You're one very angry person.
Actually I'm not.
I just try to make you guys see how you come across; "neutered this, neutered that", "slanting for allies" bla bla bla...
It just does not help your case. Most of you know next to nothing about the subject and just fill the thread with noise. That simply does not help your cause.
It does seem that almost all the 109G-6/U4s were delivered on strength to the JGs between 2-44 and 7-44, according to the Bundesarchiv data. It would be helpfull to have a photo or something to indicate some of the equippment issues ala canopy, tail, ect, because that seems very close to being "late model" to me.
In addition, are you asking for another version to be added? or just the 30mm option included in the current model of 109G-6? because that makes a difference. My understanding was you guys just wanted the option added.
...and for the record im not a fan of the LA-7s rare 3 cannons either, but thats another issue.
Squire,
Here's another listing on the G-6/U4s produced. It's from Hannu Valtonen's book MESSERSCHMITT BF 109 JA SAKSAN SOTATALOUS.
WNr. 20000-20800---------85 U4s, 06.1943-08.1943
WNr. 440000-442099-----1419 U4s, 09.1943-08.1944
WNr. 510600-510999------130 U4s, 08.1944-10.1944
So according to this listing a total of 1634 /U4s were produced.
About the outside appearance of the plane,
I really don't understand why you just can't just trust me when I say that starting from 440000 batch they had the same canopy as AH's G-6 has right now. Framed canopy with that Gallandpanzer (like the one in AH) started appearing mid-1943 around the same time as that big production batch of U4's was started. AHs G-6 is bit of a bastardazation (is that a word
) of the most earlies production batches and the mid production batches. To make AHs G-6 totally accurate in outside appearance for the MK 108 it would need to have the shorter antenna mast and the D/F-loop behind the cockpit...as I've already explained before. I'm sure the later aircraft (the ones produced '44) in the 440000 batch and all (or most) aircraft in the 510600 had Erla Haube. In the end I don't really see how any of this has any meaning since I'm suspecting that HTC isn't keen on adding multiple DB605A-1 -engined G-6s in the game just for the sake of outside appearance.
All in all, I'm not really asking anything. Pyro took the loadout away, I suspect it's not coming back anytime soon. I do think that he took it away for the wrong reasons and that that decision isn't consistant with other desicions made about other loadouts in the game. La-7's three cannons might be a separate issue but it is a good example in demostrating this inconsistency that I'm talking about.
And before someone starts screaming it...no, I really don't think pyro or anyone at HTC has any kind of bias regarding this issue or anything else. I do suspect that they are extremely busy. Pyro who usually handles these plane related matters, as a game producer has a helluva lot more on his plate than only the fine tuning loadouts for almost 80 odd virtual aircraft.
My theory is that pyro removed the 30mm loadout as Wotan asked him to do so. I do think he asked pyro to do so for all the wrong reasons. Pyro was in a hurry to get the 109 loadouts done (that is why he asked the community's help in the first place) and he just deleted the loadout and was done with it. I'm sure that at the time he had stuff to do and bigger things to worry about than a single loadout-option and he didn't have the time to do all this research himself. In the grand scheme of things 5 guys bickering over one imaginary cannon probably doesn't raise much concern at Grapewine.
EDIT/Just for clarification Squire. You weren't the reason why I had to count to 10.
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