12.05.2008, 07:07
Just purely my own opinion, but I never understood this question of modding an MG-151/20 as a motorkanone to the late 109's. If the argument is accuracy at long ranges, just slap on a pair of MG-151/20 gun pods.
AFAIK the revised il2 FM on the late Gustavs are a complete travesty anyway, so why bother. What we need is new late-G6, G-14 and G-10 models using the recently available wealth of manufacturer documentation I've seen plastered all over the web. I mean for a start there's a neglible drop of performance between the G-6 compared to the G-2 and this was more than regained when 1.42 ata was cleared as a safe maximum engine speed sometime in 43 (1550PS at 2km). Plus documentation shows tests between the bulged hood and wide hood, as well as smaller customised bulges such as fitted to Adolf Galland's 109F-2 when he commissioned a pair of MG-131 fitted to that back in 41. Very little speed was lost in the first place to the G-2 (something like 8km/h) and the wide hood alone regained around 4km/h of it using the early engine settings.
So il2 really disadvantages 109 pilots between 1942-44 with quite some irrelevant and non-historical bias, in general. We should have to consider the existing Gustav modelling (with the exception of the G-2) to be those poor production quality examples we hear of (but which shouldn't have even begun appearing until mid-1944), whilst those which may have been a more typical production standard simply don't exist in the sim. It's like being forced to sit through pommie "contemporary combat evaluations" all over again (Tempest V vs clapped out ex-African G-2, or tuned up Mark XIV Spit vs G-6/R-6 at 1.35 ata, anyone).
This thing about a hub mounted 20mm in the G-10/14 model I just don't get.
AFAIK the revised il2 FM on the late Gustavs are a complete travesty anyway, so why bother. What we need is new late-G6, G-14 and G-10 models using the recently available wealth of manufacturer documentation I've seen plastered all over the web. I mean for a start there's a neglible drop of performance between the G-6 compared to the G-2 and this was more than regained when 1.42 ata was cleared as a safe maximum engine speed sometime in 43 (1550PS at 2km). Plus documentation shows tests between the bulged hood and wide hood, as well as smaller customised bulges such as fitted to Adolf Galland's 109F-2 when he commissioned a pair of MG-131 fitted to that back in 41. Very little speed was lost in the first place to the G-2 (something like 8km/h) and the wide hood alone regained around 4km/h of it using the early engine settings.
So il2 really disadvantages 109 pilots between 1942-44 with quite some irrelevant and non-historical bias, in general. We should have to consider the existing Gustav modelling (with the exception of the G-2) to be those poor production quality examples we hear of (but which shouldn't have even begun appearing until mid-1944), whilst those which may have been a more typical production standard simply don't exist in the sim. It's like being forced to sit through pommie "contemporary combat evaluations" all over again (Tempest V vs clapped out ex-African G-2, or tuned up Mark XIV Spit vs G-6/R-6 at 1.35 ata, anyone).
This thing about a hub mounted 20mm in the G-10/14 model I just don't get.