Quite some time ago I posted my suggestions for a complete Spitfire lineup for Aces High. That post lead to vigorous debate and lots of suggestions by well informed members of this board and was successful beyond my hopes. Of late I have noticed an increasing number of posts about the Mosquito, including some that had data I had not previously been able to obtain. In that light I feel it is time to post a suggested list of Mosquitoes for Aces High. This is not a complete list intended to cover the complete wartime service of the Mosquito though, as the Mosquito was not a core aircraft like the Spitfire was.
Mosquito B.Mk IV Series ii: (Merlin 21 at +12lbs boost) Day and night bomber. First production aircraft flew March, 1942. Four 250lb bombs or four 500lb bombs in bomb bay. Heavy flares for target marking carried in place of bombs on Pathfinder missions.
Note: This is the first offensive Mosquito. The B.Mk IV proved that de Haviland's claim that speed could act as a better defensive ploy than turrets and guns for bombers was correct.
Mosquito FB.Mk VI Series ii: (Merlin 25 at +18lbs boost) Day and night fighter-bomber/intruder/long range fighter. First production aircraft flew February, 1943. Four 20mm Hispano Mk II cannon and four .303 inch Browning machine guns in the nose. Two 250lb or 500lb bombs in the rear bomb bay and two 250lb or 500lb bombs on wing racks, or four 60lb rockets under each wing, or one mine or depth charge under each wing and combinations of drop tanks and offensive weapons.
Note: This is the Mosquito we have in Aces High now. I recommend the flame dampers be removed from the 3D model and the flight model as FB.VIs that were used in daylight operations were not equipped with flame dampers. Roughly 2/3rds of FB.Mk VIs had ejector stacks and 1/3rd had flame dampers.
Mosquito B.Mk XVI: (Merlin 72/73 or 76/77, counter rotating propellors) Day and night bomber. First production aircraft flew January, 1944. Four 500lb bombs in the bomb bay and two 500lb bombs on wing racks or one 4,000lb bomb in the bomb bay. Heavy flares for target marking carried in place of bombs on Pathfinder missions.
Note: The B.Mk XVI would most likely be a low end perk bomber due to its ability to fly faster than 400mph while carrying a 4,000lb bomb at 27,000ft.
Those three Mosquitoes would give us a basic lineup of Mosquitoes, an early bomber and late bomber and a fighter version that served from its introduction until well after WWII.
While I would like to imagine that ther 57mm Molins gun could be a perk ordnance option for the FB.Mk VI the fact is that the FB.Mk XVIIIs also had an additional 800lbs of armor, making it unlikely that this could be done.
The Mosquito F.Mk II would be nice to have as an early Mosquito fighter with lower performance and no bomb capablities. The F.Mk II also lacked the strengthened wing introduced with the FB.Mk VI.
It would also be nice to see a bull nosed night-fighter Mosquito such as the NF.Mk XIII, NF.Mk XIX or NF.Mk 30, but due to Aces High's daylight focus these are not really needed.
