Larger maps

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Soldier_Fortune

Ok.

But probably you would need a bit more than the Spit Mk.I, IMO.

If you had the right planes set (Mk. I included) to design a 'BoB campaign' in the stock IL2 v4.X... what map would you use? ¿Normandy...?

I think the request "do the BoB" couldn't be attended at all by the main limitation to do it... the lack of maps for such scenary.

Well.. . a map like La_Chute might give some room to design that campaign to be played off-line. Or at least to have a map of the S of England to play it on-line and off-line.






My intention was not to create an off-topic in my own thread, or snubbing the memory of the glorious Spit.

But today we have about 13 subcategories of Spitfire, plus another 2 for the Seafire. And I think we have enough of them for a sim like this.

The same can be said about the Bf-109 (15 subcategories), or the Yak (18 subcategories).

What news would add the Spit Mk 1 when compared with other Spitfires we already have, apart from being a historical model?

The time to develop new aircrafts, is currently voluntary and scarce.
And there are planes that still we do not have, even for the AI.

Perhaps the Avro-Lancaster (other old glory of the RAF: performed more than 165,000 sorties along the war) would be a better add-on than other Spitfire... or than the Gloster Meteor also.

But finally TD will have the last official word about all the matters related with IL2.

Lots of online folks just want to dogfight planes and so we've done Battle of Britain related scenarios before using all manners of maps as a stand in. I know that's an anathema to some but it explains the desire. To do it properly I'd still need the a couple of extra planes but the main ones are all there otherwise.

Really the Spitfire can be divided into the V, VIII, IX, and Seafire. Everything else is an armament variation or a wing variation. If we wanted completeness then we are missing the Mark I/II and the XIV. It'd be like having the entire Yak lineup except the Yak-3 and Yak-9U or the entire Bf109 lineup except the K-4. It just never came to be unfortunately and I say that truly because something like the XIV is quite a different beast than the Merlin types.

So... we could stand to have a couple more Spitfires but I can write you a long list of types that I would also like to see from the Me410 to the Ki-44 to the A-26 or the Halifax or Lancaster. I'd be interested in any of those