German fighter production discussion (BTR)

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The Germans DID turn over their aircraft production to untried aircraft. That was how they planned to defeat the quantity production of the Allies with Quality production of advanced planes by the Axis.

It was a complete failure. The ME 210 and HE177 stand out. The Me 210 was changed from a 4 year development cycle to a three year one and suffered accordingly. The Ju 88 nearly suffered the same fate. Goring had put in orders for 3,000 of them, almost off the drawing board on the strength of the promises of what the plane could do. Luckily for the Luftwaffe the JU 88 was an exceptional design but early teething problems had left crews very wary of it. Production was delayed drastically with developmental problems. Although planned for a service introduction in 1938, the Ju 88 finally entered squadron service (with only 12 aircraft) on the first day of the attack on Poland in 1939. Production was painfully slow with only one Ju 88 manufactured per week instead of the 300/month promised.

It seems that something should be done to address the problems of turning out 1,000's of TA 152's. We know the reason there were 1,000s of obsolete Me 109s in the air in 1943 was because production was already running and had been for 5 years. There should be a really massive delay for changing types. An initial 6-12 month loss of anything in the factory, and then production at 1/10 1st month - 2/10th second month etc.

I have yet to play my copy of this game so just a thought.