#51 Bf 109G Germany - Done

Not really followed this thread but on looking at the card, potentially getting 11 dice if the three SA's mentioned above are all used (AF, LD, ED) on a 42 aircraft seems a lot. I can't really recall what other European fighters around this year are getting though, so I could be wrong. Weeds comment on the AA 8 potentially being generous might be a way round it at 7.

Just speculating.

Its tongue in cheek reference to defend the fatherland rather than the fathersea.

I hate doing stats, so theyre potentially wonky.

It could loose both the die and SA. Its got a solid escort niche

So here is the problem and the reason we have not done another Bf-109 until this one. The Bf-109E that RB made was made too powerful in the first place. The 6/9/1 armor values were too high (just like on the Wildcat) and the 3 gunnery for an aircraft with only MGs was too high. He made it a "super all-war" Bf-109 so there isn't any real room to make a "better" Bf-109. Certainly not with a 1942 year. Not to mention being carrier capable.

If we want to keep this one then I suggest keeping the AA at 8 and gunnery at 3 and ditching the SAs except Escort. For a cost of 9 which puts in the same league as the Hellcat. But is not much of a gain on the 109E. Which says a lot about the 109E card! Or we drop Escort and send it in another direction like a defensive fighter. Could this thing carry bombs? Give it "Bombing Run X" like the Frank and Centauro? Maybe pick a variant that wasn't released until 1943 or later.

Even better, drop this *&((% card and replace it with a rebuild Gneisenau or Jeanne D'Arc for France which is still underrepresented.

Give it fighter-bomber and leave it carrier capable. then the germans have a basic carrier bomber and we can leave the stuka operations SA as it was.

A5 bomber is a basic fleet building neccessity and all the carrier bonus armour SAs in world don't compensate for the lack of it.

The equivalent bf109 to the T version had a field conversion fighter bomber kit.

Exactly what i had in mind

It needs that fighter bomber SA so it has 5 aa when a bomber.