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Originally Posted by II/JG54_Emil
Dear Mr. Oleg Maddox,
since I saw the extremely detailed moddeling of ground objects, I begin to wonder if it wouldn´t be a nice feature to fight(armed with a cute little pistol) ones way back to friendly lines when shot down over enemy territory?
I know it rarely happened in history but was possible.
I bet many of us thought of that scenario when reading XY was captured by enemyforces.
Thanks for answering,
Emil
P.S.: If someone else already asked the same question, I´m sorry. But I couldn´t find it anywhere.
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In the offline situation I wouldn't want that, but I would like some (10%? 5%? 2%?) chance of making it back to base if shot down over the enemy lines. Otherwise there's no point bailing out or landing on the other side of the front line, you might just as well crash, it's probably quicker. It may never have happened on the Eastern Front, but in the West it was occasionally known to happen, and given all the subs at least crossing the "front lines" in the Pacific, I would imagine that some pilots were occasionally recovered there. Perhaps if you did make it back to base, it might be that in a career that would sometimes mean the start of a new campaign.