TBF Avenger and other planes

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Originally Posted by 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.

That just means that mission builders need to design their scenarios wisely, scaling big missions down proportionately or removing planes which aren't vital to the mission.

For example, if you're designing a fighter sweep where a flight of P-51s leave the bombers to attack a German airfield, you don't have to include the rest of the squadron and all the bombers cruising along at 25,000 feet.

Also, don't assume that just because there weren't that many planes in the theater that there couldn't be odd battles where there were dozens of planes in the sky. For example, one mission flown by the Flying Tigers saw 12 P-40s and 15 Buffaloes vs. 25 Ki-43 and 63 Ki-21! Or, during the bombing of Darwin, Australia, the Japanese put 188 aircraft into the air for the first raid!

Originally Posted by sniperton

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.

My choice for "new" maps would be to have some big open sea maps for the Arctic Sea, North Atlantic and Mediterranean. All that would be needed is changing the .ini files for the Coral Sea map to alter longitude, latitude and air temperature, although perhaps water color could be altered to reflect dominant cloud conditions (i.e., steely gray for the North Atlantic in winter).