litehoof wrote:
GraysGhost wrote:
litehoof wrote:
GraysGhost wrote:
You are not facing him. He was along side of your plane. Tail gunners always fire with deflection unless the enemy plane is in the 6 o'clock postion.
I was facing him though he was at sixty degrees to me. The fact that I had deflection on him does not mean he should get a tail shot from the rules - or is this yet another scripting error never sorted on this site.
The rules clearly state that when fired on from directly in front or behind tail and engine hits cannot be recorded. For him he was firing down the length of my plane - no chance of deflection.
How many of these scripting things are there and can we have an errata sheet published?
Not an error. It only count when you fire directly at him not from the side of your plane. Observer rules are different than pilot rules.
Here's the rule for deflection from the rule book:
Firing with Deflection: Add this value unless the target plane is directly in front of the firing plane and is facing directly toward or away from it. For example, in the diagram, aircraft A, B, and C are firing at aircraft D. A is firing with deflection; B and C are not.
Your enemy was not directly in front of your plane so you get deflection. With deflection you can hit the entire plane. It is not a direct fire into the front or rear of the enemy. That is the only time that hits are transferred.
Well done - that is why I said I was firing with deflection.
However he was firing directly at the front of my plane - therefore without deflection. from the diagrom above D firing at A - no deflection at all but firing at my engine and shooting off my tail.
The rules say - under Observers...
"The observer receives the modifier for deflection unless he is firing directly to his aircraft's rear and the target aircraft is facing directly toward or away from him."
Also the rules state -
"If the aircraft is fired upon from directly to its front, all tail hits become engine hits. If it is fired upon from directly to its rear, all engine hits become tail hits."
Are you telling me that you never noticed that if an observer fires directly at the front of a plane, he gets the deflection modifier and the hits are transfered from tail to engine.
Read the rules for goodness sake.
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