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Originally Posted by klem
I had missed that ! I simply didn't expect it to be missing.
That depends on whether or not you intend to create realistic scenarios and what is the point in a flagship product like Battle of Britain if you can't? I have flown in scenarios for two hours, never intercepted the enemy, and enjoyed it due to the immersion and the tension. I was even an 11 Group Radar Controller in Aces High over several two hour frames, never "stepped into an aircraft" and enjoyed it more than any other scenario I have ever been in. We aren't all quick-run shoot'em'up players.
OLEG,
12 Group, especially RAF Duxford, was such an important part of the BoB story. The Big Wing theories of Douglas Bader/AVM Trafford Leigh-Mallory were such a controversial issue that we are going to want to try to prove them one way or the other.
I expect you know that 12 Group Squadrons, and the Big Wing, were used by 11 Group to defend their airfields and these are vital to any LW mission designed to destroy those airfields while Group 11 squadrons are out trying to intercept the raids. The delay in forming up and flying from Duxford is a critical timing issue in the Battle. Also, 12 Group's original Big Wing theory, never really put into practice, was to destroy raids en-masse over SE England and it would be interesting to see what effect that, and it's timing issues, may have had on the Battle.
The Map really needs to be extended North as far as Cambridge. I know that is a lot of work but if it would impact release I think a simplified generic Terrain with detail in the Duxford area would be acceptable until a patch could be issued.
I can't stress enough the importance of Duxford in the BoB story.
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The Map really needs to be extended North as far as Cambridge. I know that is a lot of work but if it would impact release I think a simplified generic Terrain with detail in the Duxford area would be acceptable until a patch could be issued.
Yeah, but to truly reflect the time both Clydeside (Glasgow) the North East of England (shipbuilding industry bombed from Norway) and the Midlands (Birmingham took a battering, Coventry too) should be in as well. Someone posted a good map showing bomb tonnage (I think) dropped, not sure where to find it though it was interesting.
Its not going to happen and I'm fine with that, the vast majority of the action took place over the South East of course, and that's grand. I'd like nothing better than to help out my "Southern Softie" battle Brethren, we are all in it together and I love em. 'Geet canny', they are.
There'll always be an England.