second sino-japanese war 1937-1940

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Originally Posted by proton45

The early war "plane set" has the potential for great fun and interest. This was the era that brought "dogfighting" to its technological climax...most of the technology's employed where to aid in turning, visibility, climbing and speed. This was also a technological race that ended in the development of the ultimate dogfighter...the A6M Reison.

If the campaigns where done right they could be quite interesting...China's "air force" was a coalition of warlords that each had their own aeroplanes... and then their was the Russian volunteers, and the Flying Tigers.

I imagine that the new game engine would be quite good at surrounding us with the sights, sounds and sensations of flying an open air cockpit...

The advanced features for mission building (like triggers) would be quite useful in building realistic battle environments of an era, when "radio communication" and "radar" was practically unheard of...




+1... If done the right way a good map, of any part, of Asian should feel like a "trip abroad". With the one exception of Shanghai, the Chinese citys and towns of this era had their own unique look and feel. I dont know if people here are familiar with the "patchwork" of rice patty's, as seen from above, but these too are a unique feature of Asian landscape. Their is also a rather steep kind of hilly mountain that is quite common through out Asia.

Oh there is a lot more than dogfighting in this theatre, I just need to think of various interesting bombing missions, like the attack on the USS Panay in 1937 just of Nanking, the bombing of Shanghai, or the early WWII missions like the sinking of the Z-Fleet (HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repuls) This was mainly done by G3M1 Nells, or for those into something really exotic how about the aerial battles between the Chines nationalists and the comunists, as that was the prime objective of the Chinese nationalist army, Japan first came in second. As to maps, yes those rice paddies are unique or even uniquer would be the Halong Bay.

Something like that would be a real treat to fly over!