I'll call you weird, Planespotter.
The Italian stuff is what with be most fresh and interesting in the game. Polish and French planes, even better.
Spit and BF-109 have been done in every BoB game, and every WWII flight sim in existence. How many times can one sit in the same cockpit? It is more polygons, but still.
Like IL-2 was such an interesting game because of the Russian planes, SoW:BoB will be interesting because of the Italian ones.
I'd even go so far to say there is one variety of gamer that wants the same game over and over. They want things predictable so as not to be challenged or frightened. They play mass-market FPS clones, or online RPGs with endless grinds; for simply the sake of killing time. It is not entertainment they seek, but distraction. It is an objectless vice, perpetuating sadness and boredom, and thus perpetuating further need for distraction with things sparkly and novel, but still comfortingly familiar.
There is another gamer that refuses to tolerate the same, and the easy, because it would be a waste of their precious time. The same plane does not excite them, for it's habits are well known. The uberplane will not improve them as much as the crap plane. The popular history of Hollywood is so much debris to be dusted away in the search for the real stories of the great war who's lessons might enlighten our reason. The noob planes circle listlessly about this player, and go through the motions of fighting. But they are actually mindless, dead, piloted by those in a reflexive cycle of repetition that goes on monotonously until the ground rushes up to crush them, then to rise again, even duller than before. This player kicks ass in the CR42, dances smartly in the Su-26, and owns vultures with flak. He is more skilled, richer in mind and spirit, and intensely entertained.
Or maybe it's just me.
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