I would be interested in seeing players opinions re the increase in aircraft resilience recently implemented by TFS, this has in my opinion been achieved by reducing the damage caused by rifle caliber guns. I cannot demonstrate this empirically, lack of skills, but my experience is that the rifle armed spittys and hurris are not causing historically accurate damage. it now often takes the full 12 seconds of firing to down a bomber and fighters also need a lot more hits. Historically pilots reported kills during the BOB after a 1 or 2 second burst on enemy fighters. Also the aircraft losses by both sides during the battle favored the allies indicating that the spittys and hurries armed with 303s were as effective as the cannon/7.62mm armed 109s. my opinion is that this is change that should be reviewed by TFS to see in it has achieved what was intended. my opinion is that it needs to be tweaked , because the effectiveness of rifle armed aircraft have been reduced too far.
This is not a criticism of TFS who continue to do excellent work in the development of CLOD and Tobruk DW.
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