The Bf 109 G6 is currently a fight on BR4, but is underpowered for how high it’s placed. It has an average speed, turn time, and flight performance that doesn’t stand out, has the same, at this point quite weak, bombload of four 50kg bombs; the same payload of a BR1 fighter, only a single 20mm cannon with 200 rounds, and two quite meh 13mm machine guns. This selection of guns is very similar to the Bf 109 F4 Trop’s, of which the main difference is the lack of bombs and the secondary MGs being slightly better, but even that aside, the guns are underwhelming compared to the P51 and Ki-100’s.
I will show the main stats of this plane and tbe previously mentioned BR3 fighters, as well as a BR2 Axis plane, to show how they compare to each other.
- One 20mm MG151 with 200 rounds and two 13mm MG 131 machine guns with 600 rounds
- four 50kg SC50JA bombs
- 681 Kph max speed, 17 second turn time
- 6x 12.7mm M2 Browning (late) machine guns with 1620 total rounds
- two 500 pound AN-M64A1 bombs (250kg bomb equivilant)
- 712 Kph max speed, 18 second turn time
- Two 20mm Ho-5 cannons with 400 rounds and two 12.7mm Ho-103 machine guns with 500 rounds
- Two 250kg Army type 92 bomb (500 pound bomb equivilant)
- 592 Kph max speed, 15 second turn time
- Two 20mm MG 151 cannons with 350 rounds and two 7.92mm FN browning machine guns with 1400 rounds
- One 250kg SC250JA (500 pound bomb equivilant) and two 50kg SC50JA bombs
- 564 Kph max speed, 17 second turn time
As you can see, these other planes have a variety of things they do similar if not better despite being lower. One commonality is that the other fighters have much more ammunition avaliable, the Ki-100 with double (400) and the IAR with 1.75 times (350) the ammunition, and while it uses HMGs only, the P51s guns have an incredible ammount of ammunition that makes up for the loss of power. Another commonality is the weakness of the G6’s bombs compared to other fighters, two of which have dual 250kg/500lb bombs capable of great damage, and the other with a 250kg bomb and two 50kg bombs, which dwarves the four 50kg bombs this thing has. One thing the G6 does well is speed, it’s 681 Kph speed beating out the Ki-100 (592 kph) and IAR-81’s (564 kph) speed, but does lose to the P51 D in this regard, with it’s 712 Kph speed beating the G6 by a fair bit. The turn speed is average, same as the IAR’s and slightly better than the P51 D’s, but is noticably slower than the Ki-100’s 15 second turn rate.
Overall, these other planes are either similar or better in a few key areas of the plane’s overall gameplay performance. Due to that, I propose lowering the Bf 109 G6 to BR3. Lowering it to BR3 would make it a decent plane, but it can possibly upgrade it’s armament along with the change, to make it competitive for the BR, with optional already in War Thunder and easy to carry over to Enlisted. One of the main downsides of the G6 is the weak payload for mid BR, and a potential solution to this problem is two Wfr.Gr.21 rocket launchers mounted to the wings. This option, though, might make the FW 190 A-8 a less unique. Two other ways to buff it would be external gunpods on the wings in two different calibers - 20mm and 30mm. The two 20mm MG151s on the wings would bring an extra 270 rounds total, and would increase the anti-aircraft power considerably. the 30mms would have 70 rounds total, and while slower and with less ammo than the 20mms, be effective against both infantry and air targets.
- Yes
- No
- 2x 20mm gun pods (270 rounds)
- 2x 30mm gun pods (70 rounds)
- 2x Wfr.Gr.21 rockets
- No change neccesary