Recently, I've been watching videos of this new game, Rise of Flight, along with others of Over Flanders Fields, and such.I've started to notice that those games require far fewer bullets to bring down an enemy aircraft. I'm running CM11 with the WFP2 and Reload, and I've noticed that CM11 has an option in the preferences for bullet mass/velocity. My preferences have it set at the default, ~125, which is the bar being waaaay over to the left. Does anyone have any recommendations for more realistic bullet mass settings? Thanks!

I'm not up to speed on RB specifics lately, but I know a lot of SP players set bullet mass lower than yours. I know there's a place to do this in CMll and in the past I've done fine with a very low value, but I can't recall what - I think it was bottomed out. I once read that the number equates to bullet mass in grains, but that wouldn't jibe with an extremely low setting.

My own take is that any setting that blows enemy aircraft apart is too high...it's supposed to be a cal.30 rifle round, not a cal.50 or a 20mm cannon. I'd think 125 - 180 grains is about right for the Enfield rifle cartridge used in the event. As long as one shoots the pilot/engine areas at an angle (to avoid the unrealistically bullet proof fuselage) kills are very possible even at low settings.

Hope this helps
Hex

From Wikipedia:

".303 British...is a .311 inch calibre rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed in Britain in the 1880s as a blackpowder round, later adapted to use cordite and then smokeless powder propellant. It was the standard British and Commonwealth military cartridge from 1889 until the 1950s ...In 1910, the British took the opportunity to replace their Mark 6 rounds with a more modern design. The Mark 7 (Mark VII) used a 174-grain (11.3 g) pointed bullet with a flat-base...Perhaps the most famous single .303 British round ever fired was on 21 April 1918, during the Great War, when Manfred von Richthofen, the famed "Red Baron" flying ace, was mortally wounded by a single .303 Mk 7 round."

I know that one of the problems facing those who try to figure out who shot vonR was that the same cartridge was used in rifles, airborne and ground based machine guns.

So, try setting it at 174 and see what you think... Hope this is helpful.
Hex