it's the Ki-61-II Otsu's turn.
Normally, I wouldn't complain about critical damage to the pilot, cooling systems and engine from the front, since even the best armored Japanese planes weren't armored as well as those in the West, but . . .
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachm...1&d=1402964416
Please notice the Aileron Control hit when neither of the two bullets passed anyplace close to the aileron controls or cable runs! That's a definite error in the DM! (While it's blocked by the speech bubble, the tail end of the bullet path gets nowhere near the cable runs.)
Compare this to a 3-view of the actual airplane:
http://airwar.ru/image/idop/fww2/ki61/ki61-2.gif
You'll notice that the aileron cable runs are just ahead of the flaps towards the wing's trailing edge. Bell cranks and so forth are directly beneath the pilot and a bit ahead.
The Pilot Killed result is legitimate - no armor glass on this airplane, and the bullet would have missed the glass anyway.
Both hits were from a Ace Wellington III tail gunner, with two different bursts. Shots were from approximately 250 m against a slightly maneuvering target more or less to the bomber's 6 o'clock. Very impressive shooting, but at least it's not a 600 m sniper shot that penetrates a fuel tank or armored firewall to take out the pilot.