Not totally Tomb as you are only talking about weight of fire and firepower which are great if you’re shooting at bombers but when you’re shooting at a fighter muzzle velocity and ROF become much more important. You half said it yourself when you talked about the RAF interceptors deliberately kept their armaments mixed, while the all cannon fighters were held back for V1 and ground attack.
Everything that I have read would indicate that the 30mm mk108 while devastating, performed poorly when used against fighters because of its poor muzzle velocity of only 500m/s. This limited its effective range when compared to the MGs and good canons like the hispano MkV which had Muzzle velocities in the 800m/s. So I don’t think it should receive such high FP rating like 20.
The only other thing that I would add is that your MG FF figure doesn’t seem right according to my web source http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/8217/fgun/fgun-pe.html has it as a ROF of 530 rpm with a 134g shot which would give it 2.86lb a sec.
From a game play point of view I thing that if DiF as a system of calculating these values then it should be stuck too (esp this close to release?? ). Also I think that if the P47 lost it’s burst 2 then there wouldn’t be any incentive to fly it over the P51 once people max out their XP.
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Just on your fomula Dan what has a rating of 41+ All I can think of is a fully decked out He219 Owl?
[ January 19, 2005, 10:31 PM: Message edited by: Kiith ]