My point was that there was a plethora of field mods that were carried out by front line units in WW2. This would just open the door to a cornicopia of issues that would in all likely hood cause no end of grief has it is argued back and forth on the BBS.
Personally I think we're better off as we are now. Field mods are not considered, from a modelling stand point it just makes more sense. You model the FM's based on official primary source documentation. Once you start allowing field modifications this becomes impossible.
Ultimately what I perfer or think has absolutely nothing to do with bringing a feature to the game of course but up to this point the absense of any field mods makes me think that HTC is at least sympathetic to this view.

That isn't to say that some of things that were done wouldn't be interesting... .would love to have the uprated engines on the P-38 that hear so much about. But from a neutral corner of trying to produce this game no mods seems to make the most sense.