It's perhaps that after so many years of development, I was waiting for more.

"Can you provide any insight into your next title?

Similar to the way we handled our previous releases, our sequel will be a stand-alone application that, if bought together with Cliffs of Dover, will install together into a single merged application allowing you to fly older planes in new settings, or newer planes in Battle of Britain. It's too early to reveal more, but rest assured, many eyebrows will be raised once the sequel is announced! "


Oh my, let me guess!

IL-2 Sturmovik: IL-2 Sturmovik

That would be exciting.

In igrommir they talked about a battle of Moscow add-on, plus we also know that mr Shevchenko intends to deliver a Korean war sim as well at some point.

However, i think we have enough pointers to go by that there might be a mediterranean/n.africa add-on as well.
Now i was thinking,
1) There's lot's of similar aircraft that can be transferred from CoD to a n.africa scenario: Ju87, Bf-109E, Bf-110, the Italian aircraft.
2) There's just as many that can be transferred from a n.africa add-on to CoD. They didn't serve during the battle of Britain, but they did during the "canal war" phase (41-42): Spit MkV, Hurricane Mk.IIc, Bf-109F, etc.

Of course, it could also mean that they'd simply take the German planes and use them in the Moscow add-on, but he states in the interview about flying existing types from the CoD planeset in another theater, plus planes from the new one in CoD. You can't fly Yaks and LaGGs in the channel though, plus he mentions that people will be surprised when it's announced, so i'm thinking n.africa ;)

Battle of France would only require the addition of French and maybe Polish planes

The battle of France would naturally be interesting, but not that many are masochists that like being massacred in their Fairey Battles ;) My bet is on north Africa as it would explain the time spent on the Italian planes that where a minor part i Bob (compared to some German planes that are not flyable).

Another thing is that if I would ask a man on the street about the battle of France he would say 1944 and start talking about Normandy, but the north African campaign would bring up stories of desert rats and Rommel... Most adults in the west even recognize the Africa corps insignia after Indiana Jones ;)

Neither of these speculative follow-up titles would "raise my eyebrows". It would only be like "oh, a MTO/Battle of France/Eastern front addon, how EXPECTED" LOL! I think there's something going on that is going to shake up the community BIG time.

I hope that there are no copywrite or trademark entanglements. But with Ubi involved then you never know ;)

I do wonder what they're going to call the expansions.

In "IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover" the "Cliffs of Dover" is a second-level title so it'll be interesting to see if add-ons have no reference to CoD (which I suppose would make geographical sense), or whether that is retained to create a new "Brand".

Say we went to the Med,

IL2 Sturmovik: Sands of Malta

Would seem to make more sense than

IL2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover: Mediterranean

But then without reference to CoD there is no "tie-in" to the product you're expanding. On the shelf, IL2: 1946, IL2: CoD and IL2: SoM would all seem to be at the same top level, whereas in reality they're not.

Bit of a branding pickle if you ask me. Which I appreciate you aren't :)

Still, nice interview.

Cheers, Spinner

This is going to be great! Can't wait.

Well to be fair, they are supposed to be stand-alone titles that can be merged. I can just imagine the amount of new players getting confused about that wondering why they can't merge Il-2 Sturmovik:1946 with CoD and whatever else. It was such a poor decision using Il-2 as the brand for these new titles.