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Originally Posted by VO101_Tom
U cant. SpitII simply better. It was in RL too (The messer can climb higher, but its dont work in game now). E3 -in this configuration- is spanish civil war era (early '39 - LW get the first planes there), Spit II the BOB most advanced RAF type (Aug. '40). Untill LW cant get E-4, E-7, .../N planes, the SpitII banned in most (historical) servers.
Fly with E-3. Difference with E-3/B only the bomb rack, it makes the plane slower.
edit. Ahh, and one more thing  The E-3, E-3/B manual Prop pitch is much slower, than should be, big disadvantage anyway with this. We hope, it will be fixed in next patch. |
The 109E3 was not a Spanish civil war variant, the 109B was. Also the just like the Mk I Hurricane and Mk I Spitifres, the 109E went through various changes from the early 1939 variant at the start of the war to the versions that saw action in August 1940 over Britain.
More powerfull engines were introduced during the production run which kept the 109E competitive with even the Mk II Spitfire. What the problem is with Cliffs of Dover is that the Spitfire Mk IIa matches the performance of the real +12lbs boost Mk II while the 109E comes nowhere near its historical 1939 figures let alone its 1940 figures.
The Hurricane Mk I Rotol is also getting speeds that match a real +6lbs boost version instead of +12lbs boost, so it is also too slow for a BoB era Hurricane. The Spitfire Mk I, Mk Ia and Hurricane DH are massively underperforming and don't get close to real figures for +6lbs versions let alone +12lbs boost versions. Then we have the Bf110 which matches the performance of a DB601-A variant, the problem is that around 50% of the Bf110s in the battle had DB601-N engines which ran on 100 octane fuel giving them a large performance boost.
What we have are some woefully underperforming fighters that don't match any published figures and seem to use generally made up performance based on nothing in particular.
Spitfire Mk Ia (Rotol)
Spitfire Mk I (DH)
Bf109E3
Fiat G.50
Hurricane Mk I (DH)
We have a total lack of any +12lbs boost Spitfire Mk Is or Hurricane Mk Is that would have been the most common variants at front line squadrons. We also have a total lack of the DB601-N equipped Bf110.
Online servers have a serious issue. Allow the Spitfire Mk IIa, which is the ONLY RAF aircraft with close to real life performance. The problem being that it totally dominates the woefully underperforming 109E and Fiat G.50s. Or ban the Spitfire Mk IIa and watch the domination swing way in fovour for the 109E because the Spitfire and Hurricane Mk Is have performance that is even further from reality than that of the CoD 109E.
A lot of work is required on the majority of FMs and aircraft performance.