imho, I will be personally ecstatic with only a few in the initial release, followed by the remaining aircraft with future releases..

Looking @ the history of IL2 - i wouldnt be the least surprised;

Mk II
 

I see little reason to include the Mark IIs; their performance was overall extremely similiar to the Mark Is, I guess the cocpit too, and even the externals are only marginally different. Yet it takes away development work from other areas.

... so, whats the point in having it? There are much better and interesting candidates to be added rather than a marginally different Mark of the Spitfire. Say, the Mark II Hurricane is far more different.. An then there`s the E-1 version of the 109 with an all-MG armament that was very numerous in the fighter force.

Besdies, hopefully BoBSoW will not as much fighter-oriented as Il-2 was, good MP experience requires many aircraft with different roles, ie. bombers, seaplanes etc.

The MkII was not of relevance in the" BoB" as defined from July 10th to September. Most of the time there wasnt even a mk1 to be seen. Hurricanes ruled the skies, that is too easily forgotten.
I really think I rather would like a flyable Do17. (thats just me)

Not just you. I'd like to fly a pencil also.

Obviously we don't know what oleg is planning,but I hope we don't go down the same route as il2,with major planes left out of the relevant theatres of operations.No flyable Do17 in BoB would be a strange decision.

Yet the Do215 is being worked on. From what I have read ~100 were built and mostly used for recon.

SQUADRONS THAT TOOK PART IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

1 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded JX, Operated from Northolt & Tangmere
1RCAF SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded YO, Operated from Croydon & Northolt
3 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded QO, Operated from Kenley & Wick(Scotland)
17 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded YB, Operated from Debden & Martlesham Heath
19 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded QV, Operated from Fowlemere & Duxford
23 SQUADRON: Blenheims, Coded YP, Operated from Colyweston & Wittering
25 SQUADRON: Blenheims & Beaufighters, Coded ZK, Operated from North Weald
29 SQUADRON: Blenheims & Beaufighters, Coded RO, Operated from Debden
32 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded GZ, Operated from Biggin Hill & Acklington(Rest)
41 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded EB, Hornchurch & Catterick
43 SQUADRON "China-British": Hurricanes, Coded FT, Operated from Tangmere & Northolt
46 SQUADRON "Uganda": Hurricanes, Coded PO, Operated from Stapleford
54 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded KL, Operated from Hornchurch & Catterick(Rest)
56 SQUADRON "Punjab": Hurricanes, Coded US, Operated from North Weald & Boscombe Down
64 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded SH, Operated from Kenley, Hornchurch & Biggin Hill
65 SQUADRON "East India": Spitfires, Coded YT, Operated from Hornchurch & Turnhouse(Rest)
66 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded LZ, Operated from Coltishall & Kenley
72 SQUADRON "Basutoland": Spitfires, Coded RN, Operated from Drem & Biggin Hill
73 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded TP, Operated from Church Fenton
74 SQUADRON "Trinidad": Spitfires, Coded ZP, Operated from Hornchurch & Biggin Hill
79 SQUADRON "Madras Presidency": Hurricanes, Coded NV, Operated from Acklington & Biggin Hill
85 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded VY, Operated from Debden & Croydon
87 SQUADRON "United Provinces": Hurricanes, Coded LK, Operated from Exeter
92 SQUADRON "East India": Spitfires, Coded QJ, Operated from Hornchurch & Biggin Hill
111 SQUADRON "Treble One": Hurricanes, Northolt & Drem(Rest)
141 SQUADRON: Defiants, Coded TW, Operated from West Malling & Biggin Hill
145 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded SO, Operated from Tangmere & Westhampnet
151 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded DZ, Operated from North Weald
152 SQUADRON "Hyderabad": Spitfires, Coded UM, Operated from Warmwell
213 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded AK, Operated from Exeter & Leconfield
219 SQUADRON: Blenheims, Coded FK, Operated from Catterick & Redhill
222 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded ZD, Operated from Kirkon-in-Lindsay(Rest) & Hornchurch
229 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded HB, Operated from Wittering & Northolt
232 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded EF, Operated from Sumburgh
234 SQUADRON: Spitfires, Coded AZ, Operated from Church Fenton & Middle Wallop
235 SQUADRON: Blenheims, Coded LA, Operated from Thorney Island & Bircham Newton
236 SQUADRON: Blenheims, Coded FA, Operated from Thorney Island
238 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded VK, Operated from Middle Wallop & St Eval
242 SQUADRON "Canadian": Hurricanes, Coded LE, Operated from Coltishall & Duxford
245 SQUADRON "Northern Rhodesia": Hurricanes, Coded DR, Operated from Aldergrove
247 SQUADRON "China-British": Gladiators, Coded HP, Operated from St Eval
248 SQUADRON: Blenheims, Coded WR, Operated from Dyce
249 SQUADRON "Gold Coast": Coded GN, Operated from Church Fenton/Boscombe Down/Nth Weald
253 SQUADRON "Hyderabad": Hurricanes, Coded SW, Operated from Turnhouse & Kenley
257 SQUADRON "Burma": Hurricanes, Coded DT, Operated from Northolt & Debden
263 SQUADRON: Whirlwinds, Coded HE, Operated from Drem
264 SQUADRON "Madras Presidency": Defiants, Coded PS, Operated from Fowlmere & Hornchurch
266 SQUADRON "Rhodesia": Spitfires, Coded UO, Operated from Wittering & Hornchurch
302 SQUADRON "Poznan": Hurricanes, Coded WX, Operated from Northolt & Westhampnet
303 SQUADRON "Warsaw": Hurricanes, Coded RF, Operated from Northolt & Leconfield(Rest)
310 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded NN, Operated from Duxford
312 SQUADRON: Hurricanes, Coded DU, Operated from Speke
501 SQUADRON "County of Gloucester" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded SD, Operated from Middle Wallop/Gravesend/Kenley
504 SQUADRON "County of Nottingham" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded TM, Operated from Wick/Hendon/Filton
600 SQUADRON "City of London" Auxiliary Air Force
Blenheims, Coded BQ, Operated from Northolt
601 SQUADRON "County of London" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded UF, Operated from Middle Wallop & Tangmere
602 SQUADRON "City of Glasgow" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded LO, Operated from Drem & Westhampnet
603 SQUADRON "City of Edinburgh" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded XT, Operated from Drem/Turnhouse/Hornchurch
604 SQUADRON "County of Middlesex" Auxiliary Air Force
Blenheims/Beaufighters, Coded NG, Operated from Middle Wallop
605 SQUADRON "County of Warwick" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded UP, Operated from Wick & Croydon
607 SQUADRON "County of Durham" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded AF, Operated from Usworth & Tangmere
609 SQUADRON "West Riding" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded PR, Operated from Middle Wallop & Warmwell
610 SQUADRON "County of Chester" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded DW, Operated from Biggin Hill & Acklington(Rest)
611 SQUADRON "West Lancashire" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded FY, Operated from Digby
615 SQUADRON "County of Surrey" Auxiliary Air Force
Hurricanes, Coded KW, Operated from Kenley & Northolt
616 SQUADRON "South Yorkshire" Auxiliary Air Force
Spitfires, Coded YQ, Operated from Leconfield/Kenley/Coltishall/Kirton-in-Lindsay
http://www.battleofbritain.net/contents-index.html

