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Originally Posted by majorfailure
Okay, it is not the perfect map for strategic bombing/ship hunting or whatever, but it still is a great, important map, and it is big enough to allow strategic bomber operations on a limited scale(and after all IL2 is a tactical game!), and it does have water so anti shipping is possible.
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Actually, it's still useful for strategic bombing, since there were plenty of mid-war raids for locations along the coasts. In 1943, US bombers gained experience by bombing targets in France, with the strategic goal of gaining air superiority in Western Europe.
In early 1944, there were massive air raids against transportation infrastructure to help isolate the French coast prior to invasion. After the breakout, there were many operations designed to destroy V-1 launching sites and German troop concentrations.
For anti-shipping operations, the English Channel was a scene of constant low-level harassing raids by the RAF, which first targeted German invasion barges, and later E-boats and coastal shipping. So, while it didn't get the press that the Bay of Biscay did, it was a big deal.
Finally, there's the "Channel Dash" and support for the Dieppe raid in 1942, which were major campaigns. Given IL2's plane set, actions set from 1942 to early 1944 perfectly utilize the existing RAF plane set.