I think we all know that the future of online whatever is secure. People want to be brought together for whatever (sinister) purposes. My purpose/dream is to ambush the unsuspecting troll flying along all fat, dumb and happy. I prefer to do it in a WW2 combat flight sim (but I've been enthralled by air modern combat sims too).
My whole issue in this thread has to do with (pretty much ***cough-soley-cough***) with discussing how multiple sorties might be played out in SoW-BoB.

For my personal perference online combat is a given. I do respect anyone who prefers offline play. In these hard economic times offline play may be what the budget calls for.
But we're all friends here. Right? So which one glides better after it runs out of fuel: the Emil, or the Spit_Mk1?

Whoops! gotta go pee!
Flyby out!!