More Spitfires?!

[Kazaa]

How does it compare to the Spitfire Mk.16 ?

[Bronk]

How does it compare to the Spitfire Mk.16 ?

Read about it here--->http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spitfire-XII.html

[RTHolmes]

fascinating read

F/O Jean P. Maridor (Free French) of 91 Squadron recorded in his Combat Report for 25 May, 1943:

         I was about to land when I heard Control say there were several E/A coming in towards Folkestone. I opened up straight out to sea and saw about 12 F.W. 190's at sea level, one mile off-shore, heading straight for Folkestone. I dived head-on at the leading formation with blue 4 just behind me to starboard. There were five E/A in a close box and the remainder were spread out behind them. Flak opened up from Folkestone. All the E/A panicked and jettisoned their bombs, turning towards the French Coast. I selected one E/A and was about to attack when I saw Pilot Officer Round in a better position than I was. I took another E/A on the starboard side and closed to 300 yards without difficulty, giving him a four secs burst from astern without result. I closed to 250, giving another 4 secs burst seeing cannon hits on the fuselage. He began to smoke and I gave him a third burst, seeing further hits. I broke away on seeing some tracer going past my wings from astern and saw the E/A I had attacked go straight into the sea.
         I claim one F.W, 190 destroyed.

be nice to see more of this in the MA...

the combat reports sound almost exactly like encounters in AH including the differences in aircraft, gj HTC

[Guppy35]

Someone say Spitfire XII?

[Kev367th]

Someone say Spitfire XII?

Need to start a petition or revolution Dan!!!!

Spit XII, old Vc, and Seafire LIIc or LIII (in place of IIc) would complete the Spit lineup, as we are unlikely to get an F.21.

(Can't see any point for a HF VI or HF VII)

[SgtPappy]

The XII would be a great addition (after the Japanese and Russian fighters and German bomber quotas are complete) because it was the step in between the Merlin and Griffon Spitfire variants. It was the Frankenstein (Yes, I know Guppy Don't hurt me) of the bunch and was literally a Griffon with a plane strapped to it.

The Seafire L III would be a good addition because it was the most common version of the Seafire and it was built from 1943 - 45, the longest serving Seafire available.

The Spitfire Vc is my favourite version of the SpitV but it simply was not the most common Mk.V. The MkVb was byfar the most common and hardest working of the bunch. As much as I would like to see it, it will never be added unless EVERY single plane that ever fought in WWII was added.

[Furball]

Unfortunate that the German navy's only flat-top was never used. I wonder what could have happened if Germany helped Japan as much as the U.S. and Britain helped each other in their battles like D-Day in the ETO or the attacks on Sicily.

Not sure if the word 'unfortunate' is the right choice there , interesting maybe! Still, i very much doubt that they would have got their cv past Britain without it becoming a new reef in the North Sea.  If the RAF didn't do it then the Royal Navy certainly would.

[Kev367th]

The XII would be a great addition (after the Japanese and Russian fighters and German bomber quotas are complete) because it was the step in between the Merlin and Griffon Spitfire variants. It was the Frankenstein (Yes, I know Guppy Don't hurt me) of the bunch and was literally a Griffon with a plane strapped to it.

The Seafire L III would be a good addition because it was the most common version of the Seafire and it was built from 1943 - 45, the longest serving Seafire available.

The Spitfire Vc is my favourite version of the SpitV but it simply was not the most common Mk.V. The MkVb was byfar the most common and hardest working of the bunch. As much as I would like to see it, it will never be added unless EVERY single plane that ever fought in WWII was added.

We 'used' to have the late version cropped Vc.
So I don't think it would be hard to re-introduce it at all (just clip it this time ).

[Bronk]

We 'used' to have the late version cropped Vc.
So I don't think it would be hard to re-introduce it at all (just clip it this time ).

mmmm old MkV mmmmmm

[ShrkBite]

YES! BRING ON THE SPITFIRES!!!

[RTHolmes]

I'd also like to see the bigger drop tank option (60/90gall?) for those spits that used them (IX,XIV,XVI) as well as the 30gall slipper.

AFAIK all C-wing and later could carry 2x250lb bombs under the wing (with no loss of performance when dropped) so would like to see that option added too.

[Guppy35]

There were 30, 45 and 90 gallon slipper tanks.  The 30 was the norm.  I've seen a few photos of Spits from late 44 with 90 gallon tanks that flew escort to RAF bombers, but it was the exception not the rule.  The "C" wing Spit IXs that lugged bombs had a tendency to fold up during the pull out, in particular if a bomb hung up.  The E wing was strengthened to deal with this and was the standard wing that had the three hard points.

[RTHolmes]

not forgetting the 170gall tank   would be good to have 30 or 90 options in the same way as the jug has a choice of droppies

as C wings had the option for 2x250lb I think we should in AH. as I understand it the pony could pretty much only fly straight and level with 2x1000lb fitted and ripped off wings when dropping them occasionally so wasn't often used in this configuration. in AH its the standard pony attack loadout, so it not unreasonable to give us spitfans the (rarely used but possible) option too

[Kazaa]

Sorry to bump this thread, but I didn't see a reason to start another one as people have posted so much good information here already.

Did we cover having 25lbs of boost on the XVI and 21lbs on the XIV in this thread yet ? I feel that the late war Spitfires are not fully represented to the best of the their ability.

I also agree with adding a few more Spitfire/Seafire variants to fill in the gaps for scenarios.

[Anaxogoras]

It's pretty outrageous that an aircraft was removed from the game.  The old SpitV should have remained and let ENY take care of the rest.