currently Gold Hurricane Mk.IA represents Finnish Air Force. do we need Hurricane Mk.I residing or removed from Gold side?
Keep it. It gives me something in early war to shoot at other than the horde of a6m and the occasional boom and zoomer 109 operator.
Look at how many different fighters red has in early war vs. gold. All gold ever seems to have is A6M2 or Bf-109E-4. Ki-27 now actually has a gun, so a few of them are around. Red has more variety in the early war. I-153, I-16 series, F4F, Spitfire I/II, Hurricane I, and whatever I left out. The point is, after flying a couple of tours as a gold under a different name, I got bored of the early war quickly with only A6M and 109 to fly. Yes, I could have flown the Super 110, but it never really has suited my style unless I'm jeep killing. Bf-110 series always seemed the way to go for killing jeeps. That or Ju-87.
This is the reason why golds must have the Hurri Mk.I As mumble explained, IT IS EXTREMELY BORING after 2 or 3 TODs fly only A6Ms and 109s at early war. I always came to the game after 1942, but with Hurri now, I'm thinking to start a bit early
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/hu-fin-1.htm List of Aircraft owned by Finnish air force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aircraft_of_Finland#Fighters ( please note 12 Hurricanes, 35 Fiat G.50 ) Finnish Hurricanes artwork: http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?6962-Hawker-Hurricanes IMHO: According to the little I read, Finland was mostly aligned with Germany during WW2 : ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Finland_during_World_War_II) Only in late war was Finland aligned with Russia. Soooo...... due to the small number of planes Finland had: IF they have access to a Hurricane in early war as "golds", THEN they should have access to 109 in late war as "reds" ! http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n2/revw-finn.html
that's a question what to model for Italy: G.50 (+Finland) or MC.200 (+better perf) who needs 109? soviets don't. tommies/yankies?
btw, another question is whether to remove hurricane after g.50 appears. in general folks sounds to be correct: three fighters could be better than 109/a6m but for the same reason (f4f-3, i-16, i-15) golds are unlikely to have more than three fighters p.s.d.520 is cancelled from this ratio
Gold Hur might be easier to create. However I feel the Fiat G.50 would be historically more accurate for early war anyway. other than 12 planes to 35 in reality, I think the G.50 would be better than the early Hurricanes with engines cutting out pulling neg g's and those ineffective 303s rattling around....
Then,perchance, red 109E? http://www.xs4all.nl/~tozu/me109/foreign/109-Yugoslavia.htm 12 hurri against 73 bf 109?
I'd say no. Those hurricanes were mostly gained by repairing the downed ones. As was most of the LaGG's,I-16's and 153's. I've seen a pic of russian 190-D's, so if one goes with hurri this way, one should give 190 to reds sometime in the late war. BW-239 and me-109G6 were the planes that ment most to finns at war.
G-50 is cool. I fly it in X-Plane all the time. I love it. Handles like a dream. Fuck. If I was taking my blood pressure drugs I would start playing again... but I am not and I won't [I don't like seeing monsters from almost anything those goddam doctors tell me to eat [ask me, they don't tell me anymore, they know they can be fired].
G-50 in game - will be like Ki-43, but some worse. Just compare G-50 and Ki-43 data. Like D520 vs Yak-1 But... why not?
There are other planes used by the Axis at the beginning of the war that are better and more used as IAR80, G50, C200
I think that there are no more interesting planes for add except some buffs- Wellington, Lancaster, Do217 and Arado 234 (when reds have their Meteors now, it will be ok for game balance). Then we can talk about P-61 Black Widow, but...why? We have not nights here so it will be something like Me-410 or Ki-45- nobody will fly it except first 2-3 days after new FHL release. Ta-152? Nobody fly in MA obove 4km. Re.2000? C.200? G.50? It is like fas wrote- same or worse planes than we have, good for 1-2 men....maybe. More interesting are new versions of current planes- for example P47M and mainly "N" and P-40N. In ww2 flew a lot of these great types and we have not it. But i vote for leaving adding new planes for now and work on new maps and other things which are more interesting for gameplay.
whuut?! Arado 234 must balance which of red? flamy 1945... will require ta 152 not Heinrich, but Caesar! and bf 109 k-14 and even worse luft'46 these things are not related FE freeze won't accelerate server works
