Sidenote: A-4 frame is smaller than the A-5 frame.
Not sure what we are getting at here.
The A-4 and A-5 used pretty much the same airframe. The A-5 was intended to cover over problems with Jumo 211J engine deliveries. So they took the A-1 airframes (fuselage?), stuck the bigger A-4 wing on them, fitted the beefed up landing gear of the A-4 and used the Jumo 211B-1, G-1, H-1 engines of 1200hp instead of the 1340hp Jumo J-1 engines.
I'd rather have 6 FW190 chasing 2 B17/B24 stragglers than 2 ju-88's.
Well, so would most people, But that depends of how long the chase is.
FW-190F series comes out years earlier. Really no reason to NOT have an F line as soon as the 190 comes out real world either. F series climbed quicker to 3k meters.
Well, they were fooling around with the Fw 190F-1 (converted A-4 airframes) the fall of 1942. The F-2 showed up in the spring of 1943.
Maybe you can speed things up by ONE year. More than one year is really pushing things. It took until the end of Oct 1941 for the 100 Fw-190A-1s to show up. The A-2 overlapped but they only built 124 A-2s by the end of 1941.
Please note that the BMW 801D-1 engine was not available until the Spring of 1942. Any ground attack Fw 190s built in 1941 or early 1942 would have had to use the C-1/2 versions of the engine. Down about 100hp for take-off. For ground attack the lower performance at 15,000-20,000ft would be less important. Please note that historically the 190A-1s used the four Mg 17 armament ( some had 20mm FFMs added out board).
Germans were working on the ground attack version within 6 months of getting the A-3 into large scale production.
Sometimes development can be speeded up by using more manpower, sometimes it cannot.
British/American bombing was having very little impact on German production in 1942. It may have been affecting production planning/programs in anticipation of increased Allied raids for 1943.