To be fair, bullet volume is the go-to strat in the Touhou games. Chances are, you *Pichuun* from the one bullet NOT aimed at you.
Round superiority. Throw enough lead/blaster bolts/danmaku downrange, you'll hit the target eventually. It's easy to miss with one bullet. It's really hard to miss with 2800.
Even in modern firefights, it takes on average about 50,000 rounds to down a single enemy fighter (Vietnam War statistics with the M16. Still looking up modern figures). Arguably, most of it is because of suppressive fire and poor trigger discipline, but I digress...
Even in modern firefights, it takes on average about 50,000 rounds to down a single enemy fighter (Vietnam War statistics with the M16. Still looking up modern figures). Arguably, most of it is because of suppressive fire and poor trigger discipline, but I digress...
Maybe that's also the right ballpark-figure when it comes to killing the player with danmaku
Even in modern firefights, it takes on average about 50,000 rounds to down a single enemy fighter (Vietnam War statistics with the M16. Still looking up modern figures). Arguably, most of it is because of suppressive fire and poor trigger discipline, but I digress...
Looking it up, it was actually closer to 200,000, with it being 250,000 in Iraq. That, however, apparently includes rounds fired in training exercises, to which a General replied that it still counts because they were training to kill insurgents...
In Vietnam in particular, though, a large cause of the problem was the introduction of fully automatic weapons, and a (demoralized draftee) fighting force that would respond to any threat by diving for cover and blindly spraying their weapons above their heads just to keep anyone from getting close, rather than actually trying to hit anything or even knowing if anything was out there before spraying bullets around. The three-round-burst was invented, and the M16 limited to it, specifically because soldiers would just hold down the trigger and use up a whole magazine the instant they felt the need to fire, regardless of how many rounds it might take to do what they wanted.
Comparatively, the rounds per kill among snipers is apparently 1.3 rounds per kill.
