..coming to mind immediately is the Stuka, the Sturmovik..the FW 187...

Regards the A-36, do you mean the dive-bomber/ground attack version of the Mustang? If so that surely goes against the first rule of the campaign as the P51 was built as a fighter and the A-36 was adapted from the P51 much in the same way as the FW190F and FW190G were derived from the FW190A.

Hello All,
The Stuka was designed as a close support dive bomber to replace the German army artillery units. This is from the official US Army Air Forces handbook on enemy aircraft copy right 1944.
Of course it did not replace the artillery units, But was used for pinpoint bomb drop on any enemy target stopping the German Army advance IE: artillery units, troop trains, terror missions against civilian etc. So the Stuka is in.

The way this campaign was set up is to:
Try some kits that you would not normally use
Have some fun with said kits
Show how you build your kits and help everyone learn new ways of doing things
and earn a cool ribbon.

You could say that a P-40 was a CAS plane because it strafed troops and dropped a few bombs. But the P-40 was made to be a Fighter Plane.
To me and to Jim a CAS Plane is one that when you get back to base, you have to pull the tree branches out of the flaps and landing gear bays and get a new paint job on the bottom of the plane because it is now green not blue.

On the subject about ship aircraft, I my opinion they are not allowed for 1 reason This is a per say land campaign. If you want to do a shipborne dive bomber/torpedo plane/ fighter plane campaign, Please do and let me know. I have a few dozen ship aircraft kits I could build.
Please use common sense in what you want to build, Read the rules and if you have any doubt Please contact me either here in the threads or PM me I check the threads 2 -3 times a day usually.

Jim will be gone for a few days and as the XO I will be in charge of the campaign.

Thanks for all of your input, I have read every post many times before I posted this.
AND Remember Have FUN
Cheers,
Bruce

Disagree about the Stuka - it was a dive bomber. It may have been used in close support in the same way the Typhoon was an interceptor that was converted into a close support aircraft but it was never built from the start as a close support aircraft. If you have the Stuka you should be able to have the SBD, SB2C, D3A and D4Y as well.
If you refer to the JU87G, that was a JU87D (dive bomber) fitted with a pair of 37mm Flak for anti-tank work. On that basis you could also have FW190F's and FW190G's as they were dedicated close support versions of the FW190 - which is why I was asking for clear guidance on this matter.
The JU88 was not a close support plane either. There were close support versions of it but very few were made and they were based on the normal bomber models with extra machine guns/cannons or anti-tank guns,
As far as I know the only purpose built close support aircraft (not converted from planes originally built for other roles) were the HS129 and IL-2. Even the HS123 started as a dive bomber and was converted to the close support rule.

thanks
Mike