[joea]

Originally Posted by Beery

Yeah, that's likely to happen because the airstrike lethality is probably on the nasty side, since no combat simulation developer in the history of the world has ever got combat lethality anywhere near realistic levels. Every sim ever made has given the player a combat situation that's basically suicidal. If real life combat was anywhere near what simulations are like there would be no combat veterans - they would all be dead within an hour of going into enemy territory. IL-2 is the worst offender by far, with its pilot life expectancy measured in hours, rather than the months that real pilots survived.

Interesting thread, but I've played DiD campaigns in Il-2 and survived a fairly long time sometimes...unless you are talking about AI? Agree about the u-boot observations in game it matches my experience too. I've only been killed once in campaign by aircraft. (More often in single missions but I can't really count that).