Originally posted by Karnak
The Re2005 and G.55 are both pretty and capable machines, and would be quite suitable to the MA environment. However that is all that they would be suitable for. I can think of few aircraft less useful from a historical scenario point of view than those two.
The C.205 was produced in much larger quantites than either the Re2005 or G.55, and yet the C.205 still has little more than half the production numbers of the N1K2-J, which is much maligned due to it's low production numbers.
From the perspective of scenarios the Italian aircraft we need are things like the C.200, Re2000, Re2002, CR.42, S.M.79-II, and Cant Z.1007. However all of those have practically no purpose in the MA and would see little usage.
All of this is complicated by what performance data HTC has available for all of these aircraft. This is something we can only guess at.
Sooner or later AH will have a RPS and a mission oriented arena. Then you will see what a 205 will do during the first half of the 1943, or what a C.200 will do against an early slow Hurricane or Spitfire MkV with sand filter. Or what a G.55 with 3x20mm and 2x12,7mm will do against 1943 allied bombers. Numbers? We fly a simulation, not the real life ... numbers dont matter. Take a look at the Flak panzer and the F4U-1C.
Performance data? The G.55 has a nice manual with speed and climb data. Pyro has it. We have even the performance data of the mighty G.56, the DB603 engined G.55. A nice P-51D "ass kicker"
