New planes requests (from other threads/please pin it)

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Originally Posted by Verdun1916

Yeah, your right! But it would be very nice to have an area that could be used as the French-German border area so it could be used for th Phony War scenarios or Campaign just as much as late 1944, early 1945 ones as well.

The only problem is that the area you describe didn't see that much aerial action - either tactical or strategic.

In 1939, both sides flew occasional patrols along the French-German border, but there wasn't that much action. There's a good reason why the period on the Western Front from September 1939 to May 1940 gets called "The Phoney War."

The Colmar Pocket (in the Vosges Mountains, just west of the Rhine) was a scene of intense action during 1944-45, but due to the weather, tactical air ops were limited. Same for the capture of the Saarland in 1945.

A potentially more useful map would be one that follows the Belgian-French border from approximately Saarbrucken to Lille and Nancy to Amiens. (Or, perhaps 2-3 maps, depending on actual population density.) Ignoring its potential to be modded as a WW I map, this area saw a plenty of action both in 1940 and in 1944-45.

In 1940, the map covers both the Sedan bridgehead, and the middle phases of Fall Gelbe. In 1944-45, it covers Western Allied Tac Air Ops during the Lorraine campaign and the liberation of Northern France.

This map also more or less follows a line from southeast England to southern Bavaria, which literally makes it "flyover country" for USAAF or RAF strategic bombing raids aimed at Augsburg, Munich, Regensburg or Stuttgart.