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Same approach as the other trees, exclusivity, multiple tier ones and development along historical design lines. This tree in particular is affected greatly by historical events, such as the disbanding of the Grigorovich design bureau in 1938 (workplace of Semyon Lavochkin), the scattering of the Polikarpov design bureau in late 1939 (into Mikoyan-Gurevich and Sukhoi), and of course the onset of the Great Patriotic War in 1941. The Sukhoi line, however, is placed to complement the Kochyerigin/Ilyushin ground attack line, and doesn't follow it's historical genesis. This also allows the early Tupolev heavy fighters to maintain continuity, with or without bombers.

Of peculiar interest is the extremely heavy armament (74mm) of some of the Grigorovich fighter line and early Tupolev heavy fighters. The idea was to one-shot bombers, but the guy responsible for the guns, Leonid Kurchevsky, was swept up in the Great Purges and the development of such weapons was abandoned. Derp guns on such low level planes would be quite interesting.

The Maxim Gorky would be quite a sight as a Tier 2 bomber. Instead of bombs it will drop propaganda leaflets.

Disturbingly, some reactions I've gotten from the other trees have convinced me some of you do not know what unofficial means. This is not an official tech tree. I am not a WG employee nor am I leaking any NDA'ed info in these trees. They are my idea of what a hypothetical tech tree would look like. That being said, I hope you enjoy them, and that the WG guys are taking a look at these to get a few ideas.

Unofficial French and German coming up!

nice work!+1

Look at the release tech tree yet?

Not really versed in Soviet planes, but looks like you hit the major designs.
I'm kinda wondering why they didn't include the Yak and MiG planes in the official trees, but seeing they're all Lavochkin right now, I'm hoping they appear on alternate branches like yours here.

I think it's because the post WWII planes from Yakolev weren't as good a fit and the WWII planes from MiG weren't as impressive. Lavochkin made good planes for all tiers between 5 and 10.

But still he couldn't take 25 seconds to look at the release tree before he started it?

Wake_Island, on 29 June 2012 - 03:26 PM, said:

Wat? Are you daft? The release tree is integrated. Look closer and you'll see it. Follow the I-5 down and to the left. it goes into the Lavochkin line.