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A little something from the report log today:

2007-04-30 15:38:43 arland French 43e Régiment d'Infanterie volkie mission Charleville
"PLZ GIVE STAT HE TO AA ENOUGH TO SEE STUKA STAYING ALIVE AFTER 5 HITS"

Actually statHE would be terrible in that application. Statistical HE determines targets and then shoots shrapnel at those targets only, from the impact point to the center of the target with a conical distribution based on the rough size of the target.

Problems arise when the impact point or detonation is inside the vehicle because the stat HE model will pick the center point of the vehicle at which to throw shrapnel. It doesn't understand individual hit components because that would defeat the computational savings of using a statistical model over a radial shrapnel generation model so instead of hitting lots of things it would just send a small amount of shrapnel directly at the center of the vehicle and might not do any real damage.