SPAA Blowing off a planes wing and doing terminal damage should be a instant kill?

Game Discussion Realistic Battle
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My rather ineffective Skink targeted an enemy twin engine bomber at medium range, fired and blew half his wing off, and the with engine on fire he starts to plummet into a death spiral. Only to have a ‘friendly’ P47 zoom past and spray him 5 seconds later. He gets the kill and I get a kill assist. The Skink is extremely hard to use at BR 7 games. Just feel this game mechanic is unfair.

I know you sometimes get a ‘Finished off’ bonus but it seems completely random.

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A replay link would be nice. Im pretty sure you should of gotten a kill credit.

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You need to destroy over 50% of the wing area to qualify for severe damage 80% credit.

To get an “instant kill”; you MUST separate the tail from the rest of the fuselage OR kill the pilot.

To get severe damage, achieve one of the following:

  1. Must destroy all control surfaces
  2. Must destroy (not necessarily separate - I got “severe damage” while the enemy plane’s wing was still attached!) 50% of wing surface.
  3. Must destroy horizontal stabilizer (which is kinda dumb because it barely affects airworthiness if it’s still attached, just reduces turning performance)
  4. Must destroy ALL engines.

Funnily enough, you can qualify for severe damage multiple times. Fighting P-38s is liable to give you multiple severe damage achievements before they go down.

Twin-engine bomber sounds like you shot the wing tip off which does not qualify as sufficient% wing missing.

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but getting you tall cut off is an instant J

5

because there is almost no chance you can make it back to the airfield