French Tail Gunners Utilizing Crossman Air Rifles

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I just want to know at this point. Why is it that early french plane tail guns feel like they are just bouncing off the airframe of biplanes? It feels as if no damage is dealt whereas every other country with similar calibre do more damage? We are talking about a biplanes entire front and windshield eating every bullet to no effect. I sunk all my tailgunner ammo into a biplane to no effect other than fire. Into the wings, into the engine, into the fuselage itself to no avail. Can we just swap out the MAC for “Crossman Air Rifle”?

That is all it feels like at this point for every time I get an enemy on my six, it feels as if no damage is dealt. Why even have a tail gun at this point when people don’t even have a need to fear it? Historically accurate or not, still infuriating and yes. That biplane was flying level with me not even evading and ate every bullet and survived the entire thing putting me in the ground.

Like I get it but now I see why players avoid these planes and they they are rarely seen. Can’t defend yourself against a Bi Plane 1 whole BR lower than you when you only have an air rifle for defense. I will never understand how any planes were shot down with this MAC 1934.

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French 7.5mms are just generally shit unfortunately, thats why. Societ 7.62s have good API, german ones fire fast enough w/decent belts, and british 7.7s can have decent-ish belts.

The issue with the french guns is their IT rounds only have ~3mm of pen, making them basically ineffective against anything, and the other rounds arent much better. I guess try and pilotsnipe?

The only plane I like with the guns is the Morko, and I dont even use em there. Try and get to the bombera w/20mm, as that will do much better.

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I just give up using tail gunners on french planes. They just don’t do anything at all. This post was supposed to be a discussion but oh well. CM had other ideas and so being said I guess I wont see other’s feedback on experience with it I guess. If this gets any response Ill answer but meh. I guess its in the right place now in accordance to them.

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This is especially true for the F.222