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Hey all, first off, I apologize if I've posted this in the wrong forum. It seemed like the best place to me. I am playing around with BD Armory in career mode with the 5dim pack. I've built a nice little low tech floating weapons platform with a Mk1 Pod, an RT-10 solid booster, Mk16 chute + four Mk2R radials, and landing legs. At this point in the tech tree, I only have the chain gun unlocked, so that's all I can use for the first training mission, which consists of a bunch of unarmed, unmoving targets to the north of the runway. Since I can barely fly planes, I figured I'd just put guns on a slowly falling platform and shoot down at the targets. So I put four chain guns facing downward on the sides of the RT-10, as well as eight boxes of 30mm rounds. My contraption flies up to about 5,000m, then floats back down at around 6m/s (which reduces to more like 4m/s once I use up all the ammo). After it reaches full chute deployment (5k), I arm the weapons and the mouse becomes that nice litte targeting thing. I also see four littler targeting things that try to follow the mouse, which I assume are the aimpoints for the guns. Everything works perfectly! Except that I can't hit a damn thing. I'm visually impaired, but I have enough vision that I can easily put the targeting circle on the selected target (it has a little box around it). I will let myself drift down to 2.5km and open fire for two minutes or so, but nothing goes boom. BTW, the recoil of the guns slows my decent rate quite a bit and, to a much smaller extent, pushes me away from the target. This drift is the only thing I can think of that must be throwing off the aim enough to prevent any hits. I just don't understand how I can pour two minutes worth of 30mm explosive rounds at an unarmored target and not even scratch it. Am I just too far away? I can't seem to find a range number for the chain gun, or for many BD Armory guns actually. It is range? Is it my poor aiming skills? Or is it the recoil on a light vehicle suspended under chutes thowing off the aim? Is this vehicle just a really dumb idea? Thanks!