I don’t want to appear rude with Xilon, and apologize for any involuntary sarcasm. His list has surely a merit: it helps visualize easily the raw number of aircraft operated by the combatants in WWII. Now, there’s nothing wrong in asking for a Meteor, and even less if a member of Daidalos Team has his own favourite plane and makes it a flyable addition even if it’s a minor or irrelevant type. But when we talk of the whole Il2 as a WWII sim, we should consider the whole picture.
American bombers in the Pacific offer a classic example: two types were used operationally against Japan, the B29 and the B32, but 99,999% of sorties were flown by B29, the B32 contribution to war effort being absolutely irrelevant. Now, look at the list of planes presently available, both AI and flyable. I don’t have precise numbers (probably nobody can have them), but my feeling is that our available planes cover more than 70% of total combat missions flown, and most of the remaining were probably flown by British night bombers. So, if we look at the relevant combat planes only, the list of types needed is really short (in my opinion).
American types: B26 Marauder and SB2C Helldiver.
British types: Lancaster and Wellington, possibly Halifax.
German types: He177.
As you can see, all are bombers, and some big ones. It would be wise to ask for them in AI only version.
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05-12-2010, 01:08 PM
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