Test pilot Eric Brown rated the Dora-9 and the Spitfire Mk XIV as the top main production fighters of the ETO and as virtually equal.
In a mass battle of, say, 40 Fw 190D-9/13 vs. 40 Spitfire Mk XIV/21 with situational (according to the aircraft’s strengths) and pilot skill parity which side would you rather put your money on and why?
How might such an encounter play out?
For sure D9 and D13 flight model are brutally nerfed.
Spit, cause D-9s will struggle in any turn fight and they will hardly outclimb spits, since many IRL advantages can not be used in WT.
Spitfires overperform by quite a bit, and pretty much every spitfire in WT aside from the 3.7 ones are undertiered.
same with the yaks pretty much all yaks are under br same with spits for example why is the YAK-3U and SPIT LF-MK9 5.7 when things like RE-2005-0 are 6.0
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Any proof of this? In what ways does it overperform?