Couple Republican Air Force Edits

[Q-Ball]

A couple items I noticed that need to be looked at in the Republican Air Force OOB

1. SPANISH FURY: In the current build, there are no reinforcements or replacements of this plane. The Republic gets Zero.

IRL, 3 were delivered pre-war (it was selected as the new fighter for the entire air force, and those 3 planes were to be used by CASA for production copies, but the war stopped all that). They were armed and put into action pretty quickly, and even shot down a FIAT. The Nationalists captured one and kept it.

I would recommend addding a 3-plane unit of Furies in early August, with no replacements.....maybe disband it at some point.

It's a decent plane, and early in the war the Republic needs any kind of fighter it can get it's hands on, that is not a Ni 52

2. AISA GP-1: This type is in the database, and in production for the entire war (1 per month). However, I can't find ANY unit that uses or upgrades to this type. Is there one? There definitely is not as of October 1936, and there are 5 in the pool. Historically, about 40 were built, and used mostly for training.

The AISA GP-1 is a pretty crappy plane honestly, but it's a plane.........

3. MARTINSIDE F-4: Republic starts with a unit of Martinside F-4s, 6 of them. The problem is that this unit only upgrades to the CASA Fokker that is not available until 5/39 (end of the war), and you do not get any replacements for the Martinside. Feel like that unit should have other upgrade paths, or just go away at some point.

[Dali101]

thanks for the comments.

Hawker Fury is represented in the game.
But it is not used in SCN 001.
(if you play strictly historical aircraft upgrades, which I really appreciate)

SCN011 should be released, which will solve this.
(as well as many others, for example D27 or SPAD)

Similarly GP1, it will be in the armament of training units.

It is possible to use it for fighter pilot training, which is very important in a long campaign.

Martinside
The unit will be reduced to 3 aircraft (gradually)
They could survive as night fighters until 1939 ...
(at least that's how I use them and they often have quite good results ...)

[Q-Ball]

thanks for the comments.

Hawker Fury is represented in the game.
But it is not used in SCN 001.
(if you play strictly historical aircraft upgrades, which I really appreciate)

SCN011 should be released, which will solve this.
(as well as many others, for example D27 or SPAD)

Similarly GP1, it will be in the armament of training units.

It is possible to use it for fighter pilot training, which is very important in a long campaign.

Martinside
The unit will be reduced to 3 aircraft (gradually)
They could survive as night fighters until 1939 ...
(at least that's how I use them and they often have quite good results ...)

Good notes......the SPAD can be used briefly in Scen 001, for the mont of October, until the unit that upgrades to it disbands......you only get 3 of them anyway

I wasn't aware the Republicans used some D 27s.....I suppose it's an upgrade on the Ni 52, so there's that

[Dali101]

he design that took Emile Dewoitine's parasol fighter formula to the apex of its development was the D 27, which was evolved to meet the requirements of the STAe 1926 C1 leger programme for lightweight fighters. Adhering closely to the structural concept of preceding fighters, but embodying much aerodynamic refinement and a split-axle (with independently articulated wheels) rather than cross-axle undercarriage, the D 27 was powered by the 500hp Hispano-Suiza 12Mb (HS 57) 12-cylinder Vee engine and had an armament of two synchronised 7.7mm guns. The liquidation of the Construction Aeronautique E Dewoitine in January 1927 resulted in the transfer of development of the D 27 to the EKW in Switzerland, where a prototype flew on 3 June 1928. By the end of the year, three had been ordered by Romania, one by Argentina and three by Yugoslavia (of which two were to be delivered as assemblies for completion by Zmaj at Zemun), and the prototype was undergoing evaluation by the Swiss Fliegertruppe in competition with Alfred Comte's AC-1. In the autumn of 1928, the EKW initiated a pre-series of 12 D 27 fighters, these adopting a redesigned tail and a revised wing of 0.45m2 less area, modifications first tested in the Laboratoire Eiffel wind tunnel. Meanwhile, in March 1928, Emile Dewoitine had reestablished himself in France, forming the Societe Aeronautique Francaise-Avions Dewoitine. The second and third pre-series D 27s were delivered to France in April 1929, the former being re-engined with the 400hp HS 12Jb as the D 272 for aerobatic demonstrations, and the latter undergoing STAe evaluation at Villacoublay from 28 May equipped with two 7.7mm Darne guns. On 29 November 1929, a contract was issued by France's DGT (Direction Generale Technique) of the Ministere de l'Air for the second and third pre-series aircraft plus three (later increased to four) additional fighters to be assembled by Liore-et-Olivier. The D 27 was offered to the Forces Aeriennes Terrestres as the D 271 with the 500hp HS 12Hb engine and as the D 273 with a Gnome-Rhone Jupiter VII with a compressor enabling 425hp to be delivered at 4000m, but neither model was adopted. At the end of 1929, however, the decision was taken in principle to re-equip the fighter element of the Swiss Fliegertruppe with the D 27, a pre-series of five being ordered from the EKW as D 27 Ills, with deliveries commencing in 1931. A pre-production batch of 15 followed, additional contracts being placed for 45 D 27 Ills to bring deliveries to the Fliegertruppe to 66 (including the prototype). These remained first-line fighter equipment until 1940, when they were relegated to tuitional tasks, being finally scrapped in 1944.

Concerning the D-27 that flew in Spain, there is no reliable data; it is believed that at least three units arrived to Spain of the 15 that by that time were still flying at France, wearing the military codes F-AMQX, F-AJTE and F-ANAX. Other version says that these D-27 were evaluated by the French Air Force and later improved to the D-53 version at the Villacoublay airfield, where they were later sent to Spain in the first months of the war. In any case they were used as advanced acrobatic trainers, being nicknamed "Dewoitinillos". Neither of them survived to the war.