[David603]

I know what you are saying mate, but for me, no, I'm sorry.. it wouldn't be great.. I want this game to take my experience of WWII aviation gaming a stage further as a pilot.. I'm not going to buy the game so I can take part in airfield defence, or drive a tank.. I've got other games for that.
I want Oleg and his team to spend time and effort to give us the best combat flight sim there is to date.. not waste valuable time making cannons and vehicles drivable.
Pilots during WWII didn't man flak guns and then decide, 'I know, now I'll jump in a plane and be a pilot for awhile'.. If Oleg spends time making this game into a Battlefield 1942 event, then we will all suffer the consequences.. can you imagine how long it will take to make expansions and patches available if he is also putting more drivable tanks and working guns into the game? I pray to god he doesn't go down that road..

Don't worry, Oleg has said he will be focusing on the Flight sim aspect of SoW.

What he is doing now is making sure that third party developers will be able to add drivable vehicles to the sim, and potentially controllable ships and infantry too, but he knows he cannot invest the resources to do this himself. So he is showing ambition, but not allowing it to run away with him.

Also, Oleg has said that imediately after BoB releases he will be working on another theatre of combat, and he has hinted it will share much of its planeset with BoB. Sounds like either the Battle of France or the early part of the war in the Med. The later sounds more likely to me because of all the Italian planes he has put into BoB, despite their very small contribution to that battle. Either way, it will be good.