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.
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