Battle of Malta or Mediterranean - why not?
 

I am curious why not battle of Malta or Mediterranean.

The Italian aircraft are pretty well done in COD, the early Hurricanes, Gladiator and early Spits as well.

The Early German aircraft as well. We would need new skins of course.

A Mediterranean theatre was never addressed in IL2 until mods were introduced.

The Battle of Moscow will require many new and later model aircraft.

A Mediterranean theatre just makes more sense for a quick release addon.

A Malta addon would be an excellent subject. A nice tight little map, not too many new aircraft needed and a good use of existing types. The only tricky bit would be the ships.

Clod=focused on Russian players=BoM.

The only thing they don't have is time or money...

I would buy either or both!
Moscow will be good as well!

Yeah I think us in the west forget how HUGE this sim is over in Russia. Remember the lines of hundreds of people waiting to get the sim and Oleg signing copies? He's a rockstar over there.

I think my favorite would be North Afrika, then Med. But I'm fine with Russia as well as long as it means this sim does well and we can get more add ons.

Moscow next by all means. Malta after that would be a cost effective choice.

It has long been rumored that the sequel to BOB was going to be the Med. Personally I think Battle for Moscow was originally a third party addon, as it was annouced at a Russian Game show before BOB was released. The developers pulled Luthiers Korean team in to help finish COD and this could have happened to the Battle for Moscow team aswell. Now they probably need another cash infusion to continue work on the series, and the Battle for Moscow was closest to being finished, while the Med could only be at the research stage.

It can see more third party addons in the mix after the game engine and features are finished and optimized. Then the parties will only have to add maps, some aircraft, and objects, while the main development team can be adding new features to the game engine, more aircraft, and main maps, such as the Med.

...and it would take hundreds of models of destroyers, cruisers, battleships and submarines for the navy of France, Britain, Italy and Germany

I would prefer "Battle of Malta" or whatever more then a "Battle of Moscow", but I dont care anymore, just the fact, that a "Battle of Moscow" should mean, a fix of our current scenario. And I like to fly oneday, a BoB as it should!