So there I was, flat on my back, reading a book I've had since I was a kid, trying to regain some enthusiasm for AH.
And there it was! Right from "Airwar Against Hitler's Germany". Written for kids to understand
"The Luftwaffe interceptors were actually hampered by their heavy firepower. Loaded down, with ammunition, bombs and rockets to use against the bombers, the Me109s and FW190s were sluggish and hard to fly in combat with the American escort fighters."
Upon reading this great revelation, my head went right to the latest 190A8 thread in AH
Hmmm. 190A5. Air to air fighter, dealing with RAF fighters and medium bombers over France.....
190A8 Bomber interceptor up gunned and up armored to deal with 4 engined bombers over Germany.....Not as nimble, but more firepower to shoot lumbering bombers....Not so good against fighters.....
Who'da thunk it?
So best to come here and just kick us in the balls after pointing and hackleing at us like a 10-yo?.... Because, as standard as these 190A threads are becoming every week, so are the replys from the usual peanut gallery denisens in this forum?.... for shame Guppy.
Your head is still stuck/thinking like Germany had as effective a re-equiping/re-supplying effort as the allies did. Reality is, especialy compared to the allies, that they wouldn't disgard old and completley re-equip anew. About the time our 190A-8 was being
produced with the uparmor and everything, nearly as many
operational A-6/7s were getting conversions kits and "power-eggs" to update their existing a/c. The allies had better supply and material management though, older production models would recieve some upgrades, but would regularly at points be completely roated out and newer production series rotated in.
It's just ugly, but I'm glad to see it hasn't dampened the growing 190 fanbase/community's spirits. It's the peanut gallery here, it just never misses their cue to share an
opinion or to make themselves look indivudaly more important than an online game (
). Truth is, nothing is modeled more/less on/off than anything else on the single A8 varient we have in AH and every other plane in the game. But the truth is there were lots of - in AH terms -
"Finnish 190s" in service with the German Luft during WWII, and also more
stock 190s with
far more capabilities and performances than what is represented in AH's current 190 lineup.
Your books quote has truth to it Guppy, but in comparison, about as much truth to the many books and quotes out there that P-38s were horrible/useless/outclassed/paper-weights/pilot-ice-boxes in the entire ETO, so they were by default then sent to where they could do something rather than nothing in the PTO.... go ahead, tell me that "the unsuccesful ETO P-38" hasn't been propegated by historians and authors to death in the past.
I have variously seen the revised wing of the A-6 version described as "strengthened" or "lightened". I guess it's even possible that both adjectives might be accurately applied, but that would be some pretty impressive engineering, even for good old Dr. Engr. Tank. I don't suppose anyone out there has the actual builder's drawings for the A-5 and the A-6 versions, so we could compare...?
Just for the record, I enjoy flying the A-5 and wish we also had the A-2.
Personaly I'd like to see an A-3, but in general, something earlier than an A-5 would be interesting for knife fighting I think.