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2) Bomber defensive fire depends heavily on keeping a tight formation, which is related to pilot skill. This means that distance between planes, and ability to keep formation when attacked, is dependent on AI skill.

When you add the fact that AI gunners will shoot at the nearest bomber if it finds itself in his line of fire... This is where IL2 fails misserably.

Gunners in IL2 simply aren't that effective. Its ther stupidity that needs to be worked on. At one point they shoot in the totaly oposite direction of the attacker and waste their ammo, at another point they have a perfect delfection shoot at you. And at all times they know where you are = easy to set up and prepare for a perfect solution. We're missing a big middle 'skill' here. Not just