Re: Helicopter armor
re: Imp: my issue isn't that armored gunships take damage on occasion and retreat. It's that, when they are hit by low-caliber weapons, they will take damage most of the time, and it's very rare that the armor prevents it.
This is made even worse that they will retreat even if they only took one point of damage. In no cases do they take damage but still stay on the field. Note that "evasive maneuvers" and "retreat" refer to different things. "Evasive maneuvers" means they'll dodge to different hexes to avoid fire; "retreat" means they bug out entirely. In other words, despite taking only minimal damage, helicopters will run for the map edge in full retreat mode, being an effective mission kill.
As I understand it, helicopters will already take evasive maneuvers--i.e., random-walk a few hexes--if they're sufficiently spooked by small-arms fire, flak, SAMs, and the like. That might need some tweaking, since in at least one case I've seen an OH-6 dodge toward the Ka-29 that was shooting at it and thereby giving the Kamov a much easier shot. But it's not the main issue.
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