![]() But in all honesty, making a bomber harder to shoot down should be pretty easy - they weren't easy to shoot down in reality. ![]() Oh, I know all about the P-47's armoured protection And I understand that when you're building a game balance matters. With the fore plate being behind 1½" bullet resistant glass.) (The P-47 example above featured a fore and aft 3/8" face hardened armor plates to protect the pilot. ![]() I'm not saying it's great or 100% armor, and armor in regards to planes is always just "slightly more resistant" but armor did exist for planes of that era, unless you were Japanese. There are many stories of these planes coming home with hundreds of holes in them, and dented plates indicating that had the plates not been there the pilot would have been killed. Which included a large plate behind the seat to protect the pilot from shots from the rear. It had plates around the cockpit to help prevent the pilot from getting hit directly. Lastly consider that there were in fact some "armored" planes in WW2, the P-47 being a nice example of that. The contrast between a bi-plane made of cloth and wood and a P-47 weighing in at 7 tons and made fully out of metals of one variety or another. This is a balance consideration given to level and heavy bombers to allow them to survive against fighter attacks with little to no defensive or offensive capabilities.Īrmor in this case is the difference between having something between you and the source of the bullet, and nothing. In the case of this game, bombers like the PBY and up are considered "armored" because their control surfaces are harder to take out and pummeling the fuselage with rounds won't down the plane as easily. Armor that I'm referring to here, and the DEV's themselves refer to isn't what we usually assume armor to be.
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