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Offline Grand Duke

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Bf-109 and Me-262 support
« on: May 08, 2014, 05:39:10 PM »
Hello, everyone. I'm a bit confused about the future aerial support abilities in your mod. A quick search has given me this 6 months-old quote: "The Luftwaffe Officer's ME-262 ability will be given to the Kampfkommandt unit and the former now has a BF-109(also known as ME-109) bombing ability instead." Can someone please confirm, is it still going to be implemented or has it been reconsidered?

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Re: Bf-109 and Me-262 support
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 09:39:41 AM »
Yes it is after VeT 3

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Re: Bf-109 and Me-262 support
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 10:09:46 AM »
Oh, I see, thanks for your reply. Not criticizing your decision, but wouldn't it make more sense to give the Me-109 to the Kampfkommandant and the Me-262 to the L.O.? You see, it's just that it looks like the Ostheer is meant to represent the early-war Wehrmacht (Pz.III, AT rifles, Panzerschreck prototypes, Mkbs, Mg-34 as the main infantry machinegun and other 1941-1943 stuff) while the Wehrmacht is more of a late-war faction (Stg44, Stug 4, King Tiger, V1 rocket), so maybe it's a good idea to give a late-war aircraft to a late war faction, and an early aircraft to the early-war army.
Of course, the final decision is yours, and I'll gladly accept whatever is done, but that's just my opinion on all this :)
« Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 01:31:52 PM by Grand Duke »

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Re: Bf-109 and Me-262 support
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2014, 09:10:56 AM »
Good point, i will ask our historian :D

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Re: Bf-109 and Me-262 support
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2014, 01:41:56 AM »
All the equipment the ostheer use was used late in the war, even if some of the equipment was only in small numbers (such as the AT rifles). The stug IV may have came later, but it was still used alongside many of the Stug III's still available and was just as well armored and armed (the only reason the stug IV was even made was because one of the major producers of the Stug III was heavily damaged by bombing, and the Stug IV was the solution. Stug III's were still produced if I remember right, but only in much smaller numbers). Same can be said about the MG-34, as many of the tanks were armed with those instead of MG-42's

Also, having the same identical weapons as wehr would just be boring.