Spitfire mk ia >>not!!!<< mk iib

[Werner Molders]

Hi everyone,

don't take this as strongly as i have worded it please

I intend to get a response from someone who has developed IL2 but would like anyone who is interested to join my aggravation. My grandfather was in the RAF and was a proud person with a DFC. His name and colleagues did not fight to see a Russian company develop a game which is unrealistic to what happened in the most decisive aerial combat in history. Just like the debate about the Spitfire being the saviour of the Battle of Britain. It wasn't, the Hurricane would've won with greater losses. RADAR won the Battle of Britain.

This man has pointed out a good point however.


"Can we please have the correctly configured 8 gun Browning .303 armed MkIa or MkIIa Spits for the Battle of Britain campaign?

Cannon armed Spits only made a very small and brief appearance with 19 Sqn during the BoB period, and then again briefly with 92 Sqn after the Battle in November.

The Spitfire featured in the XBOX Live demo and on the website is a MkVb - these did not become operational until Spring '41.

(Sorry, I have posted this elsewhere as a reply before finding this thread - don't mean to be repetitive but want the developers to see this!)"



One squadron (out of over 50 in England) initially experimented with the Spitfire Mk IB with cannon in the opening stages of the Battle of Britain. These aircraft had constant jamming problems in flight with their cannons and had to be changed for normal Mk IA's with normal machine gun armament because of this.

Later the Mk II was introduced with its cannon variant Mk IIB. This did not appear until around the end of the Battle of Britain which was sometime towards the late October/November period.

If IL2 Birds of Prey wishes to be realistic its going have to start by realising that the player should NOT be the one or two lucky people out of a hundred in the RAF with a cannon armed variant but should BE representative of the majority.

ALSO

The Bf 109 E-3 was the most numerous version of the German fighter type to be PRODUCED. However most E-3's were converted to E-4 standard during June. This was the first month of the Battle of Britain and so by mid June the most common variant to be ENCOUNTERED over England was the Bf 109 E-4 as German attacks would utilise this single fighter type the most.


SORT IT OUT PLEASE