This is a question that seems to be relevant to many players as noted by the long and interesting thread here http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...ction-Previews
If a person intends to run only a single plane of a certain type or perhaps a few and wants to represent the gun types accurately, how can they find out what to buy?
What this is basically asking is, in the case of the Tripe, should you run an "A" or a "B" if your goal is historical accuracy (as historical probability). In the case of the Tripe, it is pretty well known. The vast majority of them had a single gun "B" and a few (less than 10, I think) had double guns "A". Ares did a good job of representing this by making 2 out of 3 of the models "B" and the other one (Collishaw's, of course) "A".
Can we expand this to a larger field? Several of the new releases have "A" and "B" options and some might want to know which to get, if they are getting only one or what percent to get in each gun if getting multiple.
Of course, anyone can dig enough (through pics, source material, reports etc.) and get this information, but I wonder if the collective minds on this forum already have it (or a good deal of it).
If there are those out there who might know the rough number or percentage of Tripes, or Berg's etc. that would have a single gun (or B gun equivalent) versus the ones that had double guns (or A gun equivalents) chime in. Maybe we can get a good info on the thread and then condense it into a file for reference.
As much as I wanted Collishaw's plane (for posterity), I will likely get one of the others because It hits me well. Even back in the cockpit of Red Baron 3D, I remember guffawing at my poor single gun when I took the Tripe up to the skies.
So how about it? Past models and present, if anyone has info on a plane miniature that was created in multiple loadouts, how often would you be expected to see the "A" versus the "B" one.
For the sake of manageability and use in game without modding, please keep the list to planes that were made for the game with different options (instead of all the myriad of actual options that were historically one the crates).
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