[josip]

Although maybe brought up in a overly bitter tone (and with a really non acceptable assault on another nation), flying spud's statement has quite some truth inside: Western allies, especially the RAF, are treated rather bad in this sim, just as the VVS was in all the WWII-aircombat simulations before (keep in mind that the Yak1 to 9 and the IL2 and were among the most produced combat aircraft of WWII, while the Po-2 was the most numerous built aircraft in history of aviation and some of the largest and airbattles took place on the eastern front). As it has been pointed out: the name of the sim originally was IL-2. Therefor I use this sim mainly to fly missions on the eastern front. Me too, I just hate it to sit in a Hurricane and get outturned (in flat, sustained turns) by a Me109f because slats (wich were used only by Messerschmitts and Lavochkins) make every high wingload airplane turn like a Fokker Triplane and my thick airfoil wing with a solid steel tube core gets shot off with just 1-2 rounds from 2cm gun while 12 7,7mm guns can't do half as much damage in 2 seconds at point blank range just because this sim obviously ignores kinetic energy and boosts the impact of explosive shells to an exagorrated level to suit VVS and Luftwaffe doctrine. I hate it just as much as I think the Italians aren't treated quite fair with their .22lr calibre airguns either, but I have learned to live with it. Now my future hopes are with modders here, with the new team that will presumabely take over from oleg and with SoW.

Cheers all and if any of you feels a need to type some insults in your answers, please reconsider other options.