I doubt anybody thought it would be a mainstay in the LWMA. It'll get used a bit, but comparing it to the B-17G, B-24J and Lancaster Mk III is absurd. Those are all vastly superior aircraft in just about every way.
You miss the point, I wasn't comparing it to those bombers, just saying like the JU88 buff guys will always go for the B17etc even after years of crying for the HE111, once they get it they use it for a weekend in the MA and then quickly go back to bigger bombers with more guns and payload.
Hence the HE111 for MA will become a hangar queen. Just like the JU88, how many times do you see a JU88 (not being used to attack CV) compared to the other main buffs?
Like the 410 people voted for it cause they thought it would be some uber gun platform, once realised it wasn't and they easily get shot down in it, they quickly go back to uber rides.
As for Buffs and Forgetting that HE111 would have escort, you mean escort by a horde? As escorting buff pilots these days is a complete waste of time, last two occasions I have taken the effort to escort a buff they have both bailed once bombs dropped as they didn't want to take the time to rtb, they already had their points and damage done..
Last night watched a Lanc dive bomb a city, guess he couldn't be bothered working out the new wind variation.
<S>...-Gixer