Look at this link for a/c deployment. http://www.battleofbritain.net/0006.html

No a Do 17. There were used as bombers quite a lot in the beginning. Lots of attacks on shipping.

SaQSoN at SimHQ

"We now need more refs on bomber variants of Do-215. I guess, it is more difficult task, since, as far, as I know, no plane of that type exists by now.

If anyone have photos, or pictures from manuals, which haven't yet been published in various books - feel free to post them here."
http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthread...371111&fpart=8

Hear, hear!

I'm all for people taking Maddox Game's side (1C is the distributor). Something needs to be done to balance the whining after all.

On top of this I trust Oleg to make the best product possible. ...I suspect that he may never understand the importance of the night war (not 41' but bomber command) and that he will model Eastern Front tactics instead of the different philosophy of air warfare that developed in the West. But, still I will be happy.

This is wise young ones. It is perhaps a hard earned peace of mind (to accept things as they are without demanding perfection and to give Oleg a chance to succeed in most areas and mess up a few).

I too hope for an add-on with a couple of the earlier and later variants of many of these aircraft. Most of all though, I hope for Oleg's success (which our success is tied up in) and also for his own peace of mind (which he rightly deserves).

My two cents...

Al Schlageter, a short note about squadrons:

No 79 Squ flew with the markings AL during Battle of France and Battle of Britain, only changing to NV as they where retrained on Hurricane Mk.IIb around Newyear 1940-1941.