TBF Avenger and other planes

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by sniperton

Sure it could work, the only question is who is able and willing to do it. Both DCG and DGEN-mod, as we have them now, are the result of many years of work.

Agreed. It's possible that a mod team might be interested. Modders have already done a lot to improve the stock UI with the "Forgotten Nations" pack for just about every nation that ever had an air force, plus a few fictional ones. The modded plane set also offers a lot more potential for 1930s and post WW2 battles.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by majorfailure

Real good starting point could have been Stauffenbergs assasination attempt. Let it succeed. Germany still strong enough to be a pain, maybe even a threat. War in the Pacific going better, but no end at the horizon.

Just about any alternate war scenario has to include Hitler dying before 1945. But, the good news (bad news for history) is that he survived literally dozens of assassination attempts!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...n_Adolf_Hitler

So, choose the year that Der Fuhrer takes the dirt nap and set your alternate history accordingly.

Something that hasn't yet been mentioned for Alternate History is a civil war between the SS and the Nazi party vs. "German Nationalist" (perhaps even democratic) forces led by the Heer and remaining non-Nazi politicians. Basically, the German equivalent of what happened in Italy in 1943.

But, there weren't that many Nazis in the Luftwaffe, and in a civil war it's quite likely that the Luftwaffe would have sided with the anti-Nazi forces. So, you'd have to invent some reason why the SS-Luftwaffe had the same quality and quantity of pilots and planes as the "Nationalist Luftwaffe".

Even so, plenty of opportunity to fly cool German planes against each other.

Another option for Alternate History is a second Russian Civil War, where Stalin is assassinated, killed or deposed after 1941, resulting in a conflict between the "Whites" and the "Reds," with the Western Allies and/or Germany backing alternate factions. The campaign would use the stock maps of the Eastern Front, but the plane set and allegiances would be different.

[ElAurens]

Za Tzarista.zip

I have put the mission files for my Za Tzarista! mission in a zip file. I hope this attachment works.

Just put the folders in Missions>Net>Dogfight and it should work. Not sure it will work without HSFX but give it a shot.

Apologies to the really good mission builders out there, but it's something that I can whip up without too much bother.

[Fighterace]

So what's happened to all the modeled planes and etc that were not added to this game?

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Fighterace

So what's happened to all the modeled planes and etc that were not added to this game?

Which ones are you referring?

[Furio]

Originally Posted by Fighterace

So what's happened to all the modeled planes and etc that were not added to this game?

To begin with, it’s third party’s choice to submit a plane or ground object for inclusion in official patches. Then, TD has the responsibility of the final decision, according to quality and technical standards. As far as I know, of course.
Also consider that no new Northrop Grumman types can be added, for legal reasons.

[sniperton]

#26 here

http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.ph...,45665.24.html

gives you an idea how complex it is to import an already existing 3D model into the game.

[optio]

About the late war Japanese bomber campaigns...

I think it depends on what the campaign creator wants. After all, some IJN&IJA units did continue to practice "standard" method of attack until the end of war, with some success(including the successful torpedo strike on USS Pennsylvania, as late as August 1945).

I would love the opportunity to fly as the member of the "Fuyo squadron", performing night time attacks from Kyushu to Okinawa...Although that would require to have a map which includes both regions, as well as a flyable Judy!

[Fighterace]

Originally Posted by IceFire

Which ones are you referring?

I mean the TBF Cockpit and P-61s

[ElAurens]

We cannot have those because they fall under the "agreement" with Northrop-Grumman that limits flyables to what came in the stock PF.

The model I wonder about the most is the IJN battleship Haruna. Shots of it in 3d Max were posted years ago, and it never came to fruition.