HF MK IIs?

[Panzer]

What I'd to the heavy fighters...

Normally HFs would be used as all-rounders. The most popular and most-used craft around. Right now, it's the VHFs that fulfill this role (and they shouldn't imo)

FL 1.0 had the division between LFs, HFs and VHFs. In this config, it would be logical, that the LF is a specialized dog-fighting craft. Useless against caps, but deadly against other fighters. HFs would be outmanouvered by the LFs but still have the armor and firepower to hold their own against them. The HF should also have a chance against a capship. The VHF would be something like a WW2 dive-bomber. heavily armored and armed but with a very crappy steering. Something specialized against thicker tragets like transports and capships. Then - bombers with their touble torpedo slot would be an extension of this craft - being shot down like flies by fighters but dealing heavy damage to capships. For that, I'd even remove their guns in favour of one or two turrets and 1 additional torpedo slot perhaps (please, let the ammo-using torps get back into anti-cap usage)

I know this all sounds like a revolution, but then again, maybe a little breeze is what we need? The remains on the SP campagn and 1.0 in many cases are simply unneeded balast, there are also many fighters not used by anyone, waiting either to get rebalanced, deleted or replaced.

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