guille1434 wrote: Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:01 pm
Hello Nono: I think I cannot understand exactly what your request is, but I can tell you this, may be this is useful for you:
1) At present, my focus is set on the early war equipment (1939-40) so, I did not start making or modifying icons present from 1941 and later. I don't have (yet) an icon for the Bf-109F, but I think I would be able to upload one soon.
2) Bf-109E: There are already present in my mod a rather complete range of icons for the 109E variants, with their regular and SE versions, and all of them are implemented in the eqp file.
Bf-109E-1: This unit takes the place of the "generic" vanilla game Bf-109E. It was armed with four 7,92 mm machine guns, two on the engine cowling, and two in the wings. This fact is reflected in the equipment file with a reduced Air Attack value.
Bf-109E-3: This variant added a 20 mm MG-FF cannon firing through the propeller hub, so it has higher Air Attack. In fact, this centrally mounted cannon was prone to jamming, and was not very popular for the pilots flying this variant, being often dismounted from the aircraft.
Bf-109E-4: A heavier armed variant, the engine mounted 20 mm cannon was deleted, but the two wing mounted machine guns were replaced by two 20 mm cannon of the same model. So, it had two engine cowling 7,92 mm machine guns and two wing mounted 20 mm cannon. This heavier weight installed away from the center of gravity of the aircraft somewhat reduced maneuvrability, so this fact is reflected in the equipment file with a higher Air Attack value, but a lower initiative value. This variant should be better when used to attack bombers and no so good when attacking high performance fighters (like the Spitfire). It is worth to note that this early war 20 mm MG-FF weapon was not the same as the 20 mm MG-151 cannon used by 109F and later variants, because it had a lower powered ammunition, with lower initial velocity and a more curved projectile trajectory (less precision), and also a lower rate of fire and less ammo capacity in its magazine.
This of course, does not include the also implemented Bf-109E-1B which was an E-1 fighter that when replaced by more modern variants in fighter units service, was modified with an under fuselage 250 kg (I think) bomb mounting pylon to be used a fast pin-point fighter bomber, which is also present in "my" mod.
As I said, all those variants have their own distinctive regular, SE, desert and SE-desert icons, and (regretably) a "generic" "one for all" big unit portrait for them, so I think your in-game needs should be conveniently covered.
So, I looked at the records big units of other mods (amulet mod by Messmann, battlefield europe by McGuba, update unit by Wolfram, ...) and I use the missing images (some are in black and white, others in color). I hope to see your work again when Panzer Corps 2 comes out. Have a nice day.
