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Originally Posted by PeterPanPan
@ Frantishek & Madfish
I agree, hit may not equal dead. Please remember though this this is not my original idea. This is what a real world Spitfire pilot saw and wrote down. It is immaterial whether the gunner was killed or not (indeed, it is likely that BK would not have really known this either) but what is certain is that putting bullets into a rear gunner often had an immediate effect on the arc of his tracer fire.
Fortunately, I am no expert in death, but I assume it is entirely possible for parts of the body to carry on with their last commanded muscle movements after sudden death i.e. squeezing the trigger? The dead/injured gunner may have stopped firing all together a second or so after being hit, but the immediate change of tracer direction was the initial clue that the attacking aircraft had scored a hit. No doubt this pattern didn't always happen, but it did happen and so I think it would be a worthwhile addition to the sim.
PPanPan
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I don't want the gore because there's very little gore in the combat reports and what gore there was was usually thier own.
It would be a nice touch that if you raked the rear gunners position then he'd cease fire because he was dead.. I don't really wanna see his head come off, just him be out of action would be realistic enough for me.
For some reason nobody's firing back from this b-17.. I find it a little eerie
08-31-2010, 03:07 PM
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