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This isn't directly aimed at you but I don't understand the logic some people are using here. So they shouldn't release the SE and Phantom at the same time because you may need to make a financial decision about which one to get? I appreciate that not everyone will afford to buy both but i'm not sure why it should prevent ED from releasing both at the same time if required for people that will buy both or want one, not the other. It's not like it's a movie with limited cinema release, or a product that you can only buy in a limited fashion and once it's gone, it's gone. It's a digital product. It will still be there in a years time. If you feel you'd be missing out on it, buy that and sacrifice something else in life you feel is a lesser priority.

Exactly this. I don't think anyone who'll buy the Phantom won't if released at the same time as the mudhen. There will be a huge number of people who want that Phantom and will likely not buy the Mudhen and vice versa. You've people like myself who'll likely get both regardless. To delay one for the other would just be really annoying.

This is really awesome. Do you plan on adding the various radios and Petrovich and door gunner functionality?

Sorry if this is the wrong place but I've got the Silver backers package from the original kickstarter. It says I get the Normandy Map. Does that include the assets pack as well or is that separate?

heh I could be wrong. It would make sense anyway for allot of reasons. Fighter pilot anecdotes are notorious for being inaccurate. Stress of combat, misleading instrumentation, only experienced on a few types etc.

Not Eric Brown anyway.

More planes is cool but spending time on a such a little used aircraft, at a time when basically there was no Luftwaffe would be such a waste of time. Especially when you consider that time could be spent on say an earlier D model with the old canopy. I really hope someone does a 43 scenario instead of this focus on late war wonder weapons when there was basically almost no aerial combat.

MTO and/or Africa. Normandy in the grand scheme of things was such a short time frame. Unless the map will encompass as far as Holland and the Southern UK it will get dull pretty quickly. If it gets expanded to the lower part of the UK then any Western European time frame is possible. A good African map could encompass missions and aircraft from 1940 to 1943 which is far more appealing due to variety.

Il2 1946 had a ton a late war content from all theaters including all the aircraft in DCS 1944. DCS 1944 is basically just a modern version of what il2 offered in it's hey day including the Normandy map. It's the North Africa / MTO which has always been ignored. I was a little disappointed with the idea of DCS1944 for that very reason that it's already been done and without the corresponding ground and air units it would be a little hollow, given it was such a one sided fight when it comes to fighter on fighter combat. A 1942 or 43 ETO theme would have been more varied or better a 42/43 MTO. But gotta support these guys anyway!

What happens to that K/D ratio if you remove the top 20 Luftwaffe aces with their enormous kill tallies, many of which were extremely large before the 190 ever entered service? I would suspect things even out a little. You have to look a little deeper as to why various ranking members of the Luftwaffe preferred the 190 over the 109 and wanted 109 production cut.

If we had an A6 or especially the A8, it would have obscene hitting power. Only a Tempest V and 262 have similar weight of firepower.

The FW190 was seen as modern due to it's mechanical computer controlling all the functions of the engine using just 1 leaver and the electrically driven systems which are ergonomically laid out. Compare the 109 and P51 (or really any other prop plane of that era) cockpits and the 190's is both simple and accessible. No big trim wheels or having to manage several different leavers to control the engine. Less head down time etc.

Ubi.com il2 forum, circa 2004/5 all over again :(. It may not have been viable but going with a cut off date would solve this. I.e. say what was being used in June 1944 or January 1945 (or any given date) and give an example of the most used variant at that date. It' kills off all discussion off allot of discussion about this sort of thing, but legitimately.

I hope not but I can see this going down the same route some players tried to push the old IL2: wanting the latest greatest versions rather than what was typical at the time.

I find most things apart from taxiing easier on the K4. The 190 in comparison, for me at least is much harder to take off in and land and seems far less stable in flight.

This is still using figures which compare the right aircraft with the wrong one. The A model referenced is an A4, without spares and tested over and over again by the British first, it's not even indicative of a factory fresh model with perfect maintenance.

Other than the this talks about the 190A in general terms (it's like saying in general Spitfire, when the Mk1 is completely different to the XIV), you have to look at this in greater context. If I remember rightly the 190 used in that test was a used and slightly abused (tested by the British for some time) A4 that was accidentally landed in the UK. The P51B/C/D in reality faced the A6 initially and then A8s and occasionally D9s. It's highly unlikely a P51 ever encountered an A3 or A4 in combat other than RAF ones which flew over to Norway where the groups there had the older aircraft. Sources for WW2 fighter performance is a bit of a dark place when it comes to captured aircraft - sometimes the fuel was wrong, the aircraft was old and lacked spare parts or in one case of a D9 that ended up in the US, it had the wrong wings attached to it. It's best to look at all sources before drawing conclusions. I would suggest reading Johannes Steinhoff's "The Final Hours". He paints a very vivid picture about the state of the Luftwaffe in 1944/45. In his opinion at least - and it's quite a well respected one - it was nearly impossible to compare combat performance between aircraft anyway after 1943 because of the imbalance of numbers.

Tornado IDS/GR1/GR4, ECR and ADV would be fantastic. So much variation available on a single aircraft. Granted the ADV would be a slightly different model. Blackburn Buccaneer. To fight Mig21s and partner up with the VEAO Lightning when it comes out. Harrier FA2 or GR9

+1 Series 1 or 2 Tempest would be most welcome. Maybe VEAO will do it, since they're doing the typhoon and seafury. It would be logical to do the one in between.

Thanks. I think the true benefit will be in a gun fight where quick trimming will make life easier.

Yeah, I thought it might be that or alternatively similar to the system on the A10's gun trigger first stage which stabilises the aircraft prior to the second stage.

I meant the new trim button, trim to stick or something like that. An option that previously wasn't available on the old su27.

I'm also curious about how this is meant to work.

This was the old stock campaign, I think there is only this one. I got stuck on mission 2 as well, did it about 5 times before it would complete.

Yeah, he also set the standard for giving out free content. For which I'll be forever grateful for.