TBF Avenger and other planes

[sniperton]

Strange as it is, but the game engine and the general game design are more fitted to recreate either the 'forgotten battles' of WWII or the Jet Era than the large-scale air operations characteristic of the main battle fronts from the mid war. Even the Battle of Britain falls into this latter category.

Il-2 excels where air war was conducted with limited forces and in a skirmishing manner -- in Finland, or in the Med, or even in the early Pacific. BoB is still okay so far as we stick to Dowding's strategy of sending off only a handful of fighters against numerous invaders. But the escalating air war as conducted under Sholto Douglas, or Goering, or Harris, or Spaatz, was basically and fundamentally different.

As to new maps and (mostly British) planes, I would hark back to the forgotten battles concept and concentrate on the Northern convoy route to Murmansk, on the Med, on China, and on Australasia. And, of course, several old cockpits deserve a repaint at least.