HTC, can you do this? Deselect hangar loadout based on other hangar loadout?

[Krusty]

HTC's already commented on the WGrs. I'm more interested in loadouts that weren't historically common, or never used, but physically were possible. Specifically I'm interested in where he draws the line with them. It would concern me to see a B-17G with 10,000 rounds of 50cal ammo for the guns, but there are stories where some crews overloaded their B17s so badly they had to ballast themselves with bricks just to take off, then drop the bricks to begin climbing.

And similar situations like that.

I'm concerned it opens a massive can of worms and possibly will go in a bad direction for the game, so I would like more info on their thinking/their limits.

I would, quite frankly, want to use and to come up against historically accurate loadouts, rather than fantasy wishlist loadouts that never happened, so in my concern (selfish may it be) I seek clarification.

[hitech]

Krusty: It's not a rule, but a philosophy. Hence we already gave you all we can in choosing what goes in and what goes out.

HiTech

[Old Sport]

Hypothetical question: Could then the F8F ever be added, since a VF was operational in May 1945?  Many would    for a positive answer. After all, it was just that the US Navy simply chose not to use it in combat, not because a squadron wasn't ready.

However, based on previous responses at the AH BB, the preliminary hypothetical answer to my own question is -- No!     So we have to admit that drawing boundary lines is not always a precise business. But Phlexible Philosophy is generally sufficient. 

Best regards.

[Mongoose]

If a plane did or did not do something is NOT the way we approach things. The question would be could a P51 carry both bombs and rockets. You get to make the choice just as they did in the war. We would not force someone to make the same choice just because they never made that choice in the war.

   Well said.  This gives me the chance to explore what the airplane could do, in addition to what the plane did do.  It gives me the freedom to play "what if". 

And to get the experience of what actually did happen, we have the historical scenarios.  I, for one, think this is definitely the right way to go.