Frenchy:
1-I like P47s and have used in MA quite some. Take a look at my stats for last 5 or 6 months. Your "penalty" won't hurt me a bit.

2- If you start calling for underwing gun pods rarely used in the P47D30 I'll start to ask for the torpedo/bomb of the 190F8, or maybe about those nice vertical recoiless cannons to kill tanks, or the twin Mk103 30mm cannon pods...etc etc etc

3-Frag bombs, delayed fuse bombs, cluster bombs, even napalm, and all that stuff is not just lacked by the American inventory, didn't yahknow?

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4- DOnt try to distract attention with funny comments

. What matters here (apart of the F8 loads we lack

) is that no P47D30 could carry 10 HVARs and 2000lbs of underwing bomgs; and the overload condition for the MGs was not used when the Jugs were in Jabo role.

Creamo:
Last time I had to dive away from a 109G10 in a P47D25 (wich is the model I most use because the D30's unrealistic loads) at the start of the dive (at around 10-12K) he was 500yards away and closing. AFter I dived, he had to run with me for two sectors (50 wooping miles) to catch with me again.
The P47 dives outstandingly in my experience; and while I'm no hot-shot in it and neither I use it too much; in my limited experience I always have put a lot of space in a dive between me and anything else...and when fighting vs jugs, I always saw them moving away in dives.
Maybe is something you dont agree with me, but at least is my experience.
[ 11-30-2001: Message edited by: R4M ]