[caldrail]

I tried a mission with a squadron of B17's - thats 16 bombers, with each flight having its own similar flightpath. To be honest, it looked the business, and since I was in the third B17 of the 2nd flight, I had a grandstand view of the formation. Perhaps it was spread a little wide historically speaking, but even then, turning home after the bomb run I saw one air to air collision. Seven out of sixteen planes made it home, two downed by enemy Fw190's before the escorts drove them off, the others by AA fire at three seperate locations. Believe me, if you don't get carried away with scale, the current situation is adequate for most purposes. Don't forget, in total you can have up to 128 aircraft on screen and thats not bad for a computer game.

I'm interested in this. How long did it take you to set this up?

To set it up as a mission able to run it took less than fifteen minutes. To fine tune it for my desired end-result took two days, but larger flight sizes wouldn't have made any difference to that because the bomber formation track wasn't changed, just the various flak positions, enemy flights, escort flights, and any other objects of interest like ships (just eye candy some of them).