With the scale I'm using the difference in size is not really all that much even though the wingspan is 18 feet less for the ANT-7/R-6 vs the TB-1
and when all is said and done what's really been added to the game ? The R-6 was a recce aircraft but not an artillery spotter as we use them in the game. There was an ANT-18 ground attack version but info on that is sparse ( but as it's referred to as "ANT-18" it suggests this never reached production ).
I did find mention that the bomb load was only 113.4 kg (250 lb) of bombs.....that's hardly a game changer and that's the same bomb load as the Polikarpov R-5 that's already in the OOB. If flight range was important in the game then that would make it useful but we don't and in the end there would be two aircraft from the early 30's nobody will use instead of one that both look more or less the same but one has 1/8th the bomb load
EDIT........
https://www.globalsecurity.org/milit...ssia/ant-7.htm
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Armament - 3 pairs of machine guns and 500 kg of bombs on the external sling.
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if that is true then maybe....**Maybe** it might be worth putting into the OOB....
maybe .....as a "light bomber" in UC44 where it *might* get some use.