Battle of Malta or Mediterranean - why not?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

...and it would take hundreds of models of destroyers, cruisers, battleships and submarines for the navy of France, Britain, Italy and Germany

I'd say that this, plus the multitude of German armour and trains already available in 'Cliffs' answers the original question already.

But my, I'd love to fly a Swordfish into Taranto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgs6R4bARLM

[nearmiss]

I would love to fly the Hurricanes, gladiators and early spits out of Malta attacking the Italian and early German aircraft. afterward taking on the battle for Sicily and Italy.

All the while being the underdog, especially over the Med.

All good stuff for sure

[mazex]

Originally Posted by kestrel79

Yeah I think us in the west forget how HUGE this sim is over in Russia. Remember the lines of hundreds of people waiting to get the sim and Oleg signing copies? He's a rockstar over there.

I think my favorite would be North Afrika, then Med. But I'm fine with Russia as well as long as it means this sim does well and we can get more add ons.

+1

Mazex

[Verhängnis]

Still though, for the ships and subs needed, some of these could even be taken from the original IL-2, re-worked 3d wise and then outfitted for those certain theatres. Because some of the modellers do pretty good jobs and their mods look great, so if it could be re-worked by proffesionals, even better.
And Oleg did say he preffered the Med theatre next but I guess they need the cash and with most of Moscow happy to fly in Moscow, well it answers itself.

[JG53Frankyboy]

indeed, its a pitty that the marvelous shipdamage model is left out in the BoM.
i would have also prefered some NorthAfrica scenario.

Malta alone, im not very interested in actually, its "the same" as the BoB - and axis bombing campaign with allied defenders........

MTO is nevertheless interesting:
Ship attacks
possible carrier operations by the RN
ground suporrt.


But yes, i also belive they choose a easternfront scenario so fast again because of their homemarket. And perhaps 1C have better sources about soviet aircraft and stuff than about western allied one?!
i was just surprised that they choose such an early one, as at least the soviet fighters had not an easy standing against the Luftwaffe 109Fs. I would have expected something about Kursk 1943. But a lot of BoB Luftwaffe aircraft (with more or less modifications) can be used in a Moskau 1941/42 scenario -at least less work for the 3D developers

[ATAG_Doc]

I think I remember them saying tbey know its out of order but there were compelling techical reasons to do it this way first.

[GraveyardJimmy]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

I think I remember them saying tbey know its out of order but there were compelling techical reasons to do it this way first.

Hopefully it will mean they can optimise the graphics engine with regard to terrain and buildings, as technically it would seem sensible to go for a theatre with a lot of water, especially since the channel gives far better FPS than London.

[Ploughman]

Quite, it's a thing the level of detail a ship involves in this sim. I'm looking forward to carriers but expect it to be years before they incorporate them into what'll presumably be a great grandson of CloD. For the time being naval action seems to be too resource heavy both for the developer and the simmer.

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Modelling a ship seems infinitely harder than a plane, have you seen the details on the decks of the tanker, fishing boats, Minensuchboot?

I don't think so. The ships have only exterior modell (maybe very simple interior), with primitive shapes. Lots of them, but simple objects. And dont forget, no need interior (below the damaged surface), no need programming complex engine management, DM, etc. And no need cockpit either, what is a huge work.

[Force10]

I know this is outside the box here, but I really wish they would get back to the Korean war sim they were working on using this engine. WW2 has been covered quite a bit in our flight sim world, and the last sim that was dedicated to the Korean conflict was Mig Alley. Machinegun dogfights in early era jets, whats not to like! They would really have something unique and not done too often. I know there are some IL-2 mods out there that touch on this era, just nothing very complete.