Once, I was shot down by a couple of bullets in the nose of my plane. Tac -tac, and the engine began immediately to emit creaking and squeaking sounds, losing power and stopping after a couple of minutes… The gun was an Mg15 (Stuka gunner) and my plane an armoured Il2… Hardly realistic.
In another occasion, while flying with a cannon armed La5, I set on fire a PZL P11. It burned furiously, and went ahead for a loooong time flying excellent evasive manoeuvres without any hint of diminished performances (or pilot’s cooking).
I think sometimes strange things happen, and are almost certainly result of random errors, having nothing to do with damage models. I think that reports about single events are of little value. What we need are consistent experiments, repeatable by others, like a sort of peer review. Pursuivant demonstrates that can be done, and that results are sometimes surprising.
I believe that further test will bring more surprises. And also think that Il2 remains a fantastic game, still a lot of fun after so many years, a monument to original developers and to the continuing work being done today.
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10-01-2015, 06:34 PM
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