Analysis of real life 109E performance for CloD

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Originally Posted by tools4fools

So a Hurricane flown to its strenght should be competitive with a 109 flown to its strenght?
Or a G50 vs a Spitfire?
How would that be possible?

Don't be daft. If a Hurricane's strength should be it's turning ability and a 109's it's speed then the respective pilots should have two very different fighting styles. The pilot that tries to fight the other man's game will lose. In the current version of the sim the Hurricane is useless as it does nothing well, hence very few people fly it. If the devs were to take the current FM's and simply swap the the turning abilities of the Hurricane and Spitfire & copy the speed/climb info of the Spit II into the Ia I think you would see a much more dynamic and enjoyable experience online.

Originally Posted by tools4fools

Don't think so, they should perform as they did and if one plane was noticable inferior in overall combat capabilities then it should be that way.
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Who is to say how they did perform? Nobody alive today can say that, certainly nobody playing this game. Instead we have a mountain of conflicting technical information & pilot accounts that prove nothing. What we do have is historical anecdote that says the Spit & 109 were about equal in most aspects (one a little faster, the other turns a bit better) and the Hurricane was a little slower but turned the best. There are going to be rivet counters who will never be pleased but the vast majority would accept FM's that simply were in-line with the accepted lore of the battle.