New German Planes for Sequel

[ElAurens]

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

[JG53Frankyboy]

even with its low numbers in service during operation Taifun, not more than one Gruppe (~40 aircraft ) , the Hs123 played a very important role in the gruondsupport of the german troops in this time. And even more when the soviet counteroffensuvevstarted!

in general:
as fighters the Bf109F-2/-4
as groundattack Bf109E-7, Bf110D/E, Hs123, Ju87B
as bombers Ju88A-5/-4, He111-6
as recon Hs126
as transport Ju52

[addman]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

Me too, what a waste of gorgeous plane models...anywho let's hope for the HS-123 and maybe even a flyable Polikarpov U-2! Oh that would be so sweet. Ok, calm down now, don't get your expectations too high now like last time.

[Flanker35M]

S!

After reading German pilot memoirs it seems that at beginning of Barbarossa they used a lot of older versions too, not always the latest batch of fighters and bombers. For example JG 5 Eismeer had it's last Bf109G-2's in 1944 and Emils were phased out as late as 1942/43...

Will be interesting to see what we have in the sequel. For sure getting it if it means we get Mediterranean/North Africa too at some point

[csThor]

JG 5 is a very special case, kind of "poor man's war" up there. On the main front only JG 27 and parts of JG 77 still used Emils in 1941, the former until they departed for North Africa, the latter already receiving its first Bf 109 F-4 in July and August 1941.

[Blakduk]

From my limited understanding of how the LW functioned throughout the war many 109's were uprated with different components throughout their service life. Wings were changed, armament interchanged, engines swapped etc, so trawling through the archives it can be quite confusing just what different units were actually flying. I've read accounts of factory-fresh planes being sent to operational units and being immediately customised to the desired specs of the veteran pilots. In this i believe they had more opportunity to do so compared to allied pilots as the components of their aircraft were designed to be more easily interchangeable.
As i read of the development of CoD i was quite intrigued how this would be replicated in-game. That's one aspect of CoD that i believe will be a strength as it matures- the new program allows different variants of the same airframe to handle quite differently according to how it was constructed. Il2 had a similar but more basic system.

[csThor]

There weren't that many fighter-bomber Emils around in 1941, only II.(Schlacht)/LG 2 used them in this role.

[pupaxx]

ok guys...they were only 17 in charge at 21° Gruppo but why not Macchi Mc202 'Folgore'?
Reading at your post a thought comes to mind, if the FMs of CloD planeset (composed by 4-5 types (109e1-3 spit 1-1a 2)) took so much time to be tuned and with questionable results, in how many months will we see a complete and convincing planeset for the sequel? Not a criticism, just a thought on how much work is in front of Devs...
Cheers...Merry Christmas to you all!

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Maybe so, but there are never enough last gen biplanes that we can fly.

I'm still somewhat crushed that the Gladiator and CR.42 will not be flyable in CLOD.

Maybe a Malta map in the MTO at some future point?

Here's hoping.

[kestrel79]

I hope to see more of the "crap planes" in BoM. I like flying the non popular planes, even if their performance isn't the greatest.

Maybe we could get some planes in BoM that would transfer over to CloD as well, kill 2 birds with one stone.

I'm still hoping for some sort of water plane for rescue missions, or a transport plane for resupply missions. Air Warrior on AOL had this feature in 1996 on their online servers and I loved flying the C-47 below radar and resupplying bases or dropping paratroopers to capture a base.