[stansdds]

The H8K1 can be a real challenge to knock down. More than once its tail cannon has sent me down. I remember one coop mission in which the best we could do was get one smoking. We all either crashed or continued on with the primary objective and returned to base, but the Mavis was still making for home. We let the mission run until it finally crashed. It made touchdown in the water just off shore, slide up the beach, across some land, across a small river up the opposite river bank and stopped when it crashed into a tree! The unbelievable damage modeling made us laugh.