Quite so... I'm not sure what's going on with him right now.
Go on Dr Freud.. Let's all hear your diagnostic.
Moot, I am not following here. You seem to be posting on both sides of the Me410 issue.
Could is the key word.
Yak-3 would be Later War only. Me410 would be Mid War. Meteor, of course, would be Late War.
Some of the important 410 configs could be LW only. MK103 or something.. Don't recall exactly but some of them are way past the (admittedly really blurry - it's IIRC anywhere from mid/late 43 to some time in 44) standard set by current plane set.
Perhaps Moot's opinion changes as his understanding deepens and his thoughts resolve. You can hardly really berate someone for doing that. Especially when you contrast it to the methods of some clowns. 
I've done it before and never shied away from admitting as much afterwards. I actually really like when it happens. What more could you ask for - to be EVEN MORE RIGHT
The white rabbit here's nothing secret. Only the single seater Me 410 would be competitive in dogfights. It saw squadron wide use, "more than the 152 did". Something like at least 20-30 of em were made after
months of insistence by no less than Galland (Galland? or another of the few huge names who had his spot as top Luftwaffe dog -- it went all the way IIRC to bouncing the idea off Hitler for his approval, to speed things up) and other top Luftwaffe and Reich brass. Specifically for that model to go into production. Galland (assuming I'm recalling right that it's him) was pushing for a personal production/action plan of either 50% or 100% of day 410 Zerstorer production being single seaters.
Of course how it actually happened is that the 410 got cancelled right around the time the Reich melted down by Allied efforts. The end of the 410 story as you know it reading those RLM (or whatever the Luftwaffe-Reichwaffles chief exec meetings were called) accelerates in an acute exponential starting with gradual acceptance that 410 is worthless for night fighter duty, to everything being bet on those particular variant production focuses over months of tense meetings, to austerity measures (build normally metal stuff with wood etc - you know something's up when that's all there is in Luftwaffe meeting minutes), to everything being cancelled to focus all industrial effort on a handful of main types - Fw 190, Do 335 (iirc), etc. .
It's as if reality hit em in the face all of a sudden.
But back on topic, that's the deal here. A night and day difference between two and single seater variants. The single seater meets all "standard" AH criteria. Saw action at squadron level. Has a few pilot recollections, and a few pictures to show for it. When you look at the numbers it's pretty clear that the 2S 410 would be a mildly different 110G. The SS'er 410 would be right in the P-38 and Mossie performance ballpark. So... The tally is that it satisfies "official" criteria and that it'd be so much more fun for all who tried/flew it. And no it wouldn't be any uber machine either. The SS'er only flew with quad 20mm, no MK103s or BK5. I'm not sure if they used WGr's, but given that it was meant to be as cleaned up as possible, I'd reckon it wouldn't have em.
If next round is between the Me410 and either the Meteor or Yak-3 I will vote for the Me410. If it is between the Meteor and Yak-3 I will vote for the Meteor. I just don't see the Yak-3 being enough different from the Yak-9U. I've looked at their numbers and I have trouble seeing all that much of a difference.
Did the numbers include roll rate? Just off the wall idea. Could make a big difference if the weight loss affected it a lot. Cf. Mk XVI.
