In my never ending quest for a campaign system which offers tactical and strategic play I have been absorbing Air Combat game rules at a relatively frantic pace.
In Paragon's Aerial Dogfight Rules by Hugh Walters (circa 1977) their is a list of an approximate number of manufactured craft for almost every plane type starting first quarter 1916.
On the Central Powers side it lists the following top five planes (in terms of number built):
1) Albatros DIII (2600) / scout
2) Albatros DVa (2000) / scout
3) Fokker DVII (1700) / scout
4) Hannover CIIIa (1056) / 2 seater
5) Albatros DII (800) / scout
* no results are provided for the Halberstadt CII but as it was in production almost as long as the Albatros DVa I would suspect quite a few may have been made.
On the Entente side we find:
1) Spad XIII (8472) / scout
2) RE8 (8407) / 2 seater
3) Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter (British 1520 and French/Belgium 4500) (6020) / 1st a fighter and then a 2 seater
4) Sopwith Camel (5490) / scout
5) SE5a (5205) / scout
* No totals were provided for Nieuport 11 and 17 models (just says many)
Given these numbers, I found a few things curious:
1) when will we see the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter with an official release?
2) Only one 2 seater made the top five built for Germany as opposed to two models for the Entente
3) It is an amazing difference to me if we compare the raw numbers - CP's 8156 vs Ent 33594..
I just thought these tidbits might generate some very interesting discussion.
Michael
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