We started this SA with the G-50. I looked at that card and it just has the names of the countries on the front. Part of the reason may be because there wasn't enough room on the back for the flags. If you really want them I can download the flags from Wikimedia, resize and paste them in.
Other than that I did a little work on the fluff after we resolved the other questions.
Please review carefully.
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One other issue is the French had these in 1940 and possibly the Netherlands in the East Indies. Do we want to just put 1940 on the card? I don't see how that can hurt since the other nation cards will define the fleet build anyway.
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According to my book they were exported to France as 75As. These would still be retractable landing gear like the US. The Netherlands and Finnish were also 75As. Unlike the fixed landing gear 75Ns sent to Thailand (and China.)
In some ways I think it would be more awkward to give it to France and then "add on" the US since the US is the manufacturer. If you want to drop the US then we could do just the 75A Hawks (A-1 through A-7 but we don't need to list those) for France, and add Finland, Netherlands and Norway with the SA. It's still messy IMO. However, the US certainly doesn't NEED the P-36.
If we give the 75N to France I will risk my sanity and suggest the P-47 is much-wanted for the US. (France too, but Lend-lease can take care of that). My concern with the P-47 just like all late war aircraft is we will over-power and/or under cost it. But that is up to us.
Just leaving it as-is with a 1940 year seems the simplest solution, but I am open to changing it if you want.
Its a marginal unit in either configuration. Leave it as is.
I recall the point was to sneak in a chinese unit without wasting a slot on them. Between this and yoashima
So do we want to add China to the list? This is a pretty weak way to sneak in China. China was not a significant participant in the naval war in WWII. Just a fact.
If we want to add China to the SA list I will do that. It doesn't really affect anything either way. China initially got the stripped down Hawk 75s with the fixed landing gear and a weaker engine, but I think they got some of the better variants later.
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I wasn't going to do flags since the G.50 card didn't use them either. It was just spelled out in the SA. You would be surprised (maybe) how many people couldn't match a flag to a country.