Nice but...
 

Why not start with a good old Ki44 instead?

Yes, exactly. Oleg and his team had a penchant for exotic stuff, that's why we got BI-1, BI-6, Go-229, He-L-IIIB2, I-185 (which, by the way, serves only as a stand-in for the Ki-44), I-250, MiG-9protoF-2, Ta-183 and other oddities - but not, for example, Hawker Typhoon. I really hope that DT will continue filling gaps in historical ranks, rather than produce more oddities.

I hate the Ta153 and the Lerche

That, and probably 10 billion email messages from people begging for "Luftwaffe 1946" stuff which historically never made it beyond sketches on the backs of napkins, produced by engineers desperate to avoid getting conscripted into the Volkssturm, but which allegedly would have won the war for the Nazis in some alternate universe.

Also, to be fair, a number of projects didn't make it into the game due to failures by third parties. I think that the Typhoon was one of those casualties.

4.12 wish list
 

1. P-51 control of tank fuel selection. P-51 pilots use more than half of the middle tank first then the wing tanks to have better center of gravity.

2. AI pilots be able to land (single or FMB missions) then Refuel, Rearm and Repair, take off and join the Wing Leader (me) back to the fight (example: Pear Harbor Map)

3. More control in tweaking the files to have longer and bigger fires and smoke (single or FMB missions). Example: Pear Harbor, the second wave had difficulty at the target because of the heavy smoke.

Thanks

bighog:rolleyes:

Bingo.. there was great enthusiasm from many different people but for various reasons only some of those third party efforts ever made it to the stage where they could be incorporated into the game. There was a time when aircraft were reserved and this created a situation where someone would be reserved for an aircraft for long periods of time but without anything getting to the finishing stages.

It was never done maliciously. It just worked out that way. People get busy and life gets in the way. BUT... a great number of third party projects did make it into the game later on as well and we've got some great variety because of that.

New planes arriving all the time... but a Typhoon I would love to see. The Normandy map is definitely missing a key piece without it.

Bring on the Tiffie !!! :P

Typhoon is definitely a must have in the game, i'm sure there's a large consensus to have it, at least on these boards...I personally (dream mode on of course haha) would like to see "at least" two versions: an early mark with original "car door" canopy (my favorite: this bird rocks), and a late bubble canopy.

British bombers also need cockpits, but that's another question...

For Tiffie fans, courtesy of Nicolas Trudgian :)

http://www.nicolastrudgian.com/uploa...ctions/109.jpg

http://www.nicolastrudgian.com/uploa...ections/52.jpg

How about a video of the latest updates that's in patch 4.12? :)