[dflion]

Thanks Blacksix, interesting update. The Ju88A-4 looks very good in summer cammo.

I like the autumn scenery for the BOM map, looks like two maps for the BOM, a winter and an autumn?

Keep working on the aircraft FM, the better it gets the more realistic they fly.

Hope you can get the aircraft decals working properly, especially decals on the ground static aircraft, they are now looking very forlorn and unrealistic.

Now to the driveable ground vehicles. I think this a very interesting new scenario for the game.
In the old IL-2 Sturmovik, when creating historical air campaigns in the FMB, I always tried to recreate an accurate historical land battle going on underneath the air battle. I would look for high points of ground to place bombardment artillery and develop a tank battle between the two sides, fully testing that everything works. From the air you could see the shells exploding on both sides, watch the vehicles moving and shooting, see buildings being destroyed and feel the flak rocking your aircraft and occasionally hitting it.
The ground battle was always an important factor in creating an accurate air campaign.

With this development you can immerse yourself in the ground battle if you wish, it will also help you develop a more accurate ground battle below for the air battle above when working in the FMB. You can see the ‘lie of the land from your vehicle or tank window’.

In the ‘Battle for Moscow’ scenario, the ground battles grew in ferocity as the German army approached Moscow, then the Russian Army did a counter offensive in a bitter winter scenario – the air battle raged and intensified overhead.

In the BOB + scenario, you have the ‘Battle of France’ then later ‘Dieppe’ and ‘D-Day Normandy’. Then there is the Mediterranean (‘The Med’) scenario, hopefully a new map(s) will come along.

Anyway, I can go on and on. The main things I hope part of the team are working on are all the missing parts of the sim, the weather, full SDK for the FMB, static aircraft decals, better communications, strategic campaign situations, refuelling and rearming scenarios, animated pilots, aircraft/airfield lighting, operating radar etc. etc.

DFLion