[Koenig67]

You are welcome, Treetop64.
Actually I doubt that if you founded a LaGG-3 fan club you would find many enthusiasts.
It was never a very popular plane, even if the last S66s could more than hold their own against the best German fighters down low.
It's a plane that certainly has a merit: it was - to my knowlege - the only successful wooden fighter of WW2.
If only it had a better powerplant...it would have been a La-5!
You praise the plane for its heavy armament, which was certainly useful when attacking bombers or ground strafing, but the Russian pilots must not have shared your view when dogfighting Bf-109s, so the plane was stripped of the heavy armament by late 1941, with the introduction of the S8.
From a historical point of view it was an interesting and important plane.

A piece of interesting information from the usual source (Gordon).
In 1941 a total of 2,463 LaGG-3s were produced: 1,659 in Gor'kiy, 474 in Taganrog, 265 in Novosibirsk, and 65 in Leningrad.
Leningrad built LaGGs were 2.63% of the grand total - and it's the only 1941 LaGG-3 we have in the game.
I hope some good soul will consider the idea of re-working the early variants of this plane.