Sparow:
As I told Dave there's going to be almost nowhere that the Ju-52 will find usage to merit its addition ahead of almost ANY other aircraft. It WILL be a hangar queen in the Mains. While some Ju-52s were armed, it's almost 30mph SLOWER than the C-47 (if that's even possible) so it's going to be no less (if not MORE) vulnerable a target, guns (only a single dorsal 13mm and two waist 7.7mm's: a B-17 it ain't) or not. The "bomber" variant was a Spanish Civil War aircraft that saw only extremely limited use during the first few months of the war over Warsaw. And unlike other aircraft that would be superfluous in the mains but have uses elsewhere, there's NOWHERE in scenario-type play the Ju-52 has value. I've yet to fly in an FSO setup utilizing C-47s to begin with, much less have a place to use Ju-52s (can someone tell me if they were ever used in FSO?). The number of scenarios and shapshots that would find a use for it are likewise going to be limited if ANY, and are C-47s EVER available in AVA in the first place?
We're talking an absolute scraping the crud from UNDERNEATH the bottom-of-the-bucket addition. Every Japanese plane in my list will by FAR be a more valuable addition for ACTUAL usage than the Ju-52. The only real reason to add it is because "it was there."
Hi Saxman,
In fact, I agree, partially, with your argument. The JU-52, scenario speaking, would only be of use for, let me see... for Crete, MTO, Stalingrad... As a troop carrier for any MA would be a sitting duck (like the C-47). In AvA could have some use. C-47's have been used. But I firmly believe that the He-111 would be a much more important adition in the short term. Like the G4M. Two prioritary models, even more than many fighters mentioned.
OTOH, it would be simpler to fill the gaps on almost sufficiently complete planesets than to leave some half filled and others dry... I mean, only a couple of models could "close" the German, American and British planesets. A good choice of a fighter and a bomber could make the Japanese and Soviet setups acceptable. Maybe even the Italian. How on earth will you model any MTO setup without, at least, the Sparviero? What is totally empty is the French planeset. But I understand that would be used only for early war setups and some MTO setups. I concede that the French models should come last in the list, but they should be present, one day.
We all want the same... The most complete planeset possible. We only propose diferent shortcuts to get there...
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