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Originally Posted by VO101_Tom
Please, it would be good if you would grant the source.
How many planes flew - This is the map makers, mission makers' task. What is important for the dev team: existed or did not exist.
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Source, Ulrich Steinhilper, Spitfire on my tail.
Steinhilper (he was the no2) and the leader whose name escapes me got to fly them, don't have my copy at the moment, can't remember the others name.
Up until then, they were all on E1's.
also, i've posted this loads of times already, but here we go again,
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Hooton in Eagle in Flames gives the percentage losses of 109s by subtype:
July
E1 - 44%
E3 - 30%
E4 - 20%
August
E1 - 40%
E3 - 8%
E4 - 52%
September
E1 - 38%
E3 - 1%
E4 - 61%
October
E1 - 36%
E3 - 2%
E4 - 62%
and from Kurfust, over at ubi a while ago,
"I have some actual numbers. On 31 August 1940, fighter units (excluding JG 77) reported 375 E-1s, 125 E-3s, 339 E-4s and 32 E-7s on strength, indicating that most of the E-3s had been already converted to E-4 standard. JG 77 had around 100-125 aircraft with it, but for the rest of the units, its 75% cannon E-3/4/7, the rest are all MG E-1s. The E-1 and E-3 were produced parallel and in about equal numbers from the end of 1938, but by mid-1940, the production of the E-1 stopped, replaced by the E-4 and then the E-7."
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Don't disagree at all that it would be nice to see them all though, and let the mission builders build the missions around them.
However, the E7 would be the last on my list in order 'to do', due to the limited numbers it flew in BoB.
I'd still like it though, not as much as an E1 and then an E4 though.
What i don't want, and is what will happen on some severs is them full of spitII's and E7's, as thats not BoB.
First up, it would just be nice to have a proper hurri, spit and 109 of any type performing correctly.....