As Brooke said, mainly playability. D40s were in the original write-up and I was going to have Greebo do a 48th FG skin as that is who I tracked down to be closest to our area of ops.While I think the D40 would be able to hold its own, the M will have a better time versus the Dora, K4, 152 and easier to fill. The other alternative was to have only Ponies, but I found that difficult to justify considering the sheer number of Jug squads (14) as opposed to Ponies (2). It is very well known that the 56th is the only unit to operate Ms, but we definitely wanted the Jug to be represented.
Understood. Being a bit of a 9th AF junkie these days what I imagine and the reality of what you need to use to make it work conflicts. Obviously the 474th and their 38s were there until the end. But it was a ground attack war, and I'm guessing this is more escort to the 26s? So air combat is the priority not the fighter bomber war they were hard at.Whatever works
