4.13 development update discussion and feedback

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Originally Posted by Sita

he is very good company maker .. you can find his works on Aviaskins ...

It seems that he's spent a lot more time and effort on the project than I have, so I'll defer to him.

Originally Posted by Sita

early war units was addad only that which could be used and useful in some campaings ...

Fair enough. Many of the early war units I added would mostly be useful for modded maps, like the US Far East Air Force. US Middle East Air Force and Hawaiian AF would be useful for existing maps, however.

Originally Posted by Sita

i added Transportation squads that I need to campaign intelligence and other similar there to a minimum. Well, it makes no sense add all connected Squadron, which flew some L-5, the Sentinel, because the aircraft will be only a few times.

Transport squadrons become important if there are flyable C-47 in the game. Liaison squadrons are mostly valuable to modders because there are no L-5 or other "grasshopper" aircraft in the game. For now, they could be left out.

Originally Posted by Sita

No signs of belonging to the wing and the more command is not present. In contrast to the USAAF, RAF squadrons, most of the war more than once
transferred from one wing to the other. In this situation, it makes no sense to add more of the same squadron with only a postscript to a different wing.

Good point. I'd only ask that each squadron be labeled with the general type of aircraft they flew, so you don't have to be a military historian in order to put together a plausible RAF, RAAF, or RNZAF order of battle.

Originally Posted by Sita

As far as I know, foreign pilots in the RAF specifically studied English. French or Polish, then again, if I am not mistaken, all It is forbidden to use in radio, not to create chaos in communication with ground controllers.

They studied English, but it is difficult to master a foreign language with just a few months of daily lessons squeezed in between other aspects of operational training.

For intra-squadron communications foreigners in the RAF or RAAF often reverted to their native language. But, they had enough English that they could understand and send messages in English to Ground Control Stations or other units, and make themselves understood in English when needed.

In those cases, realistically, you'd have have "mixed" voice packs - with native language for "individual" or "squadron" commands like "Break Left" or "Anybody help me!" but accented English for commands from a squadron to other units, (like, "Thanks for joining us!"). Ground control commands would be in British-accented English.

There's a great scene in the "Battle of Britain" film, where members of No. 303 (Polish) squadron serving in the RAF deliberately ignore their leader's orders - given in English - and attacks a German plane using Polish to communicate among themselves.

Originally Posted by Sita

you are going to use the fact that the offer to add?
you are going to do the campaign on a high level of detail, and will use all of these connected and rescue squads?

Point taken. I'll work on campaigns, not Orders of Battle.