Fw-190D-13

[Shuffler]

According to Dietmar Hermann's book "FW 190 "Long Nose-An Illustrated History of the FW 190D Series" there were only a handful, if that produced.  Only 2 were shown as making it to an operational unit, with one from JG 51 being captured at the end of the war.

Not that I have any say, but you can have your D-13 when I get my 100 Spit XIIs

Well it could happen..... the TA 152 is in game.

[Krusty]

Meh... To be fair the ta152 was in full production with somewhere around 70 made and more being made. Real war problems meant only so many got to fight in combat.

With these 190D variants, they are really short-runs of limited numbers. Some are considered prototypes. Others stop-gap. I think I read somewhere that the Ta152C was intended to replace all 190Ds but since we know this never happened they tried a couple of different setups to bridge the gap. None really caught on. I dearly WOULD love a dora with a 30mm hub gun, THAT's for sure!

I just don't have any hope it'll happen in this game, is all.

[Babalonian]

A D-11, D-12 would be more probable choices, they saw more realistic production numbers and some, actual combat action.  As has been stated, I think less than a handful of D-13s were completed, and I don't think any of them saw combat even though at least two or three made it out to operational units before the surrender.  Since we have the Ta-152 H-1 which has a 30mm engine cannon and two 20mms in the wingroots, thats kind of an acceptable alterantive.  Would be cool if one day we had either the D-13 or a 152 C though - but I'd hope to see it after a couple more A-series 190s and at least another D-series, otherwise it'd crit my gufaw-meter.