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Offline Perrine

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How about some extra gap fillers?
« on: October 11, 2010, 04:22:30 PM »
With existing planes we have I doubt adding these planes won't take that much effort :aok

Luftwaffe
bf109e7 (post variant battle of britain bf109e that saw action in opening months of Barbarossa and North Africa)
bf109f2 (a bf109f4 with faster-firing 15mm MG-151.  Was this variant WEP-less btw?)
bf109g6as (later varient 109g6 with slightly higher altitude performance, 30mm MK-108 nose tatter option added)
bf109g10
fw190a3 (early war fw190a)
fw190a6 (mid-late war fw190a)
fw190a9 (late war fw190a with 2000hp engine)

Red Army
i16 type 18
la5F
p39N (soviet ace Pokryshkin's favorite and saw most important actions in 1943)

US Navy
f6f3 (WEP-less, mid war variant of late war F6F-5)

US Army
p38h  (fills gap between p38g and p38j
p47d-5 (pure mid war razorback p47)
p-51a (allison-engined mustang)

RAF
spitfire 2 (a great matchup against bf109f2)
spitfire lf5 (a spit 5 with chopped wingtips, higher engine power suited only for low altitude)
spitfire 12 (would be nice as a perk plane in mid war arena, basically a spit with clipped wing and detuned griffon engine from spit14)

Fleet Air Arm
seafire lf3 (basically a navalized spitfore lf5)
  
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2010, 04:52:47 PM »
Good list.  But, I'm thinking the differences between many of the aircraft you listed and what models AH already has is quite minimal.  I will vote for the 30mm in the 190G-6 though.   :aok

What about Japanese aircraft like Ki-45 "nick" (very similar to the Bf110C-4) or the early war Oscar?  Perhaps the French D520? The Soviet Pa-2 is right along side the German He111 for "gaps" that needed to be filled.   :)   
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2010, 05:02:43 PM »
I'm always for more variants (As long as the Stirling and the He-111 get added). Although I'm pretty sure the 109g-10 was in the game (and then taken out, correct if wrong) especially like the 109 variants, me being a 109 dweeb

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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2010, 05:03:28 PM »
Vary good reasurch you did.  Why not, they just add the P-47M on with little changes to make it.  
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2010, 05:19:39 PM »
Isn't 109G-10 = 109K-4?
The rest is a pretty good list.
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2010, 06:39:23 PM »
I want to make some corrections

Cross out the bf-109g6/AS
Instead of bf-109g6/AS I think we should get a bf-109g5/AS for easy differentiation.
Think of bf-109g-5/AS as a bf-109g6, they looked the same but the bf-109g-5 had pressurised cockpit and extra power at high altitude (hence the AS designation)

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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2010, 06:52:53 PM »
forget a country or two? :D

A6M3!!! :furious



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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2010, 07:18:26 PM »
Pe-2 nuff said AGAIN. But that is a good list.  :aok
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2010, 07:51:31 PM »
forget a country or two? :D
A6M3!!! :furious

The zero served in the pacific.....so did the B29.

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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2010, 08:06:00 PM »
p38h  (fills gap between p38g and p38j

Long over due, that gap is very large in the P38 variants.

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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2010, 08:09:11 PM »
forget a country or two? :D

A6M3!!! :furious



M-18 :noid



Australia's Boomerang



BEAUFIGHTER....



B29 :noid

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some of those (with exception to A6M) are brand new models.  They require more effort.

But

If HTC does get around remodelling A6M, bf110, hurricane, p40, Macci and Yakovlev fighters to AH2 standards pls request additional variants :pray

A6M3 model 32
* basically a clipped winged A6M2, slightly boosted engine, and 80 more rounds of Type 99 Mk1 cannons


bf110f

Hurricane mk2b
* basically a mkiic but this one is armed with 12 peashooters :devil


Hurricane mk4
* This one's basically a fighter-bomber, it carries Typhoon's rockets


Macci c.200


Yak-1


Yak-7


Yak-9D


Yak-3



An interesting Yak fighter family
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2010, 08:46:15 PM »

A6M3 model 32
* basically a clipped winged A6M2, slightly boosted engine, and 80 more rounds of Type 99 Mk1 cannons



Probably the worst Zero of the lot.  The only real increased benefits of the Model 32 was the increased roll rate, slightly higher dive speed and the extra 100 rounds for each of the 20mm cannons.  The negatives were decreased maneuverability and range (due to decreased lift and smaller fuel tank) which stood out during the Solomons Campaign in 1942 and wasn't considered all that success that it only saw short operational service with only 340 or so produced.


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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2010, 10:02:19 PM »
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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2010, 10:15:35 PM »
Well, I think the D-23 is the model they should add, as the 22/23 series was the second most prolific model after the 25/30 series.  That doesn't help us out in the MW arena though.  Honestly, the P-47's first combat in ETO was spring of '43 (C models) and fall '43 in PTO.  It was pretty much a late arrival into the war really.  The last of the major U.S. fighters in fact.  So, the D-11 would really be the only model that would fit the MW arena criteria. 

On the other hand, the F6F-5 is in the MW arena, and it shouldn't be.  The F6F-3 would be the proper Hellcat for the MW arena.  I'm not sure how that got added, so perhaps there's a chance a late-war razorback could be included.

F6F-5 is too early for MW and it is un-perked and a prevalent aircraft, just as the FW 190a5 is a stretch for EW. Give us a later variant razorback P-47 to fill the gaps. Should be fairly easy! plus one on any new aircraft for that matter :aok

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Re: How about some extra gap fillers?
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2010, 10:32:40 PM »
Would like to see the Ki-43, Ki-44, J2M3 and the G4M first myself. The Ki-45 would be nice as the Japanese could use a twin engine attack plane. The Japanese and Russians are lacking the most in the game, compaired to the real world. To be honest I'd just rather see the Japanese aircraft added first.  :aok

The Russians could use a bomber though, and the Yak-3 would be fun.

 

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