SM.79 porked (or forgotten) damage model

[mkubani]

Thank you guys for providing an evidence that it is possible to shoot down SM.79 with machine guns even though it is a difficult task. We appreciate it.

Lucas, yes please put it on youtube, so we can also show to other forums if people have similar claims against SM.79.

As for Letov, yes it is very deadly. I have even put it as a remark in the 4.09 PDF Guide. It's due to high (historical) rate of fire of the MGs + their flexible mount which covers most of the rear, side and even part of the upper front of the plane. Personally, I found the past tactic to use against Letov either by killing the gunner from 6 o'clock from far distance (with a plane with MGs and good convergency) first or doing head on passes from 12 o'clock high with a plane with canons. It's a slow plane, so it's not too difficult to get to the good firing position in a fighter.

Since we did not change the accurate AI gunners from 4.08, Letov became a deadly opponent. It is an area we plan to take a much closer and detail look in the future. That's why we have released Letov with this limitation for now.

[Azimech]

I have no problem destroying a SM79 with a nice frontal or semi-frontal attack with pre war planes. The engines are quite vulnerable and catch fire easily, besides the front is not defended. Only the tediousness of flying past and making another pass is a bit annoying with the slow pre-war birds.

But yes, it's a flying tank. Nice test I used in QMB: put 16 Ace I16's against the SM79 and after that the HE111. Big difference in time, the crew in the HE111 gets slaughtered while every crewmember in the SM79 seems to have Borg-like nanoprobe armor!

[Lucas_From_Hell]

As requested, here it is: the tracks of machine-gun armed 1940 (and pre-1940) aircraft shooting down the mighty S.M.79, compiled on a tutorial:

"S.M.79 killing for dummies"

I hope it help you guys beating this undestructable flying tank.

Link to YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvWwm1TqGk

Enjoy .

EDIT 2: Nevermind, audio is alright now... Bizarre.

[Arrow]

Pwned !!! Fantastic and funny video with some nice flying and shooting, good job Lucas!!

[Lucas_From_Hell]

Thanks, Arrow.

But nice flying and shooting? Hmm... I'm not so sure

Thanks, anyway.

[Baron]

Well, as far as i can remember, there where never ever any talk about headon passes in the orginal post, but from 6.

[C6_Krasno]

I have yet to find the mention of the 6 in the first post of this thread.