4.12.2 de-bugging

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by sniperton

Thanks for the info! Anyway, admitting that my gunnery and attack skills are mediocre at best, you can see on the attached image that first I disabled the tail gunner, went closer (<150m), and attacked exactly those vulnerable parts you suggested (cockpit, wingroot, engines). I was flying a Tomahawk IIRC. Probably my attack was not steep enough to hit anything vital well inside the plane's structure, but I'm pretty sure that the engine cowlings (which remained intact) got the same amount of bullets as the inner wing area nearby.

From your screen shots I see a lot of damage to both sides of the aircraft as well as a lot of damage across two different fuselage areas and the back elevators as well. To me it looks like you spread a lot of firepower across the entire aircraft... against something like the Wellington or even a Heinkel or Ju88 its not often going to be enough to cripple.

Pursuivant is right that coming in from an angle is the best approach. I prefer above because you are able to put fire from an angle into the fuel tanks and engines and you have speed to disengage and position for a second attack. Dead 6 (or right behind) is a bad place to be because of defensive fire and because you're wasting a lot of bullets on structure that doesn't matter as much.

With a P-40C (Tomahawk II) you also have somewhat limited firepower. A pair of .50cals plus four .30cals. The .30cals pretty much don't count against anything except the engines and fuel. The .50cals will do structural damage, however, you only have two of them which is enough weight of fire to matter against a fighter but not enough to matter against something as well constructed as a Wellington. With cannons you can be indiscriminate because a high explosive 20mm or especially a 37mm will blast whole areas of the plane and cause structural and system damage. With machine guns you want to aim for things that matter.

So try and come in from an angle (use deflection shooting), aim for fuel/engines/cockpit and concentrate fire in one area. Pour it on. All into the engine or into the wingroot. If you make more than one pass then put your shots into the same area.