This is not one of Mysticpuma's normal updates, but it was something the FM team felt was necessary to publish.
We have not announced any new Bf-110 3D models for TF 5.0. There are several reasons for this:
-The Bf-110D and Bf-110E were both inferior in performance to the Bf-110C's. This was mainly due to extra weight and various modifications and/or additions to the fuselage. We do not believe players will fly these aircraft considering their degraded performance, so the amount of work involved to create them is not productive.
-It was not till the Bf-110F model arrived with the DB-601F engines that the aircraft saw a significant improvement in performance. This aircraft fits a later time period that what we have planned for TF 5.0, so will need to wait till TF 6.0.
But although we are not planning new 110 models, the existing Bf-110C models will be seeing quite a few changes and we will introduce new variants of this series.
Part of this is due to an errors in regards to the naming and equipment of the existing models which I only became aware of six months after TF 4.312 was released.
This is originally the fault of the original developers and their mistaken naming conventions, and partially the fault of TF members who didn't pick up the errors and continued with the same namings.
I was not personally a part of the TF development of the Bf-110's, this was handled by a German member who was a specialist in the 110, and another member of the FM team. They both did much great work with the 110's, making changes to the cockpits, revising the fuel tank controls, etc. etc... Unfortunately they missed the errors with the naming conventions and I was too busy with work on the 109's and British aircraft to notice... in any case, both of them have retired from their involvement in TF.
TF apologizes for this error, it was not intentional.
The errors in the game and mod are focused around the ground attack variants.
The actual first ground attack C model variant developed was the Bf-110C-4B, which had a smaller bomb load than what we see on the C-7's in the game, (only two 250 kg bombs available) and in addition, the C-4B was not equipped with the standard DB601B engine which was in the Bf-110C-2/C-4, (this engine was the same as the DB601A engine which was in the 109E-3/E-4, but re-named) but instead were equipped with the same low alt variant, (DB601Aa) engine which equipped the 109 E-4B Jabos, although in the Bf-110's case, this engine was called the DB601Ba. We will be creating this new model. In effect in TF 5.0, players will get an aircraft will performs much better at the lower altitudes the Fighter-Bombers operated at. There will be two versions of this model, the C-4B and C-4B Late, with the Late model having the ability to use 1.45ata ata boost.
The original developers designated the Bf-110C-7 as the game's ground attack type, (which it historically was) but made the error of equipping the Bf-110C-7 with DB601A engines, when in fact this aircraft had DB601P's, which was the re-named twin engine version of the DB601N engine which equips the 109E-4N and 110C-4N. We will be revising the aircraft engines to match the real type. There will be a full power version, and a De-Rated version of this aircraft. The C-7Late will be eliminated.
So the revised models for the Bf-110C series in TF 5.0 will be as follows:
-Bf-110C-2 (no armour or self sealing tanks, MG/FF cannons, DB601B engines rated at 1.30 ata boost)
-Bf-110C-4 (DB601B engines rated at 1.30 ata boost, armour, self sealing tanks and MG/FFM type cannons)
-Bf-110C-4 Late (DB601B engines rated at 1.40 ata boost)
-Bf-110C-4B (same as C-4 but with bombracks allowing two 250 kg bombs, and DB601Ba engines limited to 1.35ata)
-Bf-110C-4B Late (same as above, but with engines rated at 1.45ata)
-Bf-110C-4N De-Rated (same as Bf-110C4, but with DB601P engines rated to 1.35ata)
-Bf-110C-4N (with engines rated to 1.42ata)
-Bf-110C-7 De-Rated (same as Bf-110C-4B, but equipped with DB601P engines limited to 1.35 ata and with bombracks allowing it to carry 500 kg bombs as well as 250 kg types)
-Bf-110C-7 (same as C-7 De-Rated but with engines rated to 1.42ata boost)
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Any comments or suggestions re. the above feel free to post
There is also the possibility we may introduce the Bf-110C-6, which was the heavy Zerstorer, aka. ground attack version which had the two MG/FFM's replaced with a single MK-101 30mm cannon. This was a very slow firing, (230 rounds per minute) very heavy, but very high velocity cannon which could pierce the rear armour of quite heavy tanks with armour piercing rounds as well as being able to fire high explosive rounds against soft targets or bombers. Apparently only 12 of these were made, but a number of these were available in 1940. As far as I know, the 3D model changes required to create this aircraft are fairly simple. Anyone who has data on the C-6, please PM me.
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