WANTED: WWII PACIFIC THEATER CAMPAIGN

[rgp1942]

For us WWII aviation history buffs, please consider producing a Pacific Theater campaign that includes key battle places, Pacific Theater planes including both American and Japanese fighters, torpedo bombers, dive bombers, and strategic bombers, and significant aircraft carriers.

 

I believe this will be a very appealing and popular addition to the DCS World product line. There will be teams that specialize in Pacific Theater strategies and combat. Imagine the thrill of dog fighting Hellcat vs Zero, or torpedoing a carrier with the TBF Avenger.

 

Thanks!

 

p.s. For moderator - please move to appropriate forum if this is not the best place for this product improvement suggestion.

[Kayos]

Maybe with the F4U, keep your fingers crossed.

[tintifaxl]

Have you taken a look at the modders section? There is a Pearl Harbor mod out. Might carry you over until DCS: WW2 Pacific is released.

[rgp1942]

Is there actually a WWII Pacific planned?

[Kang]

Before talking about campaigns, lets first get maybe a map and a module for the theme done.

[SharpeXB]

I will guess there’s not enough information available about Japanese aircraft to model them to DCS standards. Maybe as AI aircraft they could be possible but not flyable ones.

[tintifaxl]

Is there actually a WWII Pacific planned?

 

Not that I know of. The old Leatherneck team was talking about doing an Iwo Jima map and a carrier for the F4-U but that was some time ago.

[Faelwolf]

I think it could happen if there is enough interest shown in Pacific theater aircraft. F4U and P38L would be a good start. I would be quite happy to have both. Both aircraft saw use in the European theater (though rather limited in the case of the F4U, in it's British configuration) so would not be too out of place in the Normandy map, but they really shined in the Pacific.

 

Given the history of the Normandy map and WW2 aircraft as DCS modules, there is unfortunately not enough inertia to bring about a Pacific theater map without a lot of support for the aircraft first. The general increase of WW2 era aircraft might start to get the attention of the old Air Warrior and Aces High online flight sim crowd, which could result in quite a few sales and interest in expanding the line even further for ED. I personally think at this point we will just have to wait and see, though I remain hopeful.

[AG-51_Razor]

A good sized map of the Solomon Islands would probably be the best place to start IMHO. :thumbup:

[boedha68]

+1 Don't forget the SPEEDTREES. :D

 

 

It shall be an immersive map!

[john9001]

It's big

It's blue

It's a F4U

[wavn]

Magnitude has the Corsair in the "to do" list.

[Captain Orso]

It would be awesome if ED coordinated with the 3rd parties to take on a specific year as a starting-point, like 1942, and then concentrate on producing only aircraft flying in that year.

 

I suggested once having some section of the Solomons. It's a huge area, but it's mostly water, so I imagine the map file would not be much larger, if at all, that any other map.

 

Then the possibilities would be great for mission and campaigns.

 

What I would worry about would be running into P-47-Syndrome; not being able to collect the required documents to produce key aircraft. What would the point be, if you could not produce an A6M2-21 Zero?