4.12.2 de-bugging

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Originally Posted by Baddington_VA

I have recently found myself being chased by AI B25s and even AI Ju88A17s in IL21946.
Maybe it's not such a bad thing.

I think that the new AI allows for Average or better attack planes to act like fighters against larger or slower planes, especially when the attacker's aren't carrying ordinance.

For example, I've recently had fun flying a TB-7 against a flight of Ace TBD Devastators! In that case, they dogfight fairly effectively, rather than being the usual hapless targets.

In any case, it's realistic for attack bombers to behave in this fashion as long as the opposition is inferior or evenly matched. There are numerous documented cases where patrol bombers dueled it out - like Ju-88 vs. Sunderland flying boats over the Bay of Biscay.

The only thing that's unrealistic, is that often the attackers will behave as if they were fighters with full aerobatic capability, so you see things like A-20s or B-25s doing loops and pulling high-G turns that would realistically damage the plane and its occupants.