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I agree, then again, its a movie, and essentially a lovestory for a Western audience at that, catering for their perceptions and confirmation biases. It really does indicate a telling lack of emotional maturity to work yourself into some fit of patriotic rage over the matter, sadly. I mean, what are us Krauts to do? Start WW3 because in Hollywood our cruelty is only matched by our incompetence? The outrage!

That seems rather trite. The movie U-571 switched the incident in which an Enigma machine was captured from a British operation to an American one, and this caused great annoyance in the UK. The movies may not be the place to go for real, detailed history, but flagrant disregard for reality in something presented as historical is both insulting and problematic.

Eeer, you sure about that?

As far as I know, it was an allied soldier (Australian I believe), that shot at his plane while he was doing reconnaissance, and managed to score a point blank shot to the heart.

The story is correct. The RAF credited Captain Roy Brown with the kill (probably wrongly), and the general depiction of events is accurate:

"What happened next remains controversial to this day, but it seems highly probable that Richthofen turned to avoid Brown's attack, and then, instead of climbing out of reach of ground fire and prudently heading for home, remained at low altitude and resumed his pursuit of May, who was still zig-zagging, as he had not noticed that Richthofen had been momentarily distracted. It should be noted that it would have been physically impossible for Richthofen to have done this had he already received the wound from which he died.[3] May and Richthofen's route now took them at low level over the heavily defended Allied front line. Franks and Bennett[3] have suggested that Richthofen had become lost, as the winds that day were blowing the "wrong way", towards the west, and the fight had drifted over to the Allied side. The front was also in a highly fluid state at the time, in contrast to the more common static trench lines earlier in the Great War, and landmarks can be confusing in very low level flight.

Australian Army machine gunners on the ground fired at Richthofen, who eventually crashed near the Australian trenches. Upon viewing Richthofen's body the following day, Brown wrote that "there was a lump in my throat. If he had been my dearest friend, I could not have felt greater sorrow"[citation needed]. His initial combat report was that the fight with Richthofen was "indecisive" - this was altered by his commanding officer to "decisive".[3] Modern historical consensus suggests that Australian anti-aircraft gunner Sergeant Cedric Popkin is the person most likely to have been responsible for the shot that actually downed the Baron.[4][5]

At the time, however, Brown was officially credited with the kill by the RAF, shortly after receiving a Bar to his DSC,[6] at least partly in recognition of this feat."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Brown_(RAF_officer)

My google-fu is mighty:

"Letters after the mark number denoted modifications to the base model: "A" for the 76 mm L/55 gun instead of the 75mm, "B" for the 105 mm M4 L/22.5 howitzer, "C" for the (British) QF 17 pounder (76.2 mm) gun, and "Y" for the later wider-tracked Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension (HVSS) type suspension."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease_Sherman_tanks

They don;t have to be "noticeable" to be real, though. I like the idea of very small perks the player can select for themselves according to their style; they may not have a very visible effect but they don;t have to. Take something like the 2% improvement in rifle cooldown; how many shots do you think get fired in an hour long game? I have no idea but it's going to be a lot; and even 2% of a lot is quite a bit.

RNG occurs in all games. The question is whether it determines the OUTCOME.

If it really did determine the outcome 100% of the time, all tournaments would be a coinflip, and it would be impossible to have repeated or recurring winners.

The more often RNG is tested, the more likely it is that actual outcomes will revert to the mean, and the less likely it is that extreme events will arise. It is easier to roll a 1 on 1d6 than it is to roll all 1's on 1000 d6's.