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Old 09-17-2009, 02:56 PM
OVurt OVurt is offline
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I'll try to stay out of the political stuff. For Anton, devs, and to others who are concerned about playing the losing side. I can't recall the game from memory, getting old, but I played Axis missions where we succeed in our particular objective for our squadron. But overall, we lost the entire campaign. I think this was in Jane's WW2 Fighters.

As someone else mentioned, it was informative to play on the losing side and learn from that perspective.

Back when I played Jane's WW2 Fighters, we had a group of friends fly as the Axis planes only. Why? Many competitive squads were Allies. Someone had to be the "bad guy." It is only a game.

Again going off memory, several history books regarding the Luftwaffe presented a point of view not often mentioned. In the early years of WW2, before the US was involved, there was a pilot honor code different than what ground troops experienced. Recall the term, "wagging your wings"? An enemy pilot is damaged and wanted to surrender by wagging his wings, German pilots would let them safely return to their home base, knowing full well, this enemy will come back to kill them. By the time the US entered, many of these aces were dead or captured. The pilot honor code also disappeared. There were many atrocities committed in the air, like shooting at pilots who bailed out and were sitting ducks dangling from their parachute.

History is what it is. Limiting or restricting access to info doesn't help anyone. Just lay it out there for all to see and learn from. Does my interest in Luftwaffe history make me a sympathizer? Hardly. I like reading about both perspectives.

I'm also biased because I want to fly the FW-190D with a full cockpit. Even built a model of one and called it "Baby Boelcke."
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