Spit IIa is now so much more inferior to the 109

[Kurfürst]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Hey Kurfürst quick question obviously you have a lot of knowledge on the 109, so my question is if the spits get the 100 octane fuel do you believe we should get the Me 109 E4/N and C-2 fuel?

Hi Krupi,


The E-4/N was present in the Battle in similar small numbers with units as the Mark II Spitfire, so if there's a Spitfire II, I think there should be an E-4/N too.

I've collected the evidence here, where you can turn the devs attention to it too by voting:
http://www.il2bugtracker.com/issues/200

IMHO the devs should model an E-7/N, which would be re-usable for any 1941 scenario, like North Africa or the Moscow map. Performance wise its identical anyway to the E-4/N.

However I am far more concerned about the 110s lacking 100 octane fuel, when about half of their were using it since the start of the Battle, so its just outright silly that we do not have them. Its like not having Hurricanes or something.

Even more importantly, 100 octane and the DB 601N engine associated with it gave a huge boost to 110 performance, the normal DB 601A variant with 87 octane fuel had a max. speed of around 520 km/h, as fast as the Hurricane, but the one with 100 octane and DB 601N should do around 550 km/h practically as fast as Spits. It would really make the 110 an interesting alternative to fly as a fighter.