[aj906]

I'm noturally inclined to pessimism, however I would just like to say (and mock me all you want....) having viewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO35o8IRD...r_embedded three things that stick out:

1) Too few flyable aircraft
2) Bf 109E-3 as the German aircraft of choice (which is wrong beyond July) v. apparent Spit Mk II (which is fine, just imbalanced)
3) flame effects and damage transition worse than the vanilla Il2

1)The list of flyable aircraft is as follows,

Spitfire (MkI early/MkIa/MkIb/MkII)

2) There are 4 variants of Spitfires covering all stages of the battle, so it is up too the mission creator to match them with the appropriate opponent.

Thanks for the update on performance requirements. But I would like to take issue with something you've said, but not you particularly. My issue with all this is the imbalance. The E-3 was not the predominant German fighter of the Battle (A British terminology and not something the Germans ever considered). Statistical analysis of the loss statistics show the following for losses during the BoB:

Sub-type: Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
E-1: 44-40-38-36
E-3: 30-8-1-2
E-4: 20-52-61-62

Only in July was the E-3 a real contended in the battle. While I know that losses are not necessarily realistic in terms of Staffeln representation, it does raise a very interesting point. So why Oleg chose the E-3 is beyond me.

Furthermore, the idea that mission builders should balance the period wth the Spitfure Mk says a lot about the mindset of the publishers; it's assumed people want to be the victorious underdog (flying an aircraft that was in the minority!!) while those who prefer the German side of flying (politics, nationality, technology, flying-style or whatever) will accept inferiority in the name of maintaining historical outcome represented in sim form.

I can't deal with the fact that we have the Sunderland in the list of aircraft when these aircraft were never anywhere near the Channel in the period (if ever!) while "new" aircraft such as the Do-17 are left by the wayside. Any fan of Il2 has flown the He-111 and Ju 88 and yet we get the same old same old, just wrapped in better textures for the foreseable future. (In a similar vein, I understand why the He 59 and He 115 are not flyable as yet - there are too few seeflieger enthusiastics out there.)

For me, the whole SoW/CoD issue can be summed up by saying, "never before have so many simmers wanted so much from so few only to be left wanting".