The other BF-109 series like the G-xx have their full kit with secondary cannons under the wings, but the K-4 has the stock loadout from WT? It’s a pretty poor capstone fighter for the tree when the previous planes have their underwing canons, but for some reason, it is missing theirs?
German fighters already have a horrible time turn fighting anything, and with lead indicators its pretty fucking hard just extending away without getting hit by even noob pilots. I don’t see why giving it the 20mm canons underwing like it has in WT would be insanely overpowered.
Preferably it should have a loadout system like WT has, with option to pick between nothing for extra flight performance, guns for ability to waste all air targets in seconds or bombs/rockets for multirole JABO gameplay.
The BF 109 trop variant also has the same issue, at BR III. In it’s current config I don’t think I’d even use it in my BR II lineup which I have access to similar flight performance planes with more firepower, or better yet actual useful fighters (has bombs).
Planes without bombs are pretty problematic in general, its rare that you find games where the other team is constantly spawning CAS where having a pure dedicated fighter is useful to the team. In order to justify it, it has to be a really good dogfighter. You look at the BF109 K4 and compare it to he FW190 D12 which really isn’t that much worse at killing enemy planes, has better guns, and has 50 and 250kg bombs its hard to justify even bringing it out.
Bf109K4 has a strong 30mm that can blow infantry to pieces, but the problem is that you can’t see enemies so you are shooting blind which isn’t viable with its low ammo count.