[azzmunky]

CSA?? Oh, no - it is more like very weird Austria-Hungary. The tails are Austrian, the wings appear to be Hungarian...

Perhaps a Confederate battle flag would have been better, if you are obssessed with adding CSAF to the game...

No, I'm not obsessed, I can take or leave it. However, the CSA is also probably the most 'real' of the fictional air forces bandied around (is that a good way to put it) but also one that's popular for idealism rather than creative content. What I'm doing is really just a drop in the ocean. If there's no support or interest from the community, then so be it, I'll let it die a death. On the other hand, if people really do want to see a CSAAF in the game then it needs to become 'an air force', not a fantasy with bright flags all over it.

As for the 1860's history, that's all well and good, but entirely irrelevant to the 1940's. In any case, in theory the CSA might be involved in foreign wars too (though I must concede the mindset of the south makes it more likely it would stay at home )

You see, I'm not saying I know everything about the confederacy and everything it implies - hardly, being a patriotic brit - but then again, the Confederacy has an interesting aura. That rebeliousness, and in particular, the willingness to stand up for what it believed in, however diluted the original 1860's sentiment actually was, yet still provoked a war, is something that I can sympathise with.

There's nothing to stop this mini-genre being added to by others if they want to get involved. Okay, US maps might be useful, but IL2'ers are more imaginative that surely? It's a bit of fun after all.

If anyone doesn't regard my paltry efforts as 'american enough', well, so be it, but I challenege them to come up with a better recognition symbol (which is what a roundel is) rather than a complicated flag that would keep mechanics so busy painting the war would over before the planes left the hangar I guarantee, everything you think of will look like something already existing.

I'm Surprised that throughout all the threads on the CSA and the CSAAF, no one (and correct me if I happened to miss one) has even mentioned the work of Harry Turtledove.His books on alternate history are very good.In fact, pehaps his book "Settling Accounts" about an alternate WWII between the USA and CSA would make a good basis for a campaign.
Thoughts?